Acting
Mar 6, 1975
Cairo, Egypt
Hanan Turk
Acting
Biography
Hanan Hassan Mohamed A’bd Al Kareem was born in Cairo. She studied at the Ballet Institute and while performing in a production of “Macbeth” she was noticed by director Kheiry Bushara who nominated her for a role in the film title “Raghba Muttawahisha” (“Monstrous Desire”). Hanan has performed in several television productions amongst which is “al-Suqoot fee Bir Saba” (“Falling into Bir Saba”), “al-Mal wa al-Banoun” (“Property and Progeny”), “al-Sabr fee al-Mallahat”, “lan A’eesh fee Jalbab Abby” (“I Will not Live in My Father’s Robes”), “Opera A’ydah”, “Ameera fee A’bdin” (“A Princess in A’bdin”), “Nisf Rabee’ al-Aakhar” (“The Middle of Next Spring”). Moreover the actress has also partaken in the cinema production “Fee al-Ou’shq wa al-Saffar” (“Love and Journeying”). Hanan is considered among the most talented performers of her generation and can be seen in her finest form in “al-Mohajjir” (“The Emigrant”), “al-Aakhar” (“The Other”) and “Sahr al-Layaly” (“Staying Up”).
Feature Films (43)
A representation of the lives of a group of officers and soldiers, portraying their intertwined fates and the tragedies they have to witness, both on the battlefield and at home.
Wall of Heroism
The story of the journalist writer Taher Abdel Zaher, who has principles but suffers from financial hardships. When one of his relatives dies, he inherits a theater from her, and after obtaining it, many of his principles change.
Laughter, Play and Music
The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers travel with him across Sinai, but then suddenly sell him to Ozir, an Egyptian who works for a Theban military leader, Amihar. Amihar is impressed by Ram's drive and personal charm and so grants Ram some desolate land outside the capital. Ram soon finds himself a pawn in the political and sexual games between Amihar and his wife Simihit, a high priestess of the Cult of Amun.
The Emigrant
After witnessing the murder of his father as a child, Ibrahim is drawn into the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself with his best friend Ashri, he finds his high school sweetheart Houria and manages to rekindle their love, but paths intertwine with Abdel Malik Zarzor, the city's crime lord, who is connected somehow to Houria.
Ibrahim El-Abyad
Hanan has been unhappy due to the passing of her father, while her husband Sharif has been eyeing Ghada, the young daughter of his driver. They are friends with a married couple, Ahmed and Mona, but Mona has been chatting online with her ex-boyfriend. All of their lives change when Sharif's driver finds out that Ghada as run away from home to be with Sharif and Ahmed finds out what Mona has been doing online.
Life's Indulgences
An employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decides to marry a girl of a higher social status. At a moment of recklessness,he sends a wedding invitation to the President, and he responds to the invitation. Preparations are under way to receive the President at the wedding awaited by everyone.
Marriage by Presidential Decree
Tito is the second installment in the new-wave Egyptian action movies. After Mafia by Sherif Arafa, which was a breakthrough in Egyptian cinema making, Tarek El-Aryan brings us Tito, the next logical step. Very simply, this movie is about an ex-con who tries to escape his sinful life by starting a new one, but his past comes back to haunt him. The reason, why Tito is better than Mafia is because the script and story line in Tito is more complex, and some of the characters had real depth in them and where fully developed throughout the movie.
Tito
Adam is the son of a wealthy Egyptian-American family who is studying at UCLA and returns home for a brief vacation. Upon his arrival he meets beautiful reporter Hanane, with whom he begins an intense love affair, and eventually they marry. Trouble arises when Hanane' s journalistic interests lead her to the corrupt business affairs of Adam's parents, who are interested in building an American tourist compound that would allow Americans further control of Egypt's tourist industry, and make them a whole lot richer.
The Other
Police officer Hamza requests his transfer to the Anti-Narcotics Administration, following the killing of his brother by Suleiman Al-Muslimi. He monitors his brother Salem, the big drug dealer, who smuggled Suleiman and fabricated a charge for Hamza's wife.
The Deal
A young, free-spirited dancer and student of Arabic poetry falls in love with her thesis supervisor while trapped in a relationship with a man who disapproves of her dancing.
Dunia
A social romance that portrays the lives of 4 married couples who are friends. As they gather to celebrate the birthday of the daughter of one of them, their fundamental differences and their unstable marriages come to the surface as the men decide to leave for Alexandria.
Sleepless Nights
Ahla el-Awqat (The Best of Times) tells the story of a successful middle-aged woman (Salma, played by Hanan Tork) who is left to live with her step father after a not-so-tragic accident that claims the life of her mother. Salma goes on a quest to find out the identity of the sender of mystery letters and packages. One letter includes a picture of her and her two best friends from school (played by the Hend Sabry and Menna Shalaby), whom she has not seen for 14 years. Reunited, the girls embark on the quest of finding the identity of the sender.
Best Times
Television & Series (18)
A series about animal stories that have been mentioned in the Holy Quran, portraying real facts and demonstrating verses from the Quran that spoke about animals. It also covers how the animals played a role in helping the prophets with their holy duty.
Animal Stories in the Qur'an
Following the decline of the Mamluk state and the emergence of the Ottoman Empire, the series depicts the sufferings of people living amidst social and political upheaval. When the enigmatic and ruthless Zayni Barakat Ibn Musa takes control, the truth of his rule and character unfolds.
Al Zayni Barakat
The series is based on a police comedy, and its episodes are full of funny situations with social and political content,and executed by two-dimensional animation technology.
Super Henedy
The series explores the relationship between Copts and Muslims through the story of twin girls who were separated as infants. Khadija grew up with a Muslim family, while Therese was raised by a Christian family. As the events unfold and intensify, the two eventually cross paths—without either of them realizing who the other is.
Therese's sister
As a senior at the AUC prepares his graduation project about street children, he meets a homeless girl who offers him a unique insight into the lives and problems of street children, and the factors that made them what they are.
