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Faten Hamama is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer Egyptienne born on 27 may 1931 at Mansoura (Egypte)

Faten Hamama

Faten Hamama
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Birth name Faten Ahmed Hamama (فاتن أحمد حمامة)
Nationality Egypte
Birth 27 may 1931 at Mansoura (Egypte)
Death 17 january 2015 (at 83 years) at Cairo (Egypte)

Faten Hamama (Arabic: فاتن حمامة‎, Fātan Ḥamāmah About this sound listen ; May 27, 1931 – January 17, 2015) was an Egyptian film and television actress and producer.

She made her screen debut in 1939, when she was only seven years old. Her earliest roles were minor, but her activity and gradual success helped to establish her as a distinguished Egyptian actress. Eventually, and after many successful performances, she was able to achieve stardom. Revered as an icon in Egyptian and Middle Eastern cinema, Hamama substantially helped in improving the cinema industry in Egypt and emphasizing the importance of women in cinema and Egyptian society.

After a seven-year hiatus from acting, Hamama returned in 2000 in what was a much anticipated television miniseries, Wajh al-Qamar (وجه القمر, Face of the Moon). In 2000, she was selected as Star of the Century by the Egyptian Writers and Critics organization. In 2007, eight of the films she starred in were included in the top 100 films in the history of Egyptian cinema by the cinema committee of the Supreme Council of Culture in Cairo.

Biography

Fille d'un professeur de mathématiques, elle tourne son premier film à l'âge de sept ans et va enchaîner les rôles pendant près d'un demi-siècle.

Très jeune, elle épouse, contre l'avis de ses parents à cause de la différence d'âge, le spécialiste du mélodrame, le réalisateur égyptien Ezzedine Zulficarné en 1919, dont elle a une fille, Nadia.

En 1954, déjà très grande star, elle joue dans Ciel d'enfer du réalisateur égyptien Youssef Chahine. Le film, présenté au Festival de Cannes 1954, fera partie de la sélection des 150 meilleures productions égyptiennes, lors du centenaire du cinéma égyptien, en 1996. Sur le tournage, elle s'éprend du jeune premier qui a son âge, Michel Chalhoub, le futur Omar Sharif. Elle divorce et ils se marient en 1955. Pour épouser Faten, Michel, chrétien de rite grec-catholique, se convertit à l'Islam et prend le nom d'Omar Sharif. Ils ont un fils, Tarek Sharif, jouent dans de nombreux films ensemble, notamment dans Le Fleuve de l'amour (1961), une adaptation du roman de Léon Tolstoï Anna Karénine, et forment le couple mythique du cinéma égyptien. Faten et Omar continueront à tourner sous la direction d'Ezzedine.

La carrière de Faten Hamama, connait son apogée entre les années 1950 et 1970. Elle joue dans des comédies romantiques, avec notamment la star des comédies musicales égyptiennes, Abdel Halim Hafez, et aussi dans des films engagés, dénonçant les inégalités sociales ou défendant les droits des femmes. Dans Ouridou Hallan (Je veux une solution), où elle interprète le combat d'une femme égyptienne pour obtenir le divorce, ce film polémique permettra la révision de la législation en faveur des femmes désirant divorcer. Elle soutient la guerre d'indépendance des Algériens.

Faten poursuit sa carrière en Égypte, alors qu'Omar Sharif entame de son côté une carrière internationale ; il signe un contrat de sept ans avec les studios hollywoodiens Columbia Pictures et s'installe avec leur fils à Hollywood aux États-Unis. En 1968, malgré leurs sentiments réciproques, Omar et Faten se séparent d'un commun accord pour « incompatibilité de la vie de couple avec la vie d'acteur international », et divorcent en 1974.

Après son divorce, elle se remarie avec un médecin, Mohamed Abdel Wahab.

Elle a été nommée docteur honoris causa de l'université américaine de Beyrouth pour sa popularité, ses combats pour la liberté et son engagement féministe.

Elle meurt le 17 janvier 2015 au Caire.

