Soheir El Morshedy

Soheir El Morshedy is an Egyptian actress. She was born in 1946 in the city of Tanta, and then moved with her family to Cairo. Her acting talent started showing up during high school, and she then went on to study acting and directing at the High Institute of Theatrical Arts, and started her professional career in the late 1960s, through small roles in films like "El Bostagy" (The Postman), and she rose to prominence in the 1970's, and began to get cast in her most notable major roles in films like "Banat fel Gamaa" (Girls In University), "Awdet Al-Ibn Al-Dal" (The Return of the Prodigal Son). She is also best known for her television work, which includes roles in "Arabesque" and "Layaly Elhelmeyya" (Elhelmeyya Nights).

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Return of the Prodigal Son (1976)

Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Youssef Chahine
CAST:  Mahmoud El Meligy  •  Huda Sultan  •  Shoukry Sarhan  •  Hesham Selim

Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Youssef Chahine
CAST:  Mahmoud El Meligy  •  Huda Sultan  •  Shoukry Sarhan  •  Hesham Selim

Cairo 30 (1966)

With his father crippled, Mahgoub Abdel Dayem finds himself in an urgent need of a job to support his family. When he enlists his friend Salem to help him find a job, Salem not only gets him a job at the ministry but also finds him a bride. The bride in question, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Salah Abu Seif
CAST:  Soad Hosny  •  Ahmed Mazhar  •  Hamdy Ahmed  •  Bahiga Hafez

With his father crippled, Mahgoub Abdel Dayem finds himself in an urgent need of a job to support his family. When he enlists his friend Salem to help him find a job, Salem not only gets him a job at the ministry but also finds him a bride. The bride in question, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Salah Abu Seif
CAST:  Soad Hosny  •  Ahmed Mazhar  •  Hamdy Ahmed  •  Bahiga Hafez

The Second Wife (1967)

A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Salah Abu Seif
CAST:  Soad Hosny  •  Shoukry Sarhan  •  Sanaa Gamil  •  Salah Mansour

A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Salah Abu Seif
CAST:  Soad Hosny  •  Shoukry Sarhan  •  Sanaa Gamil  •  Salah Mansour

Untamed Desire (1991)

A widow living with her daughter and sister-in-law attempt to forget a scandal committed by her late husband.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Khairy Beshara
CAST:  Nadia Al Gendy  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Mahmoud Hemida  •  Hanan Turk

A widow living with her daughter and sister-in-law attempt to forget a scandal committed by her late husband.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Khairy Beshara
CAST:  Nadia Al Gendy  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Mahmoud Hemida  •  Hanan Turk

A Crime in the Calm Neighbourhood (1967)

Directed by Houssam El-Din Mustafa.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hossam ElDein Mostafa
CAST:  Nadia Lotfi  •  Rushdy Abaza  •  Zouzou Nabil  •  Soheir El Morshedy

Directed by Houssam El-Din Mustafa.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hossam ElDein Mostafa
CAST:  Nadia Lotfi  •  Rushdy Abaza  •  Zouzou Nabil  •  Soheir El Morshedy

Mister Fish (1967)

What could change in the life of el bultai family after the death of their grand el sayed el bultai .  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tawfiq Saleh
CAST:  Ezzat Al Alaily  •  Mohamed Noah  •  Ibrahim Emara  •  Soheir El Morshedy

What could change in the life of el bultai family after the death of their grand el sayed el bultai .  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tawfiq Saleh
CAST:  Ezzat Al Alaily  •  Mohamed Noah  •  Ibrahim Emara  •  Soheir El Morshedy

The Postman (1968)

Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hussein Kamal
CAST:  Zizi Mostafa  •  Shoukry Sarhan  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Salah Mansour

Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hussein Kamal
CAST:  Zizi Mostafa  •  Shoukry Sarhan  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Salah Mansour

The People Inside (1969)

Amal, who decided to move away from Cairo in an isolated isolation of Saloum in an attempt to escape the anniversary of her fiancé's death in a car accident, combines the playboy teacher Hani who was transferred to Salloum as punishment for his disrespect and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Galal El Sharkawy
CAST:  Yehia Chahine  •  Abdel Moneim Madbouly  •  Tawfiq Al-Deqen  •  Sohier Ramzy

