Tawfiq Al Mardanlli

Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • as الشيخ مدبولى

Topping the list of 100 Best Egyptian Films, this classic musical melodrama launched the film career of one of Egypt’s greatest singers and composers, Mohamed Abdel Wahhab. Galal Effendi, the son of an impoverished aristocrat, is forced to leave his studies to seek employment. After a short stint as a clerk, however, Galal discovers his musical talents and finds success as a popular singer. Through its story of upward mobility based on merit rather than influence, the film examines the emergence of Egyptian middle-class identity.

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Indian Maharaja

An Indian family of three, a father, a son, and a daughter. The father feels a nervous illness, and the doctors advise him to come to Egypt to improve his health. The girl is involved in an accident from which an Egyptian young man saves her, and she becomes attached to him without her father or brother knowing, as he is trying to propose to his sister to a wealthy man. The girl escapes from her brother and fiancé's attempt to keep her away from the Egyptian young man.