
Acting
Sanaa Gamil
Born 1930-04-27 · Egypt
Born to a Coptic Orthodox family in Minya Governorate, she moved to Cairo to pursue her acting career and changed her name to Sanaa Gamil. One of her most notable roles was Nefisah in front of Omar Sharif in the movie Bidaya wa nihaya (A Beginning and an End) directed by Salah Abouseif in 1960. The movie was based on a novel with the same name by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. Sanaa Gamil won the best supporting actress award at the Moscow Film Festival in 1961 for her role in this movie. Not only a movie actress, but more importantly one of the best Egyptian theater actresses. She has also played a number of roles on the French Stage for La Comedie Francaise. She was married to the famous Egyptian journalist Louis Greiss and had no children. She also acted in a number of TV series like Oyoun (Eyes) with Fuad Al Mohandes, and in a number of plays such as The Visit with Gamil Rateb
Acting credits
8.5In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.
The Message
1976
8.0A girl is married to a doctor and they are living a love story. She was the target of all the relatives who tried to ruin this marriage and they actually succeeded in doing so. The wife was jealous of her husband because of her friend who asked her friend's husband, the doctor, to get rid of the fetus she had conceived from her lover, but the doctor refused, so the family collapsed because of the wife's suspicions.
Nahed
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7.4A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
The Second Wife
1967
8.2Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death of their father, their sole breadwinner. The mother and her four children—three brothers and their sister, Nefisah—struggle to avoid slipping into poverty. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.
The Beginning and the End
1960
5.4Fikria is a singer who's married to Farid ,the gambling addict. When she's traveling by train, she gets in an accident and a peasant treats her. After she returns home,her husband asks her to stay hidden to get the insurance money to pay for his gambling debts.
Lady of The Train
1952
7.0An adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zainab, a peasant girl, falls in love with Ibrahim al-Khouli, who works on the Pasha's estate. Her father stands in the way of this love and insists that she marry Hassan, a wealthy young man. Ibrahim is called up for military service and leaves the village, leaving Zainab saddened and suffering from tuberculosis, which Hassan's family refuses to treat. Ibrahim returns from military service, is pained by her condition, and tries to help her.
Zeinab
1952
NRAhmed, an archaeologist, and his wife Zahira, a school principal, get preoccupied with their careers that they neglect their children, causing Thoraya to adopt an extremely liberal approach to life, Samira to become weak in character, and Hisham to turn to theft. Can they be saved?
Some Live Twice
1971
NRRaafat works on one of the ships and meets with his ex-girlfriend Madiha, who refuses to marry him because she wants to marry a wealthy person. Both Raafat and Madiha plot to make millionaire Azzouz falls in love with Madiha so that she can have his money and realize her dream at the same time.
Ahlan Ya Captin
1978
NRNo synopsis available yet.
شريك حياتى
1953
7.8The story of a 40-year-old married woman who has fallen into idleness and does not know how to approach the revolutionary events in her country. She finds a new meaning in life when she falls in love with an aspiring young student. “I shot FAGR YOM GUEDID in 1964. I count it among my best films and still stand by it completely. It is about the class whose assets were nationalized after the 1952 revolution. I explored the question of whether this class still had a place in Egyptian society.”
Dawn of a New Day
1964
7.4Helmy's father forces him to marry someone he doesn't love. When his father dies, Helmy decides to break free. He meets Nany, the gentle helpless girl, then he meets the lawyer Fatima, a liberal who claims to be cultured.
The Impossible
1965
8.0Two friends, Sami, a journalist, and Mukhtar, a businessman, marry two sisters, Fatima and Azza, in one night. Over time, the lives of the two sisters differ after marriage, and each of them tries to find happiness.
Adam and Eve
1951
6.2A Lady of the royal family live and breed on the ruins of the past, her husband, son and daughter suffering from her domination and control. When she got a new driver to work with, all the family members will have different life.
The Lady's Driver
1993
9.0The young Mounir (Mounir Mourad), a talented artist, tries to take advantage of his unique talents, but he faces many difficulties in order to find his way. These difficulties disappear when he falls in love with a famous (Shadia) singer who exchanges feelings of love, and attaches him with her to work in the club where she sings. The nightclub manager interferes to spoil this relationship because he covets marrying her, and her aunt also opposes their relationship. The events follow and the two lovers are exposed to many pressures in order to maintain their love.
Ana Wi Habibi
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
زهرة الصبار
1967
9.0One day, while Nadia is returning by car at night, she hits a woman with her car and she is killed, which causes her to suffer a nervous shock. After a while, she decides to go to Dr. Adel, the husband of the murdered woman, who discovers through the investigation that his wife was in Cairo the day before her death, and not on the day of her death itself, which leads him to suspect his wife.
A Heart of Gold
1959
NRNaim, who decides to take revenge on Narges' widow, Wasfi, who caused him to be imprisoned, so he makes an agreement with Dalal in order to plan to seize Narcissus’s money. Her money to him, but he discovers it's not easy at all.
Al Shaytan wal Kharif
1972
6.0In the slaughterhouse neighborhood lives the teacher Umm Naima and her daughter, the educated girl who graduated from the Faculty of Law, Naima, who serves the people of the neighborhood with all her effort. Officer Ahmed comes to uncover the drug trafficking gang in which the teacher Zaki Qudra is involved, who uses camels to hide the drugs.
Your Wisdom, God!
1976
NRDr. Rabab is the wife of businessman Abdul Rahim, their routine life is disturbed by the nosy Bahiga, Abdul Rahim's sister, who interferes in everything. When Rabab becomes pregnant after several years of infertility,Bahiga drives her brother to doubt if he's the father.
Doubt, My Love
1979
No synopsis available yet.
زوجات وأزواج
1969
9.0A married engineer with a son and a daughter, he drives in love with a dancer who sets her window around him with the help of her boyfriend until she marries him out of the greed for his wealth, and actually this is done without the knowledge of the wife and children. The daughter has no choice but to inform her mother of this.
killer mother
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
أهل الهوى
1955
NRAfter Kamal returns to his hometown after finishing his studies and marrying a very beautiful Cairene girl, both Jazar and Ghoneim become jealous, so they decide to travel to Cairo in order to search for Cairene girls for marriage, but they fall into a series of strange paradoxes, including falling into the hands of a professional fraudster. They worked in a doctor's house as servants.
Iidini eaqlak
1952
NROn a train, a teacher meets the collector who enters his compartment and has an attack and the teacher thinks that he killed him by accident. He escapes and meets his daughter and tries to atone for what he thinks he has committed, and he helps her become a famous singer.
Ya Zalemni
1954