The death of the Lebanese artist Samir Shams, who played the character “Joe” in the movie Africano

The Lebanese artist died Samir ShamsIn the past hours, at the age of 81, many Lebanese stars mourned him through their Twitter accounts, including the journalist Nishan and Bassem Mughniyeh, who were affected by him, especially because it is a symbol of art in Lebanon.

Samir Shams Over his artistic career, he presented more than 100 works between cinema, television drama, and theater, whether in Lebanon or in Egypt his most prominent character is probably in Egypt Samir Joe, the owner of the bank, in the movie Africano, with Ahmed El Sakka and Mona Zaki.

And a movie show African“, premiered on July 11, 2001 and achieved great public success. Its episodes were filmed in South Africa, and the film is still shown when everyone gathers to watch it. and repeat the words of star Ahmed El Sakka to Mona Zaki in the film, which co-starred Hassan Hosni, Ahmed Eid, Nashwa Mostafa, and Talaat Zein Written by Ahmed Amin, story and directed by Amr Arafa.

The events of the film “AfricanAbout Badr “Ahmed Al-Sakka”, an ambitious young man in pursuit of his dreams He is completely in love with his work as a veterinarian, and with him is his friend Issam, his sister’s husband , they have a chance to make their dreams come true after Badr discovers that his uncle, who lives in South Africa, has died and left a large fortune, represented by an open-air zoo that has been to share with his daughter Jamila, and they go there to get the inheritance, but they have many problems, the first is that the zoo owes a million dollars to the bank, and that disease problems on the animals and that they are attacking visitors, which could close the zoo.

Badr starts treating animals with the help of his uncle’s lawyer and his servant, Adam. Events continue when Badr falls in love with Jamila their goals.