Usually with

Henry Barakat
Henry Barakat
(8 films)
Emad Hamdy
Emad Hamdy
(10 films)
Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif
(8 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Faten Hamama (51 films)

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Actress

Land of Dreams, 1h58
Directed by Daoud Abdel Sayed
Genres Drama
Actors Faten Hamama, Amina Rizk
Roles Nargis
Rating71% 3.57533.57533.57533.57533.5753
I Want a Solution, 1h55
Origin Egypte
Genres Drama
Actors Faten Hamama, Rushdy Abaza, Amina Rizk
Roles Fawzya
Rating66% 3.334923.334923.334923.334923.33492
Dourria est une femme en conflit constant avec son mari. Quand elle demande le divorce, son mari n'accepte pas de se faire rejeter et refuse ce divorce.
Empire M
Empire M (1972)

Directed by Hussein Kamal
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Faten Hamama, Ahmed Mazhar
Roles Mother (Mona)
Rating69% 3.4887053.4887053.4887053.4887053.488705
The Sin
The Sin (1965)

Directed by Henry Barakat
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Faten Hamama, Zaki Rostom زكي رستم, Abdullah Gaith
Roles Azizah.
Rating75% 3.782013.782013.782013.782013.78201
Azizah, a poor peasant, portrays worker oppression in this somber social drama. She gets savagely raped by a guard when she goes into the fields to gather potatoes. She does not reveal what had happened to her husband who is suffering from an illness. She conceals the pregnancy and throttles the baby after it is born. She also dies soon thereafter. The migrant workers rally around her memory as she becomes a martyr to the cause of the struggling peasants.
The Sin
The Sin (1965)
, 1h45
Directed by Henry Barakat
Origin Egypte
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Faten Hamama, Zaki Rostom زكي رستم
Roles Aziza
Rating75% 3.7814853.7814853.7814853.7814853.781485
Aziza est une pauvre paysanne travaillant dans les récoltes de champs de pomme de terre. Lorsqu'elle se retrouve seule avec un des gardes, elle se fait violer. Aziza tombe enceinte et ne parle à personne du viol qu'elle a subi. Son mari, gravement malade et alité n'en saura rien. Elle essaiera de cacher sa grossesse le plus longtemps possible, jusqu'au moment où elle met au monde son petit dans une situation difficile. Elle mourra peu après, emportée par une fièvre.
The Last Night
Directed by Kamal El Sheikh
Genres Thriller
Actors Faten Hamama, Ahmed Mazhar, Madiha Salem
Roles Nadia and her sister Fawzya
Rating77% 3.8635353.8635353.8635353.8635353.863535
Cairo
Cairo (1963)
, 1h31
Directed by Wolf Rilla
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamama, John Meillon, Ahmed Mazhar, Eric Pohlmann
Roles Amina
Rating54% 2.7099152.7099152.7099152.7099152.709915
Pickering, surnommé « Le Major » en raison de son élégance, sort de prison. Durant sa longue peine, il a tout de même mis au point un dernier coup : Dérober les bijoux du Pharaon Toutânkhamon, exposé dans un musée en Égypte. Il débarque au Caire, retrouve ses anciens complices et leur explique son projet minutieusement préparé. Mais alors que plan d'action se déroule sans encombre, une alarme se déclenche...
I Won't Confess
Directed by Kamal El Sheikh
Genres Drama
Actors Faten Hamama, Ahmad Ramzy, Ahmed Mazhar, Salah Mansour
Roles Amal
Rating72% 3.6111053.6111053.6111053.6111053.611105
Amal (Faten Hamama) is the wife of Ahmed (Ahmed Mazhar) who manages a textile factory. One day, she receives a threatening letter directed at Ahmed. The letter reveals that Ahmed committed a murder; he killed a teller to steal the factory's money. Amal remembers that her husband had come to her telling her that he had lost his money, and weeks later had restored his money. One of the factory workers (Salah Mansour) meets Amal and confirms what the letter said, claiming that he witnessed the crime.
The Sun Will Never Set
Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Faten Hamama, Emad Hamdy, Nadia Lutfi, Ahmad Ramzy
Roles Layla
Rating68% 3.4101853.4101853.4101853.4101853.410185
An aristocratic family is torn down after the death of its patriarch. He leaves alone his widow wife and five of his daughters and sons. His eldest son, Ahmed (Shukry Sarhan), takes the role of the man in the house and helps his mother take care of his brother and sisters. Mamdouh (Ahmed Ramzy), his brother, is a self-centered man who refuses to follow his brother's step and decides to make his own decisions in his life. Meanwhile, despite restricting social conventions, Layla (Faten Hamama) falls in love with her piano teacher, a married man who is years older than she is, and marries him. The other two daughters accept their conditions and move on. Layla and Mamdouh's impetuous decisions result in unfortunate consequences. Layla divorces her husband shortly after their marriage and Mamdouh dies in a car accident after a quarrel. Ahmed finds the strength to face his brother's death and enrolls in the army to fight in the war. His sister falls in love with another soldier in the war, and Ahmed himself falls in love with a woman and marries her.