Amal, who decided to move away from Cairo in an isolated isolation of Saloum in an attempt to escape the anniversary of her fiancé's death in a car accident, combines the playboy teacher Hani who was transferred to Salloum as punishment for his disrespect and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Galal El Sharkawy
CAST:  Yehia Chahine  •  Abdel Moneim Madbouly  •  Tawfiq Al-Deqen  •  Sohier Ramzy

Sareq El-Mahfaza (1970)

(Tariq Al-Fangari) is a stingy man, his three sisters suffer from his miserliness. (Tariq) takes one of the public buses and if an accident occurs, Tariq is taken to the hospital for treatment and with the police investigations he discovers the presence of a bus ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zoheir Baker
CAST:  Rushdy Abaza  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Mervat Amin  •  Nabil ElHegrassy

(Tariq Al-Fangari) is a stingy man, his three sisters suffer from his miserliness. (Tariq) takes one of the public buses and if an accident occurs, Tariq is taken to the hospital for treatment and with the police investigations he discovers the presence of a bus ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zoheir Baker
CAST:  Rushdy Abaza  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Mervat Amin  •  Nabil ElHegrassy

The Rain Stopped (1967)

A group of farmers move to a government appointed land after their own land is taken away from them. They discover that their new land is not suitable for their crops, and they struggle to make the best out of it. Meanwhile, Haneyya tries to get closer to Hassan, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sayed Eissa
CAST:  Shoukry Sarhan  •  Samiha Ayoub  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Ahmed Abaza

A group of farmers move to a government appointed land after their own land is taken away from them. They discover that their new land is not suitable for their crops, and they struggle to make the best out of it. Meanwhile, Haneyya tries to get closer to Hassan, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sayed Eissa
CAST:  Shoukry Sarhan  •  Samiha Ayoub  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Ahmed Abaza

College Girls (1971)

The lives of a group of girls who depart from the strict world of school to the open world of college  (more)

DIRECTION:  Atef Salem
CAST:  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Shoukry Sarhan  •  Zizi Mostafa  •  Nour El-Sherif

The lives of a group of girls who depart from the strict world of school to the open world of college  (more)

DIRECTION:  Atef Salem
CAST:  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Shoukry Sarhan  •  Zizi Mostafa  •  Nour El-Sherif

El Khouroug Min El Guana (1967)

Mukhtar is a musically talented individual who is surrounded by bad friends who make him squander his talent. When he falls and marries Annan, she tries to set him on the right path which sets off problems between them. When they get divorced, a repentant Mukhtar ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mahmoud Zulfiqar
CAST:  Farid Al-Atrash  •  Hind Rostom  •  Ahmed Ramzy  •  Emad Hamdy

Mukhtar is a musically talented individual who is surrounded by bad friends who make him squander his talent. When he falls and marries Annan, she tries to set him on the right path which sets off problems between them. When they get divorced, a repentant Mukhtar ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mahmoud Zulfiqar
CAST:  Farid Al-Atrash  •  Hind Rostom  •  Ahmed Ramzy  •  Emad Hamdy

El Haramy (1969)

The mechanic (Abbas) loves the poor girl (Fatima), and proposes to her and her father agrees at the beginning of the matter, but soon he changes his mind and forces her to marry a wealthy old man. (Fatima) and her family reside in a hotel preparing for marriage, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nagdy Hafez  •  Ahmed Al-Sabaawi
CAST:  Farid Shawqi  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  ElDeif Ahmed  •  George Sedhom

The mechanic (Abbas) loves the poor girl (Fatima), and proposes to her and her father agrees at the beginning of the matter, but soon he changes his mind and forces her to marry a wealthy old man. (Fatima) and her family reside in a hotel preparing for marriage, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nagdy Hafez  •  Ahmed Al-Sabaawi
CAST:  Farid Shawqi  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  ElDeif Ahmed  •  George Sedhom

وعادت الحياة (1976)

