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Filmmaker · Egypt

Atef El-Tayeb

Died in 1995

Atef El-Tayeb was born on 26 December 1947 in the province of Sohag. He graduated in 1970 from the directing section of the Higher Institute of Cinema, was assistant to Medhat Bakir, Shadi Abdel Salam and Youssef Chahine, and at first made short films. His first feature film dates from 1982; he directed more than twenty, and he is counted among the initiators of the new realism of the eighties. He died on 23 June 1995, after a heart operation.

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