Kamal Soliman

Acting

Kamal Soliman

Born 1946-01-30 · Egypt

Acting credits

Escaping Tel Aviv poster
6.2

A seemingly ordinary life is shattered when a woman uncovers a hidden truth about her husband, plunging her into a high-stakes international conflict. As loyalties blur and danger escalates, an Egyptian intelligence officer is tasked with a critical mission where failure is not an option.

Escaping Tel Aviv

2009

Sweet Oblivion poster
6.3

Officer Magdy investigates the suicide of a groom on his wedding night. He knows that the groom was impotent. Later he realizes that impotence is becoming an epidemic that spreads among all men. However, no one wants to declare that out of shame.

Sweet Oblivion

1996

Detention Letter poster
5.2

Khaled, in a terrorist group believing he fights for God, tries stopping his brother Ahmad from joining. After Ahmad joins and dies in a group dispute, Khaled seeks revenge until police arrest him.

Detention Letter

2017

Bakhit and Adeela 2 poster
5.2

The second part of Lenin al-Ramly and Nader Galaal’s trilogy “Bekheet and Adeela”. A gang of drugs dealers finances Bekheet and Adeela’s parliament campaign. At the end, Bekheet and Adeela figured out that the gang has its hidden agenda, they enter the elections as independents, become members and finally overcome the gang.

Bakhit and Adeela 2

1997

Date Wine poster
6.8

Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.

Date Wine

1999

Halim poster
7.3

The film displays the life of legendary singer(Abd Alhalim Hafez) in various stages. Depicting many sides of his artistic and personal life since his early childhood.

Halim

2006

Birds of Darkness poster
6.9

Three lawyers, brought by friendship but separated by interests, Fathi Nofal, who turns from a committed lawyer to an opportunist, while Ali al-Zanati joins religious extremist groups to make financial gains , and the third Mohsen only works as a simple employee away from conflict.

Birds of Darkness

1995

Min Khaf Selim poster
NR

The film tells of dangerous life-threatening documents that are handed over to the hero from his boss at work to hand over to the big man without knowing their seriousness, but the old man thinks badly about the manager, so he kills him and accuses the hero of it.

Min Khaf Selim

1987

Very Humane poster
NR

Mahmoud is a twelve years old child . He works alongside his studies on one of the buses, where he collects fares from customers. This is a profession that requires the owner to be young, but like any other child, he begins to grow, and only his honesty, frankness, and strength will intercede for him to overcome the challenges he faces.

Very Humane

2009

In Natural Colors poster
4.6

Youssef, a student at the Faculty of Fine Arts, responds to the call of talent and love of drawing against his family's wishes.

In Natural Colors

2009

Fallen Angels Paradise poster
6.1

Tabel abandons his luxurious family life in favor of a bohemian life with his eccentric marginalized friends. When Tabel dies, his daughter attempts to give him a decent burial, but his friends take the corpse away to bid him farewell in their own way.

Fallen Angels Paradise

2000

Abboud on the Border poster
6.2

Abboud lives a reckless life with his two friends. He knows that he will not enter the army because he's an only child. But when his father marries another woman who gives birth to a boy, Abboud is forced to join the army in spite of being unfit, working at the border with his friends.

Abboud on the Border

1999

Lust poster
7.0

In Alexandria, Fatma needs money for her youngest son's weekly kidney dialysis. She travels to Cairo to beg away from home, after she collects enough money she returns to discover her son's death. She decides to protect her two daughters from poverty so she returns to Cairo to continue to beg.

Lust

2011

Fish, Milk, Tamarind poster
9.0

When Ahmed's father travels abroad for work, he gets harassed for refusing to give a part of his income to those who helped him travel. The father dies, and when his body arrives in Egypt, the Interpol suspects Ahmed and his father of being members of a terrorist organization.

Fish, Milk, Tamarind

1988

Qaffas al-Harim poster
5.0

Reem's mother dies after being in a heavy accident, so her daughter puts the suffering that happened to her before her eyes, as their mother suffered because of her married husband, and the inferiority view of women in Upper Egypt.

Qaffas al-Harim

1986

Too Little Love.. Too Much Violence poster
NR

Talaat, the son of wealthy merchant Morsi, lives under pressure from his father to marry the poor girl Fatima. Talaat rebels on his father and divorces Fatima. He meets Eng. Younis, the son of a senior politician and decides to marry his sister to gain power and money.

Too Little Love.. Too Much Violence

1995

Why, O Violet? poster
7.0

A portrayal of the lives of four friends who have different dreams and aspirations; Ahmed falls in love with a girl he saw once, Sayed gets in trouble when he sells the laboratory animals, Abbas who is married to a woman that doesn't love him, and Ali who works in illegal operations.

Why, O Violet?

1993

All Good poster
8.5

Kamal is a porter in a hotel who he loves the secretary Dalal. They lie to each other, pretending to be rich, but they discover the truth after they get married. They look for a rich father, till they find a millionaire who accepts them as his son and daughter, without knowing that they're married.

All Good

1996

The Third Class poster
5.5

A group of football team supporters go through a lot of trouble to watch the games while the management headed by Captain Aouf are reaping benefits effortlessly. To calm their rage Sorour is appointed as their representative in the council only to unravel their scam further, so they continue their revolt.

The Third Class

1988

City of Girls poster
5.0

The story of four expatriate students who share a room in college, then an apartment after graduating from media department, and moving to work in the field of journalism, and what they go through during these stages in their personal and professional lives.

City of Girls

2008

Love has a Final Story poster
7.0

Refat is a teacher with a heart disease, who marries the poor girl Salwa, despite the opposition of his mother who is trying to persuade him to divorce her in exchange for his share in the inheritance. Salwa resorts to holy people hoping to cure her husband.

Love has a Final Story

1986

Those Gentlemen poster
6.0

Fawzya suffers from the treatment of her husband Ahmed who doesn't pay her enough attention. After Ahmed refuses to divorce Fawzya, she decides to have a sex change surgery and becomes a man. Fawzya suffers a lot after changing her sex and their child loses his mother's tenderness.

Those Gentlemen

1987

Sons and Killers poster
6.7

When Shaikhon marries Dalal, a belly dancer, they are blessed with two kids. Shaikhon steals Dalal's money to buy the club where she works. Dalal gets back at him and reports him to the police who have him imprisoned. When he comes out of prison full of vengeance, his past ghosts still haunt him.

Sons and Killers

1987

The Asphalt Kings poster
5.8

A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born womanizer. Embroiled in a torrid affair with a buxom neighbor, Sayed pays his best friend Ringo to keep the neighbor's barber husband busy -- but the husband, as well as Ringo, Sayed's mother, father, sister and grandfather, have their own amorous intrigues brewing. Director Oussama Fawzi has been hailed as the brightest young director to have recently emerged in Egyptian cinema.

The Asphalt Kings

1996

Behind the camera