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| image = Stephan Rosti.JPG<br />
| name = Stephan Rosti<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|11|16|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = Italy or Egypt<ref name="Arab Movie Online Encyclopedia">[http://www.shoofeetv.com/celebrity/730/eistefan-rossty Arab Movie Online Encyclopedia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628102948/http://www.shoofeetv.com/celebrity/730/eistefan-rossty |date=28 June 2009 }}</ref> (unconfirmed)<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|5|22|1891|11|16|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Cairo]], Egypt<br />
| occupation = Actor, film director<br />
| yearsactive = 1926-1964<br />
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'''Stephan Rosti''' ({{langx|ar|استفان روستى}} {{IPA|arz|(ʔ)esteˈfæːn ˈɾosti|}}) (16 November 1891 &ndash; 22 May 1964) was an Egyptian<ref name="Arab Movie Online Encyclopedia"/> actor and [[film director]] who lived and worked in Egypt.<br />
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==Personal==<br />
Rosti's mother was an [[Italian Egyptian]] dancer. She was performing in [[Egypt]] when she met Rosti's father, the [[Austria]]n 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.<ref>[http://arabi.ahram.org.eg/arabi/Ahram/2006/5/13/SUMR25.HTM Al-Ahram Al-Arabi Newspaper Article 13 May 2006]</ref><br />
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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 [[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.<br />
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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.<br />
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==Filmography==<br />
===Director===<br />
* ''[[The Song of the Heart (1932 film)|The Song of the Heart]]'' (1932)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb name|0744587}}<br />
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[[Category:Egyptian film directors]]<br />
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