Ashraf Fahmy

Directing

Ashraf Fahmy

Born 1936-08-24 · Egypt

Ashraf Fahmy (Arabic: أشرف فهمي 25 August 1936 – 25 January 2001 was an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since the late 1960s. He was credited with launching the career with his First Feature Film (The Killers – Arabic: القتلة) a daring director frequently seen in film festivals worldwide during decades, in addition he wrote three Films (Until The End of Lifetime – Arabic: (حتى آخر العمر (فيلم) one of the most memorable film and famous for the music composed by Omar Khorshid, and he also produced three other filmsAshraf Fahmy first earned a Bachelor of Arts (History) from the University of Cairo in 1961, then graduated from the High Cinema Institute of Giza (first class) in 1963 to walk in the Cinema of Egypt bath, after that he studied Directing at the University of California from 1964 until 1967. First he worked as a director at the "National Center for Documentary Seetma", he directed the film ( a new life ) and was award for this film at "Dok Leipzigfilm festival", then worked as an assistant to Fatin Abdel Wahab, Abduel Rahman Khamisi and Youssef Chahine, then he directed his first Feature Film (The Killers). Since his first film "The Killer" his films of the 70's, 80's & 90's gave him a reputation as a director of thrillers. he was involved in the Cinema Council Adarhmassh in 1969 and then nominated as Chairman of the board of directors of Studios, Production and High investment in 1977. through his career life he directed over 50 films, wrote and produced many more. he was honored by Egyptian, Middle eastern & International Film Festivals the most notably one was the "new life film" at the Dok Leipzig film festival of Leipzig, East Germany.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Execution of a Judge poster
NR

Ref'at is a judge who is ruling on an important case that witnesses a lot of security interference. Rafiq Al-Henawy has him killed and stages it as a suicide before the ruling. Twenty years later, his daughter returns to take revenge on Rafiq, who has become a businessman.

Execution of a Judge

1990

Execution of a Judge poster
NR

Ref'at is a judge who is ruling on an important case that witnesses a lot of security interference. Rafiq Al-Henawy has him killed and stages it as a suicide before the ruling. Twenty years later, his daughter returns to take revenge on Rafiq, who has become a businessman.

Execution of a Judge

1990

My Dignity poster
NR

When Amal finds out about her husband Salah's betrayal, she decides to commit suicide. Tarek saves her and calms her down. Amal notes that Tarek is attached to her, so she goes to Cairo to get away from him, but he follows her. Meanwhile, Salah comes to her asking for forgiveness

My Dignity

1979

Assassination of a Teacher poster
8.0

The story deals with the story of the widow (Huda), who suffers from problems with her husband's brother who wants to take over her inheritance and her children, and the problems between them come to court, while trying to help a young student carrying a colleague from her, Upside down .

Assassination of a Teacher

1988

Assassination of a Teacher poster
8.0

The story deals with the story of the widow (Huda), who suffers from problems with her husband's brother who wants to take over her inheritance and her children, and the problems between them come to court, while trying to help a young student carrying a colleague from her, Upside down .

Assassination of a Teacher

1988

Penalty poster
NR

Sayyid Al-Atar turns from a teacher to the head of one of the clubs, and gets to know Nargis, who works in prostitution, to turn her into a famous belly dancer, and he returns the favor by paying him checks without credit in exchange for getting married.

Penalty

1995

A Woman Over the Top poster
NR

(Nima Abdul Ghaffar) is a married woman who lives a routine life. She meets a wealthy man who makes her divorce her husband to marry her. But when she gets pregnant,he abandons her. She then discovers that he has taken the marriage contract with him and decides to take revenge.

A Woman Over the Top

1997

Forbidden Photos: the Second Story (the Past) poster
NR

Saneya, a girl residing in a local neighborhood, breaks up with her boyfriend Hasouna as she starts working in cinema. As she rises into stardom, she loses all connection to him, only for them to be reunited as she revisits the neighborhood for the filming of her movie.

Forbidden Photos: the Second Story (the Past)

1971

Qanun Ika poster
6.0

In 1968, the university doctor (Hussein) and his wife (Mona) are arrested. The wife dies in prison due to severe torture. Dr. Hussein is subjected to ill-treatment inside the prison, and after a while he is released and released from prison, but he refuses to return to his previous work or any other profession. He meets the dancer (Eka), who takes him to a new and different direction in his life.

Qanun Ika

1991

Al-Aqwiyaa poster
7.0

After her father’s death, Nadia goes to stay in the house of her relative, Rushdi Al-Bagouri, to convince her son Adel to take advantage of her father’s wealth by setting up a factory for peasants who are interested in their problems, but she is subject to many harassments from the second son Ramzi, to decide to leave, and events escalate.

