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Ali Badrakhan | |
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علي بدرخان | |
Born | Cairo, Egypt | April 25, 1946
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Known for | The Love that was |
Spouse | |
Father | Ahmed Badrakhan |
Ali Badrakhan[1] (born April 25, 1946) is an Egyptian film director and screenwriter, the son of the director Ahmed Badrakhan. He worked as assistant to Fatin Abdel Wahab in Land of Hypocrisy in 1968, and with Youssef Chahine in the films Selection in 1971 and The Sparrow in 1974; his first movie was The Love That Was (1973) by Soad Hosny. Badrakhan collaborated with Naguib Mahfouz, Salah Jahin, and Ahmed Zaki.