Farida Fahmy

Acting

Farida Fahmy

Born 1940-09-06 · Egypt

An Egyptian actress, born in 1940. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts and worked on founding the Reda Band with her husband Ali Reda and his brother Mahmoud Reda. In the 80s, she obtained a doctorate in dance from the United States. Her most notable films: Big Brother, Ismail Yassine Is a Military Policeman, Love in Karnak and Jamila.

Acting credits

Jamila, the Algerian poster
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Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after the prominent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge with her, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle linked her to the National Liberation Front (FLN). A series of events illustrate Jamila's participation in resistance operations against the occupier before she was finally captured and tortured. Finally, despite the efforts of her French lawyer, Jamila is sentenced to death...

Jamila, the Algerian

1958

The Man of My Dreams poster
7.0

The film revolves around: Adel (Abdel Halim Hafez) a boy left his father a great building, fades away in the bar, and in the health of Kiki (Farida Fahmi) .. Equally rival is Noufal Syriacusi (Abdel Salam Nabulsi) Zaki Ibrahim al-Thara, Nawfal takes the money and sends it to bottles of champagne under Kiki's feet. Adel visits his uncle (Hassan Fayiq) and sees for the first time his daughter (Siham), the meeting between Adel, and his uncle ends with a fury, Adel Fattzura (Siham), meets Siham at her cousin's house in Nouvelle, She loves Nofal, Adel hears a lot about the hopes (Mona Badr), the daughter of the housewife in which Nofal works. He suddenly visits her and finds her a nice girl.

The Man of My Dreams

1957

The Lottery Ticket Thief poster
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Confusion ensues when a man wins the lottery with a ticket he hadn't realized was stolen at the time he bought it.

The Lottery Ticket Thief

1970

Marauders of the Sahara poster
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With the guide of an adventurer of uncertain allegiance, a brother and sister try to rescue their father, held captive by the Bedouins of the Sahara.

Marauders of the Sahara

1965

Ismail Yassine Is A Military Policeman poster
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A man loves a dancer in a nightclub and decides to marry her , but he wants her to quit her work. The owners of the nightclub conspire against him by making him join the military police so the dancer can return to work.

Ismail Yassine Is A Military Policeman

1958

Love in Karnak poster
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As Amina tries to join a performing dance troupe, the other members try to figure a solution for their financial situation. Amina falls for Salah, the troupe's director and first dancer, but Salah tries to keep his distance because he thinks she is in love with another.

Love in Karnak

1967

Mid-Year Vacation poster
NR

Zainab welcomes her brother's classmates during the mid year vacation as they form a dance troupe to train for the annual university competition. She falls in love with Ahmed, the troupe's first dancer.

Mid-Year Vacation

1962

The Big Brother poster
7.0

While Awad's family believes him to be an honorable man, Awad heads a drug-dealing gang. He tries to keep the balance between his family's image of him and his illegal business dealings.

The Big Brother

1958

A Stranger poster
NR

A daughter who lives with her single father, goes to live with her mother who married a prominent man. The father remarries while she's not happy at her mother's house. The mother tries to get her to fall in love with their neighbors' son.

A Stranger

1958

The Charmer poster
7.0

An impostor recently got out of prison only to get back into crime life as he embezzles women by deceiving them with black magic.

The Charmer

1958