Kamal Selim

Kamal Selim was born in Cairo on 19 November 1913. After the Fuad I lycée, he studied cinema in France, according to elCinema, then joined Studio Misr as a screenwriter in 1935. He directed his first film in 1937 and made eleven in less than ten years, often the author of his own screenplays and the editor of his footage. He died in Cairo on 2 April 1945, of heart failure, leaving a brief body of work that critics place at the origins of Egyptian realism.

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• CinemaThe WillالعزيمةKamal Selim · 1939Cinema