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Filmmaker · Egypt

Kamal al-Telmessani

Died in 1972

Kamel el-Telmissany was born in 1915, in the Qalyubiya, and came to Cairo in 1925. He gave up veterinary studies for painting and founded, with Georges Henein and Ramsès Younan, the surrealist group Art et Liberté; his illustrations of 1938 are among the first Egyptian surrealist images. He moved into cinema in 1945, seeing in it an art more widely shared. He died in Beirut on 1 March 1972.

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