Youssef Chahine

Youssef Chahine was born in Alexandria on 25 January 1926. A pupil at Victoria College, he studied cinema and drama at the Pasadena Playhouse, in California, from 1947 to 1949, and shot his first film in 1950. He directed more than forty films, lived in Lebanon from 1965 to 1968 and received at Cannes, in 1997, the fiftieth anniversary prize for his body of work as a whole. He died in Cairo on 27 July 2008, of a cerebral haemorrhage.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaCairo Stationباب الحديدYoussef Chahine · 1958Cinema
• CinemaThe Ring Sellerبياع الخواتمYoussef Chahine · 1965Cinema