Stephan Rosti

Stephan Rosti (استفان روستى ) (16 November 1891 – 22 May 1964) was an Egyptian actor and film director who lived and worked in Egypt.

Personal
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.

Rosti appeared in 24 Egyptian films between 1927 and 1964. He also directed seven Egyptian films between 1931 and 1946. He was renowned for portraying evil characters with a satirical inclination, and he became an icon of the Egyptian film industry.

Filmography
Actor:: (1920–1964)

... a.k.a. A Woman on the Outside (International: English title) ... a.k.a. The Funny Crime (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Madmen in Paradise (International: English title) ... a.k.a. The Pickpocket (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Struggle of Giants (International: English title) .... The Comic Society for Killing Wives (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Lady of the Castle (International: English title) ... a.k.a. The Heart Has Its Reasons (International: English title) ... a.k.a. The Night Train (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Don't Tell Anyone (USA: DVD box title) ... a.k.a. Mat'culch le had (USA: DVD box title) ... a.k.a. My Father Deceived Me (International: English title) ... a.k.a. The Last Lie (USA: DVD title) ... a.k.a. The Flirtation of Girls (USA) ... a.k.a. Lady Afrita (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Holidays in Hell (International: English title) ... a.k.a. A Sleepless Man (International: English title) ... a.k.a. The Adventures of Antar and Abla ... a.k.a. Mr. Nightingale (International: English title) ... a.k.a. The Urchin (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Mr. Omar (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Everything Is Fine (International: English title: informal title) ... a.k.a. Antar Esquire (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Lord of the Revels (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Why Is the Sea Chuckling? (International: English title) Laila (1927)
 * Emraa alal hamish (1964)
 * Garima el dahika, El (1964)
 * Majanin fi naim, El (1963)
 * Nashal, El (1963)
 * Seraa el gababera (1963)
 * Gamaeyat Qatl al-Zawgat al-Hazleya (1962)
 * Nassab, El (1961)
 * Sayedat el kasr (1958) .... Shafeek
 * Kalb loh ahkam, El (1957) .... Friend
 * Ketar el lail (1953)
 * Ma takulshi la hada (1952)
 * Khadaini abi (1951)
 * Akher kedba (1950) .... The Doctor
 * Ghazal al-banat (1949) .... Cabaret Owner
 * Afrita hanem (1949) .... Ishta
 * Egaza fi gahannam (1949)
 * Rajulun la yanam (1949)
 * Mughamarat Antar wa Abla (1948)
 * Bolbol effendi (1946)
 * Ibn El-balad (1942)
 * Si Omar (1941)
 * Salama fi khair (1938)
 * Antar effendi (1936)
 * Sahib al saada Kishkish beh (1931)
 * bahr biyidhak leih, El (1928)

Director: (1930s-1940s)

... a.k.a. Gamal and Dalal (International: English title) ... a.k.a. The Fairest One (International: English title) ... a.k.a. The Urchin (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Antar Esquire (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Song of the Heart (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Lord of the Revels (International: English title)
 * Gamal wa Dalal (1946)
 * Ahlahum (1945)
 * Ibn El-balad (1942)
 * Warsha, El (1941)
 * Antar effendi (1936)
 * Unshudat el fuad (1932)
 * Sahib al saada (1931)

Writer: (1930s-1950s)

... a.k.a. The Night Train (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Gemal and Dalal (International: English title) ... a.k.a. The Urchin (International: English title) ... a.k.a. Song of the Heart (International: English title)
 * Qetar el lail (1953) (story)
 * Gamal wa Dalal (1946) (writer)
 * Ebn el balad (1943) (story)
 * Unshudat el fuad (1932) (writer)

Editorial Department: ... a.k.a. The Urchin (International: English title)
 * Ibn el balad (1943) (montage)