This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Kanaan Wasfy and Ahmed
Fouad for the 1969 Atef Salem Syrian film Women's Tailor
starring Shadia as Hoda. Plot summary: Sabr Effendi [Nehad Qali] was
working as a men's tailor but he had a big problem because he did not
keep up with fashions and refused to change his thinking to adapt to
them. His Wife Hoda, who worked at a magazine, suggested he change his
specialty and become a tailor for women instead of men so he could
succeed at his job.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1962 Hassan El-Seify
film Wife Killers Society based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Youssef El Sebai, cinematography by Fouad Abdel Malek and
starring Salah Zulfikar as Mahmoud. Disclaimer: No wives are killed
in this farce! Plot summary: A husband named Nuh Effendi and his
wife Om Abdou [Hussein Riad and Marie Munib] were constantly arguing.
The husband noticed everyone he knew was having the same problem so he
decided to start a secret Wife Killers Society in the building where
they lived. He insisted on evicting Mahmoud [Salah Zulfikar] and
Sayed Khal Mahmoud [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] who were living on the roof,
because they were late paying their rent.
Cast and crew: Hassan El-Seify, Salah Zulfikar, Hussein Riad,
Zahret al-Ola, Marie Munib, Zeinat Sedki, Khayria Ahmed, Abdel Moneim
Ibrahim, Hassan Fayek, Fouad Abdel Malek, Said Abu Bakr, Stephan
Rosti, Youssef El Sebai
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown artist for the 1963
El-Sayed Ziada film Forgive My Mistake based on a story by Aziz
Armani, screenplay and dialogue by El-Sayed Ziada, cinematography by
Zakaria Mansour and starring Samira Ahmed as Leila. Plot summary:
Hussein Mokhtar [Kamal Al-Shennawi] did not care about marriage until
he fell in love with a poor girl named Leila. Before marrying her he
discovered she was a prostitute. This broke his heart but because of
his love for her he forgave her, even though his mother tried to get
him to end his relationship with her. According to Egyptian film
encyclopedist Mahmoud Qasem this poster is for a rerelease with scenes
deleted and a title change of the 1962 film Take Me and My
Shame [khozni bi 'ari] directed by El Sayed Ziada. In both
versions of the film Samira Ahmed's character is a prostitute.
Cast and crew: Kamal Al-Shennawi, Zuzu Madi, Hassan Hamed, Wedad
Hamdy, Khayria Ahmed, Nahed Samir, Said Khalil, Ahmed Ghanem, Samira
Ahmed, El-Sayed Ziada, Zakaria Mansour, Aziz Armani
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1965 Muhammad Selman Lebanese musical The Youth and the Beauty
based on story and screenplay by Muhammad Salman and starring Sabah as
Nohad. Plot summary: Monir was raised by anxious parents. His mother
knew her husband was frequenting the apartment of the singer Nohad.
He tried to separate his father from Nohad. He went to the
establishment where his father worked at night to bring a quick end to
the affair; he played the role of the perfect lover with Nohad and
began to recover the money his father was spending on her. The father
returned home. The boy went back to Nohad and sensed that she was in
trouble, treating her daughter badly with an evil husband; he
sympathized with her. Nohad separated from her husband; Monir
explained to his parents what was happening and persuaded them to
allow him to marry her.
Cast and crew: Sabah, Muharram Fouad, Muhammad Selman, Nadia Hamdy,
Ibrahim El Chamat, Nadia Gamel, Hassan El-Meliguy, Rashid Alameh, Soad
Karim, Shafiq Hashem, Nadia Gamal, Hoda al-Soghayar, Saber Abu Laban
This is a 27.5" x 38.5" Egyptian poster by an unknown artist for
the 2006 Ashraf Fayek film Popular Side Story written by Ahmed
Abdulla and starring Nicola Saba. Plot summary: A woman who owned a
popular dancing and singing troupe was looking for one of her
daughters who had disappeared years earlier, but she died before she
could find her. However the members of the troupe found the girl in
the city of Sharm al-Sheikh, where she was working as a singer. The
girl was surprised that her people, for whom she had been looking all
her life, were also looking for her. Things changed after she went
back to the troupe to finish her career.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fayek, Nicola Saba, Talaat Zakaria, Saad El Soghayar, Mohamed Sharaf, Entesar, Sameh Hussein, Ghassan Matar, Ismail Ferghali, Amina, Reda Hamed, Souraya Ibrahim, Soheir El-Barouni, Ahmed Sami Abdulla
This an Egyptian 27" x 39" one-sheet poster designed by Amal and
Gasour for the 1981 Mohamed Khan film Dinner Date based on a
story by Mohammed Khan with screenplay and dialogue by Bachir El Dik
and Starring Soad Hosny as Nawal. The film is set in Alexandria
Egypt; Ahmed Zaki plays the part of hairdresser Shokri, who falls in
love with Nawal. Plot summary: Nawal is oppressed by her husband
Ezzat Abul-Rous [Hussein Fahmy]. She catches him with another woman
and demands a divorce on the spot, but he refuses. Nawal despairs and
eventually divorces Ezzat anyway, then Marries Shokri. Ezzat has
Shokri killed to get revenge. Nawal learns of Shokri's death when she
is called to a morgue to identify his corpse. In the final "dinner
date" scene Nawal pretends to be resigned to resuming life with Ezzat,
but she serves poisoned food. Both of them eat it and presumably die,
but the film only shows a sad conversation in which the two seem to
know this is their last meal. Dinner Date was remade in the UK
in 1985 as Claudia (aka Claudia's Story) by Anwar
Kawadri, starring Deborah Raffin.
