Saladin the Victorious

Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din
English cover
Directed byYoussef Chahine
Written by
Produced byAssia Dagher
Starring
CinematographyWadeed Sirry
Edited byRachida Abdel Salam
Music byAngelo Francesco Lavagnino
Production
companies
  • Lotus Films
  • General Egyptian Corporation for Cinema Production
Distributed byLotus Film Distribution
Release date
  • 1963 (1963)
Running time
186 minutes
CountryEgypt
LanguageArabic

Saladin the Victorious (Arabic: الناصر صلاح الدين, Al-Nasser Salah Ad-Din), also known as Saladin and the Great Crusades, is a 1963 Egyptian epic film directed by Youssef Chahine. It is co-written by Chahine, Yusuf Sibai and others, based on a novel by Naguib Mahfouz. The film features an ensemble cast. It stars Ahmed Mazhar, Salah Zulfikar, Nadia Lutfi, Omar El-Hariri, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Leila Fawzi, Hamdi Gheiss, Ahmed Luxor, Hussein Riad, Laila Taher and Zaki Toleimat.

It was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival.[1] The film was restored to its original running time of 186 minutes from the original negative by the Cineteca di Bologna and was shown at Il Cinema Ritrovato in June 2019. Saladin the Victorious is one of the Top 100 Egyptian films.[2][according to whom?]

  1. ^ "3rd Moscow International Film Festival (1963)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
  2. ^ "Top 100 Egyptian Films (CIFF)". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-09-05.