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The Man Who Lost His Shadow
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Wikipedia article
'The Man who lost his Shadow' (Egyptian Arabic: translit: 'El Ragol El-lazi fakad Zilloh') is an 1968 Egyptian film directed by Kamal El Sheikh. The film is based on Fathy Ghanems story with the same name. The film stars Salah Zulfikar, Magda and Kamal El-Shennawi. 'The Man who lost his Shadow' is a member of the Top 100 Egyptian films list.
Synopsis
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.
Primary cast
* Salah Zulfikar as Shawky
* Magda as Mabrouka
* Kamal El-Shennawi as Youssef
* Nelly as Baheya/Samia
* Emad Hamdy as Abdel Hamid
* Yusuf Shaaban as Anwar Samy
* Ali Gohar as Mohamed Nagy
*Mahmoud Yassin as Saad
* Soheir Fakhry as Soad
* Nazeem Shaarawy as Shohdy pasha
See also
* Cinema of Egypt
* Top 100 Egyptian films
* Salah Zulfikar filmography
* List of Egyptian films of 1968
* List of Egyptian films of the 1960s
References
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