Cast and crew: Zuzu Madi, Ragaa Al-Gidawy, Mohsen Nasr, Soad Hosny,
Hussein Fahmy, Ahmed Zaki, Mohamed Khan, Bachir El Dik, Mohsen Nasr,
Eglal Zaki, Hamdy Gheith, Zuzu Madi, Claudia, Anwar Kawadri
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour and Morteda
Anise for the 1982 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film The Balah Agency
written by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Nadia El Guindy as Nematollah.
Plot summary: Nematollah lived at the Balah Agency. She had married
most of the merchants and used her relationship with the important
employee Amgad, [Ahmed Louxor] who helped her learn the secrets of
bargaining. She did not hesitate to kill her competitors. Abdollah
[Mahmoud Yassine] came to the agency and went to work for Nematollah.
She liked him, married him and made him the boss of the agency in
charge of her affairs. This angered her former husband Abdoun
[Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] who had gone to work for her after his
bankruptcy. Abdollah discovered the truth about Nematollah and her
crimes. He left her, met Amgad's daughter Mervat, [Samia Al-Alfy]
married her and established a special agency with Amgad's help.
Nematollah tried to bring Abdollah back but he refused. She took
revenge against him by arranging to kill Amgad so no one would help
him when she got her assistants to steal Amgad's goods. Abdollah
thought of returning to her and asked her to confess to her crimes.
The police came and arrested Namatollah. Abdoun pick up an axe to
kill Abdollah with it out of revenge but Nematollah sacrificed herself
for him and met her demise.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian movie poster designed by Samira for the
1984 Mohamed Khan film Missing Person written by Assem Tawfiq,
starring Yehia El-Fakharany as Atia Abdel Khaleq and inspired by the
1958 H. E. Bates novel The Darling Buds of May. Mohamed
El-Assyouti wrote this plot summary on IMDB: "A culinary piece of
cinema. This humourous critique of dehumanisation in big-city life
depicts a depressed urban dweller who leaves for the countryside,
where he tries to sell a piece of land he has inherited. He is charmed
by the idyllic life, but has to keep up with the voracious appetites
of his hosts, who literally never stop eating, even waking up to
snack. He soon adapts to their eating habits but only after he is
taken to a hospital with severe indigestion due to his hosts'
generosity."
Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Assem Tawfiq, Tewfik El Dekn, Yehia
El-Fakharany, Laila Eloui, Farid Shawqi, Tarek El-Telmessani, Aida
Abdel Aziz, H.E. Bates
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist
to promote an undated rerelease of the 1947 Anwar Wagdi
musical Leila the Rich Girl, a remake of Frank Capra's
1934 It Happened One Night, with story by Anwar Wagdi,
screenplay and dialogue by Badei Khayri and starring Laila Mourad as
Leila. Plot summary: Leila was a pretty girl from a rich family who
had lost her mother. Her father Hassan Rostam Basha [Bechara Wakim]
was dominated by his bossy new wife Monira [Olwiyya Gamil]. Monira had
imposed the bridegroom Gamil [Said Abu Bakr] on Leila because he was
her nephew and she was planning to use him to get the money Leila
would be receiving from her father. However when Gamil approached
Leila during the wedding ceremony she pushed him away and ran out of
the proceedings immediately. The press was full of reports about the
search for the missing bride's car, which was damaged on a bridge and
fell into the water; one of Leila's shoes she had been wearing at the
wedding was found in the car. The journalist Wahid [Anwar Wagdi] went
to the village where the accident had taken place and found Leila's
other shoe. He was surprised by the sound of the enchanting voice of
a young girl sitting on the bank singing in a tortured tone of voice.
