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Filmmaker · Sudan

Hussein Shariffe

Died in 2005

Hussein Shariffe was born on 7 July 1934 in Omdurman, the son of a doctor. After studies in Khartoum and Alexandria, he studied modern history at Cambridge, then painting at the Slade School in London under Lucian Freud, and received the John Moores Prize. Returning to Sudan in 1960, he taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Khartoum, founded an art magazine and worked at the Ministry of Culture, before turning to cinema in the seventies. Exiled in Egypt after the coup d'état of 1989, he made films there until his death, on 21 January 2005, leaving one film unfinished.

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