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Filmmaker · Egypt

Mohamed Karim

Died in 1972

Mohamed Karim was born in Cairo on 8 December 1896. He began as an actor during the First World War, then worked in Germany as an assistant director, at the UFA studios. Back in Egypt, he directed in 1930 the first narrative feature film produced in the country, made eighteen films until 1959 and made several of them with Mohamed Abdel Wahab. In 1959 he was the first dean of the Higher Institute of Cinema, and he died in Cairo in 1972.

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