Youssef Chahine (Arabic: يوسف شاهين pronounced as /ˈjuːsɪf ʃæˈhiːn/; 25 January 1926 - 27 July 2008) was an Egyptian[1] film director. He was active in the Egyptian film industry from 1950 until his death.[2] He directed twelve films that were listed in the Top 100 Egyptian films list. A winner of the Cannes 50th Anniversary Award (for lifetime achievement).
Youssef Chahine is credited for directing five films starring Salah Zulfikar including significant productions such as Saladin (1963), The Nile and the Life (1968) and Those People of the Nile (1972) and also credited with discovering Omar Sharif, whose first starring role was in Chahine's film The Blazing Sun (1954). A well-regarded director with critics, he was often present at film festivals during the earlier decades of his work. Chahine gained his largest international audiences as one of the co-directors of 11'9"01 September 11 (2002).[3]
| Year | Arabic Title | Translation | Transliteration | Notes | ||
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| 1 | 1950 | بابا أمين | Papa Amin | Bābā Amīn | ||
| 2 | 1951 | ابن النيل | Son of the Nile | Ibn al-Nīl | ||
| 3 | 1952 | المهرج الكبير | The Great Clown | Al-Muharrig al-Kabīr | ||
| 4 | 1953 | سيدة القطار | Lady of the Train | Sayedat al-Qitar | ||
| 5 | نساء بلا رجال | Women without Men | Nisaa bila Regal | |||
| 6 | 1954 | صراع فى الوادي | Struggle in the Valley | Ṣirāʿ fī al-Wādī | Aka The Blazing Sun | |
| 7 | شيطان الصحراء | The Desert Devil | Shaitan al Sahraa | |||
| 8 | 1956 | صراع فى الميناء | Ṣirāʿ fī al-Mīnāʾ | Aka Dark Waters | ||
| 9 | 1957 | ودعت حبك | Farewell to Your Love | Wadda'tu Hobbaka | ||
| 10 | إنت حبيبي | You're My Love | Inta Ḥabībī | |||
| 11 | 1958 | باب الحديد | Bāb al-Ḥadīd (The Iron Gate) | |||
| 12 | جميلة بوحريد | Djamila Bouhired | ||||
| 13 | 1959 | حب إلى الأبد | Hobb lel Abad | Entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.[5] | ||
| 14 | 1960 | بين ايديك | In Your Hands | Bein Edeik | ||
| 15 | نداء العشاق | A Lover's Call | Nidaa al Oushaak | |||
| 16 | 1961 | رجل في حياتي | A Man in My Life | Rajul fe Haiaty | ||
| 17 | 1963 | الناصر صلاح الدين | Al-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn | Entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival.[6] | ||
| 18 | 1964 | فجر يوم جديد | Dawn of a New Day | Fajr Yawm Jadīd | ||
| 19 | 1965 | بياع الخواتم | The Ring Salesman | Bīyā al-Khawātim |
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| 20 | 1966 | رمال من ذهب | Golden Sands | Rimal min Thahab | ||
| 21 | 1967 | عيد الميرون | The Feast of Mairun | Eid al Mairun | Short film | |
| 22 | 1968 | النيل الحياة | The Nile and the Life | Al Nil wal Hayah | ||
| 23 | 1969 | الأرض | The Land | |||
| 24 | 1970 | الإختيار | The Choice | Al-Ikhtiyār | ||
| 25 | 1972 | سلوى الفتاة الصغيرة التى تكلم الأبقار | Salwa the Little Girl who Talks to Cows | Salwā al-Fatā al-Saghīra allatī Takallam al-Abqār |
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| 26 | 1972 | الناس والنيل | Those People of the Nile | Al-Nas wal Nil | ||
| 27 | 1973 | العصفور | The Sparrow | Al-ʿUṣfūr | ||
| 28 | انطلاق | Forward We Go | Intilak | Documentary | ||
| 29 | 1976 | عودة الابن الضال | ʿAwdat al-Ibn al-Ḍāl | |||
| 30 | 1978 | إسكندرية... ليه؟ | Iskandariyya... līh? | |||
| 31 | 1982 | حدوتة مصرية | Hadduta Miṣriyya | |||
| 32 | 1985 | وداعًا بونابرت | Adieu Bonaparte | Wadān Būnābart | ||
| 33 | 1986 | اليوم السادس | The Sixth Day | Al-Yawm al-Sadis | ||
| 34 | 1989 | إسكندرية كمان وكمان | Iskandariyya Kamān wa Kamān | |||
| 35 | 1991 | القاهرة منورة بأهلها | Cairo as Told by Chahin | Al-Qāhira Munawwara bi-Ahliha | TV documentary | |
| 36 | 1994 | المهاجر | The Emigrant | |||
| 37 | 1997 | المصير | The Destiny | |||
| 38 | 1998 | كلها خطوة | It's Only a Step | Kolaha Khatwa | Short film | |
| 39 | 1999 | الأخر | The Other | |||
| 40 | 2001 | سكوت ح نصور | Silence, We're Rolling | Sukūt Ḥanṣawwar | ||
| 41 | 2002 | 11, سبتمبر | September, 11th | Aka 11'09"01 Eleven Minutes, Nine Seconds, One Image | ||
| 42 | 2004 | إسكندرية-نيويورك | Alexandria-New York | |||
| 43 | 2007 | هي فوضى..؟ | Is This Chaos..? | Premiere at the Venice Film Festival |