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1954 film

The Monster
Directed by	Salah Abu Seif
Written by	Salah Abu Seif El Sayed Bedeir Naguib Mahfouz
Starring	Mahmoud El-Meliguy
Cinematography	Abdelhalim Nasr
Release date	1954 (1954)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Egypt
Language	Arabic

The Monster (Arabic: الوحش, romanized: Ell Wahsh) is a 1954 Egyptian crime film directed by Salah Abouseif. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. It was one of the first films to be labelled as a "social documentary thriller" by cinema writer Georges Sadoul for its use of documentary style, depictions of police abuse, and backdrop of life in the Egyptian countryside.

Plot summary

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Cast

References

"Festival de Cannes: The Monster". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 31 January 2009.
Sadoul, Georges (1972). Dictionary of Films. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 411. ISBN 9780520021525.

External links

The Monster at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Salah Abu Seif
The Adventures of Antar and Abla (1948) Your Day Will Come (1951) Love Humiliates (1952) The Monster (1954) The Leech (1956) The Tough (1957) Sleepless (1957) The Barred Road (1958) This Is Love (1958) I Am Free (1959) Between Heaven and Earth (1959) The Beginning and the End (1960) The Sun Will Never Set (1961) Letter from an Unknown Woman (1962) Cairo 30 (1966) The Second Wife (1967) Three Women (1968) Malatily Bathhouse (1973) The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977) The Criminal (1978) Al Qadisiyya (1981) War in the Land of Egypt (1991)

Films directed by Salah Abu Seif

The Adventures of Antar and Abla (1948)
Your Day Will Come (1951)
Love Humiliates (1952)
The Monster (1954)
The Leech (1956)
The Tough (1957)
Sleepless (1957)
The Barred Road (1958)
This Is Love (1958)
I Am Free (1959)
Between Heaven and Earth (1959)
The Beginning and the End (1960)
The Sun Will Never Set (1961)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1962)
Cairo 30 (1966)
The Second Wife (1967)
Three Women (1968)
Malatily Bathhouse (1973)
The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)
The Criminal (1978)
Al Qadisiyya (1981)
War in the Land of Egypt (1991)

v t e Works by Naguib Mahfouz
Cairo Trilogy	Palace Walk (1956) Palace of Desire (1957) Sugar Street (1957)
Other novels	Khufu's Wisdom (1939) Rhadopis of Nubia (1943) Thebes at War (1944) Midaq Alley (1947) The Mirage (1948) The Beginning and the End (1949) Children of Gebelawi (1959) The Thief and the Dogs (1961) Autumn Quail (1962) The Search (1964) The Beggar (1965) Adrift on the Nile (1966) Miramar (1967) Mirrors (1972) Love in the Rain (1973) Karnak Café (1974) The Harafish (1977) Wedding Song (1981) Arabian Nights and Days (1982) The Journey of Ibn Fattouma (1983) The Day the Leader Was Killed (1983) Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth (1985) The Coffeehouse (1988)
Short stories	"Zaabalawi" (1961) "Qismati and Nasibi" (1982)
Story collections	Whisper of Madness (1947) God's World (1962) A Story Without a Beginning or an Ending (1971) The Crime (1973) Stories from Our Neighbourhood (1975)
Screenplays	The Adventures of Antar and Abla (1948) Your Day Will Come (1951) The Monster (1954) The Tough (1957) The Barred Road (1958) Jamila, the Algerian (1958) Between Heaven and Earth (1959) Allahu Akbar (1959) The Choice (1970)
Adaptations	The Beginning and the End (1960) Chased by the Dogs (1962) Saladin the Victorious (1963) Cairo 30 (1966) Khan El Khalili (1967) Chitchat on the Nile (1971) Karnak (1975) The Guilty (1975) The Beginning and the End (1993) Midaq Alley (1995)

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