Ezz El-Dine Zulficar Films Company

Ezz El-Dine Zulficar Films Company (شركة أفلام عز الدين ذو الفقار, aka: Ezz El-Dine Zulficar Films) is a film production company founded in Cairo by Ezz El-Dine Zulfikar and Salah Zulfikar in 1958. It operated in the Middle East and North Africa since 1958 until 1963.

History
In 1958, the Zulfikar brothers; Ezz El-Dine Zulficar and Salah Zulfikar established a film production corporation under the trade name of Ezz El-Dine Zulficar Films. Salah took over the administrative side. The Zulfikar brothers produced their first film; Among the Ruins (Bain Al Atlal) (1959) starring Faten Hamama, Emad Hamdy and Salah Zulfikar. The film was directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar and was commercially and critically successful, and was listed later in the Top 100 Egyptian films.



Their second venture was The Second Man (Al Ragol Al Thani) (1959) directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, featuring Salah Zulfikar in two roles alongside Rushdy Abaza, Samia Gamal and Sabah. The film was a box-office hit. In 1960, they produced Angel and Devil (Malaak wa Shaytan) starring Rushdy Abaza and directed by Kamal El Sheikh. The film was another breakthrough to Rushdy Abaza after his success in The Second Man. Followed by The Holy Bond (Al Rabat Al Moqaddas) (1960) starring Sabah, Salah Zulfikar, Emad Hamdy, and directed by their older brother Mahmoud Zulfikar, the film later became an Egyptian cinematic classic. Their next venture was Tewfik Saleh's Struggle of the Heroes (1962) (Sir'a Al-Abtal), which was later listed in the Top 100 Egyptian films. The company’s final venture was Black Candles (Al-Shomoo' Al-Sawdaa) (1962) featuring Nagat, Saleh Selim and Fouad El-Mohandes, the film was a financial and critical success.

Legacy
In 1996, in the centenary of Egyptian cinema, two productions of Ezz El-Dine Zulficar Films were listed in the Top hundred Egyptian films of the 20th century.