Thursday night at seven o’clock, the “Cinema Salon,” run and directed by filmmaker Ahmed Fouad Darwish, will hold a new meeting in the Al-Hanager Cinema Hall, a part of the Cultural Development Sector.
Where clips from the 1955 film “Darb Al-Muhabil,” written by international author Naguib Mahfouz and directed by Tawfiq Saleh, are shown and discussed. The plot centres on Khadija, who lives with her parents in a popular neighbourhood and does whatever it takes to support her beloved Taha, who works when the embarrassing wheels need to be fixed so that they can wed.
Taha buys the lottery leaf in the hope of winning the first prize so that he can complete the marriage, and events escalate in an exciting dramatic framework.
The documentary “Ibrahim Pasha” will be shown in the salon’s second half.
what is similar to tonight” is shown and discussed by the young director Karim Wardani, who uses the voice of director Ahmed Fouad Darwish as the narrator and shows vintage archive footage that was shot between 1897 and 1930. The director was captured on camera by a number of peasants in addition to other scenes.
It is worth noting, the movie “Darb Al-Muhabil 1955” is No.
42 in the list of the 100 best films in the memory of Egyptian cinema, according to the referendum of critics on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first cinematic show in Alexandria (1896-1996). The option was available from 1927, when the first motion picture, Egyptian (night 1927), was screened, until 1996.
Tonight, the Hanager cinema’s movie salon will discuss “Ibrahim Pasha’s” life.
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