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The Zulficar family had a great imprint in the history of cinema. The three brothers, Ezz El-Din, Mahmoud and Salah Zulficar, worked in acting, directing, production and scriptwriting during its golden age.
Although they are not from an artistic family, they grew up with a father who works as a police officer, as Mahmoud Zulficar was working in the field of engineering, and Izz al-Din Zulficar graduated from the Military College, while Salah Zulficar graduated from the Police College, so they left that and all turned to art, and their work was not related to Only with art, but the three brothers married 3 stars from the artistic community, and each of them had a story that ended in divorce.
Marriage of Ezz El-Din Zulfikar to Faten Hamama The artist, born on May 27, 1931, began her artistic career with a series of small roles in cinema from an early age in her life, and her first role was as a “child” in the movie “Happy Day”, in front of the artist Mohamed Abdel Wahab, in 1938.
Faten Hamama studied at the Acting Institute, and graduated from it in 1947, the same year as her first marriage to director Ezzedine Zulficar.
Zulfikar became acquainted with her after she acted in two films, and at that time Zulfikar began his career in cinematography in the same year with the movie “Prisoner of Darkness”, and the film was a resounding success. Siraj Munir.
The duo, Zulfikar and Hamama, met again for the third time in the movie “Abu Zaid Al-Hilali”, and from here the love story began.
At first, Ezz asked for Faten’s hand from her father, but the father refused, and asked Ezz to wait a year and a half. That his daughter became a decision-maker, not a child, which is why the father asked Ezz to wait a year and a half, fearing that this love would be immature between a young woman and a director.
They married secretly in April 1948, and they lived together for 6 years and gave birth to their daughter Nadia. They presented Arab cinema with the most beautiful films, including “A Date with Life”, “A Date with Happiness”, “Ask My Heart”,
However, Ezz El-Din’s lack of interest in her made her ask for a divorce, and they separated in 1956, to then marry Omar Sharif, after they presented the movie “Struggle in the Valley”.
Ezz says about their marriage in his memoirs, which was revealed by Half of the World magazine in 2000: “We got married on an adventure, we were working in the movie (Immortality) and the marriage contract was done in Fouad Al-Jazairli’s villa. The contract witnesses were Jalil Al-Bandari and Anis Hamed. The rift between me and her when she assigned the lead in a movie to another artist, so Faten interpreted the care of the work as taking care of the heroine and we ended up in a divorce and it was a sound decision in which not a single shot was fired on the reputation of any of us… And what she imagined of love went and between me and Faten the eternal thing of friendship.
The artistic and human relationship between them continued, and in its best condition, and the cooperation between them continued, which resulted in one of the most important romantic films in the history of Egyptian cinema, “The River of Love” in 1960.
Faten was at Ezz El-Din the best, most beautiful, and most influential, and he described her as the third miracle in the twentieth century with Umm Kulthum and Abdel Wahab, and he used to see her at the top of the list of actresses, and she is the first actress in Egypt, and then ten boxes remain in the list empty, and you do not find anyone to compete with her until she reaches the list number “11.” The other names, as he used to say about her: “The beauty of her personality is stronger than her perceived beauty, and if she was placed among a group of beauty queens in the world, she would attract attention and seize the spotlight from them because her personality would dominate them all.”
Ezz El-Din’s marriage to Kawthar Shafiq, according to the “Jololi” website: “She was a silent face that did not speak much, but her eyes started with what she revealed herself, and although her scenes in Egyptian cinema can be confined to the fingers of the hand, the retired artist Kawthar Shafiq left her strong fingerprints in all the films that I shared it.”
Kawthar was born on December 23, 1930, and began her artistic career in 1954 with the movie “Life is Love” with Laila Murad, and during three years she moved between marginal roles until her strongest role was ever with Abdel Halim Hafez in “The Empty Pillow”, but she moved away for a long time after the relative success Which you have achieved to achieve success of another kind.
Mahmoud Zulfiqar’s marriage to Aziza Amir
He appeared in the life of Aziza Amir, director Mahmoud Zulfikar, according to the website “paparazzieg”, who was her last husband. Burning Candle, Divide and Share” and many other films she participated in with him.
She co-wrote with Mahmoud Zulfiqar in the films “The Workshop, The Return of the Cap of Concealment, My Father Deceived Me.” She also directed two films: “The Nile Girl,” which she filmed inside her studio, Heliopolis Studio, and the film “My Blasphemy for Your Sin.”
