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The Egyptian is a 1954 American epic historical drama film made by 20th Century-Fox. Filmed in CinemaScope with color by DeLuxe, it was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It is based on Mika Waltari's 1945 novel of the same name and the screenplay was adapted by Philip Dunne and Casey Robinson.
The Egyptian (Sinuhe egyptiläinen, Sinuhe the Egyptian) is a historical novel by Mika Waltari. It was first published in Finnish in 1945, and in an abridged English translation by Naomi Walford in 1949, from Swedish rather than Finnish.
The Lavon affair was a failed Israeli covert operation, codenamed Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the summer of 1954. As part of a false flag operation, [1] a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to plant bombs inside Egyptian-, American-, and British-owned civilian targets: cinemas, libraries, and American educational centers.
Props from the 20th Century-Fox production The Egyptian (1954) were bought and re-used for The Ten Commandments—including the "hounds and jackals" game. [103] In March 1954, Walter M. Scott, Fox's set decorator, said: "We have made 5,000 different items for the picture. Now the others want to borrow our things.
The character Zahra has been proposed to symbolize the ideal modern Egyptian/Egypt. She is hard working and honest but uneducated, and constantly being pulled by different forces. Among those pulling her and Egypt are Europeans, Egyptian nationalists ( Wafd party ), the wealthy upper-class, the Abdel Nasser regime and its followers, and the ...
Ana Horra or Ana Hurra (Arabic: أنا حرة, English: I Am Free) is a 1959 Egyptian drama starring Lobna Abdel Aziz. Ana Horra is associated with the onset of a feminist context to Egyptian films in the 1960s. [2] The film is also known as part of Salah Abu Seif's Empowerment of Women Trilogy. [3]
Appointment with Happiness (Egyptian Arabic: موعد مع السعادة, translit. Maw`ed Ma` al-Sa`adah) is a 1954 Egyptian romance/drama film directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar. It starred Imad Hamdi and Faten Hamama. This film received an award from the Egyptian Catholic Centre. The film portrays the life of a woman who is raped and ...
Al-Qāhira 30) is a 1966 Egyptian drama film directed by Salāḥ Abu Seif, [1] and based on Naguib Mahfouz's 1945 novel Modern Cairo. [2] The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominée.