Sawsan Badr
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Sawsan Badr (born Suzan Abu Taleb) is an Egyptian film, stage and television actress who was born in Cairo, Egypt, on September 25, 1957. She graduated from the High Institute of...Read more Theatrical Arts in 1979, after discontinuing her studies in the faculty of science. She's appeared in many theater productions, including "Al Wad Sayyid Al Shaghal." She got her start in film in the British film “Mot Amira” (Death of a Princess) by British director Antony Thomas in 1980. This film made quite a stir at its premiere in Britain, as it infuriated the Saudi Arabian government for its portrayal of the kingdom’s history. Badr was blacklisted from Egyptian and Saudi television, and for this she lost many roles directly following the film. Though it made her very popular, she did try multiple times to leave Egypt, but finally decided on changing her name to Sawsan Badr. She delivered a memorable performance in her second role in the 1980 film “Habibi Da’iman” (Always My Love) directed by Hussein Kamel. She won the best actress award for the play "Al Ard La Tanbit Al Zuhur” and for her role in the television series “Dawlat Fahmy," as well as a number of international awards for her role in “Al Dawair Al Mughlaqa” in 2001. She received the Best Actress Award at the 34th Cairo International Film Festival. Badr was cast to play Nefertiti in Shady Abdel Salaam’s film about Akhnaton, though the great director passed away before finishing the movie.
The Treasure Reality and Imagination
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The Treasure revolves around three eras the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era and the first half of the 20th century. It discusses corruption and how some clerics have involved religion in politics in order to obtain high positions and gain power which they have abused over the ages.Love for Love
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Adam is dissatisfied with his life and seeks wealth in any way. He likes the nurse Azza, who works for his sick grandmother whose death he awaits in order to inherit her money. He more throws his birthday party in her villa and invites his friends. As they celebrate, many strange paradoxes occur.The Giant
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(Zaki) is single in his fifties. He was known among people as an example of magnanimity and virility, but the seductress Mona was able to invade his heart, seeking to marry him in greed for his money and to achieve for herself all the luxury and influence she could, and after marriage she tries to distance him from his chosen friends and control On it, events follow.Al Moshtaba
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A mysterious traffic accident costs the life of Magdy, the businessman. When the police begin investigating the accident, a mysterious hit man comes to the forefront and makes an more attempt on the life of the heroine and her daughter. Thus, a link is drawn between these successive events that seem to make a suspect out of everyone involved.La tsa lni Min Ana
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When the impoverished Aisha sells her daughter Zeinab to the barren wealthy woman Soraya, she insists on being Zeinab s nanny to raise her. But as her other children grow up and more get prestigious jobs, they ask their mother to quit her job, ignorant of the fact that she is staying for their sister.The Wedding
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Their situation becomes narrow, so he is forced to hold a wedding party and hire two newlyweds to recover the money he paid as compliments at weddings, to pay off his debt and buy a microbus, and fate wants his mother to die during the joy, so will he continue the joy until he collects his money or ends it? He collects his money or ends it?The Wedding
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Their situation becomes narrow, so he is forced to hold a wedding party and hire two newlyweds to recover the money he paid as compliments at weddings, to pay off his debt and buy a microbus, and fate wants his mother to die during the joy, so will he continue the joy until he collects his money or ends it? He collects his money or ends it?The Replacement
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The film revolves around twins separated by days, where each one of them was raised in a different environment, one was adopted by a dancer and lived with her in a slum, a poor and marginalized life, and the other was adopted by a kind, high-ranking family, so the first becomes a drug dealer and the second a police officer.
Napoleon and El Mahrousa
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A portrait of the social and political aspects of Egypt during the late 18th century French campaign, and the most important events that ensued, from Battle of Shubra Khit between Napoleon and the Mamluk leader, Murad Bey, and through the first and second Revolt of Cairo, till the defeat and exit of the campaign.