Stephan Rosti (Egyptian Arabic: است٠ان روستى‎
[(Ê")esteˈfÃ¦Ë n ˈɾosti]) (16 November 1891 â€" 22 May 1964) was an
Egyptian actor and film director who lived and worked in Egypt.Rosti's
mother was an Italian Egyptian dancer. She was performing in Egypt
when she met Rosti's father, the Austrian ambassador to Cairo. Rosti's
mother was enamoured with Egypt to the point that when it was time for
the diplomat father to terminate his political assignment (in Cairo)
and return to his country, she refused to travel with him and decided
to remain in Egypt with her son. To escape the father's attempts to
smuggle the child out of Egypt, she escaped with the child to
Alexandria and they lived in the Raas Al-Teen neighborhood where
Stephan enrolled in its local schools.As a young man, Rosti travelled
to Austria seeking recognition by his father, but to no avail. As he
danced and worked odd jobs in Austria, Germany, and France. Rosti met
and befriended two visiting Egyptian film-makers, Mohammed Karim and
Sirag Mounir, who encouraged him to return to Egypt to work in cinema,
given his fluency in Egyptian Arabic and after he expressed his desire
to do so. Rosti returned to Egypt and enrolled as a student in the
"Acting Institute" of Cairo, and accepted his first role as director
of the first wholly Egyptian feature film, "Layla" from producer Aziza
Amir in 1927.
[(Ê")esteˈfÃ¦Ë n ˈɾosti]) (16 November 1891 â€" 22 May 1964) was an
Egyptian actor and film director who lived and worked in Egypt.Rosti's
mother was an Italian Egyptian dancer. She was performing in Egypt
when she met Rosti's father, the Austrian ambassador to Cairo. Rosti's
mother was enamoured with Egypt to the point that when it was time for
the diplomat father to terminate his political assignment (in Cairo)
and return to his country, she refused to travel with him and decided
to remain in Egypt with her son. To escape the father's attempts to
smuggle the child out of Egypt, she escaped with the child to
Alexandria and they lived in the Raas Al-Teen neighborhood where
Stephan enrolled in its local schools.As a young man, Rosti travelled
to Austria seeking recognition by his father, but to no avail. As he
danced and worked odd jobs in Austria, Germany, and France. Rosti met
and befriended two visiting Egyptian film-makers, Mohammed Karim and
Sirag Mounir, who encouraged him to return to Egypt to work in cinema,
given his fluency in Egyptian Arabic and after he expressed his desire
to do so. Rosti returned to Egypt and enrolled as a student in the
"Acting Institute" of Cairo, and accepted his first role as director
of the first wholly Egyptian feature film, "Layla" from producer Aziza
Amir in 1927.
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