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Director Adnan Ahmed Al-Ramahi is one of the first founders of Jordanian television, and one of the pioneers of dramatic directing in the Arab world. He won the State Appreciation Award for the Arts in Jordan in 2014, and the Best Arab Directing Award at the Fourth Arab Television Festival in Tunisia in 1988 for his feature film “Bitter Tenderness.” It is the first Arab cinematic attempt to address the culture of dealing with people with disabilities in Arab society. Starring Mona Wassef.
His most important works
The series “Bab Al-Amoud Hotel” 1969: It is the first series produced in Jordan as a dramatic attempt to address the Arab resistance in occupied Jerusalem, by Hani Al-Romani, Qamar Al-Safadi, Nabil Sawalha, and Muhammad Al-Abadi.
The series “A Girl from Nishapur” 1971; It deals with the story of Omar Khayyam, the Assassins, and political assassination, starring Nidal Al-Ashqar and Roger Assaf, with a soundtrack by Mounir Bashir.
“The Necklace and the Mute” series; It deals with the story of the Battle of Ain Goliath, starring Abdullah Ghaith and Ahmed Marei, the hero of the movie The Mummy by Shadi Abdel Salam.
“Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra” series, 1973; The first color series produced on Jordanian television starring Nidal Al-Ashqar, Nadim Sawalha, Salma Al-Masry, Rashid Assaf, and Al-Tayeb Al-Siddiqi 1973
The documentary series “Islamic Antiquities and Arts” 1981; Which was filmed in 200 locations in Yemen, Morocco, Turkey, Algeria and Saudi Arabia.
“Life in the Divine Garden”; About cave drawings in the Sub-Saharan Africa and their guards, the Tuareg men.
“The Journey of the Winter”; On the transfer of the façade of the Umayyad Mushatta Desert Palace in 1912, from the Jordanian Desert to the Islamic Museum in Pergamon in Berlin.
His upbringing, studies and life
Director Adnan Ahmed Al-Ramahi was born in 1939 in the city of Lod in Palestine. He completed his primary education in Ramallah and Irbid, and his preparatory and secondary education at Maadi Model School in Cairo. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in cinematic art from the Academy of Cinema and Television in Babelsberg - Germany in 1965, and presented his film The first was “Rehearsal” for the Brecht Theater in Berlin, then he worked as a director on German television until 1968, and during this period he directed his first feature film, “Wisdom No. 4.” He worked as a director on Jordanian television from 1968-1977, then as an executive director and producer for UAE television. And other countries. In 1990, he immigrated to Germany and founded a television production company in the Media City in Leipzig, in partnership with Central German Television and Cinamedia Film Production and Distribution Company, the largest German production companies in Munich. He ended his company's work in 2014 and devoted himself full time to working as a director, producer, and trainer for making documentary films. He trained at Al-Quds College: Australian Media Institute and at the Jordanian Media Institute (2015).
the beginning
On April 27, 1968, the first day of broadcast on Jordanian television, his first Jordanian television documentary, “Twenty Years,” appeared on the screen, which presents the daily suffering of the Palestinian person in the Karama camp in the Jordan Valley after the Nakba of 1967. Among the most important plays and musical performances that he recorded for Jordanian television during that period were the play “Rasputin” with Youssef Wehbe, Amina Rizk and Imad Hamdi, the ballet “Romeo and Julia” with the Bolshoi International Ballet, and the play “Memoirs of a Madman” by Gogol, directed by him, and the play is an adaptation. Acted and produced by Nabil Sawalha, and “The Black Tents” by the Lebanese band Caracalla. During this period, he directed “Hooks and Swords,” the first attempt by a Jordanian television singer about the Battle of Karameh, composed and music by the Jordanian Radio Music Band and written by Haider Mahmoud. In 1975, Adnan Al Ramahi was chosen to cover and document the official visits of the late King Hussein bin Talal, and under his supervision, filming teams from television stations from Japan, Australia, Canada, and America worked in Tokyo, Kyoto, Sydney, Manila, Tehran, Damascus, London, Ottawa, Washington, Los Angeles, and Chicago. This coverage contains documents and footage that show the great love and respect that Hussein, the man and the king, found everywhere in the world.
