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Today marks the birth of the Prince cinema and his knight, the great artist Ahmed Mazhar, who was born on this day, corresponding to October 8, 1917, in the Abbasid neighborhood and lived a life full of art, jihad and equestrianism, and presented to Egyptian cinema a number of his masterpieces, and he was also famous among his colleagues for the morals of knights and princes.
The artist, Ahmed Mazhar, was friendly with various symbols of music, literature, and the military, and was multi-talented.
– Ahmed Mazhar first joined the War College in 1938, and was promoted by Jamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Tharwat Okasha, Kamal El Din Hussein and Abdel Hakim Amer, and participated in World War II, and also participated in the Palestine War in 1948, and moved to a weapon. The Knights, and he was part of the Egyptian equestrian team, and was appointed to the post of commander of the equestrian school after the revolution, and Ahmed Mazhar was in Finland to participate in an international competition for the Olympics when he was urgently summoned and quickly to participate in the 1952 revolution.
– Ahmed Mazhar began his work in art when Zaki Tulaimat introduced him in the play “The Homeland” in 1948, then entered the world of cinematographic art from the equestrian gate when director Ibrahim Ezz El Din chose him to play a role in the movie The Rise of Islam in 1951 AD, and then Youssef El Sebaei nominated him to star in the movie “Red My Heart” in 1952, and this movie became a great success, after which the fame and stardom of Ahmed Mazhar began. .
Ahmed Mazhar resigned from the army in 1956 with the rank of colonel and worked as secretary general in the Supreme Council for the Attention of Arts and Letters, and in 1958 he dedicated himself to working in the cinema.
– Ahmed Mazhar stood out by playing tragic roles, playing the character of Salah El-Din Al-Ayoubi, and achieved great success in the film Doaa Karawan, who was nominated to represent Egypt at the Oscars, despite her serious personality , he also excelled at embodying comic roles, including his roles in movies, laughing crime, and cute but thieves. And Soft Hands, also participated in many historical, religious and social television series and has 10 plays.
– Many people may not know that Ahmed Mazhar directed two films that he wrote himself: Souls Confused 1968 and Habiba Gheri 1976, and among his most famous anti-trend television works, Conscience Abla Hikmat, Al-Arda Al-Jali, The Age of Knights, and won several art awards.
– The late artist Ahmed Mazhar faced a number of difficult situations during his life, including when he forgot his Al Miri pistol with real bullets, and his friend came to play with his son, so his son took the gun and fired several shots to artist friend Ahmed Mazhar, leading to his immediate death.
– The great artist also suffered a great psychological crisis at the end of his life when half of his fifth, in which he lives with his grandchildren, was cut off to enter the ring road, so the great artist appeared in one of the TV shows crying over the severity of the vulnerability, indicating that he is planting in the garden of the villa a group of Rare Plants, despite the sympathy of the people towards him and the attempts to intervene to solve this problem, but not settled and actually took half the area of the village, and the great artist refused to get any compensation, and this charge was one of the most difficult situations he faced.
– The artist Ahmed Mazhar had a strong friendship with the international novelist Naguib Mahfouz, and with several giants of literature and art, they formed a group of friends who called themselves the group “Harafish”, among them: Mustafa Mahmoud, Salah Jaheen, Tawfiq Saleh and Adel Kamel, among others. The owner of this title is “Mazhar”, and they used to always be found at El-Fishawy Café in Hussein, and at Ali Baba Café. The relationship between Naguib Mahfouz and Ahmed Mazhar began in 1943, before he entered the artistic field, and continued until the death of the artist Ahmed Mazhar.
Ahmed Mazhar said of his friendship with the international writer: “Naguib Mahfouz is my first friend and no one is above him in my heart.”
Fares and his prince left the world on May 8, 2002, after a busy artistic life.
