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
    Region
    Filming Locations
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    Cast

    Section Actor

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    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 Bedair 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 Options
    1) Arafah Zaky Art Director 1
    2) Reda Abdel Qader 2
    3) Taha Yousef 3
    4) Mahmoud Dabka 4
    5) Saeed El Nady 5
    6) Edwar Yacoub 6
    7) Samir Fahmy 7
    8) Yahya Ahmad 8
    9) Mohamed Ali 9
    10) Ali Hassan 10
    11) Adel Hamed 11
    12) Sayed Hamed 12
    13) El Desouqy Mahmoud 13
    14) Abbas Saber 14
    15) Mostafa Khoury 15

    Section Cinematographer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Sameer Fahmi Gaffer 1
    2) Hossam El Anany 2
    3) Samia Sobhi Director of Photography 3
    4) Ahmad Tawfiq Director of Photography 4
    5) Emad Osman Director of Photography 5
    6) Samar Ezzat Director of Photography 6
    7) Nabeel Hassan 7
    8) Samy Ibrahim 8

    Section Producer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Production Sector -TV & Radio Union (A.R.E.) Producer 1
    2) Samy Alam Production Director 2
    3) Taha Hussein Executive Producer 3
    4) Hisham Abbas Executive Producer 4
    5) Ali hekal Executive Producer 5
    6) Mohammad Abdel Jaleel Executive Producer 6

    Section Director

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    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 Options
    1) Samia Abdel Aziz Costume Design 1
    2) Mona Al-Zarqani 2
    3) Hala Al Zahwy 3
    4) Fatema Riad Costumes 4

    Section Music Composer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Ammar El Sheraie 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) Omar Abdel Mohsen Make-up 2

    Section Editor

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

    Section Photographer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Attia Behairy 2

    Section Laboratory

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

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    Section Stuntman

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    Section Public Relations

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    Section Graphic Designer

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    Section Casting

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    Section Other

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    Section Dubbing

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    Synopsis

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    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

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    Reviews

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    Episodes

    Season Episode Duration Title Summaries Video Options
    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