Add/Update Information: Series - Zezenia 1: El Wali w El Khawaga

Add/Update Information: Series - Zezenia 1: El Wali w El Khawaga - 1997

Basic Details

Title	زيزينيا ج1: الولي والخواجة
Title in English	Zezenia S1: The Holy Man and the Foreigner
Title's Translation	Zezenia 1: El Wali w El Khawaga
Original Title
Release Year	1997
Runtime	45
Category	Series
Subcategory
Status	Released
Is this a coloured title?	Yes
Egyptian Censorship	All Ages
MPAA Censorship
Movie Budget	0
Poster
Trailer

Release Date

30 December 1997

Egypt

true

Genre

Drama

Country

Egypt

Language

Arabic

Filming Locations

Social Media Links

Section Actor

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Yehia El Fakharany		1
2)	Athar El Hakeim		2
3)	Fardous Abdel Hamid		3
4)	Hoda Soltan		4
5)	Gamil Rateb		5
6)	Abu Bakr Ezzat		6
7)	Ashraf Abdelghafour		7
8)	Nabil Al Helfawi		8
9)	Ahmed Beder		9
10)	Tahani Rashed		10
11)	Sayyed Abdelkareim		11
12)	Ahmed El Sakka		12
13)	Mona Zaki		13
14)	Magda El Khatib		14
15)	Eman		15
16)	Simone		16
17)	Hamdy Ghaith		17
18)	Sawsan Badr		18
19)	Samah Anwar		19
20)	Mohamed Metwally		20
21)	Sayed Azmy		21
22)	Rajaa Hussain		22
23)	Nashwa Moustafa		23
24)	Lucy		24
25)	Mahmoud El Gendy		25
26)	Salwa Othman		26
27)	Attia Eweiss		27
28)	Alaa Morsy		28
29)	Ragaa Amin		29
30)	Hala Al Najjar		30
31)	Wafaa Sadiq		31
32)	Azza Labieb		32
33)	Mohamed Kamel		33
34)	Abd Allah Meshref		34
35)	Saeed Al Saleh		35
36)	Olfat Emam	Maria	36
37)	Raouf Moustafa		37
38)	Ahdy Sadek		38
39)	Lotfy Labib		39
40)	Ghada Adel		40
41)	Ahmad Ezz		41
42)	Lana Yousuf		42
43)	Trez Damyan		43
44)	Yousri Mostafa		44
45)	Sabry Abdel Monem		45
46)	Khalil Morsy		46
47)	Samy Maghawry		47
48)	Nagwa Fouad		48
49)	Abdel Azziz Makhyoun		49
50)	Shawqi Shamekh		50
51)	Ryad El Kholy		51
52)	Ezzat Abu Ouf		52
53)	Ehab Fahmy		53
54)	Saeed Tarabeek		54
55)	Mohamed Al Tagy		55
56)	Ismail Mahmoud		56
57)	Mahmoud Al Bezzawy	Khalil	57
58)	Nasser Shahin		58
59)	Youssef Al Assal		59
60)	Naguib Rushdi		60
61)	Mona Qattan		61
62)	Adel Amin		62
63)	Alaa Zinhom		63
64)	Khaled Gamal		64
65)	Ahmad Saeed Abdulghani	George	65
66)	Emad Al Arousi		66
67)	Ola Ghanem		67
68)	Maged El Kedwany		68
69)	Rasha Zahran		69
70)	Yara Beski		70
71)	Abdel Hameed Anees		71
72)	Kamal El Alfy		72
73)	Mohammad Khedr		73
74)	Hassan Al Deeb		74
75)	Tarek Kamel		75
76)	Ahmad Samy Abdallah		76
77)	Mustafa Abu Al Azaim		77
78)	Maher Selim		78
79)	Fatima Lutfi		79
80)	Metwaly Elwan		80
81)	Suliman Hussain		81
82)	Isabel Kamal		82
83)	Wafaa Al Sayed		83
84)	Nahla El Khateb		85
85)	Yousry El Trabolsy		86
86)	Ahmed Bahloul	Farag	87
87)	Madiha Al Bakry		88
88)	Mohamed Radwan		89
89)	Ata Al Ghamrawi		90
90)	Omran Bahr		91
91)	Kamel Salem		92
92)	Kamal Elzeiny		93
93)	Essam Shahin		94
94)	Abdel Jawad Metwalli		95
95)	Marwa Al Khatib		96
96)	Helmy Fouda		97
97)	Hassan Mokalad		98
98)	Fekriya Yousef		99
99)	Pierre Sioufy		100
100)	Sherif Al Ghareeb		101
101)	Ahmed ELTmane		102
102)	Zaki Adulmajeed		103
103)	Yahya Zakariya	Ibrahim	104
104)	Nesma Mahmoud		105
105)	Soliman Eid		106
106)	Salah Abdel Hameed		107
107)	Mohammed Imbaby		123
108)	Mohamed Basyouni		124
109)	Sherif Sobhy		125
110)	Alfred Kamal		126
111)	Mohy Al Din Abdel Hamid		127
112)	Saleh El Aweil		128
113)	Kamel El Sherif		129
114)	Gamal Yousuf		130
115)	Mohamed Hussein		131
116)	Abdel Aziz Mubarak		132
117)	Mahmoud Abdulghaffar		133
118)	Mohamed Awad		134
119)	Ali Gamal El Din		135
120)	Amira Antwan		136
121)	Ahmed Adel		137
122)	Shaimaa Ahmed		138
123)	Mohamed El Feky		139

