Country: Egypt
Year: 1937
Duration: 100'
Salama works as an errand boy in Kahlil's stores. He has to take a large sum of money to the bank, but since the bank is closed when he arrives, he spends the night in a hotel so that the money is safe from possible housebreakers. The errand boy finds himself in trouble when he is mistaken for prince Kindahar.
"Salama is filmed in a very 'natural' style. After two years working as an editor, Studio Misr agreed to produce the first film I ever directed. I directed, wrote and edited the film with the help of Mohammad Abdu Al Adhim. Nagib Al Rihani and Badi'e Khairi wrote excellent dialogues, but they were rather inexpert as far as screenwriting goes (…) Al Rihani is the best actor I have ever worked with in all my life" (Niazi Mustafa, in an interview with Samir Farid, published in "Al Funu" [The Arts], October 1982).
Biography
film director
Niazi Mustafa
Niazi Mustafa (Asiutt, Egypt, 1911 - Cairo, 1986). Director, author, screenwriter and editor, after graduating from Munich's school of cinema, in 1934 he followed specialization courses at the UFA in Berlin. He worked as editor at Studio Misr right from the studio's inauguration in 1935. In 1936 he became head of the editing department. He has directed numerous full-length films, seven documentaries and two short films.
FILMOGRAFIA
Casinò Badi'a (1936), Salama fi khair (Salama sta bene, 1937), El doctor (Il dottore, 1939), Si' Omar (Il Signor Omar, 1941), Rabha (1943), Taqiyatu al ikhfà (Il cappello magico, 1944), Antar wa Abla (Antar e Abla, 1945), Dahaya al madaniyya (Le vittime della civilizzazione, 1946), Min aina laka hadha (Come hai avuto tutto questo, 1952), Ardu al abttal (La terra degli eroi, 1953), Hamido (1953), Al fares al aswad (Il cavaliere nero, 1954), Sighara we kas (Una sigaretta e un bicchierino, 1955), Rassif nimra 5 (Il molo numero 5, 1956), Sawwaq nisf il lel (Il conducente di mezzanotte, 1958), Isma'il Yasin Tarzan (1958), Fadiha fi al Zamalek (Scandalo nel quartiere Zamalek, 1959), Sirru taqiati al ikhfà (Il segreto del cappello magico, 1959), Dima'un ala al Nil (Sangue sul Nilo, 1961), Antar Ibnu Shaddad (1961), Al giasus (La spia, 1964), Bint Antar (La figlia di Antar, 1964), Saghira ala al hubb (Piccola per amare, 1966), Faris Bani Hamdan (Il cavaliere di Bani Hamdan, 1966), Shabab majnun giddan (Gioventù molto pazza, 1967), El ataba gazaz (La soglia di vetro, 1969), Al mut'a wa al adhab (Il piacere e la sofferenza, 1971), Bint ismaha Mahmud (Una ragazza di nome Mahmud, 1975), Sana ula hubb (Primo anno d'amore, co-regia Salah Abu Seif, Atif Salem, Hilmi Rafla e Kamal Al Sheikh, 1976), El dabbah (Lo sgozzatore, 1987).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Niazi Mustafa.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura e dialoghi: Badi'e Khairi, Nagib Al Rihani.
Director of photography: Mohammad Abdu Al Adhim.
Art director: Walii Al Din Sameh.
Editor: Giala Mustafa.
Sound: Mustafa Wali.
Music: Mohammad Hasan Al Shagia'i, Abdu al Hamid, Abdu Al Rahman.
Cast and characters: Nagib Al Rihani (Salama), Husein Riyad (Kindahar), Firdos Mohammad (Sattuta), Ruhiyya Khalid (Nahid), Fu'ad Shafiq (Khalil), Mohammad Kamal al Misri (Baiyyumi), Istifan Rosti (Rustum), Raqiya Ibrahim (Gihan).
Production company and Italian distribution: Misr per il Teatro e il Cinema.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura e dialoghi: Badi'e Khairi, Nagib Al Rihani.
Director of photography: Mohammad Abdu Al Adhim.
Art director: Walii Al Din Sameh.
Editor: Giala Mustafa.
Sound: Mustafa Wali.
Music: Mohammad Hasan Al Shagia'i, Abdu al Hamid, Abdu Al Rahman.
Cast and characters: Nagib Al Rihani (Salama), Husein Riyad (Kindahar), Firdos Mohammad (Sattuta), Ruhiyya Khalid (Nahid), Fu'ad Shafiq (Khalil), Mohammad Kamal al Misri (Baiyyumi), Istifan Rosti (Rustum), Raqiya Ibrahim (Gihan).
Production company and Italian distribution: Misr per il Teatro e il Cinema.