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Yousef chahine

Yousef Chahine was born in Alexandria on January 1926 from an Egyptian origin. He was a director, active in the Egyptian industry since 1950. Yousef Chahine he had very good films, he had an unique style, he talks about controversial issue and what he think is important. Yousef chahine was awarded the 50th annual lifetime achievements award at the Cannes film festival in 1997. He made a lot of films his first film was in 1950which was called “Papa Amin” and his last one was called “Heya Fawda?” June 15, 2008, Yousef was hospitalized in a hospital in Cairo in a coma suffered from a brain haemorrhage. On June, 16, 2008, he flow to Paris and the doctors said that his condition was “critical but sable”. Yousef died at the age of 82 on the 27th of June 2008.

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