Mohamed Fadel

Egyptian director born in Alexandria on 22 June 1938. He's a graduate of the faculty of Agriculture. His first work was the hit TV series Cairo and People (1972). He formed a duet with writer Osama Anwar Okasha and they worked together on many series such as My Dear Children, Thank You (1979), And the Sea Said (1982), Abo El Ela El Beshri S1&2 (1985&96), The White Flag (1988), and The Foul Wind (1991), among many others. He's also directed several films such as Love in a Jail Cell (1983) and Nasser 56 (1996).

Works

Nasser 56

Nasser 56 is a 1996 Egyptian historical film directed by Mohamed Fadel, starring Ahmed Zaki. The film focuses on the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt's second President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and the subsequent invasion of Egypt by Israel, the United Kingdom, and France.

Release Date1996-08-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

The Foul Wind

The Foul Wind

In Alexandria, a girl goes out to work in trade in order to provide for her siblings and afford their education, an endeavor that leaves her exposed to a lot of difficulties as she tries to keep the family together.

Release Date1991-03-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count31

Al-Helaly's Way

Al-Helaly's Way

Mustafa Al-Helaly is a university professor and head of the 'Virtue Party', who decides to run for parliament, but his life turns upside down after the retired dancer Sou'ad claims that he's the father of her reckless young daughter Nancy as a result of a one-night stand that happened 20 years ago.

Release Date2006-09-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count30

Al Zaeem

Zeinhom is an ordinary man who struggles to maintain steady employment. Due to his uncanny resemblance to a powerful dictator, he is cast in a satirical film criticizing the regime. When unexpected events unfold, Zeinhom finds himself entangled in a dangerous political deception, forced to impersonate the very leader he mocked.

Release Date1993-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

The Witness Who Didn't See Anything

Sarhan Abdel Basir, a children's performer known for playing a rabbit, becomes a witness in a murder case. Struggling to separate his on-stage persona from reality, he finds himself in a series of comedic situations.

Release Date1976-06-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count17

Dad, You, & I in Dismay

After his appointment as general manager of financial and administrative affairs, Abd al-Baqi al-Jawhari (Hassan Abdin) discovers a lot of manipulation in connection with the project (Tohme) village that is supervised by the Bahrawi Governorate, and when he seeks to reveal what he knew, the project beneficiaries fabricate the charge of embezzlement of Abd al-Baqi, and he enters prison From here, his daughter Widad (Firdous Abdel Hamid) cooperates with Bashir Abu Al-Saad (Mahmoud Al-Jundi) to prove her father's innocence, but they discover that the game is bigger than they imagined.

Release Date1989-04-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count13

Vote Count1

Two - One - Zero

An anthology of two highly experimental apocalyptic fantasy dramas with sci-fi and psychological horror elements. Originally intended to comprise a third story, 'Sifr' ['Zero'], directed by Nagi Angelo; the film was banned outright by the Egyptian censor and may not have made its domestic premiere until broadcast on satellite television in November 2012.

Release Date1974-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Mr. Abo El-Ela El-Beshry's Journey

Mr. Abo El-Ela El-Beshry's Journey

Mr. Abo El-Ela El-Beshry carries a lot of good values for a life that is close to the utopian city. When he retires, he decides to live his life helping his relatives after he adopts the daughter of a friend from work and goes to Cairo.

Release Date1986-05-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count15

Dreams Of El Tayer Boy

After Ibrahim Al-Tayer comes out of prison, he returns to stealing, where he smuggles 750 thousand pounds, and hides with the money in a mental hospital in agreement with the hospital's director alone. But when the director dies, Ibrahim escapes with another to hide from the police and gang that wants the money.

Release Date1978-08-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count14

Vote Count2

Abo El-Ela 90

Abo El-Ela 90

The idealistic rural man Abo El-Ela resumes his journey with his family, as he struggles to fight corruption and greed around him while trying to keep his loved ones away from trouble.

Release Date1996-01-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count31

Justice Has Many Faces

Gaber Ma'moun Nassar, a famous businessman with a good reputation among people, lives a quiet life with his wife and daughter. Throughout his whole life, he has tried to hide the fact that he is an illegitimate child. When a murder occurs and he gets investigated, it reveals his hidden secrets.

