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Seif Abdelrahman

Seif Abdelrahman

Acting

Biography

Seif Abdelrahman is an Egyptian actor born on March 17, 1942. He graduated from History Department in the Faculty of Arts. At the beginning of his career, he acted with the National Troupe for Popular Arts. Youssef Chahine discovered Seif during the 1960s and casted him in the film Dawn Of a New Day (1964). Afterwards, he appeared in a number of Chahine's works including The Choice (1971), The Sparrow (1972), Alexandria...Why? (1979), An Egyptian Story (1982), Destiny (1997), and more of his films. Abdelrahman was also in Yousry Nasrallah's Summer Thefts (1988) and Mercedes (1993).

Known For

Destiny
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In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.

Destiny

1997Movie