19° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Tribute to Shadi Abdu Al Salam
Kursi Tutankhamun al dahabi
by Shadi Abdu Al Salam
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
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`).