Al-Aqwiyaa

1980

Lack of Evidence poster
NR

Ibrahim (Salah al-Saadani) abandons his wife Fawzia (Najla Fathi) and leaves the town and settles in Cairo, where he married Hassania (Aida Riad), Fawzia and Ibrahim deny his knowledge of her and claims that the detective is crazy and exploits that she has no proof of her identity. She also comes with a pair of false papers calling for her child. Fawzia collapses and becomes depressed. They enter the mental hospital. Farida (Yusra) sympathizes with her and tries to help her in every way.

Lack of Evidence

1987

Raghabat Mamnou'aa poster
NR

Attia al-Jabalawi, a man obsessed with ownership, imposes strict control on his family, whether his sister is a benefactor who tried to escape from the house to marry the one she loves, but she soon returns after his death, or Samia his daughter who prevented him from going to school from her early age, and was condemned to ignorance, Until fate comes to her with the honor of her brother's colleague Ahmed at the university.

Raghabat Mamnou'aa

1972

The Servant poster
NR

Abu Sereeh agrees with his mistress, Fardous, to make Alaa, the son of her wealthy employer Hikmat, fall for her to blackmail him. Fardous marries Alaa, and runs Hikmat's company and is involved with senior employee Fathi in embezzlement operations.

The Servant

1984

Al Sharida poster
6.0

Leila is a successful lawyer, she marries a wealthy illiterate contractor, Fathi, as each of them has a different culture. She is called Sawsan, and she informs Laila of their relationship, so she requests a divorce and gets it.

Al Sharida

1980

أمواج بلا شاطئ poster
NR

A handsome young man called Nader lives a wealthy life with his widowed mother Nazik. When his father's friend Saleh takes over the management of their company, Nader finds out that his mother is in a relationship with Saleh, which drives him into the arms of the prostitute Mimi to take revenge.

أمواج بلا شاطئ

1976

Saad the Orphan poster
6.0

The story of Saad al-Yateem, whose father was killed by his uncle (Badran), and his righteous lady (Karamat) until he grows up, and even the fate wants to love his cousin without knowing her. The film deals with the age of young men in the twenties, and the bully is to be a murderer or a murderer

Saad the Orphan

1985

Rendezvous with Soso poster
6.0

A chance meeting between a nightclub worker and a famous actor gives Soad the chance to have a movie career. But her love story with Hesham is put on the line when she comes clean about her real profession.

Rendezvous with Soso

1977

The Killers poster
7.0

Adel has a firm belief that his stepfather killed his father to marry his mother. He makes a strange deal with the unemployed Aziz, who wants to get rid of his wife to cash her life insurance policy. Adel pledges to kill Aziz's wife in return for Aziz killing his stepfather.

The Killers

1971

The Other Woman poster
NR

When he gets his Ph.D. from America and returns to his homeland, Mahmoud opens up his own business and recruits Hoda who loves him one-sidedly. Mahmoud, on the other hand, desires to get rich to propose to the well-off So'aad.

The Other Woman

1978

Shouq poster
NR

Master Adam lives with his spoiled son Mokhtar and his third wife Shauq in Alexandria . His second son Ahmed returns back from abroad and Shauq tries to seduce him but he resists

Shouq

1976

Behold How Bold Is Sokkar poster
NR

The orphan little girl Sokar lives with the gang headed by Atris and Zakia who train children to beg and pickpocket. Atris tells Zakia that Sokar is the daughter of a wealthy man and that her uncle incited Atris to get rid of her to inherit his brother. What will become of the poor girl?

Behold How Bold Is Sokkar

1977

The Beasts poster
NR

Sodfa suffers in her life from her husband, Sayed the idiot, her cousin, who lives with her in his mother’s house in Abu Qir. Mahmoud returns to the place after completing his studies and supervises the brick factory owned by Um Sayed, which angers Sodfa, who knows that she was in a relationship with Mahmoud. Mahmoud assures her of his love, so she asks him to marry her after she asks for a divorce from Sayed, who turns out to be listening to their conversation closely, so a fight breaks out between them, and Sodfa encourages him to kill him.

The Beasts

1980

Spies Trap poster
5.0

Dalia is a girl belonging to one of the wealthiest families in Egypt. When the revolution of July nationalized the family's property and transformed her palace into the headquarters of the Socialist Union in the district, her parents die as a teacher and take care of her younger brother Essam, who studies engineering, but she hates the system of government and the Israeli intelligence has an opportunity to recruit them. She is forced to travel to Athens, exploiting her hatred of the regime and recruiting her as a spy to Israel, to work with great enthusiasm without telling her brother, who remains loyal to his country until he becomes an engineer, but knows nothing about the role of his suspicious sister.

Spies Trap

1992

Don't Ask Me Who I Am poster
6.7

When the impoverished Aisha sells her daughter Zeinab to the barren wealthy woman Soraya, she insists on being Zeinab's nanny to raise her. But as her other children grow up and get prestigious jobs, they ask their mother to quit her job, ignorant of the fact that she is staying for their sister.

Don't Ask Me Who I Am

1984