Eskandar Mansy

Acting

Eskandar Mansy

Born 1910-10-12 · Egypt

Acting credits

7 Days in Heaven poster
6.0

In 1960s Egypt, a humble flower seller from Alexandria is drawn into a journalist's social experiment: to impersonate a millionaire’s daughter and spend a week living among Cairo’s elite, exposing the stark divide between classes in a rapidly modernizing society.

7 Days in Heaven

1969

Mr. Omar poster
7.3

Gaber Effendi is a simple employee at Ezbet Omar al-Alfi's, expelled by the head of the family after Jabir discovers that there is fraud in the accounts of the estate. Gaber meets with Berlanti, the wife of Omar Bey's, noting a great similarity between him and her absent husband in India, Omar. Following the advice of a legal advisor, Omar Bey's family believes that he is still alive and living in India. By chance, Jaber Effendi goes to Omar's house and is seen by the family and gets married, but Omar finds out the truth and tries to exploit the resemblance to seize wealth, but ultimately fails.

Mr. Omar

1941

Housing crisis poster
5.0

afaf and fattouh are co-workers looking for apartment for each to settle in . Each gets his apartment by kind of a trick which results in many consequences .

Housing crisis

1972

Return My Heart poster
5.4

In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. Now grown ups, they realize how impossible this love story is. Joining the army, Ali fights in Palestine while the brother joins the police and is part of the King's guards. Ali gets back from Palestine and joins the secret military movement that will soon rule Egypt, The Free Officers. The revolution starts and the Free Officers are now in charge, putting Ali against his brother as a guard for the king and also against his lover, the prince's daughter as the revolution will confiscate all her family's wealth.

Return My Heart

1957

Kollohom Awlady poster
NR

A father with three children: (Amin) a lawyer, (Salem) a police officer, (Medhat) who hopes to be an engineer but did not succeed in his studies. They go to Cairo at the beginning of the school year after spending the vacation on their father’s farm, with their mother and their aunt’s daughter (Karima). The father is extremely cruel to his children, and in the city, both Amin and Salem are busy with their work, while Medhat fails in his studies and lives a frivolous life, and events continue.

Kollohom Awlady

1962

Three Stories poster
7.0

The film combines 3 separate stories .. The first story (Dunia Allah) to Naguib Mahfouz and starring Salah Mansour and Nahed Sharif .. Tell the story of a courier in a government service approached the age of the pension did not enjoy his life at all decides to embezzlement of employees salaries and travel to Alexandria with one of the girls on the street to enjoy several weeks He was convinced that he did not harm anyone because all the employees did not need a salary except for one employee who was burdened with social burdens.

Three Stories

1968

The Second Wife poster
7.4

A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.

The Second Wife

1967

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

Seraa All Mohtafeeen poster
NR

Gharbawi Bey, owner of a fishing fleet in the Abi Qir area of Alexandria, is in fact a smuggler who is monitored by the detective and recruited for him by the only officer who disguises himself as Dr. Fathi, trying to get close to Leila, the smuggler's daughter, according to the plan set forth by the chief of the detective.

Seraa All Mohtafeeen

1969

The Nile and the Life poster
5.5

Renegotiating the representational paradigm of nationhood the film draws a heterogeneous picture of Egyptian society as well as Soviet workers as they embarked on the momentous dam enterprise. The films presents a vision of a nation deep rooted in unity as well as diversity. The films projection of a renewed imagining of the nation inadvertently acknowledges a new and nuanced understanding of its goals, political objectives, and how these impact the personal within it. (KHOURI)

The Nile and the Life

1968

Miracle from heaven poster
8.0

A young employee prepares to travel to Alexandria to work as a singer in one of its clubs, but his friends take him to Ras El Bar, and in the summer resort he meets a young woman who made him stop traveling, as he caught a cold while trying to save her from drowning. She had pretended that she was about to drown, and a very fast love developed between them. And her uncle sees them.