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DIRECTION:  Nader Galal
CAST:  Nour El-Sherif  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Waheid Seif  •  Mimi Gamal

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DIRECTION:  Nader Galal
CAST:  Nour El-Sherif  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Waheid Seif  •  Mimi Gamal

Escape (1970)

Ezzat and Fathi are two prisoners who escape together, and they manage to reach a remote rural area, and they are guests of the Suniyya of Aisha alone, and Ezzat tells her what happened with him and sympathizes with him and his story.  (more)

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CAST:  Farid Shawqi  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Yousuf Shaaban  •  Mohammed Tawfik

Ezzat and Fathi are two prisoners who escape together, and they manage to reach a remote rural area, and they are guests of the Suniyya of Aisha alone, and Ezzat tells her what happened with him and sympathizes with him and his story.  (more)

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CAST:  Farid Shawqi  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Yousuf Shaaban  •  Mohammed Tawfik

شنطة حمزة (1967)

Hamza is a small employee who works as a collector and is characterized by his honesty, and finds himself in a predicament he was not waiting for, when some thieves hid an amount of money they stole from a rich man in his bag, while the police were chasing them, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hasan El-Saifi
CAST:  Amin Elheneidy  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Abdel Moneim Madbouly  •  Tawfiq Al-Deqen

Hamza is a small employee who works as a collector and is characterized by his honesty, and finds himself in a predicament he was not waiting for, when some thieves hid an amount of money they stole from a rich man in his bag, while the police were chasing them, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hasan El-Saifi
CAST:  Amin Elheneidy  •  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Abdel Moneim Madbouly  •  Tawfiq Al-Deqen

The Knife (1972)

In Gaza, Hamed discovers that his friend Zakaria has business with the Israelis. Hamed, a dreamer who hates the Israelis, decides to go to the West Bank to look for his mother whom he hasn't seen since 1948. But when he meets an Israeli soldier in the desert, his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Khaled Hamada
CAST:  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Rafiq Subaie  •  Bassam Lotfy  •  Naji Jabr

In Gaza, Hamed discovers that his friend Zakaria has business with the Israelis. Hamed, a dreamer who hates the Israelis, decides to go to the West Bank to look for his mother whom he hasn't seen since 1948. But when he meets an Israeli soldier in the desert, his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Khaled Hamada
CAST:  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Rafiq Subaie  •  Bassam Lotfy  •  Naji Jabr

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DIRECTION:  Ibrahim Emara
CAST:  Rushdy Abaza  •  Abdel Moneim Madbouly  •  Soheir Zaky  •  Soheir El Morshedy

Bent Gheir Kol Al-Banat (1978)

Hassan abandoned his fiancée Laila and married her friend Nargis, who is accused of killing Mustafa after being involved in a sinful relationship with him and gets arrested, prompting Hassan to try to return to his former fiancée Laila after his regret for leaving her.  (more)

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CAST:  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Mostafa Fahmy  •  Hayat Kandel  •  Youssef Fakhr El Din

Hassan abandoned his fiancée Laila and married her friend Nargis, who is accused of killing Mustafa after being involved in a sinful relationship with him and gets arrested, prompting Hassan to try to return to his former fiancée Laila after his regret for leaving her.  (more)

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CAST:  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Mostafa Fahmy  •  Hayat Kandel  •  Youssef Fakhr El Din

The Tale of a Girl Named Marmar (1972)

As Marmar enrolls in the Faculty of Girls, she moves from Beni Suef to Cairo to live with her aunt's family. As her cousin Ahmed falls for her, his father finds them together in her room and insists that Marmar must return home. Marmar's family decides to wed her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Barakat
CAST:  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Samia Shukry  •  Salah Mansour  •  Mahmoud Yassine

As Marmar enrolls in the Faculty of Girls, she moves from Beni Suef to Cairo to live with her aunt's family. As her cousin Ahmed falls for her, his father finds them together in her room and insists that Marmar must return home. Marmar's family decides to wed her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Barakat
CAST:  Soheir El Morshedy  •  Samia Shukry  •  Salah Mansour  •  Mahmoud Yassine
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