
Henry Barakat
Directing
Biography
Henry Barakat (Arabic: هنري بركات, 11 June 1914, Cairo – 27 May 1997, Cairo) was one of the most famous Egyptian film directors in his era. He was born in Shobra, Cairo to a Syrian origin family. His father was a doctor and received the title of Beik by the King for the services he rendered. He directed some of the most famous films in the Egyptian Cinema. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For

Rebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fellow university student, who initially refuses but eventually accepts him. Abdul Hamid Khatib meets Samia and her cousin, and Ibrahim uses the situation to hasten Samia’s marriage, which she rejects. Nawal, the youngest daughter, becomes the liaison between Ibrahim and his colleagues, helping him escape. Abdul Hamid tries to inform the political police of Ibrahim’s location, but Samia stops him. The head of the political police suspects them and punishes them to find Ibrahim. Ibrahim refuses to leave the country, returning to fight colonialism and participating in an operation.
A Man in Our House

Aziza and her husband Abdullah are both day laborers who work on various farms. When Aziza is brutally raped by a guard while she is picking potatoes in a field, she tries to hide the pregnancy and plans to kill the baby once it is born.
The Sin

This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.
The Nightingale's Prayer

A young man asks his wife to dance with his boss at a party. The woman gets into an affair with the boss and commits infidelity. Her marriage dissolves and her life worsens. Her son has an illness, so the wife is forced to accept gifts from the boss.
A Woman With a Bad Reputation
Adel decides to marry Sawsan despite the opposition of her parents. Adel is under pressure from her father to divorce her. Eventually Adel gives in to her father's threat to imprison him because of his marriage to a minor and divorces her. Sawsan escapes from her home and turns to her friend Mona.
Under 20 Lovers

Delusions dominate Souad's mind and she believes that she can be with the person she loves through magic, so she puts a piece of sugar for her boyfriend that she brought from one of the charlatans in his cup of tea
Witch

The story of a family torn apart; the son goes to prison instead of his father for drug trafficking. While the other son marries a bad- tempered woman who abuses her mother-in-law forcing her to flee to work as a maid at a hospital.
Dearest Beloved

This lavish period action-adventure is an Egyptian version of The Count Of Monte Cristo.
Prince of Cunningness

Galal sends men from the mental hospital to Port Said to arrest his sister Fatma, using his political position, accusing her of insanity. Fatma escapes to the roof of the house and threatens to throw herself if someone approaches her, telling her story to the crowds around her.
The Night Of Fatima's Arrest

(Shaaban), a simple employee loves his colleague (Zeinab). The millionaire (Ghatrifi) dies, so his family search for one from his town or any relatives so that they can seize his inheritance. They reach where Shaaban lives, who is from the town of the millionaire. Ghatrifi family make a deal with Shaaban to assume the identity of Ghatrifi relative who lives abroad. Shaaban agrees to the deal for half of the millionaire's wealth.
Shaaban Below Zero

Based on the novel by Latifa al-Zayyat, which explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of age against the background of the growing Egyptian nationalist movement before the 1952 Egypt revolution.
The Open Door

Hassan is aa simple employee whose friend gets him a job with the merchant Salem. Al-Nabrawy, a black market trader, tries to convince Salem to work with him in his illegal business, but he refuses. When documents incriminating Al-Nabrawy falls into Salem's hands, the former tries to get them back.
Hassan Beh El Ghalban

A love story similar to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet taking place in the Egyptian Countryside.
Hassan and Nayima

Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo.
Prince of Revenge

In one of the villages, the big landowners are fighting over buying the largest percentages of land, as Taher Bey covets acquiring the land belonging to Kamla Hanem, which she inherited from her late husband, and she is supported in this conflict by her daughter's husband, who works as a police officer. The forces of the conflict change when the dancer Nawara and her band come to the village, and he throws her into the conflict between the bigwigs.
Nawara and the Beast

Before his death, the captain of the boats, Hussein, calls on his stepson to recommend his real son to him, while his true son is playing around and wreaking havoc, robbing his fiancée of her honor, then letting her flee, and refusing to consummate the marriage.
The Shore of Memories

A poor girl (Mona) who works as a simple employee at a bank and provides her family. Under the pressure of need and illness of her father and the pressure of her mother, which insists on her to increase her income, she gets a wealthy old businessman to love her. An engineer (Adel), who works in the company of her lover (Abdo) reveals his love, she convinces him to resign and build his own independent company and give him jewelry as a capital and stand by him and encourage him and cut ties with Abdo. Will their love story continue?
The Thin Thread
Kawthar leaves her fiancé Ahmed and marries the wealthy Shamis, the owner of the factory where her father works, after a quarrel broke out between them because of her father. She wins his admiration. Ahmed completes his studies and graduates from the Faculty of Engineering. He falls in love with his colleague, the engineer Nahid, and they agree to get married, while Shamis is killed by his lover's husband. Kawthar asks the engineer Ahmed to help her manage her late husband's factory because she faces many problems in managing it. By chance, she learns about Ahmed's relationship with Nahid.
Neither a Devil Nor an Angel

Mamdouh carries on with his womanizing ways after his marriage. His brother Fathy suffers from the constant preoccupation of his wife Nawal with her work. Mamdouh takes Fathy to a brothel, to take his mind off his problems, but Nawal discovers her husband's infidelity.
A Question in Love

Aida lives a quiet life with her much older husband. When she meets the young doctor Ahmed at the train station in Alexandria, they fall in love, but Aida feels that she is betraying her husband, and she is torn between love and a stable life.