19° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Tribute to Shadi Abdu Al Salam

Kursi Tutankhamun al dahabi

Tutankhamen's Throne
by Shadi Abdu Al Salam
Country: Egypt
Year: 1982
Duration: 45'


Salah is visiting the museum in Cairo with his uncle, who works there. The boy walks through the museum's halls and stops in front of the throne of the young Pharaoh Tutankhamen. His uncle explains the role the chair and the bed played in the history of ancient Egypt, and he illustrates the relationship between Tutankhamen and Akhnatun, the idea of one coffin inside another and the way carpenters worked back then.

Biography

film director

Shadi Abdu Al Salam

Shadi Abdu Al Salam (1930-1986). Director, screenwriter, set and costume designer, he graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Cairo in 1955 and in 1957 he worked as director's assistant for Salah Abu Seif. Between 1959 and 1966 he designed sets and costumes for ten Egyptian films and foreign productions including Cleopatra by Mankiewicz and La lotta dell'uomo per la sopravvivenza by Renzo Rossellini, with Roberto Rossellini's supervision.

FILMOGRAFIA

Al mumia (La mummia, 1968-1969), Shakawa al fallah al fasih (I lamenti del contadino eloquente, cm, 1970), Afaq (Orizzonti, cm, 1973), Giuiush al shams (Le armate del sole, doc., 1974-75), Kursi Tutankhamun al dahabi (La sedia d'oro di Tutankhamun, cm, 1982), Al ahram (Le piramidi, cm, 1984), An Ramsis (A proposito di Ramsis, cm, 1985).

Cast

& Credits

Regia e scenggiatura: Shadi Abdu Al Salam.
Director of photography: Maher Radi.
Art director: Salah Mer'i.
Editor: Rahmat Muntaser.
Sound: Majdi Kamel.
Cast and characters: Haitham Abdu Al Hamid (il piccolo Salah), Mahmud Mabruk (Amm Mahmud), Mahmud Qayid (il capo mastro Husein), Sayyid Al Anani (il capo Mastro Sayyid), Majdi Khalifa (il soprintendente del Museo), Mustafa Abdu Al Maqssud (il fotografo del Museo), Samir Abada (il restauratore).
Production company: Abdu Al Hamid Dauwd per Alef Film (per conto dell'Ente Generale delle Antichit`).
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