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 the Syrian cinema was Characterized since its inception cutting sensitive and substantive topics, as well as national. And it was away from everything that is purely entertainment, and consumer and discussed the concerns of the Arab nationalism and the social and national problems and the autopsy of contemporary life in all its aspects.

 the first attempts to produce a Syrian film Started in the mid-twenties of twentieth century, in 1927 the camera started filming the first film where a Syrian group of enthusiastic young people agreed to discover this art which came from Europe to find a movie industry in Syria, in the front of theme was Rashid Jalal, who owned a cinema equipment, as” camera with a film presentation and supplies for the development and printing, and others” and he agreed with a group of young people as( Ahmed Ayoub and Badri Tillo) to film a movie. Rashid Jalal wrote the script and the story had been based on the true story of the robbers who made many problems in Damascus and its environs during the reign of King Faisal.1920 the first Syrian film was named the” innocent accused” and it has made during the 8 months to make production based on a lot of effort and the total length of 800 meters, a film produced by film production Hermon Film, founded by Rashid Jalal and his partners in Damascus . Because Rashid Jalal worked with Muslim girl in his film many Muslims was very angry.

So he had to work with German girl who was living in Damascus. Photography has been completed and the technical operations of the file in 1928 and presented at the cinema(Alkuzmowerev) which was in (Margay’s square )in Damascus and it was a remarkable success . the film was a strong start to the Syrian cinema, in the same period there was a young man eager to work is a film artist (Bahjat ALmasry).He started in 1925 and produced several short films .

in 1926 he collaborated with a group of young amateurs in producing films, but he stopped his work with them, and acted alone, produced several short films and was himself worked in photographing and printing Behjat Almasry produced his first edition on paper of thin cigarettes, later he produced several documentaries short films, and he was one of the pioneers of cinema in Syria

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