FILM DIRECTOR

Youssef Chahine

1926 - 2008

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Youssef Chahine (Arabic: يوسف شاهين, romanized: Yūsuf Shāhīn [ˈjuːsɪf ʃæˈhiːn]; 25 January 1926 – 27 July 2008) was an Egyptian film director. He was active in the Egyptian film industry from 1950 until his death. He directed twelve films that were listed in the Top 100 Egyptian films list. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Youssef Chahine has received more than 289,728 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Youssef Chahine is the 273rd most popular film director (down from 238th in 2019), the 249th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 222nd in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Youssef Chahine ranks 273 out of 2,041. Before him are Damiano Damiani, Germaine Dulac, Bigas Luna, Jean Epstein, Martin Campbell, and Leonid Gaidai. After him are Franklin J. Schaffner, Denis Villeneuve, Elem Klimov, Robert J. Flaherty, Jerzy Stuhr, and Zack Snyder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Youssef Chahine ranks 98. Before him are Hugo Banzer, Patricia Neal, David H. Hubel, Siegfried Lenz, Alan Greenspan, and László Papp. After him are Efraín Ríos Montt, Verner Panton, Shigeo Sugimoto, Paul Baran, Maria Teresa de Filippis, and John Schlesinger. Among people deceased in 2008, Youssef Chahine ranks 61. Before him are Rajko Mitić, Sufi Abu Taleb, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Henri Cartan, Jerry Reed, and Mark Felt. After him are Muslim Magomayev, Hugo Claus, Imad Mughniyah, Mauricio Kagel, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, and Bo Diddley.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Youssef Chahine ranks 249 out of 642. Before him are Nahshon (null), Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep (-1800), Neferkare II (-2150), Solamish (1272), Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888), and Merytre-Hatshepsut (-1500). After him are Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa (700), Nepherites II (-400), Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (1928), Ammonius Hermiae (440), Samir Amin (1931), and Narriman Sadek (1933).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Egypt

Among film directors born in Egypt, Youssef Chahine ranks 1. After him are Moshé Mizrahi (1931), Riccardo Freda (1909), Atom Egoyan (1960), and Alex Proyas (1963).

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Filmography

To Each His Own Cinema
Director
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Oct 31o 20076.5 / 10
Cairo Station
Director
Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.
Jul 31o 19587.371 / 10
11'09''01 September 11
Director
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Sep 4o 20026.528 / 10