Sohair El Barooni

Acting

Sohair El Barooni

Born — Died

1937-12-05 — 2012-01-31

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

Sohair Mohamed Youssef El Barooni, her acting career started in the fifties. She worked in the theater, cinema and television. However, she was more successful in the theater especially the comedy where she played the role of the ugly girl or trouble maker.

Known for

I Won't Live in My Father's Glbab poster
8.4

The events of the series revolve around the story of the rise from the bottom to the top of Abdel Ghafour Al Borai (Noor Al Sharif), starting from the agency of Hajj Ibrahim Sardinah (Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra) until he becomes a private business owner who makes a fortune, during which he has admired Fatima (Abla Kamel), a saleswoman. Al-Kushari, whom he admired, passes the days and marries Fatima and gives birth to his son Abdel-Wahhab (Mohamed Riyad), and four girls (Sunni, Bahira, Nafisa, and Nazira), and despite the availability of the elements of happiness in the life of Abdel Ghafour Al-Borai, he suffered from the separation of his only son. About him, and Abdel Wahab's insistence on building a very special world away from his father and his influence.

I Won't Live in My Father's Glbab

1996

Ferqet Naji Atallah poster
7.3

A retired Egyptian officer working at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv decides to plot revenge against Israel for freezing his bank accounts when he objected to its monstrous conduct in Palestine. In Egypt, he recruits five of his former students to rob Israel’s largest bank.

Ferqet Naji Atallah

2012

No artwork available
NR

Karima is a housewife, who works more than one job to support her family. After her husband dies, she discovers that he was married to another woman and that he has saved a huge fortune. So, she gets a large share of this money and turns into a stingy woman.

Karima .. Karima

2009

عصابة بابا وماما poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

عصابة بابا وماما

2009

Ser El Arad poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ser El Arad

1994

The Great Fava Beans of China poster
6.5

Mohy Al-Sharqawi is a young man whose grandfather and his uncles form a smuggling gang. As Mohy is a coward who cannot go along with them, he goes to live with his mother and step-father but they send him to China to represent Egypt in a cooking competition which gets him into a lot of troubles

The Great Fava Beans of China

2004

Film credits

1980s · 6 titles

1970s · 21 titles

Ah Ya Lail Ya Zaman poster
10.0

After all the property and money of her father, Al-Basha, were nationalized after the revolution of July 23, 1952, Faten, the daughter of Al-Basha, travels to Morocco to find a job that will provide her with a day's livelihood, to get to know Elias, who persuades her to work as a singer in a nightclub, but events change when she meets the Egyptian officer Mahmoud, will you return with him to Egypt?

Ah Ya Lail Ya Zaman

1977

The Name Caller poster
NR

Hamed leaves his hometown and goes to Cairo to work as a gatekeeper in a building. He marries Fathia, who comes to live with him in Cairo. Fathia gradually learns to read and write and she aspires to work in a good job while Alaa who lives in the building tries to woo her.

The Name Caller

1975

The Criminal poster
6.0

Monier takes advantage of Zaghloul's naivety to take advantage of his family's financial resources to fund his gambling addiction. But he takes it one step further when he throws Zaghloul into the Nile and pretends that he couldn't save him.

The Criminal

1978

A Meeting with the Past poster
NR

Mahmoud is arrested while disturbing counterfeit money with the help of Hussein, who fled. Years later, Hussein wants to forget the past and works for Sahar's father, but Mahmoud reappears in his life after his release from prison.

A Meeting with the Past

1975

The Quiet Nest poster
NR

Samia (school teacher) and Murad (movie writer) met in alexendria by accident . After they date for sometime ,they get married. their new life together came with consequences they have to deal with.

The Quiet Nest

1976

الطيور المهاجرة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الطيور المهاجرة

1979

Dalal Al-Masria poster
NR

Atiat is an orphan who grows up in a palace under the care of a wealthy woman. When the woman discovers that Atiat lost her virginity, she kicks her out, unaware that her own nephew, Fou'ad, is responsible. As Atiat becomes a dancer, she gets accused of a murder, and the judge turns out to be Fou'ad

Dalal Al-Masria

1970

A Girl Named Mahmoud poster
1.0

Hamida dreams of studying at the faculty of commerce and live her life like any ordinary girl, but her narrow minded father wants her to stay at home and wait for her future husband. With the help of her boyfriend Hassan, who is a medical student he arranges for her to disguise herself as a man after lying to her father that his daughter had undergone a procedure and became a male.

A Girl Named Mahmoud

1975

Date with the Beloved poster
NR

Unaware that she is the daughter of Mr. Shawkat, the CEO, Ahmed gets into an argument with Nahid. When the two meet in Alexandria coincidentally, Nahid disguises herself as a peasant and works a scheme to teach Ahmed an unforgettable lesson.