Section Art Director

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Arafah Zaky	Art Director	1
2)	رضا عبد القادر		2
3)	طه يوسف		3
4)	محمود دبكة		4
5)	سعيد النادي		5
6)	إدوار يعقوب		6
7)	سمير فهمي		7
8)	يحيى أحمد		8
9)	Mohamed Ali		9
10)	Ali Hassan		10
11)	عادل حامد		11
12)	Sayed Hamed		12
13)	الدسوقي محمود		13
14)	Abbas Saber		14
15)	Mostafa Khoury		15

Section Cinematographer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Sameer Fahmi	Gaffer	1
2)	Hossam El Anany		2
3)	سامية صبحي	Director of Photography	3
4)	Ahmad Tawfiq	Director of Photography	4
5)	عماد عثمان	Director of Photography	5
6)	سمر عزت	Director of Photography	6
7)	نبيل حسن		7
8)	سامي إبراهيم		8

Section Producer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Production Sector -TV & Radio Union (A.R.E.)	Producer	1
2)	Samy Alam	Production Director	2
3)	طه حسين		3
4)	هشام عباس		4
5)	Ali hekal		5
6)	محمد عبدالجليل		6

Section Director

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Gamal Abdel Hamid	Director	1
2)	Nahla Farouk		2
3)	Mohammed Mahmoud		3
4)	Ashraf Nar		4
5)	Hisham Okasha	Assistant Director	5
6)	Ayman Zaki		6

Section Costume Designer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Samia Abdel Aziz	Costume Design	1
2)	Mona Al-Zarqani		2
3)	هالة الزهوي		3
4)	فاطمة رياض	Costumes	4

Section Music Composer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Ammaar El Sheraiey		2
2)	Mohammad El Helw	Singer	3
3)	منير سعد		4

Section Writer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options
1)	Osama Anwar Okasha	Writer	1
2)	Ahmad Fouad Negm		2

Section Makeup Artist

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options
1)	Ahmed Afifi	Make-up	1
2)	عمر عبدالمحسن	Make-up	2

Section Photographer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options
1)	عطيه بحيري		2

Section Distributor

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options
1)	Financial and Economic Affairs Sector - R.T.U - A.R.E	Distributor	2

Section Laboratory

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options
1)	Ammar Sound Studio		2

Section Editor

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options
1)	Medhat Bahgat		2

Section Sound Engineer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options

Section Stuntman

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options

Section Public Relations

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options

Section Graphic Designer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options

Section Casting

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options

Section Other

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options

Section Dubbing

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options

Synopsis

Name	Synopses	Official ?	Options
Dalia Saad	Set in 1940s Alexandria, the story follows the Egyptian-Italian Bishr, who’s conflicted about his mixed heritage, and his love for the affluent, yet confused, Aida, shedding light on the struggle against the British in the Zananiri neighborhood led by El Tobji and Naima Mersal. 278
Shaimaa Saied	The story of the lives of foreigners, Italians, Greeks, and others in Alexandria in the 1940s, through the story of the Egyptian man, Bisher Amer Abdel Zaher who has an Italian mother, leaving him torn between his Egyptian roots and his Italian side that his mother and uncle want him to embrace. 296

