Radwan El Kashef

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Radwan El Kashef

Born August 6, 1952 · Cairo, Egypt

Died June 5, 2002 · aged 49

Radwan El Kashef (August 6, 1952 - June 5, 2002) was an Egyptian film director and author. He obtained a BA in Film Directing from the Higher Institute of Cinema in Cairo in 1984 and was the first of his class. El Kashef worked as an assistant director in nearly twenty films with Youssef Chahine, Raafat El Mihi, Daoud Abdel Sayed, and others. He was best known for Date Wine (1998), Why, O Violet (…

Known For

Date WineDate Wine · 1999
Date Wine
★ 6.81999
MovieDrama
Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.
Why, O Violet?Why, O Violet? · 1993
Why, O Violet?
★ 7.01993
MovieComedyDrama
A portrayal of the lives of four friends who have different dreams and aspirations; Ahmed falls in love with a girl he saw once, Sayed gets in trouble when he sells the laboratory animals, Abbas who is married to a woman that doesn't love him, and Ali who works in illegal operations.
Summer TheftsSummer Thefts · 1988
Summer Thefts
★ 8.81988
MovieDrama
Set in the summer of 1961 during President Nasser's land reforms, this is a story of the childhood friendship between Yasser, the son of a bourgeois landowner, and Leil, the son of an Egyptian peasant. When turbulent times tear Yasser's family apart, the boys team up for a money-making scheme that results in misadventures.
Fish, Milk, TamarindFish, Milk, Tamarind · 1988
Fish, Milk, Tamarind
★ 9.01988
MovieFantasyComedy
When Ahmed's father travels abroad for work, he gets harassed for refusing to give a part of his income to those who helped him travel. The father dies, and when his body arrives in Egypt, the Interpol suspects Ahmed and his father of being members of a terrorist organization.
Axe in the headAxe in the head · 1992
Axe in the head
1992
MovieDrama
In one of the rural areas of Upper Egypt, the "Najawi" works on a ferry owned by the people to transport the people between the two banks of the river with symbolic reward, to get love and respect for everyone despite his poverty and satisfaction with the little he earns, and exchange love with the beautiful village "Saadia" So Saadia's family objected to the marriage of their daughter Najawi to his poverty
The DownfallThe Downfall · 1990
The Downfall
1990
MovieDramaThriller
Hassan and Tawhida work in the phone company. They listen in on calls and discover many secrets and crimes, which makes them blackmail the callers and report them to the police. After making a lot of money, they get married and Tawhida wants them to leave their old ways behind.
The MagicianThe Magician · 2002
The Magician
★ 5.82002
MovieComedyDrama
Bahgat Mansour is an old poor magician that lives a bad life and tries to get a better one by reaching to the rich people. what happens to him and his daughter-that he keeps indoor- then?
الجنوبيةالجنوبية · 1988
الجنوبية
1988
Movie
The Graduation Project of Radwan El-Kashef.

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