Niazi Mostafa

Niazi Mostafa (Egyptian Arabic: نيازي مصطفى‎) was an Egyptian film director.

Egyptian Cinema

Egyptian movie critic Samīr Farīd wrote that Mostafa was one of "[t]he most important directors in the history of Egyptian cinema".[1]

In 1936, he directed several promotional documentaries for Egypt Bank group companies.[2]

Works

• Salama Is Safe or Everything is Fine (1938) - Salama fi khair
• Si Omar (1941) - Si ʿOmar[3]
• The Wife Factory (1941) - Masnaa El-Zawgât[3]
• Rabha (1943) - Râbha[3]
• The Valley of Stars (1943) - Wâdî El-Negoum[3]
• Hababa (1944) - Habâbah[3]
• Hassan and Hassan (1944) - Hassan we Hassan[3]
• The Magic Cap (1944) - Tâeyyet El-Ekhfaʾ[4]
• Mohamed-Ali Street (1944) - Share' Mohamed ʻAlî[4]
• My Daughter (1944) - Ibnatî[4]
• Antar and Abla (1945) - ʿAntar we Abla[4]
• The Human Being (1945) - El-Banî âdam[4]
• Miss Boussa (1945) - El-Ânisah Boussah[4]
• Son of the East (1945) - Egyptian-Iraqi co-production - Ibn El-Chark, Le fils de l'Orient[5]
• A Glass and a Cigarette or Sigarra we Kas (1955)
• The Most Dangerous Man in the World (1967) - Akhtar ragol fil alam[6]
• Pleasure and Suffering (1971)[7]
• Without Pity (1971) - Bela Rahma[7]
• Searching for a Scandal (1973) - El Bahs Ann fediha
• A Girl Named Maĥmood (1975)[8]
• Hereditary Madness (1975) - Magânîn bi-l-wirâthah[8]
• The Delinquents (1976) - El-Mounharifoun[8]
• First Year of Love (1976) - Sanah oula houbb - Co-directed by Mostafa, Salah Abou Seif, Atef Salem, Kamal al-Cheikh, and Helmi Rafla[8]

References

• Armes, Roy. Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Indiana University Press, July 11, 2008. ISBN 0253000424, 9780253000422.

Notes

1. Farīd, Samīr. 1978 Dalīl El-sīnimā El-ʻArabīyah (دليل السينما العربية 1978). p. 15. "The most important directors in the History of Egyptian cin^'ia are Mohamed Karem, Niazi Mostafa, Ahmed Badrakhan »Ahmed Kamel Morsy, Fateen Abdel Wahhab, Henry Barakat and Kamal El Sheikh. They presented several films of various" - See search page
2. El-Telmissany, Abdel Kader. Egyptian Documentary Films in 75 Years (السينما التسجيلية المصرية في ٧٥ عاما) (Volume 6 of Prism book series ( سلسلة كتب بريزم ؛)). وزارة الثقافة، العلاقات الثقافية الخارجية، الإدارة العامة للإعلام الخارجي، مطبوعات بريزم،, 2000 . p. 9. "Niazi Mostafa directed a number of publicity documentaries on the companies of Misr Bank in 1936" (See search page)
3. Armes, p. 158.
4. Armes, p. 159.
5. Armes, Roy. Cinema| Filmmakers of the Middle East: A Dictionary. Indiana University Press, August 23, 2010. ISBN 0253004594, 9780253004598. p. 131.
6. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0609200/?ref_=tt_ov_dr
7. Armes, p. 183
8. Armes, p. 186

External links

• Niazi Mostafa at IMDb