Summaries

Name	Summaries	Official ?	Options

Plots

Name	Plots	Official ?	Options

Trivia

Name	Trivia Body	Criteria	Options

Reviews

Name	Review Content	Spoiler ?	Official ?	Options

Episodes

Season	Episode	Duration	Title	Summaries
1	1	35	1st Episode	Aida meets with Bishr, after which the latter spends the...Read more night with a dancer, which angers his Italian uncle. Bishr sleeps over at his Italian mother’s, and returns in the morning to his father's agency, whereupon he gets arrested for killing Badia Asfour. 256
1	2	40	2nd Episode	Giovanni tries to save Bishr from the trumped-up crime, and...Read more it turns out that the murdered woman isn’t Badia, but another woman in her clothes. Aida is annoyed by Mostafa, who wants to return to her. Amer saves Salah from the police during a demonstration. 256
1	3	40	3rd Episode	Silvana seeks Giovanni’s help to obtain her rights from her...Read more husband's siblings. Salah escapes from Mohamed Badran’s house and joins Naima and her son for patriotic work. Richard and Hazan offer to let Bishr partner up with them in a new agency, but he stipulates that he gets the villa in Glim. 294
1	4	40	4th Episode	As Giovanni De Lorenzi tries to persuade Bishr to work with...Read more him in the cotton trade, and to work with his father, he agrees provided that he buy him Mizrahi's villa next to Mohamed Badran’s. Sheikh Abdel Fattah tries to get close to Aida, but he gets severely beaten by Mohamed Badran's men. 291
1	5	40	5th Episode	As Abdel Fattah faints, everyone thinks that he died, and...Read more when they go to bury him, he awakens, and is turned into a holy man; Ikram’s latent feelings for him are rekindled. Bishr moves to the villa his uncle bought for him next to Aida’s, and speaks to his father about trading in cotton with his uncle. 304
1	6	40	6th Episode	Hamido, Naima's late husband’s brother, gets out of prison...Read more and demands what his brother left him. El Tobji meets with Salah and a group of militants, and is assigned his first mission. De Lorenzi demands that Marco give Silvana the appropriate requital. It’s revealed that El Tobji saved Badia's life. 301
1	7	40	7th Episode	The royal palace’s envoy contacts De Lorenzi, asking him for...Read more money for the king. Bishr visits Badia Asfour and invites her to a celebration in his villa, which galls Mohamed Badran and Aida. Sheikh Abdel Fattah complains about the responsibilities thrust upon him after he became a holy man. 291
1	8	40	8th Episode	Mohamed Badran asks Amer to make Bishr quit having noisy...Read more parties. Bishr starts working in his new company. Amer visits Francesca. De Lorenzi asks Bishr to make his father leave because of their old dispute. Khamis quarrels with Rifai for being narrow-minded. Bishr suggests that Abdel Fattah marry Ikram. 304
1	9	35	9th Episode	El Tobji decides to stay after hours to print some leaflets,...Read more whereupon Silvana comes back because she forgot the safe open, catches El Tobji red-handed and takes a paper from those he printed in order to know the truth. 219
1	10	40	10th Episode	Salah is expelled from the house where he stays with a...Read more member of the Muslim Brotherhood due to a dispute over slogans. Aida decides to attend a Greek wedding, in which Rina is participating. 190
1	11	40	11th Episode	Bishr spends his night with Aida in a cafe in Zezenia, and...Read more learns that his dad wants to marry Ikram off. People futilely try to return Khamis to the agency. Morshidi learns that his dad will sign the agency over to him if Khamis doesn’t back down. Amer talks to Rifai about marrying Ikram. Aida visits Abdel Fattah. 315
1	12	35	12th Episode	Silvana becomes suspicious of El Tobji's activities,...Read more especially when she sees him with Fathi, who tries to find Salah and turns to Aida to find out where he is, while Bishr gets the blame from his uncle De Lorenzi. 214
1	13	40	13th Episode	Mohamed visits Naima in her café to ask about Salah’s...Read more whereabouts. As Fathi takes a walk with Rina on the seashore, Naima expresses her objection to this relationship, despite being friendly with Rina's brother, since they’re neighbors. 236