His works
His most important documentaries
The number of documentaries he wrote and directed reached 43, in Jordan and Germany, including:
in Jordan
“Islamic Antiquities and Arts” series, consisting of 26 films.
“Jordan” was filmed on 35 mm, edited and installed in London, and the film focused on Jordan’s civilizational achievements.
“Men’s Factory” 35 mm.
The Great Arab Revolt “The Challenge and the Throne”.
“Jordan Valley.”
“Hejaz Railway”.
“Pictures on the walls.”
“The drum in the grave.”
Uses of solar energy in Jordan: “Challenge and reality.”
“Environmental pollution in Jordan.”
“The needle is the daughter of the needle” about Jordanian and Palestinian fashion.
In Germany
“Rehearsal” 35 mm, graduation film from the Film Academy in Potsdam 1964 by Brecht Theater - Berlin.
“Sallin” 35 mm.
“Off” 35 mm.
“Life in Divine Paradise” In this film, drawings of caves found in the Sahara Desert in Tassili N’Ajjer, Algeria, dating back to 8000 years BC, and the Tuareg tribes who guard these caves appear.
“The Unknown Neighbor” is about the problem of Arab integration into German society.
“Bunyan” about civil societies in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.
“Borsa” is a pilot film for a documentary series about the Turkish economic rise at the beginning of the third millennium (2013).
His most important cinematic and television films
“Wisdom Number Four”; A 35 mm feature film he directed for German television in 1966.
The movie “Dreams Without Credit”; About the collapse of family values and the spread of materialistic values in a society of upstarts.
The film “Bitter Tenderness”; Produced by Jordanian Television, starring Mona Wassef, Iman Hayel, Rabih Zaytoun, and Muhammad Al-Qabbani.
“Claudia’s Story”; A British film filmed in London, directed by Anwar Qawadri, and supervised by Adnan Al Ramahi.
The most important TV series
He directed 18 series, the most important of which are:
“Bab al-Amoud Hotel.”
“A maid from Nishapur”; Starring Nidal Al-Ashqar, Roger Assaf, Nabil Al-Mashini, and Hisham Henedy.
“The Necklace and the Mute”; Starring Abdullah Ghaith and Ahmed Marei (the hero of the movie The Mummy by Shadi Abdel Salam).
“Imru’ al-Qais.”
“Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra”; Starring Nidal Al-Ashqar, Hassan Mansour, Nadim Sawalha, Salma Al-Masry, Rashid Assaf, and Al-Tayeb Al-Siddiqi.
“Between fact and fiction”; Presented by Laila Rostom.
“The Return of Zaybak”; Starring Sabah Al-Jazairi.
"Story and a lesson"; Starring Rachid Assaf.
“The Great Dawn”; Starring Muhammad Al-Qabbani.
“Al-Ghadeer”; Starring Mahmoud Saeed.
“Nizar Qabbani” series: his life and poetry; Accompanying the late poet in Beirut and Damascus, and the Jordanian Television studios in Amman.
Arab and international festivals and participations
Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival, Germany 1965, 1966 and 1971.
Oberhausen International Documentary Film Festival, Germany 1966.
Moscow International Feature Film Festival 1972.
Tashkent Film Festival in 1976.
Festival and Forum of Archaeologists and Documentary Filmmakers in Algeria 1982.
Berlin Film Festival, Berlinale 1998 and 2002.
Cairo Film Festival 2003.
Arab and international awards
Certificate of appreciation for the graduation film “The Rehearsal” from the Oberhausen International Documentary Film Festival.
Best Arab Director Award for the film “Bitter Tenderness” at the Fourth Arab Television Festival in Tunisia in 1988.
State Appreciation Award for Arts in Jordan in 2014.
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