Soliman ElGendy

Acting

Soliman ElGendy

Born 1945-08-24 · Egypt

Acting credits

Jamila, the Algerian poster
7.2

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

A Woman's Youth poster
7.3

A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by his youth and vitality and lures him into practicing vice with her. As a result, he stumbles in his studies and health. At this time, a girl whom she and her father knew from a young age helps him to get rid of all the corruption in which he lives, and her father advises him to stay away from intercessions, but the intercessions plots against him in an attempt to stay with her.

A Woman's Youth

1956

Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi poster
NR

A biography of the Islamic saint Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi, from his birth in Morocco, to his refusal to marry the girl who loved him, to his journeys to study religion and worship God, to his strength in the face of the hostility he faced and how he triumphed over his enemies with God on his side.

Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi

1953

The Thugs of El-Husseiniya poster
9.0

A son succeeds his father as a ruffian in the Al-Husayniyah area. As conflict arises between the young man and the current thug, who competes with him over the same girl, the thug plots to put the young man in prison for several years.

The Thugs of El-Husseiniya

1954

Appointment with Satan poster
7.0

Ragab is a doctor struggling with his financial life, he meets Nabil and discovers that he is the devil himself. They have a deal to make him the best doctor ever.

Appointment with Satan

1955

Rassif Nemra 5 poster
8.8

Sergeant Khamis, who works in the Coast Guard, succeeds in aborting a drug smuggling operation, so the smuggling gang tries to buy his integrity in order to make things easier for them, but he in turn refuses, so they resort to a plan to kill him in order to remove him from their path, but they fail and they kill his wife by mistake, and events escalate.

Rassif Nemra 5

1956

Ways of the Heart poster
7.0

A poor medical student, falls in love with her wealthy colleague who does not feel her at the beginning. He falls in love with her after he sees the sincerity of her feelings towards him, and asks her to marry him, but there are those who want to keep this marriage from happening

Ways of the Heart

1956

Mother of the Bride poster
6.9

This magnificently madcap comedy classic stars Egyptian film legends Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi as Zeinab and Hussein, overworked parents who get little relief from the never ending demands of their seven mischievous children. When their eldest daughter, Ahlam, meets a dashing young man at a party, it's love at first sight and wedding plans must quickly be arranged. As preparations get underway, Zeinab and Hussein are soon overwhelmed by the elaborate and costly requests made by the groom's extravagant family. While tending to the needs of their other six children, Hussein and Zeinab must consider unconventional means to obtain the funds for a ceremony that the newlyweds will be proud of.

Mother of the Bride

1963

Port Said poster
7.0

The events take place during the tripartite aggression against the city of Port Said, through the spy network of the British Intelligence, in which Pat (Laila Fawzi) works, while Al-Ambashi Talbah (Farid Shawqi) leads the resistance group, and the resistance men confront the aggression and vile conspiracies led by traitors and spies.

Port Said

1957

Rayya and Sekina poster
6.4

In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who's behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who were targeting women to steal their jewelry.

Rayya and Sekina

1952

Kalimat el hak poster
8.0

Hassan is a young man who recently graduated from the Faculty of Commerce. He works with his uncle Amin Bey in a securities office. Hassan loves his cousin Samira and the uncle promises to marry them. However, Qamar, an ugly girl, loves Hassan and decides to marry him. Amin asks Hassan to marry Qamar. Amin deceives people with the intention of spending on his dancing lover.

Kalimat el hak

1953

Land of Peace poster
10.0

The film takes place in Palestine and portrays the lives of freedom fighters trying to free their village from the control of the Israelis. Ahmed (Omar Sharif) is an Egyptian freedom fighter who ends up in this village. There, he meets Salma, a girl from the village. Together they try to save the Palestinians and always escape danger.

Land of Peace

1957

The Beast poster
7.1

Abdel Sabour was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including the police. He enjoyed the protection of Redwan Pasha, who in turn used him during elections to eliminate his rivals. Officer Raouf Saleh was sent to the village with his wife and son with the assignment of arresting The Beast. However The Beast and his gang worked together from the beginning trying to dispose of the officer and his family in any way possible.

The Beast

1954

Pity My Tears poster
10.0

When Amal's father falls on hard times, he sells his land to his neighbor, Mamdouh, who falls in love with Amal. But Amal is in a relationship with Mourad who starts avoiding her after he learns of her father's crisis, prompting Mamdouh to confess his love for Amal and ask for her hand in marriage.

Pity My Tears

1954

Foreman Hassan poster
6.0

Hassan, a worker in a lathe workshop, is dissatisfied with his livelihood and his harsh financial conditions. One high society woman comes to him in the workshop where he works. She admires him and invites him to her villa to complete and install the decoration. Hassan becomes involved in a forbidden relationship with her and abandons his home.

Foreman Hassan

1952

Heya Wil Regal poster
7.0

Sania is a young maid. She pays what she earns to her lover, the student Moneim, so that he can complete his education, but he abandons her. This shocks Sania and she moves to serve a rich family, whose affairs are taken over by a widow with three daughters. They make Sania impersonate one of them to take revenge on a young man, and events turn upside down.

Heya Wil Regal

1965

The Scornful Man poster
9.0

When a young unemployed man is chased by creditors from all sides, a girl sympathizes with him. He decides to commit suicide by hanging himself but his attempt fails. However, he finds hidden money in the ceiling and becomes rich.

The Scornful Man

1956

Hamido poster
7.3

Hamido (Farid Shawqi) works as a fisherman at sea, but he also deals in drugs by sea. Hamido and Saadia (Hoda Sultan) live in a great love story, but the teacher Qarsh (Mahmoud El-Meligy) does not leave them alone.

Hamido

1953

They Made Me a Criminal poster
7.5

Sultan thought that his father's death will soften his uncle's heart and he will take good care of him. Contrary to Sultan's expectations, the uncle sent him to an orphanage. When he leaves the orphanage, Sultan fails to find an honest job, and he vows revenge.

They Made Me a Criminal

1954

Al-Mohtal poster
10.0

Barai discovers a great scam, where he throws himself in front of cars and starts blackmailing the driver who hit him, and takes money from him. Barai realizes that this kind of work is better than the other jobs he has previously done. Barai collides with a car driven by the director of a company, and starts blackmailing him, then he discovers that the director is cheating on his wife, so he threatens to reveal his secret.

Al-Mohtal

1954

Battle of life poster
8.0

Ahmed and Fadel are two brothers, one is a lawyer and the other works to collect money by all means, but he discovers too late that money is useless, and that it is indeed a door to many corruptions and temptations.

Battle of life

1950

The Criminal poster
7.0

A criminal kidnaps a girl from her wealthy family and demands a ransom. When the family refuses to pay, he entrusts the daughter to a poor family to raise her and their only son. One day, a wealthy woman sees a striking resemblance to her lost son in the poor family's son and decides to raise him. When he grows up, he meets the girl who was raised with him when he was young.

The Criminal

1954

The City's Revolt poster
8.0

Fatima's mother dies after giving birth to her. Her father observes that the women in her family die when they put their first children. And to avoid this fate her father keeps her away from any man. But Fatima falls in love with Ahmed.

The City's Revolt

1955

Araess fil mazad poster
9.0

A father sees that he marries his three daughters from wealthy men in order to guarantee them a happy life and a secure future, but this idea was not accepted by his children, so the eldest daughter decides to flee from her home and join a young man who is in love with him, while the second goes on the path of vice and ends her life in a hospital Mental diseases, the third is working in a company that works as a typewriter, she meets her colleague, the engineer who works for the company, and they agree to marry.

Araess fil mazad

1955