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Filmmaker · Egypt

Salah Abu Seif

Died in 1996

Salah Abu Seif was born in Cairo in 1915, on 10 May in Bulaq. Employed in a factory, he met Niazi Mustafa there, who made him an editor. He made his first film in 1946 and directed forty-one, seven of them with Naguib Mahfouz according to Africultures; he was the first to bring a novel by this writer to the screen. He is regarded as the father of realism in Egyptian cinema. He died in 1996, on 23 June.

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