Date with the Beloved

1971

A Song on the Passage poster
7.7

Set during the Six-Day War, the connection between a group of Egyptian soldiers on a passage in the desert and the command center drops. They try to survive despite the enemy attacks and lack of ammunition and supplies.

A Song on the Passage

1972

The Woman Who Defeated the Devil poster
NR

Shafiqa is a maid and everyone treats her very harshly, she falls in love with the Mahmoud who loves an actress. She agrees with Adham to give him her soul; to be his king after ten years in exchange for giving her wealth and beauty,

The Woman Who Defeated the Devil

1973

City Lights poster
6.0

So'aad is a poor girl who auditions for a role in a new film, but film producer Adel rejects her for she is not of noble origin. When she disguises herself as a princess, he is wholly charmed and offers her the role. How far will she go in acting?

City Lights

1972

Al-Aqmar poster
NR

As Major General Helmy and his son Sa'ad take part in the first Palestine War, his wife Horeya cheats on him with Kamal. When Helmy returns and finds out, he dies from the shock and his daughter Alia vows revenge on her mother.

Al-Aqmar

1978

بنت بديعة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

بنت بديعة

1972

Al Abriaa poster
9.0

Ferdous is a village girl who aspires to be a doctor. When she runs away from her stepfather's house, she falls for a Fine artist whom she marries despite the difficulties in their lives. When her husband dies, Ferdous finds herself adrift as she struggles to find her own way.

Al Abriaa

1974

The clock strikes ten poster
NR

University student Mohamed works as a driver for the wealthy Abdul Majeed. Mohamed discovers that Noura, Abdel Majeed’s young wife, is cheating on him with Murad, and she asks him to keep the matter secret. Noura's brother Salah aspires to marry Nevin, Abdul Majeed's daughter, but she refuses. She loves Muhammad and agrees to marry him, and the father blesses their relationship. However, Noura succeeds in trapping Muhammad in her trap.

The clock strikes ten

1974

Shaqa Mafrousha poster
NR

Zainab moves from Mansoura to Cairo to work as a music teacher, but she faces a problem finding accommodation. She eventually finds accommodation with the dancer (Najaf), but she hides from her that there is a resident during the day, so she sleeps there at night, and the reporter works at night and sleeps in the apartment during the day. The reporter discovers Zainab's residence in the apartment, and troubles begin.

Shaqa Mafrousha

1970

The Three Fingers poster
NR

Mahmoud, who suffers from a lot of financial difficulties, is now thinking of committing suicide

The Three Fingers

1973

The Three Liars poster
NR

The story of three liars: Zaghloul the lorry driver who is mistaken by a gang as their own driver, Marhabawy who takes a truth serum that reveals all his lies, and an opportunistic young man who tries to blackmail a wealthy woman.

The Three Liars

1970

حضرة صاحب العمارة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

حضرة صاحب العمارة

1970

Ashiaa La Tushtra poster
NR

The wealthy mayor falls in love with a beautiful, flirtatious young girl, marries her in Cairo and visits her weekly. Samira lives with her father, the mayor, and falls in love with her cousin, Youssef. The wife falls in love with Mahmoud, Samira's music teacher, who visits the house regularly and spends the mayor's money on him. After the mayor falls easy prey to bankruptcy, his cheating wife leaves him, and his daughter tries to save him and uncover the truth.

Ashiaa La Tushtra

1970

1960s · 25 titles

30 Days in Prison poster
6.8

Amshir works in a cabaret owned by his wealthy friend Medhat. Medhat is sentenced to a month in prison after he burned the mustache of a wealthy Upper Egyptian man named Al-Najawi. Amshir then goes to prison instead of him in exchange for a sum of money.

30 Days in Prison

1966

Hello Shalaby poster
9.5

A comedic play about a struggling theater cast seeking funding to show one of its plays. They stay in a hotel waiting for the financier, but they don't have money to pay the hotel bill, thus getting them into troubles.

Hello Shalaby

1969

Hello Shalaby poster
9.5

A comedic play about a struggling theater cast seeking funding to show one of its plays. They stay in a hotel waiting for the financier, but they don't have money to pay the hotel bill, thus getting them into troubles.

Hello Shalaby

1969

براغيت poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

براغيت

1967

Three Thieves poster
5.8

Three stories written by Ihsan Abdul Quddus about three thieves, their circumstances differed, and their motives for theft differed.The first steals from a traitorous wife believing that this is his right, and the second steals a public bus in order to quickly reach his sick wife, the third steals his old aunt to be able to get married.

Three Thieves

1966

Between Two Palaces poster
6.0

The life paths of the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel Gawad during the period of the British occupation, and before the outbreak of the 1919 revolution, starting with the family's patriarch who lives a double life, his son Fahmy who joins a secret political organization, and the older son Yassin who follows his father's footsteps in pursuing women.

