The man was clear in his affirmative position on all this: I am only responsible for my decisions, and Shams has full freedom in what she believes and expects, and she follows the t -a new path she chose, and I’m returning to a show. the art I admire and respect. In fact, the man returned in 2002 with the series “Ibn Majah Al-Qazwini” and “Imam Al-Preachers,” which tells the biography of the late Islamic preacher Muhammad Metwally Al-Shaarawi social series , some of which eased the strict restrictions he was bound by when he returned to acting. The Cairo
International Film Festival returned from honoring him in the 2007 session of the fifties and sixties of the last century, and I had already begun to communicate with the great actors, and to suddenly the festival administration informed me that they had withdrawn from honoring Hassan Youssef, so that the case would be limited to Ahmed Ramzy, without giving clear reasons. , and that’s what happened through my book “Ahmed Ramzy … our sweet days.”
That day, Hassan Youssef’s voice came to me on the phone, sad and dissatisfied with this decision, and confirming that he had never banned or criminalized art, and that he had never- never posted anything saying that. I testify that Hassan Youssef, whom I have known since 1988 when he was filming his role in the second part of the series “Layali Al-Helmeya,” has never played the roles he played since he entered the world of acting in the film. “I Am Free” in 1959 by the director Salah Abu Seif, as shown by the fact that he let… His son, Omar, became a professional actor years ago, and is still following a path his father in acting so far. But it seems that the man who left our world yesterday remained stigmatized in the last decades of his life by his artistic enthusiasm, or perhaps by the views of his wife, Shams Al-Baroudi , who has always publicly denied her entire artistic career.
Hassan Youssef, born in 1934, graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts at the Egyptian Academy of Arts before appearing on the cinema screen in supporting roles, as in his first two films , “Ana Hurra” and “Arms Market,” and after that, his landmark film, “In Our House is a Man” from Director Barakat and directed by Omar Sharif. Then his first major role came to the hands of director Hassan Al-Imam in the film “The Student” in 1961 opposite Shadia. the following year, where the Imam drew the first features of his artistic personality for which he was later famous. Then, with Ahmed Ramzy, and a third of them (Youssef Fakhr El-Din, Mohamed Awad, Rushdi Abaza, or Abdel Moneim Ibrahim), it became an integral part of the synthesis of adventure films that dominated cinema in the sixties he seemed to be masculine equal to the femininity and vigor of Souad Hosni, and this explains why he appeared in twelve films during that period: For Men Only, The Three Love Her, Marriage in the Modern Way, Showgirl, A Tale. of three daughters, and a kind of torture…
The successful duo Hassan and Souad colored the sixties with a special kind of adventure and youth films that became part of the era, and Nadia Lutfi and Zizi Al-Badrawi, then Mervat Amin and Naglaa Fathi, were not far from this type, whose first hero was Hassan Youssef.
The bad boy continued to show the same quality in the first half of the seventies, with the entry of other names of actors, such as Adel Imam and Samir Ghanem, and in front of other actresses such as Suhair Ramzi, Nabila Obeid, and Shams Al-Baroudi, whom he married in 1972 after a love story that began in Beirut during the filming of the movie “A Journey of Love”. bin Saud, and the failure of her relationship with director Hossam El Din Mustafa, Youssef appeared during that time in a group of films such as: Devils and Ball, Happy Marriage, Love on Miami Beach, Devils on Vacation, and Girls , and the laughing kings.
But the man, who was more than forty years old at the time, realized that his needs were old, and that he could not continue in this way, so he decided to 1971 combined acting and directing, starting with the film Boy, Girl and Devil, and reached the peak of his directorial maturity in the films The Coward and Love in 1975. Enough is enough for me, my heart, in 1977, with his wife Shams Al-Baroudi as the star, and based on two novels by the journalist Musa Sabry, before he said goodbye to the world of cinema permanently in 1990 as the hero of the film ” The Two Sisters” directed by Zuhair Bakir, pleased himself with his contribution to television drama, especially religious works in which he succeeded.
When Hassan Youssef approached his ninth year at the beginning of this year, he was exposed to a human problem when he lost his young son, who was the victim of a drowning accident in one of the resorts on the north coast of the -Egypt caused broken heart syndrome and sent him into a cocoon of depression, so he announced his permanent retirement from art, and stayed there. .. He left until his family announced that he had died.
