| Native Name: | النمر الأسود |
| Director: | Atef Salem |
| Country: | Egypt |
| Language: | Arabic |
The Black Tiger (Arabic: النمر الأسود, transliterated as El-Nemr El-Aswad) an Egyptian film released in 1984. The film is directed by Atef Salem and stars Ahmed Zaki, Ahmed Mazhar and Wafa Salem.
The film tells the true story of an Egyptian Gastarbeiter (Mohamed Hassan al-Masry) who learns the carpentry trade from a young age and travels to ply it in Germany. His inability to speak German and even English leads to discrimination. To make things worse, he is bullied by a colleague over his dark skin, and the colleague succeeds in getting Mohamed's work visa revoked. He turns to a friend he made during his work abroad, an Egyptian Greek boxing coach, who trains the young man in the sport. Mohamed also meets and falls in love with a neighbor, but her father doesn't approve of her marrying a black man. They marry anyway, and he shakes up the industry with an improvement on the lathe that makes him a wealthy businessman in Germany.
The inspiration for the film was born in 1948 and was a professional boxer in Germany who won several titles and boxed for his adoptive country in Canada.[1] [2] [3] He died in a tragic accident in 2014.[4] [5]