Abdul Salam Al Azmy

Directing

Born: February 22, 1941

Birthplace: Baghdad, Iraq

An Iraqi film director, born in Baghdad. He worked at the beginning of his career as an artistic supervisor in school activities in the cities of Najaf and Kufa after graduating from the Institute of Fine Arts in 1963. At the end of 1966, he obtained a study fellowship at the Film Institute of the German Democratic Republic, and returned to Baghdad in 1970, holding a certificate of specialization in cinematography, and at that time he finished his first documentary film Enemies and Friends. Before coming to the General Organization for Cinema and Theater, he worked in the cinema department of the General Organization for Radio and Television, during which he directed his film The New Road. He directed many documentary films for the Cinema and Theater Department, which exceeded forty films, for which he was the screenwriter and editor in some of them. He co-wrote and directed the feature film Desert Boy (1991). He acted in several plays such as The Virgin of Lorraine, The Noble Metric, and Othello. He died of a heart attack in Damascus on 30 April 2007.