Miracle from heaven

1956

Al-modeer Al-Fanni poster
8.0

After he gets fired from his job as a teacher, Hamouda works in a company, and soon discovers that the manager is doing illegal work. He's offered to take part in the fraud and scheme, he quickly learns the ropes and becomes wealthy.

Al-modeer Al-Fanni

1965

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

Hassan, Morcos and Cohen poster
NR

Hassan, Morcos and Cohen are the owners of a drug store, and Abbas is the only worker in the store, who loves Hassan's daughter Belqis.they contract with him for a salary equal to twice his salary for a period of twenty years on the condition that those who give up their work in the warehouse pays a large compensation,this plan is drawn up by the three after they discover that Abbas has inherited a great fortune, and Abbas knew that money was the only weapon that puts them all at his mercy, including his beloved Belqis, the sign he used to use during his poverty.

Hassan, Morcos and Cohen

1954

The Sin poster
7.7

Aziza and her husband Abdullah are both day laborers who work on various farms. When Aziza is brutally raped by a guard while she is picking potatoes in a field, she tries to hide the pregnancy and plans to kill the baby once it is born.

The Sin

1965

Abu halmos poster
10.0

Shehata works as an accountant in a store that sells birds, arrives to him a letter bearing the news of his acceptance to a new job as an accountant in endowment properties, it happens that a dancer claims that she has a child from the son of the endowment overseer and leaves him for him and everyone knows that there is a child called Helmous, and they don’t know him either a mother or father. The daughter of the head of the endowment takes advantage of this event and claims to be the mother of the child from Shehata.

Abu halmos

1947

The Three Troublemakers poster
NR

Ahmed attends college while his friend Ramzi inherits a great legacy after the death of his father and sows his money because of his mother's pampering, while the third friend Fathi lives with his mother after her divorce from his father, the great lawyer, and the three friends spend all their time in fun and fun. Ramzi hits a man with his car while he and his friends are drunk. Ahmed takes advantage of this incident by extorting money from Ramzi. Ahmed and Fathi get to know this girl who is overburdened by her demands, events escalate and the three friends decide to go their extravagant distance.

The Three Troublemakers

1962

The Grandson poster
5.9

The film's events revolve around a family consisting of seven children, and the work discusses the problems of each son, such as Nabila, whose husband refuses to have children and threatens to separate her when he learns of her pregnancy, as well as the problems of university students between ambition and love. The film reviews the difficulties that parents face in bearing the burdens of their children.

The Grandson

1975

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

Sayedat el kasr poster
6.8

A chance meeting at an auction brings together Sawsan, a working-class girl and Adel, heir to a vast fortune with several estates to his name. This leads to a whirlwind marriage. This development spells trouble for Adel's fair-weather bourgeois clique, who are used to manipulating him with their own financial interests at heart.

Sayedat el kasr

1958

Al Abtaal poster
9.3

Four thieves robbed a house and stole his wealth and killed the owner of the house, his wife and daughter and set fire to the house, but (Ahmed) was hiding under the bed watching criminals, Ahmad grows up and becomes a club karate champion, and after he knows that (Saber) who was wrongfully accused of the crime He got out of prison, deciding to take revenge on his family's killers.

Al Abtaal

1974

Al-Nemr poster
9.0

Darwish is a casino worker, apparently a good man, but he is originally the head of a drug trafficking gang under the nom de guerre "Tiger", and he behaves brutally with his men and his opponents. Salah the policeman is assigned the task of knowing the truth of the tiger, he disguises himself as a journalist, visits the casino and falls in love with Faten, the daughter of Tiger.

Al-Nemr

1952

Reckless Husbands poster
6.6

Sharif and Fikri are suffering from the constant preoccupation of their wives. Sharif's wife works as a model, and Fikri's wife is busy giving private lessons. They help their single friend Ahmed rent an apartment under the guise of an import-export company to meet the girls. One of the workers ordered that apartment, and events escalate.

Reckless Husbands

1976

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