Release Date2001-11-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count28

Vote Count1

Love in a Jail Cell

A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after their release and seek revenge on a corrupt businessman.

Release Date1983-02-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8

النوّة

النوّة

Release Date1991-03-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count31

أخو البنات

أخو البنات

Release Date1984-05-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count17

The sea said

Salem falls into the trap of greed when he finds a treasure in a well in the seabed, and soon his life changes and flees from his country, and soon he returns to the past to haunt him while everyone tries to reach him to obtain their right to the treasure.

Release Date1982-06-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count25

Vote Count1

My Dear Children, Thank You

My Dear Children, Thank You

After the father, Abdo, passes sixty, he retires from his job. He starts discovering new things about his four children, while his children realize that they've drifted away from their father, and that they'll always need him like he needs them.

Release Date1979-07-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count17

The Downtown Apartment

In a representation of the housing problem in Egypt, a group of friends reunited by their search for an apartment encounter different problems as Kamal is looking for a place to turn into an art studio and Sherif is trying to find a place where he and his wife can live.

Release Date1975-08-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Mohamad Ali's Street

A play in the streets of Mohammed Ali through a musical and performance ensemble, which is linked to a love story with her neighbor, will she achieve her dream of stardom and love.

Release Date1991-07-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

The White Flag

The White Flag

According to a true story, a frantic struggle does not end between two parties in Alexandria, (Silver Maadawi), a wealthy and authoritarian merchant in the fish ring, and retired Ambassador Moufid Abu Al Ghar, where Silver Maadawi tries with all its influence to seize the archaeological palace owned by Dr. Moufid and reside In him after his retirement.

Release Date1988-04-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count16

Chi Tutu Restaurant

Chi Tutu Restaurant

Where one of the restaurants owned by Adel and his friend Nagaty, after Adel returns from abroad deciding to start a small business that generates income for him, his friend Nagaty offers him a stay.

Release Date2006-09-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Star of the East

The film presents a part of the biography of legendary artist Umm Kulthum since 1944, shedding light on her unfinished romance like her relationship with King Sharif Sabri's uncle, and Ahmed Rami. And her role in the revolution of 1952 and after the defeat of 1967 and the sacrifices she made.

Release Date1999-06-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Moseeqa Fy Al 7ay Al Sharqy

The events of the play revolve around a comic situation, about the life of a sea captain with seven sons, and how to raise him for his children after the death of his wife, until he used a young girl to work as an educator for his children, and the work includes many lyrical and dancing shows.

Release Date1971-07-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Tragicomic

Tragicomic

The series deals with the life story of the great artist Naguib Rihani since childhood, and highlights the human and social aspects of his life, and the political life he lived, especially the revolution of 1919, the First and Second World Wars, the Constitution of 1923, and the English occupation of Egypt.

Release Date2022-10-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count31

Seyam Seyam

Seyam Seyam

Fasting is not all fasting, this is what the series explains through Professor Siam, who modifies every day a wrong behavior of his behaviors associated with fasting and complement to it as anom, from which we get to know the value of fasting and the divine wisdom of its imposition and determine its time.

Release Date1980-07-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count30

Fire’s bird

Fire’s bird

A tale of betrayal and greed.

Release Date1987-07-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Alabanda

Release Date1998-01-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Tali' al-Nakhl

Muhammad is a simple peasant young man who lives in a village. He works as a palm tree picker. He does his work with ease and loves his beautiful neighbour. However, he suddenly falls prey to severe pain and goes alone. He discovers that he is infected with schistosomiasis. He is forced to travel to Cairo, and is detained at the Bilharz Institute as a severe case. There he meets the doctor (Amal), who tells him that if he wants to recover, he must undergo surgery that may cost him his life. The matter gets worse when a wealthy person returns from abroad and wants to marry his fiancée, so he is forced to undergo the operation.

Release Date1988-01-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Alexandria Again and Forever

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.

Release Date1989-12-04

Vote Count13