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The Man Who Lost His Shadow

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The Man Who Lost His Shadow
Film poster
Egyptian Arabicالرجل الذى فقد ظله
Directed byKamal El Sheikh
Written byFathy Ghanem
Screenplay byAli El Zorqany
Produced byMohamed Samy
Starring
CinematographyMahmoud Nasr
Edited bySaid El-Sheikh
Music byAndre Ryder
Production
companies
General Egyptian Corporation for Cinema and Television
Distributed byGeneral Egyptian Corporation for Cinema and Television
Release date
  • October 29, 1968 (1968-10-29)
CountryEgypt
LanguageEgyptian Arabic

The Man who lost his Shadow (Egyptian Arabic: الرجل الذى فقد ظله translit: El Ragol Ellazi fakad Zelloh) is a 1968 Egyptian film directed by Kamal El Sheikh. It is based on Fathy Ghanem’s story under the same name. It stars Magda, Salah Zulfikar and Kamal El-Shennawi.[1][2] The film is a member of the Top 100 Egyptian films list.[3][4][5][6]

Synopsis

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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]

Primary cast

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ مجلة الفيصل: العددان 531-532 (in Arabic). مركز الملك فيصل للبحوث والدراسات الإسلامية. 2021-01-01.
  2. ^ قاسم, محمود (2019). جميلات السينما المصرية (in Arabic). وكالة الصحافة العربية.
  3. ^ The Man Who Lost His Shadow (1968), retrieved 2021-09-08
  4. ^ "Top 100 Egyptian Films (CIFF)". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  5. ^ "The Man Who Lost His Shadow". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  6. ^ قاسم, أ محمود (1999). دليل الممثل العربي في سينما القرن العشرين (in Arabic). مجموعة النيل العربية. ISBN 978-977-5919-02-1.
  7. ^ Elad, Ami (1994). "Mahfuz's "Zabalawi": Six Stations of a Quest". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 26 (4): 631–644. doi:10.1017/S0020743800061146. ISSN 0020-7438. JSTOR 163806.
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