Between Two Palaces

1964

Love situation poster
NR

Rajab (Fouad Al Muhandis) The shy, hard-working young man in his work loves Sawsan (Shweikar) his cousin and his partner Mitwalli the polygon (Abdel Moneim Madbouly), but she does not feel it and loves her cousin Elham Cabbage (Adel Imam) who is good at dancing and singing and is encouraged by her mother Zahra (Zouzou Chakib) but Metwally The polygon loves

Love situation

1967

Mansion of Longing poster
6.2

10 years after Fahmy died, Ahmed Abdel Gawad returned to his normal life. He falls for Zanouba who is in love with his son Yassin. As Zanouba marries Yassin, Kamal's idealism is compromised when Aida abandons him for a wealthy guy.

Mansion of Longing

1966

Life is a comedy novel poster
NR

The play follows Khaled, a bored government archive clerk who dreams of escaping his meaningless job. After discovering a book about the transmigration of souls, he begins experiencing different lives. He becomes a scientist, Antony in love with Cleopatra, and a politician involved in a nuclear war. Through these transformations, the play explores his desire for creativity, adventure, love, and freedom from his monotonous life.

Life is a comedy novel

1966

The second groom poster
8.0

Wafaa's husband dies, so she decides to manage the companies he left behind herself, which angers her Upper Egyptian uncle who objects to women working. Wafaa thinks about getting married again to be under the protection of a man who will protect her from her uncle's interference. She chooses the worker Magdy who loves her, but she always rejects him under the pretext of being loyal to her husband. She discovers among her late husband's papers papers proving that he was married.

The second groom

1967

A Day of My Life poster
8.0

An unexpected love affair quickly blossoms between aspiring down-on-his-luck reporter Salah (Abdel Halim Hafez) and the subject of his first newspaper scoop, a pretty young heiress (Zubaida Tharwat)who's soon to be forced into an arranged marriage.

A Day of My Life

1961

Sweet and Naughty poster
9.0

A film producer who agrees with one of the directors to direct a movie, assigning the movie starring to Noussa, then filming is delayed and disputes arise between Noussa and the film's hero, as they both try to manage a mold for the other, so that they fall in love together and insist on completing filming after changing the story of the movie.

Sweet and Naughty

1968

The Newspaper Seller poster
7.0

The saleswoman involves the love of her competitor in the region and tries to draw his attention to marry him, she succeeds in this and enjoys a beautiful life with her life partner, but her mother reads one day the news of the death of a wealthy man who reveals to her daughter that he is her real father, so Magda decides to live in the bliss of her father after her investments on the part The largest of the inheritance.

The Newspaper Seller

1963

Huwa wa el nessaa poster
7.0

Alawi is a theater director, who lives an unstable family life, as his wife does not understand the nature of his profession, and seems very jealous over him, as it does not lead him to the requirements of the home as he likes, which causes Alawi to spend most of his time outside the home, while during his discharge he plays one of the plays invading Dosa, Which finds her innocence something different from his wife, and feelings of love grow between the two, the wife knows about the relationship, so she requests a divorce, and the women crowd with him after separating from his wife.

Huwa wa el nessaa

1966

The Nun poster
9.0

Hoda and her sister live in Mount Lebanon, where they have a rest on the road, and through the tourist delegations that come to the place, they get to know the tour guide Adel, she loves Hoda the guide without feeling her emotions, but he loves her sister who shares the same feeling, Adel agrees with his sweetheart to marry when Hoda knows how to decide to work in a nightclub.

The Nun

1965

An Ordinary Girl poster
10.0

The heroine of the film is a poor girl who dreamed of wealth and a high position in society. By chance, her dreams come true, but wealth does not bring her happiness. The girl refuses the money and returns to her former friends.

An Ordinary Girl

1968

Woman on the Margin poster
NR

A famous actress retires and marries a rich man a customary marriage. Then his family forces him to divorce her. He waits till she gives birth and steals the marriage paper and escapes. Then she kills him with his new wife and is sentenced to imprisonment and her child is adopted by a family.

Woman on the Margin

1963

The Beggars' Strike poster
NR

A musical film that depicts the life of the Egyptian people under the rule of the English colonizer through the revolutionary of the beggars, represented by Shakal who falls in love with the revolutionist Hassanin and helps him combat the colonizer.

The Beggars' Strike

1967

The Place of Weeping Lovers poster
7.0

A young engineer whose wife dies in a car accident, and leaves his young daughter, and because he is an petroleum engineer, he has to be absent from the house, so he brings a maid to the house, and takes her with him to his home in Suez where he works, on one of the nights he drunk, the engineer rapes the maid, and when she carries the fetus he requests Among them is the speed of getting rid of it, and when he presents it to the doctor, the latter informs him that abortion is dangerous for her life, which puts the man in a crisis.

