Sanaa Gamil Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Sanaa Gamil
Acting
Biography
Born to a Coptic Orthodox family in Minya Governorate, she moved to Cairo to pursue her acting career and changed her name to Sanaa Gamil. One of her most notable roles was Nefisah in front of Omar Sharif in the movie Bidaya wa nihaya (A Beginning and an End) directed by Salah Abouseif in 1960. The movie was based on a novel with the same name by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. Sanaa Gamil won the best supporting actress award at the Moscow Film Festival in 1961 for her role in this movie. Not only a movie actress, but more importantly one of the best Egyptian theater actresses. She has also played a number of roles on the French Stage for La Comedie Francaise. She was married to the famous Egyptian journalist Louis Greiss and had no children. She also acted in a number of TV series like Oyoun (Eyes) with Fuad Al Mohandes, and in a number of plays such as The Visit with Gamil Rateb
Filmography Movies
Acting
Dawn of a New Day
The story of a 40-year-old married woman who has fallen into idleness and does not know how to approach the revolutionary events in her country. She finds a new meaning in life when she falls in love with an aspiring young student. “I shot FAGR YOM GUEDID in 1964. I count it among my best films and still stand by it completely. It is about the class whose assets were nationalized after the 1952 revolution. I explored the question of whether this class still had a place in Egyptian society.”
The Great Clown
Shehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband divorced her a third time, so they resort to Shehata to marry her. Then the wealthy wife dies and he inherits her fortune, prompting him to think of marrying his old neighbor Asrar.
Mr. K
In villa Sonsen, a wealthy woman named Kismat Hanim lives with her relatives: her brother-in-law Kamel, his son, the singer Fouad, her business manager Qadri and her secretary Laila. Kismat has a spoiled dog that everyone is forced to serve and they all compete to do it.
Spring Fantasies
A girl develops a psychological complex after witnessing her mother giving birth to her second child, leading her to reject marriage and suffer from nervous breakdowns. During her treatment, she falls in love with her treating physician, but he doesn't reciprocate her feelings openly due to a problem he's had.
Good News
Sanaa is the daughter of Mukhtar Pasha, a young woman who prefers to marry Susu Beek, one of the sons of the high class of her father's friends, and her father welcomes this, but she refuses to marry because she loves Hussein Her father, Khateeb, discovers that Soso is in agreement with the director of the company to rhythm between them, and one of the dancers is called to pretend that she is the wife of the engineer and the events and surprises follow.
The Cursed
Egyptian Adaption Of the great play "King lear" by William Shakespeare.
The Second Wife
A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
The Impossible
Helmy's father forces him to marry someone he doesn't love. When his father dies, Helmy decides to break free. He meets Nany, the gentle helpless girl, then he meets the lawyer Fatima, a liberal who claims to be cultured.
Lady of The Train
Fikria is a singer who's married to Farid ,the gambling addict. When she's traveling by train, she gets in an accident and a peasant treats her. After she returns home,her husband asks her to stay hidden to get the insurance money to pay for his gambling debts.
killer mother
A married engineer with a son and a daughter, he drives in love with a dancer who sets her window around him with the help of her boyfriend until she marries him out of the greed for his wealth, and actually this is done without the knowledge of the wife and children. The daughter has no choice but to inform her mother of this.
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