• Ça date un peu (2008), mais bon sang que j’aimerais voir ce show. Tu te rends compte, un « biopic » sur Asmahane (pour Ramadan) ! Avec des arguties légales en plus !
    http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/news-articles/4517-all-drama

    In statements to the press, Esmail Kutkut, a Jordanian producer of Asmahan, has said that no one, including Asmahan’s family, objected to the book at the time. What’s more, “the series was written by Mamdouh Al Atrash, a cousin of Asmahan, who got a registered power of attorney from 150 member of the Al Atrash family to go ahead with the show,” Kutkut said.

    But in May, Prince Faisal Al Atrash, a nephew of Asmahan, went to a Cairo court demanding that the show be banned because it presented “a slanted view based on untrue facts.” The court initially turned Al Atrash down but he filed a new suit last month.

    Controversial television series Asmahan faces court battle
    http://gulfnews.com/news/region/egypt/controversial-television-series-asmahan-faces-court-battle-1.126770

    The drama also tackles Asmahan’s alleged links with the British intelligence service and her troubled marriages.

    […]

    This angered the powerful Al Atrash family, who appealed to Bilal to halt the project, saying: “Its script depicts the late Asmahan as a woman who offers her body with no self-respect. It also showed that her brother Fouad used to live off his sister’s income and beat her when she did not pay him.”

    They were also angered that the legendary Fareed Al Atrash is shown as “a weak man with no power who squanders his sister’s reputation.”

    #asmahane

  • Écoute-moi ça si c’est beau : #Asmahane - Ya Touyour تحفة #أسمهان - يا طيور
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV1pbIzcpB8

    O birds
    Sing of my love and chant my passion and hopes
    To the one who is right beside me not paying attention to what’s happening to me (i.e. in her love)
    I complain to him and he smiles and makes me grow fonder of him
    O birds
    Describe him my state of sleeplessness and sobbing (literally tears)

    On dirait un peu une version arabe de Lakmé, non ?

    #musique

  • Attention, génialissime : Gharam wa intiqam - غرام و إنتقام (Amour et vengeance, 1944), le second, dernier et fabuleux film avec #Asmahane. En intégralité sur Youtube :
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNH0ujT_sq8

    Toutes les chansons du film sont interprétées par Asmahane, et toutes ces chansons sont des tubes interplanétaires (au moins sur les planètes qui ont été visitées par des cosmonautes arabes).

    C’est une merveille absolue grâce à Asmahane (sinon, tout est un peu con-con dans ce film). Perso je l’ai déjà regardé une bonne dizaine de fois, et ça ne va pas s’arrêter de sitôt (ma fille de 3 ans en est dingue).

    En cherchant un peu, tu trouveras les sous-titres en anglais pour ce film sur le Web. (Je dis ça, je dis rien.)

    #musique #cinéma #أسمهان

  • En intégralité sur Youtube : Entisar Al-Shabab - انتصار الشباب (Victoire de la jeunesse), daté de 1941 selon la page Youtube, de 1945 sur IMDB. C’est le premier film avec la sublime #Asmahane, qui joue ici avec son frère, (l’immense) Farid el-Atrache :
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXH2-r2o4uQ

    Celui-là, je viens de découvrir qu’il était en ligne, je ne l’ai pas encore vu. C’est en arabe, mais je te conseille vraiment de le regarder pour :
    – ses scènes musicales épatantes,
    – la voix et la beauté ensorcelantes d’Asmahane.

    #musique #cinéma #أسمهان

    • http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmahan

      Asmahan (أسمهان), née le 25 novembre 1917 au liban et décédée le 14 juillet 1944 en Égypte, est une chanteuse, et actrice. [...]
      Asmahan se rend célèbre grâce à ses participations à de nombreuses comédies musicales cinématographiques tels qu’Intisar El-Shabab et Gharam Wa Intiqam (dont est tiré le tube Layali El Ounsi Fi Vienna).
      Mais ce qui fait la particularité d’Asmahan, c’est son chant mélancolique et inspiré par la musique européenne comme sur le troublant Ya Touyour (composé par Mohamad El Qasabji) ou encore l’émouvant Layta Lil Barraq, ce qui fascinera le public arabe, pourtant peu sensible à la musique occidentale, surtout à l’époque. Elle meurt noyée avec une amie dans un accident de voiture en 1944. Malgré sa courte carrière, Asmahan aura marqué la chanson arabe par sa sa poésie et sa passion pour la mélancolie théâtrale.

    • Raphaël, ça m’étonne de ta part que tu ne saches pas que beaucoup de rumeurs entourent la vie d’Asmahane et que son accident de voiture est généralement considéré comme un assassinat :-))

      Asmahan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmahan

      In 1941, during World War II, Asmahan returned to the French Mandate of Syria (Syria, under the rule of Vichy France at that time) at the request of the British and the Free French. She was on a secret mission to notify her people in Jabal al-Druze that the British and Free French forces would be invading Syria through their territory, and to convince them they should not fight. (Zuhur) The British and Free French had promised the independence of Syria and Lebanon to all inhabitants on the date of the invasion. The Druze agreed, even though some groups did not receive word in time and fought the invading forces. After the Allies secured Syria during the Syria-Lebanon Campaign, General Charles de Gaulle visited Syria. When the Allies failed to carry out their promise for Syrian independence, Asmahan tried to contact the Nazis in Turkey, but was stopped at the border and sent to Lebanon. It was also possible that Asmhan needed money because her husband had cut off her expenses, so she may have tried to reach the Germans simply to obtain funds. (Zuhur)

      Asmahan told Mohamed al-Tabaʿi that she was to receive the sum of £40,000 from the British for her services to the allies.[34][35][36] General Charles de Gaulle’s representative in Cairo was General Georges Catroux. Catroux’s délégué in Damascus, Colonel Collet, stated that the British gave money to Asmahan (and to other Druze men, in his presence) and sent her to the Jabal to secure the support of the Druze before the Allies’ invasion.[37] The same information is stated by Edward Spears in his memoirs. (Zuhur)

      Death

      On 14 July 1944, a car carrying Asmahan and a female friend crashed and went into a canal at the side of the road, after the driver lost control near the city of Mansoura, Egypt.[38] The car was a two-door model and the women were sitting in the backseat. They were presumed to be rendered unconscious and subsequently drowned. The driver, however, managed to escape.

      These circumstances gave rise to many suspicions, rumors and conspiracy theories. British intelligence, for example, after many reports circulated claiming she had been working for them, was accused of having got rid of her after she had attempted to meet with German agents. The German Gestapo was also accused of murdering her for the help she had given the British. Her husband at the time had fought violently with her, and her family’s honor had been besmirched by the many rumors.