Ismail Anzour

Ismail Anzour was born in Aleppo at the very beginning of the century. Having gone off to study agronomy, he developed a passion for cinema in Vienna, where he worked as an assistant to the Turkish filmmaker Ertuğrul Muhsin. Back in Syria, he founded with Rashid Jalal a production company and filmed with actors of the Damascus stage. In 1951 he took charge of the first film section of the Syrian army and for two years made military films and newsreels there, which have since been preserved and restored. His son Najdat has become a television director known throughout the Arab world. He died in 1981.

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• Short filmتحت سماء دمشقIsmail Anzour · 1932Cinema