EGYPT
EGYPT
X La donna dei faraoni (The Pharaoh's Woman) (1960) -- Giorgio Rivalti, Italy; 31st century BC love story just after r the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
Land of the Pharaohs (1955) -- building of the Pharaoh's Great Pyramid of Giza, 2560 B.C.
X Sudan (1945) -- following the murder of her father, Queen Naila of Khemis is enslaved
X The Egyptian (1954) -- story of physician Sinuhe in Akhenaten's reign, 1352 B.C.
Nefertiti, regina del Nilo (Queen of the Nile) (1961) -- Queen Nefertiti, wife of Akhenaaten1
X Faraon (Pharoah) (1966) – Polish film set in Egypt in 1069 BC
X El Mamalik (Revolt of the Mamalukes) (1965) -- royal bodyguard in the 13th century; in 1250 a Mameluke, Qutuz, came to the Egyptian throne; Mameluke sultans ruled Egypt; conquered by the Ottomans in 1517
X Princess of the Nile (1954) -- an Egyptian princess tries to drive out the Bedouin conquerors.
THE BIBLE - OLD TESTAMENT
X The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974) TV -- Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to Joseph
Joseph (1995) TV --
X Joseph and His Brethren (1960, Irving Rapper)
X Joseph in the Land of Egypt (1932, George Roland)
X Ten Commandments (1956) -- Charlton Heston as Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt, around 1275 B.C.
X The Ten Commandments (1923, Cecil B. DeMille)
X Moses the Law Giver (1975) --
Moses (1995) --
X Prince of Egypt (1998) -- animated version of the story of Moses
CLEOPATRA
Cleopatra (1999) -- with Leonor Varela
Cleopatra (1963) -- with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
Cleopatra (1934) -- love affairs with Caesar (to 44 BC) and Mark Antony (second triumvirate, 43-27 BC) (with Claudette Colbert)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) -- British film with Vivian Leigh as Cleopatra
X Antony and Cleopatra (1974) -- Janet Suzman as Cleopatra
X Antony and Cleopatra (1972) -- with Hildegard Neil
X Antony and Cleopatra (1983) -- Shakespeare version ; Lynn Redgrave as Cleopatra
X The Cleopatras (1983) – miniseries of the Ptolemaic dynasty (305-30 BCE) in Egypt
Il sepolcro dei re (Cleopatra's Daughter) (1960) – total fiction
Julius Caesar (2002) -- solid telling in this mini-series of the Caesar tale; Jeremy Sisto as Julius Caesar & Samuela Sardo as Cleopatra
X Julius Caesar (1984) -- Janet Baker as Caesar; Valerie Masterson as Cleopatra; made for TV
X Abu Zayd al-Hilali (1947) --- 10th century Islamic Egyptian hero leader Abu Zayd al-Hilali; he and his wife break away from his father's tribe; later the two tribes engage in battle and son and father have to fight it out (in Arabic)
NAPOLEON
Napoleon (2003)
Passion in the Desert (1997) – young French officer in Egypt during Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign to capture the country
X Adieu Bonaparte (1985) -- reactions of three Egyptian brothers to French Occupation and crushing of Mameluke rule
X Al-Mummia (aka The Night of Counting the Years, The Mummy) (1969) – an Upper-Egyptian clan in 1881 has been robbing a cache of mummies near Kurna
Mountains of the Moon (1990) -- expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire
MODERN EGYPT
Iskanderija... lih? (Alexandria . . . Why?) (1979) -- personal relationships set against the background of World War II; Alexandria Trilogy
Hadduta misrija (An Egyptian Story) (1982) -- autobiography set against the Egyptian revolution; Alexandria Trilogy
Iskanderija, kaman oue kaman (Alexandria Again and Forever) (1989) -- personal relationships set against the general strike of 1987; Alexandria Trilogy
Thartharah fawqa al-Nīl (Adrift on the Nile) -- criticism of the Gamal Abdel Nasser period and its censorship of artistic expression
Omaret yakobean (The Yacoubian Building) (2006) -- criticism of Egypt since the coup d'etat of 1952 that overthrew King Farouk and brought in Nasser
X Fi baitina rajul (The Man is in Our House) (1961) -- fighting British rule leads to exile of puppet King Farouk, 1954, and the rise of Nasser
X Ahlam Saghira (Little Dreams) (1993) -- twelve year old boy's view of life during Nasser presidency
X Nasser 56 (1996) – glowing account of Nasser and how he outdid the Americans (Arabic; does it have subtitles?)
X Ard al-Salam (Land of Peace) (1957) -- an Egyptian helps Palestinians free their village from Israeli control
Sadat (1983) -- President of Egypt Anwar Sadat makes war on and then makes peace with Israel
X Ayyam El Sadat (The Days of Sadat) (2001) -- life of Anwar Sadat (currently unavailable)
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