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A list of films produced in Egypt in 1939. For an A-Z list of films currently on Wikipedia, see Category:Egyptian films.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| The Will (1939 film) (Al Azeema) | Kamal Selim | Anwar Wagdy, Fatma Rushdy, Hussein Sedky | Drama, Romance | [1] [2] |
Faten Ahmed Hamama was an Egyptian film and television actress and film producer. She was the first wife of Ezz El-Dine Zulficar. She made her screen debut in 1939, when she was only seven years old. Her earliest roles were minor, but her activity and gradual success helped to establish her as a distinguished Egyptian actress. Later revered as an icon in Egyptian cinema. In 1996, nine of the films she starred in were included in the Top hundred films in the history of Egyptian cinema by the cinema critics of Cairo International Film Festival.
Khairy Beshara is an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since the 1970s. He is considered one of the Egyptian directors who re-defined Realism in Egyptian cinema in the 1980s. In a recent book published by Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 2007 about the most important 100 films in the history of Egyptian cinema, three of his movies were listed: The Collar and the Bracelet, Bitter Day, Sweet Day, and Ice Cream in Gleem.
Isma'il Yasin was an Egyptian comedy actor. He was known for his slapstick humor and has been compared to Charlie Chaplin. He began his acting career in 1939 with the film Khalaf El-Habayeb.
Salah Abu Seif was one of the most famous Egyptian film directors, and is considered to be the godfather of Neorealist cinema in Egyptian cinema. Many of the 41 films he directed are considered Egyptian classics with 11 films in the Top 100 Egyptian films list. His film The Beginning and the End (1960) was the first adaptation of a novel by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
The following is a list of Egyptian films. The year order is split by decade. For an alphabetical list of films currently on Wikipedia, see Category:Egyptian films.
The cinema of Egypt refers to the flourishing film industry based in Cairo, sometimes also referred to as Hollywood of the East or Hollywood on the Nile. Since 1976, the capital has held the annual Cairo International Film Festival, which has been accredited by the FIAPF. There are an additional 12 festivals. Of the more than 4,000 short and feature-length films made in MENA region since 1908, more than three-quarters were Egyptian films. Egyptian films are typically spoken in the Egyptian Arabic dialect.
Mahmoud el-Meligy was an Egyptian screenwriter and an actor of film, theater, and television. He started his career playing minor roles but achieved stardom in the late 1930s. A popular and award-winning actor, he has acted in hundreds of films and was famous for his evil, villain roles.
Anwar Wagdi or Wagdy, born Anwar Wagdi Yehia El Fattal, was an Egyptian actor, screenwriter, director and producer.
Mahmoud Zulfikar was an Egyptian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He was a major figure in Egyptian film industry.
Togo Mizrahi was an Egyptian director, actor, producer, and screenwriter. Mizrahi was a prolific filmmaker best known for making popular comedies and musicals. Between 1930 and 1946, he directed 30 Arabic-speaking films and four Greek speaking films, and he produced several films directed by other filmmakers.
Studio Misr is a film studio established in Egypt in 1935 by the economist Talaat Harb. Owned and staffed by Egyptians, it is known as 'The Studio of Egypt'. For three decades, it was the leading Egyptian equivalent to Hollywood's major studios.
