Salah Marei
- Art direction
- November 24, 1942 · El Mahla el Kobra, Egypt
- March 3, 2011
Biography
One of the greatest interior designers in the history of Egyptian cinema, he was born in El-Mahalla El-Kubra in 1942. He began working in the field at the age of twenty-two, in the movie Life is Good in 1964. He had a strong friendship with the director (Shadi Abdel Salam) since he was teaching him at the Film Institute, and he owes him much of what he reached. From their work is The Mummy, which was presented in 1975 and is considered by many to be the most complete and surprising Egyptian film from a visual point of view. From his work: A Song on the Passage and Silence Sons. He passed away in Cairo on Thursday, March 3, 2011.
Known for
Filmography
- In the Last Days of the City · Art Direction
- Alzheimer's · Production Design
- In Natural Colors · Production Design
- Very Humane · Art Direction
- At Day's End
- Have We Met Before · Art Direction
- First Time in Love · Production Design
- I Love Cinema · Art Direction
- The Magician · Art Direction
- The Lovers · Art Direction
- The City · Art Direction
- Mabrouk and Bulbul · Decorator
- The Champion · Interior Designer
- The Asphalt Kings · Production Design
- Those Gentlemen · Scenic Artist
- The Hunger · Costume Design
- The Awakening · Art Direction
- Waraa Al-Shams · Decorator
- The Barrier · Decorator
- Horizons · Art Direction
- A Song on the Passage · Decorator
- The Killers · Decorator
- The Eloquent Peasant · Art Direction
- The Night of Counting the Years · Production Design
- Life is Sweet · Decorator