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Raafat El Mehi

Raafat El Mehi

Directing

Biography

Raafat El-Mihy (September 29, 1940 - July 24, 2015) is an Egyptian director and one of the directors who excelled in experimentation. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Department of English Language, then obtained a diploma from the Film Institute in 1964. Raafat Al-Mihy wrote the first screenplay of the cinema in 1966, and the screenplay of the movie "The Rain Dried Up" became the most prominent son of his generation from the screenwriter. In the seventies of the twentieth century, he collaborated with director Kamal Al-Sheikh in films: sunset and sunrise and something in my chest and fugitive and on whom we shoot. In 1981, Raafat El-Mihy announced himself as a cinematographer when he presented his first movie "Eyes Never Sleeps" about the play "Desire under the Elm Tree" by Eugene or Neal, then that film was followed by seven films (sunset and sunrise 1970, Avocato 1984 for love, a final story 1986, gentlemen men 1987) Fish, milk, Indian dates, 1988, ladies, 1990, a little love, a lot of violence, 1995, dead, apple, 1996, six sixties, 1998, because our Lord loves you 2001). His films participated in more than one international festival, such as: (Carlo Vivari, Valencia Barcelona, ​​Bastia, New Delhi, Cairo). His films took many prizes, as "Avocato" won the Jury Prize at the V V Festival in 1985, and "Love Has a Last Story" won a special award at the Carlo Vivari Festival, and "Little Love Much Violence" won the award. The first in the fifth national festival for feature films in 1995. And the first prize in the fifth national festival for feature films in 1995.

Known For

Past Love
N/A

A wife is forced to marry a man she does not love, even though there is a love relationship between her and another young man. After several years, the revolution declared this false social situation, as it tries to resist and eliminate it. Here it clashes with the traditions and the laws of the surrounding community.

Past Love

1973
The Lawyer
6.9

After getting sentenced with one month in prison for contempt of court, the lawyer Sbankh tries to take advantage of his jail time to establish many relations, most notably with drug dealer Hassouna,and Salim Abu Zaid, one of the centers of power in the 60s.

The Lawyer

1983
Sayidati Anisati
6.3

The story revolves around Dr. Mahmoud, who has a doctorate and earns less than the company's courier, Dr. Mahmoud decides to work as a courier to raise his salary. Four female employees of the company decide to marry Dr. Mahmoud once to overcome the housing crisis and the various economic crises, Provided they remain in their hands, two of them release Dr. Mahmoud to marry two other people and live in the same apartment.

Sayidati Anisati

1990
Something in my Chest
7.0

Hussein Shaker is a man with dictatorial power, he tries to put one of his colleagues under control but he couldn't because of the man patriotism but then he dies and Hussein tries to destroy the man's whole family.

Something in my Chest

1971
Sleepless Eyes
5.2

Ibrahim, the owner of a large car workshop, marries a poor girl called Mahasen, which his brothers fear because of their fear of sharing their inheritance. At the same time, Ismael feels a lot of hatred and hatred toward Ibrahim, who works for him in the workshop, The problems all the time with the pros, but soon change the relationship between Mahasen and Ishmael.

Sleepless Eyes

1981
Whom Should We Shoot?
6.5

The film describes the political and economical corruption in 70s’ Egypt, through the relationship between a powerful man and his wife’s ex-fiance.

Whom Should We Shoot?

1975
Those Gentlemen
6.5

Fawzya suffers from the treatment of her husband Ahmed who doesn't pay her enough attention. After Ahmed refuses to divorce Fawzya, she decides to have a sex change surgery and becomes a man. Fawzya suffers a lot after changing her sex and their child loses his mother's tenderness.

Those Gentlemen

1987
Forbidden
N/A

Forbidden Photos: First Story (Forbidden)

Forbidden

1972
Where Is My Mind ?
6.7

Aida's marriage is tested by secrets and cultural clash. Starring Soad Hosny, Mahmoud Yassin and Rushdy Abaza.

Where Is My Mind ?

1974
All Good
10.0

Kamal is a porter in a hotel who he loves the secretary Dalal. They lie to each other, pretending to be rich, but they discover the truth after they get married. They look for a rich father, till they find a millionaire who accepts them as his son and daughter, without knowing that they're married.

All Good

1996
Our Blessed Aunt
N/A

Abdel Aziz returned to Cairo from an Arab country where he worked there. He goes to his aunt's apartment, discovers that she has become an apartment for prostitution, and denies her apartment owner that she is his aunt, and when he learns that he has a fortune that changes her attitude. Lula tries to convince Abdel Aziz to take her away and marry her. Abdel Aziz is able to persuade them to turn the apartment into a pension, but they also run it in prostitution.

Our Blessed Aunt

1998
The Bullet is Still in My Pocket
6.0

Mohamed is a soldier who finds himself in Gaza after the defeat in the 1967 War. He returns to his native village feeling broken and depressed after witnessing the deaths of his fellow soldiers. He still loves Fatima but her father wants her to marry Abbas who exploits the farmers and eventually rapes her.

The Bullet is Still in My Pocket

1974
Too Little Love.. Too Much Violence
N/A

Talaat, the son of wealthy merchant Morsi, lives under pressure from his father to marry the poor girl Fatima. Talaat rebels on his father and divorces Fatima. He meets Eng. Younis, the son of a senior politician and decides to marry his sister to gain power and money.

Too Little Love.. Too Much Violence

1995
Strangers
N/A

Nadia is a young girl who's torn between the stances of three men in her life; her artist lover, her conservative brother, and her secular professor Fo'uad Ebaid. Will she be able to create her own path in life apart from their beliefs?

Strangers

1973
Love has a Final Story
7.0

Refat is a teacher with a heart disease, who marries the poor girl Salwa, despite the opposition of his mother who is trying to persuade him to divorce her in exchange for his share in the inheritance. Salwa resorts to holy people hoping to cure her husband.

Love has a Final Story

1986
The Savage
6.0

Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf. She later takes a factory job and is followed there by Ashraf; he eventually asks her to marry him. Baheya agrees to the proposal. When Ashraf presents her as his intended bride to his mother Eqbal she objects because of their social and class differences.

The Savage

1979
The Fugitive
N/A

As the security services raid the house of a guy with known political hostilities, they arrest his brother when they can't find him, but he escapes them and goes to the house of the journalist Rauof who gives him up to cover up his affair with a prostitute.

The Fugitive

1974
The Rain Has Gone Dry
N/A

A group of farmers move to a government appointed land after their own land is taken away from them. They discover that their new land is not suitable for their crops, and they struggle to make the best out of it. Meanwhile, Haneyya tries to get closer to Hassan, whom she has been in love for years, but she's interrupted by the arrival of Hassan's wife Amina.

The Rain Has Gone Dry

1967
Sunset and Sunrise
7.2

In the wake of the Cairo Fire, Essam feels guilty for betraying his friend Samir by messing around with his wife Madiha. Essam decides to take revenge on Madiha's father who pressured him to marry her to avoid a scandal.

Sunset and Sunrise

1970
A Girl Called Apple
10.0

Zeenat, who everyone calls apple for her beauty, suffers from the domination of her boss Qadriya, who can't have kids despite her ninth marriage to Fouad. Qadriya asks Zeenat's husband Hassan to divorce his wife ,so that Zeenat marries Fouad for nine months and when she gives birth, Qadryia adopts the child.

A Girl Called Apple

1997