During the 1952 Egyptian revolution, the feudalist system was substituted with a nationalist ideology led by the Rais. This new government had impacted the film industry, in which many of the films produced were ‘social realist’ works depicting the real life of Egypt. Many of the films produced by Salah Abou Seif in 1952 were neorealism such as Master Hassan, which portrayed the difficulties of the different classes in Cairo. This system is said to be derived from the Italian neorealism, though it was not very successful as only a few films were produced.
