Biographies: Salah Abu Seif - Director

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Salah Abu Seif is an Egyptian director and screenwriter, known as one of the pioneers of realism in Egyptian cinema. At the beginning of his adult life he used to work in a textile company in Mahala, where he met director Nizai Mostafa, who helped him to move to Studio Masr, a major production studio in Egypt at the time, when he noticed his passion with cinema. Abu Seif studied filmmaking in Italy and France, and upon his return, worked in Studio Masr for a long period, until he became the head of the editing department. He worked as an assistant director to Kamal Selim in the Determination. His first feature film was He Is Always in My Heart, which starred Emad Hamdy and Aqila Rateb in 1946. His most notable films include Cairo 30, The Second Wife and The Beginning.

• 20 October 2014
• Tarek Sharkawy