Wadi Youssef

Wadi Youssef studied directing at the Moscow film institute, from which he graduated in 1969, and is said to have been a pupil of Grigori Chukhrai. Back in Syria, he made dozens of documentaries for the state organisation, including several on the head of state's journeys, reports on the Damascus festival and, finally, a film on the visit of Pope John Paul II. In 1974, he directed one of the three parts of a collective film drawn from stories by the painter Fateh al-Moudarres, then made a feature-length fiction film. He died in Damascus in October 2007.

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• Feature filmالمصيدةWadi Youssef · 1980Cinema