Henry Barakat

Henry Barakat was born on 11 June 1914 in Shubra, Cairo, the son of a Melkite doctor of Syrian-Lebanese origin. Trained in cinema in Paris, according to the Turin festival, he made his first film in 1942 and directed sixty-five in fifty years, eighteen of them with Faten Hamama. He often brought the writers of his country to the screen and in 1995 received the State Encouragement Prize. He died in Cairo on 27 May 1997.

In the catalogue 3

• CinemaThe Nightingale's Prayerدعاء الكروانHenry Barakat · 1959Cinema
• CinemaThe SinالحرامHenry Barakat · 1965Cinema
• CinemaThe Watchman's Daughterبنت الحارسHenri Barakat · 1968Cinema