The River of Love, 2h
Directed by Ezzel Dine Zulficar
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, Zaki Rostom زكي رستم, Fouad el-Mohandes, Amina Rizk, Soheir El Bably
Roles Nawal
Rating69% 3.4863953.4863953.4863953.4863953.486395
Taher Pasha (Zaki Rostom), a wealthy and powerful man, falls in love with Nawal (Faten Hamama) and decides to marry her. She accepts and marries Taher in order to save her brother from jail due to unpaid debts. After their marriage, Nawal's life turns into a miserable one, living lonely in the Pasha's house. She gets pregnant and gives birth to her only child. A young police officer named Khalid (Omar Sharif) falls in love with Nawal, who mutually shares the love.
Among the Ruins
Directed by Ezzel Dine Zulficar
Actors Faten Hamama, Emad Hamdy, Fouad el-Mohandes
Roles Mona
Rating76% 3.8123253.8123253.8123253.8123253.812325
Faten Hamama plays Mona a university student who falls in love with her professor, Mahmoud (Imad Hamdi), who is also a gifted writer. Mahmoud proposes to Mona but her mother refuses and Mona marries another man and leave Egypt. Years later after she returns to Egypt, Mona visits a sick Mahmoud in a hospital. Mahmoud expresses his love to Mona as he lies in his deathbed.
The Nightingale's Prayer, 1h49
Directed by Henry Barakat
Origin Egypte
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Faten Hamama, Ahmed Mazhar, Amina Rizk
Roles Amna
Rating80% 4.0391254.0391254.0391254.0391254.039125
Amna is a young woman that witnesses the death of her older sister by her uncle, who had abandoned her family and left them with no support. She understands from her mother that her sister deserves to die because she dishonors the family. Amna doesn't agree. She believes that her uncle should be blamed for their conditions. She seeks revenge from the engineer who swayed her sister and lied to her thus causing her death. Amna moves to his house to work as a maid and tries to poison him several times, but all her plans fail. She discovers it's impossible to kill him. This engineer starts to approach her, but she resists him, which makes him even more attracted to her.
The Barred Road
Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Faten Hamama, Ahmed Mazhar, Ferdoos Mohammed
Roles Fayza
Rating59% 2.961262.961262.961262.961262.96126
Faten Hamama plays Fayza, a young student who lives with her family after the death of her father. Left with no money, her mother (Zouzou Mady) is forced to turn her house into an illegal gambling house. Fayza opposes her mother's solution. Munir (Ahmed Mazhar) is a writer who meets Fayza and falls in love with her but she rejects him. Fayza decides to leave to the countryside where she works as a teacher in a small school. Fayza gets into trouble in the school and, desperate and hopeless, decides to walk in her mother's path. Munir convinces Fayza to stop.
Al-Zawjah al-Azra'
Actors Faten Hamama, Emad Hamdy, Ahmed Mazhar
Roles Mona
Rating61% 3.076993.076993.076993.076993.07699
Magdi (Ahmed Mazhar) and Dr. Fouad (Imad Hamdi) meet Souad (Zouzou Mady) and her daughter Mona (Faten Hamama). Souad, who suffers from poverty, decides to introduce her daughter to Magdi, a rich man, hoping that he can fall in love with her beautiful daughter and ask to marry her in order to save her from poverty. Magid does fall in love with Mona and she falls for him too. The lovers decide to marry each other. Before the marriage, Magdi reveals a personal secret to her mother. Magdi tells her that an accident he experienced left him with sexual dysfunction. Mona's mother, however, accepts this and conceals it from Mona.
Sayedat el kasr
Directed by Kamal El Sheikh
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, Stephan Rosti, Ferdoos Mohammed
Roles Sawsan
Rating69% 3.484423.484423.484423.484423.48442
Faten Hamama plays Sawsan, a middle-class orphan who meets Adel (Omar Sharif), a rich man, at an auction hall. He tries to approach her but she refuses him. As a result, he eventually marries her. His playboy friends, Shafeek and Malak (among others), feel uncomfortable with Sawsan being around, as she condemns the style of life that they lead, and therefore Adel orders her to stay at home. While staying alone at home, Sawsan works on some land Adel owns, with the help of one of Adel's old friends, Mustafa (Omar El-Hariri). Adel's playboy friends try to destroy Adel's marriage by telling him that Sawsan is having an affair with his friend, Mustafa. Adel's friends try to exploit Adel for his fortunes and convince him to sell his land. Mustafa talks to Adel and convinces him not to sell his land to his exploiter friends. Adel realizes his mistake, expels his friends, and returns to his wife.