Henry Antoun Barakat (Arabic: هنري أنطون بركات, 11 June 1914, Cairo – 27 May 1997, Cairo) was a well known Egyptian film director.
He was born in Shubra[1] to a Melkite Greek Catholic father of Syro-Lebanese descent, and a Syro-Lebanese mother. His father, Dr. Antoun Barakat, was a physician and received the title of Beik by the King for the services he rendered.[2]
He directed some of the most famous films in the Egyptian Cinema. Barakat had career spanning for 50 years. He worked in different eras of the Egyptian film industry.
2 wins & 3 nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Jakarta Film Festival
Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema
Egypt State Incentive Prize in Arts and Letters of the Supreme Council of Culture, 1995.
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