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Tewfik Saleh (Arabic: توفيق صالح) was an Egyptian film director and writer. His name has also been written as Tawfik Saleh and Tewfiq Salah.
Tewfik Saleh. Director: The Dupes. The director of seven shorts and seven full-length feature films, Saleh graduated in 1949 in English literature and was trained in cinema in Paris until 1951. Tewfik Saleh's oeuvre is the only one in Egyptian cinema which may be considered purely "Third Worldist".
- Director, Writer, Actor
- October 27, 1926
- Tewfik Saleh
- August 18, 2013
Set in the 1950s and adapted from assassinated artist, writer, and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader Ghassan Kanafani’s 1962 novella Men in the Sun, Tewfik Saleh’s 1972 masterpiece follows three Palestinian refugees—each man representing a different generation—as they seek safe passage from Iraq to Kuwait ...
Tewfik Saleh. Director: The Dupes. The director of seven shorts and seven full-length feature films, Saleh graduated in 1949 in English literature and was trained in cinema in Paris until 1951. Tewfik Saleh's oeuvre is the only one in Egyptian cinema which may be considered purely "Third Worldist".
- October 27, 1926
- August 18, 2013
Nov 30, 2023 · 30.11.23, 20:30, The Dupes (1972) Tewfik Saleh, Arabic spoken, English subtitles. The Dupes outlines the fate of three Palestinian refugees of different generations seeking safe passage from Iraq to Kuwait in the 1950s. In Kuwait, they hope for work and money to send home to their families.
Banned for decades, Egyptian director Tewfik Saleh’s uncompromising film is shatteringly prescient. Three Palestinian refugees, a boy, a younger and an elderly man, each with their own back story, attempt to flee to Kuwait through a blisteringly hot desert, concealed in the empty tank of a truck.
The director of seven shorts and seven full-length feature films, Saleh graduated in 1949 in English literature and was trained in cinema in Paris until 1951. Tewfik Saleh's oeuvre is the only one in Egyptian cinema which may be considered purely "Third Worldist".