1	14	40	14th Episode	Vasiliadis decides to propose to Rina. As Bishr discovers...Read more that Salah is hiding at Badia Asfour’s, El Tobji decides to move him to another place so he wouldn’t tell Aida. Bayada's father refuses to wed her to Rifai, even though she loves him. Khamis divorces his wife and tries to win Bayada for himself. 303
1	15	35	15th Episode	Richard and Hazan offer to make Rifai their partner....Read more Bayada's father decides to wed her to Khamis, despite her objection. Abdel Fattah visits Bishr to bemoan his passionate love. The poet Ilhami breaks up with Aida. 215
1	16	35	16th Episode	As Mostafa Bagato tells Bishr that he’s about to marry Aida,...Read more Bishr confronts them with each other, and she admits that she said that in order to evade him. Bishr reveals to Aida where Salah is, so El Tobji gets angry and decides to cooperate with Abu Doma to teach Bishr a lesson. Abdel Fattah is arrested. 306
1	17	40	17th Episode	Bishr decides to visit Abdel Fattah in jail and discovers...Read more that Mohamed Badran is the one who reported him. As Bishr asks Aida to intervene, she, in turn, asks Mohamed Badran, and when they release him he flees from the police. 226
1	18	35	18th Episode	Bayada tells Amna that she doesn’t want to marry Khamis, so...Read more Amna claims that Khamis and Bayada are foster siblings. When Bayada’s father sees her talking with Rifai from the balcony, he beats her and prevents her from going out, and her marriage to Khamis becomes a fait accompli. 280
1	19	40	19th Episode	Todari objects to Rina's dating Fathi. Bishr asks his father...Read more to intercede with Mohamed Badran to lift the siege on Zananiri. Salah and Fathi hide because the British are looking for them. 187
1	20	40	20th Episode	Bishr mediates with De Lorenzi to solve the Zananiri crisis....Read more As El Tobji and his group try to find something that can be done about the British in Zananiri, Abdel Fattah proposes that they lure their leader in. 210
1	21	40	21st Episode	De Lorenzi asks his influential friends from the foreign...Read more communities to issue a joint statement condemning what is happening in Zananiri. Bishr asks El Tobji to organize a large demonstration. As Salah professes his feelings for Aida, she feels confused. 254
1	22	40	22nd Episode	Bayada runs away so as not to marry Khamis and takes shelter...Read more in El Shennawi’s house. As a group of British soldiers try to harass Aida, Bishr shoots and injures one of them. 173
1	23	40	23rd Episode	De Lorenzi solves Silvana's problem with her...Read more brothers-in-law. After three days of searching, Master Ashour El Sammak finds his daughter at El Shennawi’s, and decides to wed her to Khamis the next day. As El Shennawi refuses to perform at the wedding, Ashour threatens him with the trust receipts. 296
1	24	40	24th Episode	Rifai proposes to Mahrousa, who agrees. As De Lorenzi holds...Read more a masquerade in his palace, the countess comes, and he invites her on a tour all over Egypt. As Khamis and Bayada’s wedding takes place, Rifai dances at the party after Bishr, whereupon an unknown person shoots Rifai. 277
1	25	40	25th Episode	Bishr and Amna fall out over the revelation of his new...Read more girlfriend. A policeman asks Bishr why his name was mentioned with El Tobji’s in the Zananiri case; also his uncle De Lorenzi asks him about the same thing, and requests his help in getting a senior British officer released. 279
1	26	40	26th Episode	Bishr asks El Tobji to release the British officers who have...Read more been detained since the Zananiri demonstration. After much deliberation, El Tobji tells him that he’s ready to release them in return for a thousand pounds each. Fathi asks his father to ask for Rina's hand. 268
1	27	40	27th Episode	As Francesca asks Bishr about the money he took from the...Read more safe, he tells her that his uncle knows he took it. Rifai inaugurates the new agency, and Richard and Hazan offer to sell him their car. Bayda goes out without Khamis's permission, which enrages him. Amna catches Amer with his new wife, Emtithal. 303
