Nizar Abu Hajar

Acting

Nizar Abu Hajar

Born May 13, 1952 · Syria (age 74)

Nizar Abu Hajar (نزار أبو حجر) is a Syrian actor. His family is from the city of Majdal in Palestine, but relocated to Syria after the Nakba.

Known For

The NightThe Night · 1992
The Night
★ 7.11992
MovieDrama
In the destroyed city of Quneitra is the grave of a resistance fighter for Palestine. His son, the director, tries to restore the dead man's history by mixing echoes of his mother's memory and his desire to give his father a more honorable death. Through the daily lives, dreams, fears, and hopes of its citizens, Malas chronicles his hometown Quneitra in the Golan Heights between 1936, the year of the first revolts against the British and Zionists in Palestine until the year of the city's destruction. He seeks to exorcise a feeling of shame and humiliation that long accompanied the image of his father and also his town, occupied by Israelis in 1967.
Public RelationsPublic Relations · 2005
Public Relations
2005
MovieDrama
A tour guide is caught between two men: the first is a powerful and influential businessman, who is secretly married to the tour guide, and demands that she abort the fetus she is carrying from him. As for the other, she meets him on one of her tours and falls in love with him, as he appears to her to be a light-hearted, helpful and humble man.
Hammam AlQishaniHammam AlQishani · 1994
Hammam AlQishani
1994
Series
The series goes into details of the events that Syria went through between the years 1955-1959, including the tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956, the establishment of unity between Syria and Egypt, and the revolution against the monarchy in Iraq, through the Qishani neighborhood, where its people work as merchants, lawyers, doctors, intellectuals and other works.
Sert AlhobSert Alhob · 2007
Sert Alhob
2007
SeriesDramaFamily
Salah Al-Deen Al-AyoubiSalah Al-Deen Al-Ayoubi · 2001
Salah Al-Deen Al-Ayoubi
★ 8.02001
SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama
A sweeping historical epic tracing the life of Saladin from his humble origins to his unification of fractured Muslim kingdoms and his legendary recapture of Jerusalem from the Crusaders after nearly a century of occupation. Starring Jamal Suleiman and directed by the late Hatem Ali, written by Walid Seif — the same partnership behind Palestinian Alienation — this is widely regarded as one of the finest historical dramas in Arabic television, epic in scale yet deeply human in its portrayal of leadership, faith and sacrifice.
Abu Janti (King of taxi/ King of lancer)Abu Janti (King of taxi/ King of lancer) · 2010
Abu Janti (King of taxi/ King of lancer)
2010
SeriesComedyDrama
Abu Janti — self-proclaimed "King of the Lancer" — is a Damascus taxi driver whose cab doubles as a confessional, comedy club and social mirror. Each episode brings a new passenger with a new story, and Abu Janti can't help but get involved. Written by and starring Samer El Masri, born from a beloved sketch on Spotlight (2003), this Syrian black comedy uses the taxi as a window into everyday Damascus life — funny, sharp and occasionally heartbreaking.
Qus QuzahQus Quzah · 2001
Qus Quzah
2001
SeriesDramaFamily
The story of a family consisting of a father who is about to retire, his wife who works as a seamstress, and their four children who are in various grades of school, shedding light on the challenges that each of them faces.
Rijal Al-IzzRijal Al-Izz · 2011
Rijal Al-Izz
★ 9.72011
Series
Rijal Al-Izz — Men of Honor — is a 2011 Syrian Damascene period drama set in the Saroujeh neighborhood of Damascus during the French occupation of the 1930s. The series follows Abd Al-Rahman Al-Shami, a wrongfully accused man who escapes a death sentence and transforms into a resistance fighter, striking fear into the French occupiers while navigating betrayal and injustice within his own community. Starring Rashid Assaf and Qusai Khouli.

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