
Ahmed Galal
Directing
Biography
An Egyptian director, writer and producer, born in 1897. He started his career as a journalist at Al-Lataif Al-Musawara newspaper and also worked at Dar Al-Hilal. He then turned to cinema and met the Lebanese actress and producer Assia, who assigned him the responsibility of directing the film (When a Woman Loves). He then continued writing and directing a number of films, including: (The Return of the Absent), (Zuleikha Loves Ashour), and (Shajarat Al-Durr). He died in 1947.
Known For

Ashour lives happily with his kind-hearted wife until one of her relatives tries to separate her from her husband Ashour, with the help of one of the girls who tames lions in the circus, who is able to make Ashour believe that he is a very attractive man to whom women are attracted.
Zuleikha loves Ashour

Hikmat disguises herself as a man after her brother suffered a tragic accident while on his way to start his work. She pretends to be teacher for the children of the Pasha instead of her brother. Hikmat gets to know the children whom she teaches and becomes Mr. Hikmat.
Bent Elbasha El Moder

As Rabab escapes from the cruelty of his stepmother and stays with an actress, she meets the young man, Ihsan, who tries to assault her inside his car, which overturns and dies. With his father’s attempt to take revenge on Rabab, she decides to flee again to Cairo to work as a teacher there under the name (Najwa). Then she met a colleague of hers and married him.
Rabab

Four greedy men are trying to win over Bahira Hanem. So she pretends to be poor to test the fifth man's feelings.
The Fifth Groom

In the 13th century AD, the Turkish slave girl (Shajarat al-Durr) captures the heart of (Al-Malik Al-Salih) and he marries her so that she can interfere in the affairs of the country and plot and plan conspiracies and schemes when the war against the Crusaders breaks out. It happens that (Al-Malik Al-Salih) dies during the war, so she hides the news of his death so that the soldiers in the battle will not be shaken, and she continues to rule and command in his name.
Shajarat al-Durr

The film's events revolve around Magda, a beautiful girl who is forced to marry a rich man, but she does not love him, so she decides to run away from him on the wedding night, and he decides to take revenge on her and her family.
Majda

Princess Nour Al-Doha, Princess of the Sultanate of Java, is a guest at one of the grand hotels in Egypt. One day, Hamida, the fruit merchant, flees to this hotel and meets the princess there, who resembles her to the point of being identical. The princess asks Hamida to replace her on official visits, and events escalate.
The Princess Of Dreams

Overnight, the situation changes from one extreme to another. This is what happened to Umm Al-Saad after she accepted to live in humiliation in her wealthy uncle’s palace and work as a maid, to the point that she was accused of theft and his wife threw her out. But fate decreed that her innocence would be revealed after the illness of the uncle became severe, and his wife and children neglected him.
Omm el Saad

The boy runs away from his parents' home and his mother dies of grief over him. Time turns against them and their situation worsens, and their hope becomes that the absent son will return. A young man arrives at the house, impersonating the absent son, but as soon as he sees the kind father and the gentle sister, his heart overflows with repentance and love, and he devotes his life to serving them and making them happy. He becomes passionately in love with the girl who thinks he is her brother.
Return of the absent

A frivolous woman who takes a lover every day, integrates into high society to set her nets around pleasure seekers, and with the events she changes and becomes a loyal wife living with her husband and son, she is accused of killing her husband, and the truth comes out as there is a con man and a woman plotting and scheming against her.
Banknote

Thrive Leila in one oasis overlooking the ruins of Memphis, and meet Rauf Bey Layla tries to woo her, but her heart was hung with Ahmed, and made a speech Ahmed Leila but soon recognized by a Brazilian girl and imported into Egypt, and succeed Brazilian girl to win the heart of Ahmed, and abandon Laila which became pregnant from him.
Laila

Amina gets involved with a young man she loved, but he deceives her and abandons her. She gives birth to her son Murad, who is raised by her friend Umm Ibrahim. Amina marries Hashem, who knows nothing about her past. Murad is ten years old when his mother's friend Umm Ibrahim sends him to Europe. Years later, Murad returns to Egypt and meets Nadia, a con girl on board a ship who shares her brother Ramzy's crimes.
When a Woman Loves

On a ship traveling to Egypt, Burhan kills Amina Hanem to steal her jewelry that the jeweler Cohen had offered her. However, the girl Nahid, who looks like Amina, sees him and orders him to return what he stole to Cohen. She wears Amina's clothes to impersonate her, in exchange for not exposing his crime. In Egypt, Nahid meets Amina's husband, pretending to be his wife. Amina's husband discovers the truth and fights with Burhan. In the fight, Enayat, Amina's husband's lover, is injured. He kills Burhan to make it look like Burhan killed Enayat and then committed suicide. Amina's husband lives with Nahed pretending to be his wife.
Proxy Wife

Adel dedicates his life to supporting the farmers, which his wife Hoda, who lives a life of luxury and extravagance, objects to, while her sister Malak Masaei supports Adel, so Hoda suspects that there is something between them.
Look for the Woman

Delilah, a singer, seems at first to be in mutual love with a young man named Sami, but her club won't let him in much, and he grows distant while she grows fonder. She accosts him demanding he reconsider, jumping into his car as he leaves the club. Sami's car crashes, throwing him to his death, but Delilah escapes. Heartbroken and traumatized, she visits his grave in the dead of night and performs occult rituals to revive him.
Bewitching Eyes

Doria is a student in a boarding school. She falls in love with an arrogant young man who decides to follow the straight path out of his love for her. However, they discover that her mother works in a nightclub, and their fates separate them.