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Nadia Lutfi
نادية لطفي
Born
Poula Mohamed Mostafa Shafiq
بولا محمد مصطفى شفيق

(1937-01-03)3 January 1937
Died4 February 2020(2020-02-04) (aged 83)
Cairo, Egypt
Other namesNadia Loutfi
Years active1958–1993
Spouse(s)Ibrahim Sadek
Mohamed Sabry
Adel El Beshary
ChildrenAhmed Adel El Bashary

Nadia Lutfi or Nadia Loutfi (Template:Lang-ar); (Template:Lang-ar) 3 January 1937 – 4 February 2020) was an Egyptian actress.[1] During her prime, she was one of the most popular actresses of the Egyptian cinema's golden age.

Life and career

Born in Cairo as Poula Mohamed Mostafa Shafiq to an Egyptian father and an Egyptian mother called Fatma.[2][3][4] Lutfi was raised as a devout Muslim.[2][5] Nadia began acting as a hobby; when she was 10 years old she participated in a play at her school and did very well. When the 24-year-old was about to make her screen debut in 1958, Omar Sharif was the reigning king of Egyptian cinema, and his wife, Egyptian superstar Faten Hamama, its queen. The star couple had just had a smash hit with the film La Anam with Hamama as "Nadia Lotfy", a willful teen who destroys her father's marriage. Poula adopted the forename and a variation of the surname of the character as her own.[citation needed]

With her fresh new name, the young actress was spotted by director Ramsis Naguib and she took her first role in a modest, black & white drama, Soultan in 1958.[6] Her second picture was a smaller role in one of the film landmarks of its time, Cairo Station. In 1963, she played a Frankish woman warrior of the Crusade era, donning full armor to go into battle against her Christian-Arab lover, in Naser Salah el Dine (occasionally shown on television in the United States as Saladin and the Great Crusades). In Lil-Rigal Faqat (1964), Lutfi and co-star Soad Hosny played women geologists who, denied employment, respond by disguising themselves as men and going to work, where they find they must suppress their romantic instincts to sustain the disguise.[7]

In the mid-1960s, she starred in two films that were based on stories by Nobel-winning author Naguib Mahfouz, just a few years following the publication of his widely banned novel of Moses, Jesus and Mohammed, Children of Gebelawi. Lutfi finished the decade starring in Abi foq al-Shagara (1969) as a nightclub dancer who beds a much younger man, then discovers that she once knew his father equally well.[7] She starred in several films with Soad Hosny, including Al-Saba' Banat (The Seven Girls).[8][9]

In the 1970s, her career wound down as Egypt's "Golden Age" for films drew to a close. Having made close to 50 films in the first 11 years of her career, she only made three in the decade that followed, and did not work in films since 1981. In 2006, she returned to the spotlight when a video by young Lebanese singer Nourhanne recreated a musical scene from one of her first films, Bain al Qasrayn.[citation needed]

In 2014, the Cairo International Film Festival paid tribute to Nadia Lutfi by using her photo on the Festival's official poster.[6]

Death

On 4 February 2020, after being in intensive care for some time, Nadia Lutfi died in Maadi Hospital.[10]

Filmography

Year Title Arabic Title
1958 Cairo Station Bāb al-Ḥadīd باب الحديد
1958 Soultan
1959 Forever Yours Hubb lel-Abad حب إلى الأبد
1961 The Sun Will Never Set La Tutf'e al-Shams لا تطفئ الشمس
1961 Wonderful Memories Zekraiat Gamila ذكريات جميلة
1961 The Seven Girls Al-Saba' Banat
1961 Part Virgin
1961 My Only Love Hoby al-Waheed حبي الوحيد
1961 Giants of the Sea
1962 The Judge of Love
1962 A Student's Diary
1962 The Sin
1962 Without an Appointment
1962 Struggle of Giants
1962 Days Without Love
1962 Come Back Mother
1963 Saladin the Victorious Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din الناصر صلاح الدين
1963 The Dark Glasses
1963 Marriage in Danger
1963 A Bachelor's Life
1964 Unforgettable Love
1964 The Years of Love
1964 The Girls' Revolution
1964 Love, Pleasure, and Youth
1964 Alone With My Tears
1964 A Souvenir of Life
1965 The Impossible
1965 Unfaithfulness
1965 The Private Teacher
1965 For Men Only Lel Regal Fakat للرجال فقط
1966 The Enemy of Women
1966 A Widow is Required
1967 The Long Nights
1967 Castle of Longing
1967 Crazy Love Songs
1967 Garima fil hay el hady
1967 Endama nouheb
1967 El saman wal karif
1967 Bint shakieh
1968 Three Stories
1968 Days of Love
1969 My Father Atop a Tree
1969 The Night of Counting the Years Al-Mummia المومياء
1972 The Visitor
1973 Wildflowers
1975 Badi'a Masabny
1977 Wa sakatat fe bahr el-asal
1978 A Trip Inside a Woman
1980 Where Do You Hide the Sun? Ayna Tukhabi'un al-Shams?
1981 Al-Aqmar
1982 El-akdar el-damia
1986 House of the Poisoned Family

Footnotes

  1. ^ "نادية لطفي". ليالينا.
  2. ^ a b بالفيديو.. "نادية لطفي" تكشف سر تسميتها بـ"بولا", وأضافت نادية لطفي، خلال حوارها مع الإعلامي أسامة كمال ببرنامج " مساء dmc " أنها اشتركت مع الفنانة الراحلة سعاد حسني في مقابلة وفد بولندي مما جعل الصحفي الشهير كمال الملاخ يطلق شائعة أنها من أصل بولندي، مؤكدة انها مصرية 100% واسم والدتها "فاطمة" ووالدها يدعى "محمد". وروت الفنانة الكبيرة أنها سميت باسم "بولا" نسبة الى الممرضة الراهبة التي كانت تراعي أمها أثناء ولادتها فحينما علمت أن اسمها "بولا" أصرت أن تسمي ابنتها هذا الاسم وأصبح الاسم الحقيقي للفنانة نادية لطفي.
  3. ^ "Nadia Loutfi".
  4. ^ "Famed Egyptian actress Nadia Lutfi dies at 83". Arab News. February 4, 2020.
  5. ^ "نادية لطفى: 'والدتى مصرية واسمها فاطمة وسمتنى'بولا' بسبب راهبة'". بوابة الفجر.
  6. ^ a b "PHOTOS: Nadia Lutfi, an Egyptian beauty - Film - Arts & Culture - Ahram Online". english.ahram.org.eg. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
  7. ^ a b Nadia Lutfi at IMDb
  8. ^ "Soad Hosny filmography, Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 28 June - 4 July 2001, Issue No. 540". Archived from the original on 10 August 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  9. ^ "Soad Hosny", najatalsaghira.wordpress.com; accessed 28 August 2015.
  10. ^ "Egyptian Actress Nadia Lutfi Dies Aged 83". EgyptianStreets.