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Hassan Al-Imam

Hassan Al-Imam

Directing

Biography

Hassan El Imam is an Egyptian director. He was born in the city of Mansoura in 1919, and received his education at a French school in Cairo, but after his father died following a financial crisis, Hassan was forced to work at an early age to provide for his family, and as he was fluent in both English and French, he started working as a translator. He then moved to working in film as an assistant director to Youssef Wahba. El Imam started his directorial career in a period that was dominated by melodramas and tragic stories in film, which was the major influence on his style and aesthetic, and led his films to become blockbusters, despite the constant panning from critics even after his death. El Imam's directorial debut was “Mala'ikat Gohanam” (Hell's Angels) in 1946. His most famous films from this period include: “Al Yatimatan” (The Two Orphans) (1948), “Zalamoony Elnas” (People Oppressed Me) (1950). In 1962, El Imam started a new phase in his career, by landing as a substitute for director Salah Abu Seif on the film adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's “Bein El Qasrein” (Between the Two Palaces). He then continued to direct extremely successful film adaptations of Naguib Mahfouz novels, including “Zuqaq Almidaq” (Almidaq Alley) (1963), “Qasr Elshouq” (Palace of Longing) (1966), and “Alsokkareya” (1973). Despite meeting acclaim from audience, El Imam has always been accused by critics of ruining Mahfouz's novels with his film adaptations. In the 1970's, El Imam started shifting away from melodramas and experimented with different genres, mainly comedies and musicals that were also highly successful among audiences, starting with “Khally Balak men Zuzu” (Take Care of Zuzu) in 1972, which had a theatrical run of over a year and became one of the highest grossing Egyptians films of all time. He invested Zuzu's success afterwards to make other musical comedies like “Hekayty ma'a Elzaman” (My Story with Time) and “Amira Hobby Ana” (Amira my Love). El Imam co-wrote most of his films, and was known for seeking inspiration from French popular stories and fairy tales. He died on the 29th of January, 1988 at the age of 66.

Known For

Three Thieves
5.8

Three stories written by Ihsan Abdul Quddus about three thieves, their circumstances differed, and their motives for theft differed.The first steals from a traitorous wife believing that this is his right, and the second steals a public bus in order to quickly reach his sick wife, the third steals his old aunt to be able to get married.

Three Thieves

1966
Mr. Omar
7.4

Gaber Effendi is a simple employee at Ezbet Omar al-Alfi's, expelled by the head of the family after Jabir discovers that there is fraud in the accounts of the estate. Gaber meets with Berlanti, the wife of Omar Bey's, noting a great similarity between him and her absent husband in India, Omar. Following the advice of a legal advisor, Omar Bey's family believes that he is still alive and living in India. By chance, Jaber Effendi goes to Omar's house and is seen by the family and gets married, but Omar finds out the truth and tries to exploit the resemblance to seize wealth, but ultimately fails.

Mr. Omar

1941
Little devil
10.0

A girl runs away from her strict father's house and is found by a traveling clown who works with the circus. She works with him to collect money from the spectators. She quickly grows up with him and works with him in all of his shows.

Little devil

1958
Dalal Al-Masria
N/A

Atiat is an orphan who grows up in a palace under the care of a wealthy woman. When the woman discovers that Atiat lost her virginity, she kicks her out, unaware that her own nephew, Fou'ad, is responsible. As Atiat becomes a dancer, she gets accused of a murder, and the judge turns out to be Fou'ad

Dalal Al-Masria

1970
My Story With Time
9.0

Singer Suhair marries Salah, the well-known owner of the contracting company, and forces her to leave the band. She has a son with him, then discovers that his works are done illegally and leaves him, and he in turn deprives her of seeing her son. A love affair develops between her and Hosni, the band's new director, but Salah comes to her again and promises her integrity. Suhair hesitates to choose.

My Story With Time

1974
Al-Qadeya Al-Mashhora
N/A

Jasser sneaks into Yassin's house to steal, but he senses a strange movement, as Saadia, the servant Ibrahim's wife, tries to find out who is in the house, so he kills her and Yassin. During that, Ibrahim arrives, and his daughter Naima testifies against him after seeing him holding a knife next to her mother's body, so he is imprisoned, and events escalate.

