Like A Matchstick
2016 · Movie
Hind Rostom
1929-11-11
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Alexandria, Egypt
Hind Rostom was an Egyptian actress and is considered one of the icons in Egyptian cinema. She was born in the neighborhood of Moharram Bek, Alexandria on November 12, 1929, to a middle-class Turkish father and an Egyptian mother. She started her career at the age of 16 with the film Azhaar wa Ashwak (Flowers and Thorns). Her breakthrough was in 1955 when the famous director Hassan Al Imam offered her a role in Banat el Lail (Women of the Night). Her known films include Ibn Hamido (1957), Youssef Chahine's Cairo Station (1958) with Farid Shawqi, Salah Abu Seif's Sleepless (1958) with Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, and Rushdy Abaza, Struggle in the Nile (1959) with Omar Sharif and Rushdy Abaza, and Chafika el Koptia (Chafika the Coptic Girl) in 1963. Rostom was known as the queen of seduction in Egyptian cinema, dubbed "Marilyn Monroe of the East". She starred in more than 80 movies in her career. She retired from acting in 1979 because she wanted the audience to remember her at her best. Rostom would later turn down an offer of one million Egyptian pounds for her biography in December 2002. This offer was made by an Egyptian satellite channel that wanted to portray her life story as a drama series. She was asked to submit a complete history of her past achievements, and work experiences with prominent actors and filmmakers of the past, such as Farid Shawqi, Youssef Chahine, Shoukry Sarhan, and Shadia. The actress stated that she refused to sell her life as a means of entertainment and felt that her personal life was of her concern and no one else. In 2004, she refused to accept Egypt's State Merit Award in Arts, "The award came too late, I'm not placed on the shelf for them to pick me whenever they want, there's only one Hind Rostom in the Middle East, and let's consider that the number of my generation star actresses isn't that big enough to ignore us, and also it's not appropriate to honor me after years of honoring people who are less than me, another point is that I also refuse for them to honor me before Shadia, she deserved it and she was a star for a long time before me", Rostom commented. On August 8, 2011, Rostom died in a hospital in Al-Mohandeseen, Giza due to a heart attack, at the age of 81.
Filmography
Chahine…Why?
2009 · Movie
as Self
My Life is Hell
1979 · Movie
The Meek
1975 · Movie
Coward in Love
1975 · Movie
as Soad Hanim
Me, My Daughter, and Love
1974 · Movie
as Siham
Oh The wonders of time
1974 · Movie
as Samiha / Fawzia Roushdy
Word of Honour
1973 · Movie
as ناهد
The Den of the Wicked
1972 · Movie
as فايزة
The Greatest Kid in the World
1972 · Movie
as سامية
Desire and Loss
1972 · Movie
as ناهد
My Beautiful Teacher
1971 · Movie
as Nadia
Queen of the Night
1971 · Movie
as كريمة
Sweet Aziza
1969 · Movie
as عزيزة
El Khouroug Min El Guana
1967 · Movie
as Anan
The second groom
1967 · Movie
as Wafaa Hanem
Tofahet Adam
1966 · Movie
as Gamila
A man and two women
1966 · Movie
Three Thieves
1966 · Movie
as Amina, the butcher's wife
Huwa wa el nessaa
1966 · Movie
as فيفي
The Single Husband
1966 · Movie
as Azhar
Shayateen El Leyl
1966 · Movie
as Rawheya
Sayed Darwish
1966 · Movie
as جليلة
نساء وذئاب
1966 · Movie
as مسعده / لوليت
the eternal love
1965 · Movie
as امينة
The Nun
1965 · Movie
as Hoda/Sonia
A Husband’s Confession
1964 · Movie
as Buthaina - بثينة (بوسة)
Woman on the Margin
1963 · Movie
as هانم
Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya
1963 · Movie
as Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya
Sett El Banat
1961 · Movie
as mounria
Big Teenager
1961 · Movie
as Sonia
Blood on the Nile
1961 · Movie
as Ghalia
طريق الأبطال
1961 · Movie
as نور عبدالله
Fatouma
1961 · Movie
as Fatima
Tomorrow Is Another Day
1961 · Movie
رجل بلا قلب
1960 · Movie
as عايدة
Boundless Love
1960 · Movie
as نوسة لاعبة البيانولا
Eshaet Hob
1960 · Movie
as Hind Rostom
Men in the Storm
1960 · Movie
as Aziza
Conflict in the Nile
1959 · Movie
as نرجس(الراقصة)
Between Heaven and Earth
1959 · Movie
as ناهد شكري
الحب الأخير
1959 · Movie
as سميرة
The Surprises Motel
1959 · Movie
as نبلة الراقصة
Kiss Me in the Dark
1959 · Movie
as لولا
Bufakkar filli nassini
1959 · Movie
as سوسن
Cairo Station
1958 · Movie
as Hanuma
The Silent Love
1958 · Movie
Tuha
1958 · Movie
as توحة
Awattif
1958 · Movie
The Charmer
1958 · Movie
as Aziza
The Big Brother
1958 · Movie
as Rawhaya
Ismail Yassine in the Mental Hospital
1958 · Movie
as Teama
Sleepless
1957 · Movie
as Kawthar
Lovers of the Night
1957 · Movie
The Great Love
1957 · Movie
Struggle with life
1957 · Movie
as Samira - سميرة
Son of Hamido
1957 · Movie
as عزيزة
Return My Heart
1957 · Movie
as الراقصة كريمة
My One And Only Love
1957 · Movie
as نانا (الراقصة)
Nisaa Fi Hayaty
1957 · Movie
as Fathiya
Love Crime
1955 · Movie
Banat Al-Lail
1955 · Movie
The Body
1955 · Movie
Victory of Love
1954 · Movie
Love letter
1954 · Movie
as Latifa
Women Can’t Lie
1954 · Movie
as Nabwiya
It happened one night
1954 · Movie
El naas makamat
1954 · Movie
as Daughter of Riad Pasha
Banat Hawaa
1954 · Movie
as One of the secretaries
دلوني يا ناس
1954 · Movie
as سنية
طريق السعادة
1953 · Movie
as هند
Love In The Darkness
1953 · Movie
Al-Liqaa' Al Akhir
1953 · Movie
The Victory of Islam
1952 · Movie
El Dam Yehen
1952 · Movie
Baba Amin
1950 · Movie
as Sonia
The Flirtation of Girls
1949 · Movie
as كومبارس صامت
Owner of Few Piasters
1949 · Movie
as فواكة
Soul and body
1948 · Movie
Love and madness
1948 · Movie
Narges
1948 · Movie
as الخياطة
