Kamal Yasseen

Directing

Kamal Yasseen

Born 1924-11-13

An Egyptian theater actor and director, he graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Art and then traveled to France to study theater directing, and directed several plays and worked as a professor at the Institute of Performing Arts until his death, among his most prominent works as an actor (sunset and sunrise, red heart, alley of knocking), while at the level The director presented plays (Watch, peace, sweetness of time). He died in 1987.

Acting credits

I Want a Solution poster
7.5

It is impossible to live between Doria and her diplomatic husband, Medhat, who asks him for a divorce, but he refuses. She is forced to go to court and file a divorce. Doria falls into the maze of the courts and is exposed to a series of problems and obstacles that undermine her dignity. Things get complicated when the husband comes with false witnesses testifying against her in secret. She loses her case after more than four years.

I Want a Solution

1975

I Am Free poster
6.7

Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women’s empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the story of a young woman’s search for personal freedom and a fulfilling identity as a young modern Egyptian.

I Am Free

1959

Return My Heart poster
5.4

In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. Now grown ups, they realize how impossible this love story is. Joining the army, Ali fights in Palestine while the brother joins the police and is part of the King's guards. Ali gets back from Palestine and joins the secret military movement that will soon rule Egypt, The Free Officers. The revolution starts and the Free Officers are now in charge, putting Ali against his brother as a guard for the king and also against his lover, the prince's daughter as the revolution will confiscate all her family's wealth.

Return My Heart

1957

The Thug poster
6.8

Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries Hossnyia. Haridy forms an alliance against Abu Zaid, but he soon becomes more powerful and his condition turns to worse.

The Thug

1957

Min Khaf Selim poster
NR

The film tells of dangerous life-threatening documents that are handed over to the hero from his boss at work to hand over to the big man without knowing their seriousness, but the old man thinks badly about the manager, so he kills him and accuses the hero of it.

Min Khaf Selim

1987

شريك حياتى poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

شريك حياتى

1953

Port Said poster
7.0

The events take place during the tripartite aggression against the city of Port Said, through the spy network of the British Intelligence, in which Pat (Laila Fawzi) works, while Al-Ambashi Talbah (Farid Shawqi) leads the resistance group, and the resistance men confront the aggression and vile conspiracies led by traitors and spies.

Port Said

1957

No artwork available
NR

During WWII, a retired teacher decides to find a job. When he accepts a position in a private school in a small Upper Egyptian town, he moves there with his family, only to discover that the town is afflicted by an ongoing blood feud between two families.

A Man Named Abbas

1978

Together Forever poster
NR

Hoda lives among the servants and drivers who consider her family and dreams of her knight in shining armor. Ahmed saves her from drowning, and she thinks of him without seeing him, until one day they meet, they exchange love, and she goes with her maid to Ahmed's house, where she sees a picture of her deceased mother on one of his walls. She is also Hoda's mother. The truth shocks her and she decides to hide it from her lover.

Together Forever

1960

Appointment with Happiness poster
9.0

Ehsan lives with her father, the caretaker of the house of a rich man who comes sporadically to the house to hunt ducks. As Ehsan falls for the rich man, he rapes her while drunk. Ehsan discovers that she is pregnant and escapes to Cairo where she gives birth to her daughter

Appointment with Happiness

1954

The Time of Miracles poster
9.0

A woman aspires to get rich and surrenders to a wealthy old man who will marry her. The wife has a daughter from another man who denies her paternity, and the old man has a son and a daughter from a former wife. The old man indulges in gambling and leaves the rope to his wife in the west. She meets a young man who covets her husband’s wealth, so he blackmails him and plans to get rid of the husband to be inherited by his wife. To implement the plan, she must pretend to love the old man until he shocks the father.

The Time of Miracles

1952

Sunset and Sunrise poster
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

The Dawn of Islam poster
8.7

The film deals with the life of the Arabian peninsula before Islam emerged, where idolatry, ignorance and corruption spread all over. Then the Mohammedan message of worshiping God alone begins and the difficulties facing Islam and early Muslims starts.

The Dawn of Islam

1951

Secondary Student Execution poster
5.0

Azouz lives with his aunt Hayat and her husband, Navy officer Yahya. Egyptian intelligence suspects the Greek girl Marcel. They recruit Yahya to watch and repeat their meeting. Hayat is killed and Marcel is arrested while leaving the country, they press her and inspect Azouz, who urges him to steal a tape of her belonging to Hayat who is recording It has dialogues with her Yahya.

Secondary Student Execution

1982

اللقاء الثاني poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

اللقاء الثاني

1967

The Last Night poster
7.5

During 1942, Nadia Burhan lives with her mother in Alexandria, Fawzia lives with her husband Shaker, whom she married against her family's will. Nadia meets Salah and agree to get married. Fawzia dies from a German bombardment of the city, and Nadia has amnesia and Fawzia's husband tries to delude Nadia that she's Fawzia.

The Last Night

1963

The Price of Freedom poster
8.7

As a freedom fighter carries out an operation against the English occupation, the English military ruler discovers that an army officer is aiding and abetting him. He arrests a group of civilians and threatens to kill them one by one if the officer doesn't divulge the freedom fighter's location.

The Price of Freedom

1967

Mirror in the palm poster
NR

An employee meets a fortune teller who tells him about things that will happen to him, and tells him that he will kill a person, so all the fortune teller prophecies are fulfilled, then the employee is afraid of killing someone that he starts doubting everyone around him.

Mirror in the palm

1981

Behind the camera