Tewfik Saleh

Tewfik Saleh (also: Tawfik Saleh , Tewfiq Salah , Arabic توفيق صالح, DMG Tawfīq Ṣāliḥ ; * October 27, 1926 in Alexandria ; † August 18, 2013 ) was an Egyptian film director and screenwriter.

Saleh attended Victoria College and studied English literature at Alexandria University (Bachelor 1949). In 1950 he went to France to study film art there. He also worked there with painting and photography and was a frequent guest in André Lhote's studio. After returning to Egypt in 1953, he met Nagib Mahfus , with whom he wrote the screenplay for his first feature film Darb al-mahabil (1955).

His next film, Sirâ'el abtâl , was not made until seven years later, followed by El Moutamarridoun (The Rebels) in 1966 and El Sayed el Bolti based on a novel by Saleh Morsi in 1967 . Yawmiyyât nâ'ib fi-l-aryâf (1968) - based on the novel by Tewfik el Hakim, is considered to be his best literary adaptation . Since Saleh always had problems with Egyptian censorship and bureaucracy, he went to Syria in 1969. There he filmed El makdu'un based on the novel by Ghassan Kanafani about three Palestinian refugees who perish while entering Kuwait illegally. The film was awarded the Tanit d'Or at the Carthage Film Festival 1972, first prize at the Strasbourg Festival and first prize from the International Catholic Center in Belgium (both in 1973).

In 1973 he went to Iraq, where he taught cinematography at the Radio and Television Institute and the Art Academy. With the support of the Iraqi Film and Theater Organization , he shot the film El ayyam el tawîlâ in 1980, in which Saddam Hussein is portrayed as a patriotic guerrilla. From the mid-1980s he taught at the Egyptian film school. In addition to the feature films mentioned, Saleh also made seven shorts and documentaries and stood in front of the camera in Youssef Chahine's Forever Alexandria (1989).

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• Alex Cinema - Tewfik Saleh
• Ahram Online, August 29, 2014: Tawfiq Saleh (1926-2013)
• Tewfik Saleh in the Internet Movie Database (English)