Leading stations in Ahmed Zaki Art's career

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We are celebrating today the 14th anniversary of the death of Egyptian actor Ahmed Zaki, who died in 2005 from lung cancer. Here are the highlights of his career.

"Halim" movie that was completed after the death of the hero

The film "Halim", which tells the story of the Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez, was the last work of Ahmed Zaki. Interestingly, the film was completed after the hero's death, aired for the first time more than a year after Zaki's death in July 2006.

The film coincided with the beginning of Zaki's control of the disease and his health deteriorated. He barely managed to capture the scenes of Abdel Halim Hafez's life while he was growing up.

After Zaki's death, the producer decided to use his Haitham son to complete the film. Haitham Zaki was indeed the youngest actor in the world of acting.

The film did not achieve the expected success, in terms of popularity and turnover, since it finished seventh in the 2006 film race.

The total business figure of the film was 5.9 million Egyptian pounds, while the cost of production rose to 18 million.

Some attribute the decline in film revenues to some of the most controversial films, starting with the film Yacoubian Architecture, which is the main Egyptian film company the same year.

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"President of the Republic of Representation"

A number of critics launched the title on Zaki after presenting two films that covered the biographies of presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat.

Nasir 56, which was screened in 2006, is dedicated to a brief period of government of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who died a few months before the nationalization of the Suez Canal in July 1956.

But the production and presentation of the film was not as easy as it might seem: it was banned for a year by order of "representatives of the state".

Amr Al-Leithi, producer and producer of Mamdouh Al-Leithi, said his father had received a call from a manager before projecting the film to confirm the content.

The film was an unexpected success because tickets quickly ran out in theaters, forcing the team, including Zaki, to sit on the floor in a special show.

A decision was made to stop the film. In a televised interview before his death in 2017, screenwriter Mahfouz Abdulrahman said that the former president, Hosni Mubarak, was behind the ban. "Does Nasser now lead Egypt?" He says after watching.

But this experience did not deter Zaki from presenting the biography of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 2001 in the film "Days of Sadat".

The film was Zaki 's only production experience, which achieved and achieved a turnover of about two times, the cost of production was six million pounds, while revenues exceeded the deadline of Offer of 11 million.

The film was shot in a short time, about 11 weeks. It seems that Zaki learned from his first experience with the movie "Nasser 56", where he dedicated part of the dialogue to praise the role of Mubarak in the war of October 1973.

Zaki seems to have merged with political figures. In December, he presented the film "His Excellency the Minister" in which he embodied the character of a corrupt minister who had accidentally led him to his post, but had managed to stay there.

The film, written by Wahid Hamed and directed by Samir Seif, reviews the psychological struggle of this minister. He described the film boldly to address an unprecedented problem in any political action.

This was not his first experience with autobiographical works: he presented the role of Egyptian writer Taha Hussein in the series "Al Ayyam" at the beginning of his artistic career in 1979.

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Laughing the image looks sweet

A dramatic film in 1998, starring Mona Zaki and Karim Abdul Aziz Kogoh, before they later became actors in Egypt.

The film tells the story of a photographer who emigrated to Cairo when his daughter entered college, who then fell in love with his young and wealthy colleague, who no longer succeeded in l & # 39; 39 to marry another member of his social class. Some critics have described history as "1940s cinema with the vision of the 1990s".

The law firm Mafia in "Against the Government"

This film was screened in 1992, one of the most important in the history of Ahmed Zaki, addressing one of the controversial topics of this period.

The film saw Zaki's collaboration with director Atef al-Tayeb, known for his bold political films. His story is about the mafia lawyers who exploit the victims of road accidents and force agencies to classify the cases of compensation and then keep them.

The case becomes a personal form when the son of this lawyer is a victim of an accident and threatens his future. The lawyer for the first time abandons his twisted tactics and suing the Ministers of Education, Transportation and other officials until it becomes a public issue.

The film is known as the famous mocking stage in which Zaki shouts in court: "We are all corrupt, I do not exclude anyone."

Young movies

Zaki presented a number of films considered as a reflection of the problems of young people of his generation. The most important film is "I'm not lying, I'm perfecting" in 1981, about the story of the Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdul Kaddous.

The film tells the story of the poor young man who hides his social status and falls in love with a rich girl who is shocked when the truth reveals this young man.

Then, in 1986, Zaki presented the novel "Love at the top of the hill of the pyramid" to Naguib Mahfouz, in a film of the same name.

The film is directed by Atef al-Tayeb and shows the suffering of a young man and his fiancé in the search for a home to get married and decides to get married in secret. Having failed to find a suitable meeting place, they go to the top of the hill where the police stopped them for flagrant act on the road.

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Binary with Suad Hosni

Ahmed Zaki presented three works of a tournament with the Egyptian actress Soad Hosni. The first was "Shafiqa Wa Metwally" in 1978, directed by Ali Badrakhan.

In the film, Zaki plays Metwally, Shafiqa's brother (Suad Hosni), who is summoned by the authorities to work in the Suez Canal and leaves his sister, driven by the need to build multiple relationships, to learn about corruption power. The story ends with the return of Metwally, witnessing the death of Shafiqa by supporters of a responsible.

Zaki and Suad Hosni presented the series "Hakayat Hu Wa Wah" (1985), a series of separate episodes addressing each of the problems of men and women.

In the latest work by Suad Hosni, Ahmad Zaki presents the film "The Shepherd and the Woman" in 1991, based on the "Goat Island" foreign story, in which he plays the role of a young man in the love of three women from the same family.

Zaki was a candidate at the Karnak Film Festival against Soad Hosni, but producer Ramses Najib rejected it, saying it would not convince the public.

After his death in June 2001, Zaki Suad Hosni wrote in the Al-Ahram newspaper. "To her, to the artist Suad Hosni, the most talented and humble, the most humble, the most ingenious, the genius, the joy of your hearts full of joy, Now … calm down, you who do not did not know the rest before, mercy, love and gratitude, spacious room Iknk God, which made people's lives more beautiful. "

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The wife of an important man

One of the most outstanding brands of Ahmed Zaki in Egyptian cinema, and ranks 30th among the critics of the top hundred films in the history of Egyptian cinema.

The film is produced in 1988 and directed by Mohammed Khan. It presents the story of a police officer involved in torture cases and whose psychological state worsens after being dismissed as a result of the cleansing revolution.

The film focuses on the human and family aspect of the officer's life, with the eyes of his wife, who discovers his truth after marriage and turns his life into hell. It is one of the few films dealing directly with the events of January 18 and 19, 1977, or what is known as the Bread Insurrection.

The film was screened at the Moscow Film Festival and was admired by the jury chairman, actor Robert De Niro, who went to Zaki to tell him "You are an excellent actor".

Zaki also presented films on the implications of policy openness in Egypt, including "Al Baweeb Al Bawab" (1987) and "The Egg and the Stone" (1990).

The career of Ahmed Zaki is particularly important, including the role of the private soldier in the film "Innocent" in 1986, the intellectual son in the play "Alayal Kubrat" in 1979 and the shy young man in the play "School of the rioters" in 1973.

The work of Ahmed Zaki Ali 90 Between cinema, television, theater and radio, he works at the beginning of his artistic career.

He was born in November 1949 and graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in 1973.

He was once married by artist Hala Fouad, then separated in the mid-1980s because Zaki refused to play.