In a rare snapshot, sadness appears on the husband’s face, Mahmoud Zulfikar, during the funeral of Aziza Amir, while the artist Youssef Wahbi, the main competitor of his late wife, consoles him.
Marriage of Mahmoud Zulficar to Maryam Fakhreddin In 1952, when she was no more than 17 years old, Mariam Fakhreddine began her first marriage experience, and she was from the director “Mahmoud Zulficar”, who married her after the death of his first wife, the star “Aziza Amir” about six months, specifically at the end of the month August of the year 1952, and she was still a new face on the silver screen who appeared in one or two films,
Mahmoud Zulficar and his wife Maryam Fakhreddine The marriage of Maryam Fakhreddin to Mahmoud Zulficar had a great impact on her artistic career in particular, as she became a common denominator in most of the films he directed in the fifties and early sixties, and their marriage lasted 8 years, during which they had their daughter “Iman”, and they separated. in 1960.
And the artist, Maryam Fakhr El-Din, told the story of her divorce from the late artist Mahmoud Zulficar on the “Two in Two” program with the journalist Magdy Al-Jallad, where she explained that he treated her harshly and always beat her, so she rebelled against him and bought an apartment without his knowledge in the same building, which was She lives in it with him, then she finished it and then transferred its contents to it.
She took her daughter and the nanny and stayed in her new apartment, and when Mahmoud woke up, he was surprised that his wife was not in the house and asked the doorman and knew the truth, then he tried to enter her apartment, but Maryam Fakhreddin did not open it for him at all, then he left the house and sent his business manager to the house to bring him his clothes because he felt ashamed In front of the residents of the building, after that, Maryam distributed the rooms of her husband’s apartment to the workers in the photography plateau, which Zulfikar did not accept and felt ashamed of these workers for what his wife had done, so he divorced her immediately.
After their divorce, Mahmoud Zulfikar did not marry until his death in 1970, while Maryam Fakhreddine was married more than once, as she married an ear, nose and throat doctor, Dr. “Mohammed Al-Taweel” 3 months after her divorce from when she traveled to England and met him there and the marriage took place. Hence, Maryam Fakhruddin’s artistic path changed and she stopped acting during this period, and she gave birth to her son “Ahmed”, and their marriage lasted 4 years, but she could not stand life with him and the divorce occurred.
Salah Zulfiqar’s marriage to Zahrat Al-Ala
According to Al-Massa newspaper: “Within the context of the events of the famous political movie (Return My Heart), a difficult love story was linked between Shukri Sarhan and Maryam Fakhruddin, as well as between Salah Zulfikar and Zahrat Al-Ala, and the film crew discovered during filming that part of the wonderful scenario involves a love story. It is true between Salah and Zahra, and as soon as their marriage was announced in the movie, Salah suggested to Zahra that they consummate their marriage on the same day, saying: “You don’t come, Zahra, we leave her seriously.”
Indeed, I agreed and the acting turned into reality after the end of filming, and the wedding ceremony took place in the presence of the work team – according to the Al-Massa newspaper – it happened in 1957, and despite the love story between them, their marriage only lasted one year, and they separated after that and agreed to become friends.
Salah Zulfiqar’s marriage to Shadia
Shadia divorced her husband, artist Imad Hamdi, in 1956, after 3 years of marriage, due to several problems, including the age difference and a condition for delaying childbearing, then married outside the artistic community, and ended in divorce, until she met Salah Zulfikar.
In 1964 she was associated with the artist Salah Zulficar, whose marriage was a successful marriage that lasted for seven years, which resulted in an extraordinary cinematic success for them as a duo. And she entered into a treatment journey from a simple psychological and nervous shock, from which she asked for divorce from Salah Zulficar without retreat, as if she did not want to be on the sidelines of Salah Zulficar’s life, and the separation took place in 1969.
Mediation attempts succeeded in bringing the couple back again in September of 1969, but disagreements occurred again and the final separation took place in mid-1973, after which it was decided not to engage in love, marriage and childbearing experiences and to devote herself to raising her nieces and taking care of their life affairs with her sister, “Afaf.”
This connection and marriage between Shadia and Salah Zulfikar resulted in a number of successful films that they both starred in. Together, they co-starred in the films “My wife is general manager” 1966, “My Wife’s Dignity” 1967, and “The Demon of My Woman” 1968, all directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab. Salah Zulfikar produced for her the movie “Something of Fear”, directed by Hussein Kamal, without participating in the championship, and this film is one of the masterpieces of Egyptian cinema throughout its history.