Samir Zikra

Samir Zikra was born in 1945 and learned cinema at the State Institute in Moscow. Back in Syria, he made documentaries, including one on the struggles of Syrian women, and co-wrote films by Nabil Maleh and Mohammad Malas, one of which won a Golden Tanit at Carthage in 1984. He then wrote and directed his own feature films, all produced by the public body, from 1981 to 2010, as well as a television series in 1991. He favours black comedy, willingly adapts Syrian or Egyptian novelists, and in Cairo, in 1998, received the prize for best Arab film.

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• Feature filmحادثة النصف مترSamir Zikra · 1981Cinema