The Man Who Lost His Shadow Explained

The Man Who Lost His Shadow
Native Name:
Director:Kamal El Sheikh
Screenplay:Ali El Zorqany
Producer:Mohamed Samy
Starring:
Cinematography:Mahmoud Nasr
Editing:Said El-Sheikh
Music:Andre Ryder
Studio:General Egyptian Corporation for Cinema and Television
Distributor:General Egyptian Corporation for Cinema and Television
Country:Egypt
Language:Egyptian 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]

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.[6]

Primary cast

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Notes and References

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