1	28	40	28th Episode	Badran tells Bishr that it’s difficult for him to be the...Read more Wafd Party’s candidate as he’s half-Italian, but De Lorenzi tells Bishr that his mother has Egyptian citizenship. Khamis tries in vain to appease Bayada. As Bishr goes to El Tobji’s meeting, Salah tells him that he came to spy on them, so he slaps him. 309
1	29	40	29th Episode	Aida tells Naima that she wants to help her in her fight...Read more against the British. Aida mingles with the people of the street. As she encounters Sheikh Abdel Fattah, Ilhami angrily leaves. Rifai tells Abdel Fattah that his wedding is next Thursday. 243
1	30	40	30th Episode	Rifai, Bayada, and El Shennawi learn that Khamis is the one...Read more behind the murder attempt. As Rifai and Mahrousa’s wedding is held, Bayada grieves. As Fathi learns that Rina traveled with Vasiliadis, he feels sad that she left him. Silvana reveals to El Tobji that she’s aware of his patriotic activities. 301
1	31	40	31st Episode	Silvana is shocked when she learns that De Lorenzi wants her...Read more to accompany the countess across Egypt. As Amer falls ill, all his children visit him, and he tells them to treat his new wife well. Mohamed Badran realizes that his situation is critical due to what Mostafa El-Nahas did after the February 2 incident. 312
1	32	40	32nd Episode	Rifai offers El Shennawi to work with him. Aziza, Amna’s...Read more relative, comes to live with them in the big house. The policeman warns Bishr that he has been under surveillance since the release of the two officers from the Zananiri incident, and Bishr decides to warn the Zananiri cell. 281
1	33	40	33rd Episode	Abdel Fattah Dergham goes to Bishr's house as he can't face...Read more Aida, in whose house everyone discusses politics. Salah and Bishr make up, while Aida declares her love to Bishr. 173
1	34	40	34th Episode	When De Lorenzi proposes to the countess, she turns him down...Read more as she’s already in love. As the police decide to set a trap for the Zananiri group, the campaign succeeds, and Salah and Naima are arrested. 202
1	35	40	35th Episode	Bishr declares his love to Aida. De Lorenzi decides to...Read more travel suddenly, and only informs Bishr and his sister, whereupon De Lorenzi proposes to Silvana. Aida decides to provide Abu Laila's group with money for weapons. 218
1	36	40	36th Episode	Rina tells Fathi that she has to marry Vasiliadis, which...Read more angers him. Abdel Fattah's ex-wife returns to leave him their children as she’ll marry. Bishr tells Aida that he’s thinking about marriage. After Francesca's objection to her brother's marriage, she decides to patch things up with him. 292
1	37	40	37th Episode	Hilal decides to ask Ikram to marry him. Khamis quarrels...Read more with Bayada for going out with her aunt's husband, but she answers him viciously. Rifai receives news that his wife Mahrousa’s pregnant. 193
1	38	40	38th Episode	After Mahrousa’s pregnancy, Bayada asks Khamis to make sure...Read more he can have kids, so he beats her. Bishr sees Aida with Abu Laila, and realizes that she's making him jealous, so he leaves her, and she agrees to marry Abu Laila. Todari visits Naima and tells her that Fathi answered Rina's letters rudely. 300
1	39	40	39th Episode	Aida decisively agrees to marry Adel Abu Laila, and invites...Read more Bishr to her wedding, so he decides to compliment her with an Alexandrian wedding procession with El Shennawi and Badia Asfour. 187
1	40	40	40th Episode	With WWII ending, Bishr becomes estranged from his mother...Read more due to her wish to marry Naseem. Aida suffers in her life with Adel. Bishr receives the Bey title. After Mahrousa gives birth, Khamis changes, as he spends most of his time absent-minded. 245
1	41	40	41st Episode	Azzouz receives a letter from his Palestinian wife at last....Read more Aida visits the people of Zananiri, and learns that her husband isn’t an engineer and that he’s a swindler and an ex-convict, upon which she leaves in a terrible state. Richard and Hazan return after a long journey. 275