During his long career Chahine produced different movies, including Aly Badrakhan's "Chafika et Metwal" (1979). His early films in Egypt included "Raging Sky" (1953), which begun while Farouk was still King and dealing with a peasant farmer's challenge to a feudal landlord. In 1992 Jacques Lassalle approached him to stage a piece of his choice for Comédie-Française. Chahine agreed and chose to adapt Albert Camus' "Caligula." The same year he started writing "The Emigrant" (1994), a story inspired by the Biblical character of Joseph, son of Jacob.