Aqeila Rateb
Acting
Biography
Aqeila Rateb was an Egyptian actress, born in 1916, graduated from the Tawfiq Coptic School, and became famous in her beginning with her beautiful voice, then she joined the band Ali Al-Kassar and Aziz Eid Al-Ghaniat Al-Dhna’iyya in Cairo in the thirties, to storm the field of cinema in the 1940s, to participate in many works, including (the three horsemen) Then her work continued until the late eighties and one of her most prominent works (Watch out for men, Mama, Cairo 30, some go to the authorized twice, the Zizi family), and she passed away in 1999.
Born: March 21, 1916
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
Known For
We Are the Bus People
Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.
Days and Nights
An athletic young man falls for a beautiful woman with a troubled brother. Handsome Yehia (Hafez) may come from a troubled background, but he's always strived to make the best of his life. When Yehia falls for the beautiful Samia (Iman), he believes he has finally found the woman with whom he could spend the rest of his life. Trouble soon arises, however, when Samia's delinquent stepbrother begins doing everything in his power to sabotage the couple's relationship.
Cairo 30
Mahgoub is a villager who moves to Cairo in search of a better life. When he enlists friend Salem's help to find him a job, Salem not only gets him a job at the ministry where he works but he finds him a bride as well. But the bride is the mistress of Qasem Bek, who will be visiting her once a week.
The Sun Will Never Set
An aristocratic family is torn down after the death of its patriarch. He leaves alone his widow wife and five of his daughters and sons. His eldest son, Ahmed (Shukry Sarhan), takes the role of the man in the house and helps his mother take care of his brother and sisters. Mamdouh (Ahmed Ramzy), his brother, is a self-centered man who refuses to follow his brother’s step and decides to make his own decisions in his life.
Zizi's Family
The everyday lives, loves and dreams of a slightly kooky modern middle-class Egyptian family in the early 1960's.
Min Ajl Hifnat 'awlad
Hassan is a teacher in a primary school under her hardline head, Mr. Madbouly, Hassan lives with his wife Nadia in happiness despite the passage of seven years without having children. The dispute begins between them because there are no children, one of them suggests that Hassan marry the nader's sister so that he can have children. The beholder welcomes the marriage, which remains a secret to his first wife, Nadia.
Some Visit the Marriage Registrar Twice
Dr. Mamdouh suffers from his wife's jealousy, although he is faithful,while his brother, Massoud has a wife who is always busy with the children. Ezzat, their cousin, advises them to follow his approach with his wife Saneya: he cheats on her, and at the same time showers her with love and respect.
The Beauty and The Scoundrel
Abdo decides to steal cars, and in his first attempt, he meets the married woman Najwa, who suffers from her husband Hanafi the gang leader . Abdo claims to be the head of a company and tries to find evidence to bring the husband down.
Albijamat alhamra'
The play revolves around the doctor, Nashat, who meets a naughty girl on one of his nights who drives him home after losing consciousness and sleeping in his house in red pajamas. The comic events begin when his uncle comes to visit him after a long break and thinks that she is his wife and invites them to his daughter's wedding party to rob this girl of the minds of everyone present.
Alexandria… Why?
Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
Filmography
as زكية - والدة سلوى
as Nazira
as حفيظة - زوجة مرزوق
as اجلال
as جمالات
as حفيظة هانم
as إقبال - أم كامل
as Nagaf
as نظيرة زوجة مدبولي
as زوجة الوزير
as Umm Salwa
as عطيات
as مجيدة
as Adeela Al-Balanna
as إنصاف
as Mother
as The Mother
as Ragaa
as فاطمة
as Fawzia Heshmat
as Wedad
as إلهام - زوجة منير
as سامية
as هند
as Souad
as Nadia
as نجية
as الأميرة مديحة أنس الملوك
as حـُـسـنـيّـة
as فاطمة
as Fathia Baghdadi / Siham