The Man who lost his Shadow (Egyptian Arabic: الرجل الذي فقد ظله translit: El Ragol El-lazi fakad Zilloh) is a 1968 Egyptian film directed by Kamal El Sheikh. The film is based on Fathy Ghanem’s story with the same name. The film stars Salah Zulfikar, Magda and Kamal El-Shennawi.[1][2] The Man who lost his Shadow is a member of the Top 100 Egyptian films list.[3][4][5][6]
The Man Who Lost His Shadow | |
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الرجل الذي فقد ظله | |
Directed by | Kamal El Sheikh |
Written by | Fathy Ghanem |
Screenplay by | Ali El Zorqany |
Produced by | Mohamed Samy |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Mahmoud Nasr |
Edited by | Said El Sheikh |
Production companies | General Egyptian Corporation for Cinema and Television |
Distributed by | General Egyptian Corporation for Cinema and Television |
Release date | October 29, 1968 |
Country | Egypt |
Language | Egyptian Arabic |
The events of the film occur before the 1952 Revolution, Shawky is a revolutionary who struggles to build a new world. His friend, Youssef, rose in the world of journalism on the shoulders of his teacher, Mohamed Nagy, as he is an opportunist who sold himself in order to achieve his individual ambition and abandoned all human values and traditions with the aim of linking to a higher class represented by the aristocratic Souad. He struggles to build a new world in which his middle class and even the whole country will obtain social justice. Youssef's father assaults his maid, Mabrouka, and after his death, Youssef expels her with her son. However she knows the way to struggle so that there are no new victims like her. He reached it when social conditions changed after the 1952 Revolution. Then Mabrouka falls in love with Shawky.[7]