The Man who lost his Shadow (Egyptian Arabic: الرجل الذى فقد ظله translit: El Ragol Ellazi fakad Zelloh) is a 1968 Egyptian film directed by Kamal El Sheikh. It is based on Fathy Ghanem’s story under the same name. It stars Magda, Salah Zulfikar and Kamal El-Shennawi. The film is a member of the Top 100 Egyptian films list.
Synopsis
The events of the film occur before the 1952 Revolution, Shawky is a revolutionary who struggles to build a new world. His friend, Youssef, rose in the world of journalism on the shoulders of his teacher, Mohamed Nagy, as he is an opportunist who sold himself in order to achieve his individual ambition and abandoned all human values and traditions with the aim of linking to a higher class represented by the aristocratic Souad. He struggles to build a new world in which his middle class and even the whole country will obtain social justice. Youssef's father assaults his maid, Mabrouka, and after his death, Youssef expels her with her son. However she knows the way to struggle so that there are no new victims like her. He reached it when social conditions changed after the 1952 Revolution. Then Mabrouka falls in love with Shawky.
Primary cast
Magda as Mabrouka
Salah Zulfikar as Shawky
Kamal El-Shennawi as Youssef
Nelly as Baheya/Samia
Emad Hamdy as Abdel Hamid
Yusuf Shaaban as Anwar Samy
Ali Gohar as Mohamed Nagy
Mahmoud Yassin as Saad
Soheir Fakhry as Soad
Nazeem Shaarawy as Shohdy pasha
See also
Cinema of Egypt
Salah Zulfikar filmography
List of Egyptian films of 1968
List of Egyptian films of the 1960s
References
External links
1968 films
1960s Arabic-language films
Egyptian drama films
Egyptian black-and-white films
Films directed by Kamal El Sheikh