The Place of Weeping Lovers

1966

The Miracle poster
7.0

A relationship of friendship and affection between the journalist Laila and Nuseela, and tries to help her as much as possible in order to live a decent life, and while the teacher intervenes Abbas to disrupt Layla's plans, wanting to continue Nosea Kanshala, Nosa falls in love with Salah Khatib Leila, and develops conflict.

The Miracle

1962

Dearest Beloved poster
8.0

The story of a family torn apart; the son goes to prison instead of his father for drug trafficking. While the other son marries a bad- tempered woman who abuses her mother-in-law forcing her to flee to work as a maid at a hospital.

Dearest Beloved

1961

Runaway from Marriage poster
NR

Zaky loves Elham but he is afraid to tell her because his father wants to marry her. Zaky moves from one love to another and spends his time with 26 girls whose names start with the letters of the alphabet, but he starts a new kind of adventure taking on different personalities.

Runaway from Marriage

1964

The Bravest Man in the World poster
7.7

A cowardly, weak-eyed man loses his glasses in the street and suddenly a lion appears in front of him and is believed to be a sheep. He decides to imprison it in a butcher shop to discover that he is imprisoned a lion.

The Bravest Man in the World

1968

حواديت poster
NR

A comedy play consisting of two chapters, each of which revolves around a story that differs from the other, where the first chapter bears the title (Our Children Abroad) and the second chapter (The Bride's Wedding).

حواديت

1967

For Married People Only poster
NR

Ahmed and De'bes find the apartment they are looking for, but the landlord rejects bachelors so they hire an actress to pretend to be their mother.

For Married People Only

1969

1950s · 4 titles

My Wife's Suitor poster
6.5

The jobless Somaa is happily married to Lola. He finds a job as a secretary at a fashion house owned by the spinster Howayda, who lives with her brother Fawzy. But as the job requires that the secretary be single, Somaa claims he is. When Lola finds out, she asks Somaa to quit, but he refuses, so she starts working as a model for Howayda, whereupon Fawzy falls for Lola and proposes to her.

My Wife's Suitor

1959

Days and Nights poster
7.7

An athletic young man falls for a beautiful woman with a troubled brother. Handsome Yehia (Hafez) may come from a troubled background, but he's always strived to make the best of his life. When Yehia falls for the beautiful Samia (Iman), he believes he has finally found the woman with whom he could spend the rest of his life. Trouble soon arises, however, when Samia's delinquent stepbrother begins doing everything in his power to sabotage the couple's relationship.

Days and Nights

1955

The Great Love poster
NR

(Samia) is a married woman with one daughter named (Laila). One day, (Samia) discovers that she has cancer and is close to death. She tries to hide the matter from her husband and daughter all the time, but at the same time she tries to bring her husband (Ahmed) closer to (Elham), his colleague at work, so that she can reassure herself before her death. The matter actually succeeds, even if it makes (Samia) jealous. However, things turn upside down when the doctor discovers the diagnosis is wrong, and she learns that she is not sick.

The Great Love

1957

This is Love poster
NR

Hussein is a conservative engineer who finds a perfect wife in Sherifa whom he thinks has never been in love. Ten days into their marriage, he learns that she had a past affair, and he merely regards her as a fallen woman.

This is Love

1958

Series credits

I Won't Live in My Father's Glbab poster
8.4

The events of the series revolve around the story of the rise from the bottom to the top of Abdel Ghafour Al Borai (Noor Al Sharif), starting from the agency of Hajj Ibrahim Sardinah (Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra) until he becomes a private business owner who makes a fortune, during which he has admired Fatima (Abla Kamel), a saleswoman. Al-Kushari, whom he admired, passes the days and marries Fatima and gives birth to his son Abdel-Wahhab (Mohamed Riyad), and four girls (Sunni, Bahira, Nafisa, and Nazira), and despite the availability of the elements of happiness in the life of Abdel Ghafour Al-Borai, he suffered from the separation of his only son. About him, and Abdel Wahab's insistence on building a very special world away from his father and his influence.

I Won't Live in My Father's Glbab

1996

Ferqet Naji Atallah poster
7.3

A retired Egyptian officer working at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv decides to plot revenge against Israel for freezing his bank accounts when he objected to its monstrous conduct in Palestine. In Egypt, he recruits five of his former students to rob Israel’s largest bank.

Ferqet Naji Atallah

2012

No artwork available
NR

Karima is a housewife, who works more than one job to support her family. After her husband dies, she discovers that he was married to another woman and that he has saved a huge fortune. So, she gets a large share of this money and turns into a stingy woman.

Karima .. Karima

2009

عصابة بابا وماما poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

عصابة بابا وماما

2009

Ser El Arad poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ser El Arad

1994

مغامرات زكية هانم poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

مغامرات زكية هانم

1992