Youssef Chahine
Directing
Born 1926-01-25
Died 2008-07-27
Alexandria, Egypt
65 credits
François Chalais Prize 1
honorary doctor of Paris 8 University 1
Silver Bear 1
Awards
Won 1 François Chalais Prize Award
François Chalais Prize 1 won
- 1999 François Chalais Prize Won The Other
honorary doctor of Paris 8 University 1 won
- 1997 honorary doctor of Paris 8 University Won
Silver Bear 1 won
- 1979 Silver Bear Won Alexandria... Why?
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Youssef Chahine (born in Alexandria, Egypt, 1926) started studying in a friars' school and then turned to Victoria College until High School Certificate. After one year at the University of Alexandria, he moved to the U.S. and spent two years at the Pasadena Play House, taking courses on film and dramatic arts. After coming back to Egypt, cinematographer Alevise Orfanelli helped him into the film business. His film debut was Baba Amin (1950): one year later, with Son of the Nile (1951) he was first invited to the Cannes Film festival. In 1970, he was awarded a Golden Tanit at the Carthage Festival. With Le moineau (1973), he directed the first Egypt-Algeria co-production. He won a Silver Bear in Berlin for Alexandria... Why? (1979), the first installment in what proved to be an autobiographic trilogy, completed with Hadduta Masriya (1982)(An Egyptian Story (1982)) and Alexandria: Again and Forever (1989).
In 1992, Jacques Lassalle proposed him to stage a piece of his choice for Comédie Française: Chahine chose to adapt Albert Camus' "Caligula," which proved hugely successful. The same year he started writing The Emigrant (1994), a story inspired by the Biblical character of Joseph, son of Jacob. This had long been a dream project, and he finally got to shoot it in 1994. In 1997, 46 years and 5 invitations later, he was again selected Hors Competition in Cannes with Destiny (1997).
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Filmography
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Directing
41 credits
Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine
To Each His Own Cinema
In Your Hands
Saladin
Lumière & Company
Cairo Station
September 11
Jamila, the Algerian
The Blazing Sun
An Egyptian Story
Destiny
Alexandria… Why?
Adieu Bonaparte
The Emigrant
The Devil of the Desert
The Land
Farewell, Love
The Other
My One And Only Love
Chaos, This Is?
Return of the Prodigal Son
Lady of The Train
The People and the Nile
The Choice
The Sparrow
Sands of Gold
Forever Yours
Women Without Men
Dawn of a New Day
Baba Amin
Son of the Nile
The Sixth Day
The Ring Seller
Salwa, the Little Girl Who Talks to Cows
The Nile and the Life
The Great Clown
Alexandria... New York
Lovers' Call
Silence... We're Rolling
Kolha Khatwa
A Man in My Life
Writing
20 credits
Saladin
September 11
Struggle in the Harbor
Destiny
Adieu Bonaparte
Alexandria Again and Forever
The Emigrant
The Devil of the Desert
Lady of The Train
The Choice
The Sparrow
Sands of Gold
Women Without Men
Baba Amin
Son of the Nile
Salwa, the Little Girl Who Talks to Cows
The Nile and the Life
The Great Clown
Alexandria... New York
Kolha Khatwa
Acting
18 credits
Spécial cinéma
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Matin Bonheur
Arab Camera
Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine
Cairo Station
An Egyptian Story
Shaheen... Why?
Alexandria Again and Forever
Chahine…Why?
Kiarostami in Close up
Dawn of a New Day
The Sixth Day
شاهين ابن النيل
Women Who Loved Cinema
Into Studio Masr
Cinématon XIV
Let's Talk
Producing
6 credits
Alexandria… Why?
The Other
Chaos, This Is?
The Water-Carrier Is Dead
Return of the Prodigal Son
Shafiqa and Metwally
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