Assia Dagher

Acting

Assia Dagher

Born 2001-04-18 · Lebanon

A Lebanese producer and actress, born in Tannourine in 1901. She moved to Egypt in 1923 with her niece, Mary Queeny. In 1927, Assia established her own production company, Lotus Film, which became one of the pioneering production companies in the history of Egyptian cinema. Assia produced her first film in 1929, Belle of Desert, in which she also co-starred. Since then, the films in which she participated as an actress and producer continued, including When a Woman Loves, Manager's Daughter, and The Accused. In the late 1940s, Assia decided to stop acting and devote herself to her work as a producer. After that, she produced many notable films, such as Return My Heart, and Nasser Salah Eddin, which was at the time the most expensive Egyptian film ever made. Assia Dagher died in 1986 at the age of 78.

Acting credits

What a madness poster
NR

Overnight, the situation changes with Ikram. After she was living a happy life with her husband, Hassouna Bey, she finds herself in the circle of suspicion by discovering her husband's betrayal of her. Her aunt, Sharbat, suggests several ways to help her preserve her marriage. He pushed Hassouna to assume the role of a rich woman, hoping to solve his wife's problem.

What a madness

1943

Proxy Wife poster
9.0

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

1936

Laila poster
4.5

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

1927

Pangs of Remorse poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pangs of Remorse

1932

Banknote poster
7.0

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

1936

When a Woman Loves poster
10.0

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

1933

Zuleikha loves Ashour poster
10.0

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

1939

The Call of God poster
1.0

A young man meets a girl in a village overlooking a desert area. They get to know each other and meet frequently. After a while, the young man, the girl's fiancé, meets another girl from a foreign country and proposes to her after the foreign girl succeeds in keeping the young man away from his first love. The people of the village learn that the girl is pregnant from her fiancé, so they expel her from the village.

The Call of God

1926

Al-Sharid poster
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In Cairo in 1914, two friends meet two girls from behind the Yashmak. They are Nima, Muhammad’s sister, and her friend Hosnia. The two young men fall in love, but the girl proposes to another young man, which shocks Hassan, so his friend stands next to him. A sin occurs between Hosnia and Hassan, the result of which is that... Hosnia gives birth to Souad. Souad grows up without knowing a father.

Al-Sharid

1942

Dangerous woman poster
NR

The story is from the heart of life, and revolves around the world of dance and the dancers who wage war against the ruin of full homes, so they steal husbands from their wives with various means of temptation and camouflage.

Dangerous woman

1941

Belle of the Desert poster
1.0

The Sheikh of one of the tribes loves the Bedouin girl Salma, who's engaged to her cousin. The Sheikh kidnaps her and forces her to marry him. As she gives birth to a child, the servant Suleiman helps her escape, only for his malicious intentions to be revealed when he tries to attack her.

Belle of the Desert

1929

Bewitching Eyes poster
7.0

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

1934

The Fifth Groom poster
10.0

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

1942

Shajarat al-Durr poster
7.0

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

1935

الهانم poster
NR

A woman is forced to travel to Egypt, leaving her daughter there in one of the Levant countries. She meets Hafez, the head of a drug smuggling gang, and settles down in Egypt. The woman meets Hafez and consults him on this matter, as she had made her daughter believe that she was wealthy in Egypt, Hafez reassures her and rents her a huge villa to hold the engagement party there.

الهانم

1947

Bent Elbasha El Moder poster
NR

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

1938

This Was My Father's Crime poster
8.0

A big lawyer is involved with a girl demanding marriage, but he refuses where his social status does not allow him to be associated with her, and the girl puts her child and calls her Samiha and then she leaves life before the girl grows up to disclose her father, Samiha grows up and works in a worker, and the lawyer grows until he becomes a famous lawyer. Samiha gets to know Samir Bey, who assgresses her and escapes from her to the Levant, but Samiha insists on resorting to the judiciary, and Samir's father assigns the famous lawyer to defend his son.

This Was My Father's Crime

1945

Look for the Woman poster
9.0

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

1939

The Accused poster
8.0

The prosecutor (Kamel) succeeds in convicting (Othman Borai), the drug dealer, and (Borai)’s wife decides to take revenge on the prosecutor, causing a quarrel between him and his wife (Samiha). Kamel believes that his wife is cheating on him, so he divorces her and expels her from the house. He discovers the truth and tries to search for her. He learns that she jumped into the Nile, so he travels with his son outside the country.

The Accused

1942

Behind the camera

Saladin poster
7.1

The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.

Saladin

1963

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

Punishment poster
NR

The trio of a Wife and her lover plotting a murder for her husband. Their maid gets into Jail instead of them. This maid had a daughter that gets to be raised by her friend. The wife gets into jail shortly after she was arrested for misusing the well of her son. In Jail she meets with her maid and confess to her with her sin that led to this destiny, then she dies. After twenty years she gets out of Jail to see what has the fate introduce to her daughter and the killers daughter that share same lover.

Punishment

1948

Diary of a Country Prosecutor poster
7.3

Based on the novel by Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, 1937, Diary of A Country Prosecutor records the daily activities and tribulations of a public official appointed to act as a village justice in the countryside.

Diary of a Country Prosecutor

1969

Fil Hawa Sawa poster
NR

Thabit and Gamil are unemployed. They con a circus owner who sends his men after them. They escape to Cairo, where they meet an orphan girl who lives with her aunt. The aunt keeps the truth about her niece's father's wealth from her.

Fil Hawa Sawa

1951

أوهام الحب poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

أوهام الحب

1970

Prince of Revenge poster
6.6

Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo.

Prince of Revenge

1950

Life or Death poster
6.8

A man suffers from a heart attack so he sends his daughter to get medicine for him. After providing the medicine for the girl, the pharmacist discovers that he has unknowingly mixed a poisonous elixir. Reporting what happened to the police, the chief officer of Cairo starts an intriguing, full-fledged campaign to save the man before he takes the lethal medicine.

Life or Death

1954

Maalesh Ya Zahar poster
7.0

Saber Effendi is a simple employee suffering from financial pitfalls. A new manager comes to the company who had an old friendship with Saber's wife, which strengthens his relationship with Saber's family. But it causes a rumor that there is a relationship between the manager and Saber's wife.

Maalesh Ya Zahar

1950

Bewitching Eyes poster
7.0

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

1934

Saa La Qalbak poster
NR

After his wife dies, Taysir Bey marries the promiscuous woman, Kawthar Hanim, who always deludes her husband that he is sick. His son Ahmed loves the girl Ne'amat, but his stepmother wants him to marry her daughter, so she frames Ne'amat with the help of her lover, Farag.

Saa La Qalbak

1950

Al Shaytan wal Kharif poster
NR

Naim, 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

اللقاء الثاني poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

اللقاء الثاني

1967

The Lady of the House poster
9.0

Elham marries Nabil and moves to live with him in his mother's house. Her mother-in-law starts seeing Elham as an intruder while she's the lady of the house. When Elham didn't have kids, she wants Nabil to marry Elham's friend.

The Lady of the House

1949