Director

Radwan El Kashef

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 0All crew credits: 8

TMDB ID: 1343384

IMDb ID: nm0252835

Known for: Directing

Born: August 6, 1952

Died: June 5, 2002

Age: 49

Place of birth: Cairo, Egypt

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Career span: 1988 - 2001

Years active: 14

Wikidata: Q3422984

Also known as

Radwan El-Kashef • رضوان الكاشف

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Director (4)Assistant Director (3)Script Supervisor (1)

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Biography

Radwan El Kashef (August 6, 1952 - June 5, 2002) was an Egyptian film director and author. He obtained a BA in Film Directing from the Higher Institute of Cinema in Cairo in 1984 and was the first of his class. El Kashef worked as an assistant director in nearly twenty films with Youssef Chahine, Raafat El Mihi, Daoud Abdel Sayed, and others. He was best known for Date Wine (1998), Why, O Violet (1993), and The Magician (2001). In 2002, El Kashef died at the age of 49 due to a sudden heart attack after returning from the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands, in which he participated for his last film The Magician. He left behind only 3 films.

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