Archive of films Farewell My Love / Wadda't hubbak
Egypt
1957, 100 min
Section:
Tribute to Youssef Chahine
Year: 2019
In his second musical, Chahine directs another hybrid production set against the backdrop of a terminally ill marine sergeant who falls in love with his nurse. This largely forgotten musical melodrama is another demonstration of Chahine’s versatility and his disregard for genre rules.
Synopsis
Youssef Chahine was a big fan of MGM musicals and particularly Gene Kelly. In his second musical, Chahine yet again directs another hybrid production in a story of a terminally ill marine sergeant who falls in love with his nurse. Fronted by two of Egypt’s most beloved singers, Farid El Atrach and Shadia, this largely forgotten musical melodrama is another demonstration of Chahine’s versatility and his disregard for genre rules. It also contains what would transpire to be one of the cornerstones of Chahine’s filmmaking: the inventive and unusual use of music in his genre-bending pictures.
Joseph Fahim
Contacts
Misr International Films
35 Champollion Street, , Cairo
Egypt
Tel: +20 122 2117478
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About the film
Black & white, DCP
Section: | Tribute to Youssef Chahine |
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Director: | Youssef Chahine |
Screenplay: | El Sayed Bedeir |
Dir. of Photography: | Ahmed Khorsheid |
Music: | Farid El Atrach |
Editor: | Said El Sheikh, Hussein Affifi |
Art Director: | Hagoup Aslanian |
Producer: | Farid El Atrach |
Production: | Farid El Atrach Films |
Cast: | Farid El Atrach, Shadia, Ahmed Ramzi, Abdelsalam El Naboulsy |
Sales: | Misr International Films |