Al-Qadeya Al-Mashhora

1978
Love & Pride
6.0

After getting dumped by Adel, Zizi marries Hussein just to keep her pride. They agree to get divorced after a while, until she finds out that Hussein is helping her father in his financial crisis without mentioning anything.

Love & Pride

1972
Passion and Revenge
7.7

A woman seeks revenge on the man she thinks killed her husband but falls in love with him in the process.

Passion and Revenge

1944
Heya Wil Regal
7.0

Sania is a young maid. She pays what she earns to her lover, the student Moneim, so that he can complete his education, but he abandons her. This shocks Sania and she moves to serve a rich family, whose affairs are taken over by a widow with three daughters. They make Sania impersonate one of them to take revenge on a young man, and events turn upside down.

Heya Wil Regal

1965
Al Sokkareya
N/A

The film revolves around the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel-Gawad through his second and third generations, which consists of Yassin and Kamal the younger son, and the sons of Aisha / Khadija, in the age of young people and political and social transformations and their impact on their maturity and life paths.

Al Sokkareya

1973
The Bread Seller
9.0

A husband dies,leaving his wife Khadija and their two children, Nemat and Sami behind. Khadija is arrested for burning the factory where her husband was working. She gets mad and is hospitalized for 10 years until she regains her memory and begins a journey to find her children.

The Bread Seller

1953
Bamba Kasher
7.0

The diplomat Mahmoud marries the dancer Bamba and she gives birth to a daughter, Laila. His father, Ra'fat Pasha, forces him to divorce her and takes his granddaughter to raise. Bamba becomes a famous dancer, and her home becomes a meeting place for wealthy men including Ra'fat, who falls for her.

Bamba Kasher

1974
Dananeir
6.5

A concubine to a ruling family is challenged when the family is overthrown.

Dananeir

1940
Saedat El Rigal
9.0

A singer who works in a nightclub, and seeks to retire from this world, meets a poor young man who falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage, so she accepts, and leaves the world of cabarets and the two live a happy life. The woman appears to be very loyal, as she serves her disabled father-in-law, but her husband feels that he does not provide her with happiness, so he is forced to embezzle an amount of money from the company he works for, and he goes to prison, and in light of the life circumstances she lives in, she decides to return to work in the bar again.

Saedat El Rigal

1960
Hob Min Narr
9.0

Two young men, Ahmed and Mohamed, who live in Port Said, develop feelings for the same girl, Najaf. However, when the Tripartite Aggression reaches Port Said, they abandon life trivialities and join the militants as Najaf joins the Red Crescent; the three unite for a single patriotic cause.

Hob Min Narr

1958
Watch Out for Zuzu
6.5

A girl leaves behind her past life as a dancer working in Mohammed Ali Street and enters college. Her ambition is to acquire knowledge and to leave behind her former life. She finds herself in a relationship with a young man from an affluent background and thus becomes conflicted between her two lives.

Watch Out for Zuzu

1972
Alley of The Pestle
6.3

This film is based on a novel from 1947 by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. The story takes place during WWII and focuses on Al-Madak Alley, a teeming back street in Cairo which is presented as the microcosm of the world. A barber is in love with a young poor girl, who lives with her mother, and gets a job in an English Army camp to earn enough money for their marriage. But he is not the only one who wants to marry this girl and when the barber returns, she is gone.

Alley of The Pestle

1963
Woman on the Margin
N/A

A famous actress retires and marries a rich man a customary marriage. Then his family forces him to divorce her. He waits till she gives birth and steals the marriage paper and escapes. Then she kills him with his new wife and is sentenced to imprisonment and her child is adopted by a family.

Woman on the Margin

1963
Amira.. My Love
6.4

Adel is a director of a company and is married to Nabila, the daughter of Medhat, the owner of the company. Adel falls in love with the company employee's princess, reveals her feelings and that he was unfortunate in his life with his wife and that his marriage was an interest in relation to his position. A princess shared the same feelings and married her in secret, but Medhat finds out about them.

Amira.. My Love

1975
Imtithal
N/A

Emtithal runs away from home after suffering from her stepfather's control, and works as a dancer in a nightclub. She gets close to the nightclub's thug and seduces him, becoming the queen of Emad El-Din Street. But when he discovers that she is having an affair with another young man named Naji and is pregnant with his child out of wedlock, he decides to take revenge on her.

Imtithal

1972