Wahid approached the girl because of her beauty and the sweetness of
her voice. One of the people in the village told him she was the
daughter of the village mayor [Abdel Hamid Zaki]. She was sick and
everyone at her house was waiting for a physician who was on the way
from Cairo. Wahid knocked on the door and claimed he was the doctor
from Cairo looking for the girl. Once he saw her he realized she was
not the one he had seen on the bridge. Wahid and the girl, who said
her name was Farhana, left the mayor's house. Then Wahid learned the
girl with him was really Leila, the runaway bride everyone thought had
been killed because her loose shoes had been found. Back in Cairo
Wahid convinced Leila's father she was still alive by taking him to
the farmer's home where she was hiding. At first Leila thought Wahid
did not love her and was planning to take her back to the misery she
had been fleeing in exchange for reward money; instead Wahid was
finally able to awaken the conscience of Leila's father and make him
aware of the conspiratorial plans of his bossy wife and her nephew.
The basha divorced Monira publicly and Leila immediately went back to
Wahid, who was waiting nearby.
Cast and crew: Frank Capra, Badei Khayri, Abdelhalim Nasr, Olwiyya
Gamil, Bechara Wakim, Hassan Fayek, Said Abu Bakr, Abdel Hamid Zaki,
Abdel Nabi Mohammed, Reyad El Kasabgy, Laila Mourad, Anwar Wagdi
This is a 26.5" x 38.25" Egyptian poster for the 2007 Mohamed Khan
film In the Heliopolis Flat based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Wessam Soliman and starring Ghada Adel as Nagwa Nour.
Plot Summary: Nagwa was a student from Minia attending a school on the
coast who became friends with Abla Tahani, a music teacher who was
fired from her job. Nagwa continued to write to Abla Tahani about
music and new songs, but a long time passed and Abla Tahani did not
answer Nagwa's letters. When Nagwa was in Cairo on a trip with her
colleagues she had a great desire to see Abla Tahani to see how she
was doing, but when she went to Abla's Heliopolis address she found
someone else named Yehia [Khaled Abol Nega] living there. Yehia did
not know anything about Abla Tahani. Abla went to see Yehia more than
once, then took the train back to the coast. These visits led Yehia to
his own investigation about Tahani.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Wessam Soliman, Ghada Adel, Youssef
Daoud, Khaled Abol Naga, Marwa Hussein, Nancy Abdel-Fattah, Wessam
Soliman, Aida Riad, Ahmed Rateb, Asma Youssef, Naser Mohamed Ali,
Mohammad Neshat
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1989
Mohammed Shebl film Nightmare written by Sami Rafe and Mohammed
Shebl and starring Youssra as Mervat. Plot summary: Mervat, a
journalist, was having daily nightmares. The nightmares all had a
common theme where a gang of criminals kidnapped her and put her in a
bedroom in an abandoned mansion. When she woke up she would find
signs of the nightmare struggle on her body. Her fiancee Yehia [Ahmed
Abdel Aziz] was eager to help her. He told Mervat about a real
mansion similar to one he had seen in a dream; he tried to work
through the problem with her by taking her to the real mansion so she
would be able to escape that night if she had the same nightmare
again, especially if she learned that the prominent figure in the
nightmare and the owner of the abandoned mansion was one of her uncles
who were getting rich by smuggling weapons. Yehia and one of his
brothers took her to the mansion and let her in.
Cast and crew: Youssra, Mohammed Shebl, Ahmed Abdelaziz, Khairy
Beshara, Sami Rafe, Nahed Samir, Tarek El-Telmessani, Tamim Abdo,
Kheiry Beshara, Hossam Fayyad, Salah Hamdi, Ali Farid, Mahmoud Alwan,
Rafat Ragi, Hussein El-Sherif, Nabila Karam, Marwah El Khatib, Amira
Khaled Haroun
This is a 35" x 61" original three-piece stone litho Egyptian poster
designed by Marcel for the 1962 Salah Abouseif film Letter from an
Unknown Woman starring Farid Al Atrache as Ahmed Sameh. Plot
summary: The musician Ahmed Sameh received a letter on the evening of
his birthday. He was used to receiving flowers every birthday but this
time he was reading a letter from a woman he did not know. Her name
was Amal [Lobna Abdel Aziz] and she lived in front of him in his old
home. She loved him without him knowing about it; she seldom saw him
or had any reason to go into his home, but she knew his servant
Ibrahim. However her mother had to get married and moved to another
city. From time to time Amal looked at the home of her beloved who
did not know her. One day he stopped his car for her, took her to his
home and she became pregnant by him, but he forgot her because she was
just another girl to him. He lived the life of a musician. Amal
worked in an office. The owner of the office offered to marry her but
he knew there was another man in her life so he left her alone. Amal
met her beloved one night but he did not remember her. He avoided her
son but one day the son was hurt in a collision with a bus. The
doctor said the type of blood the injured boy needed was rare. Amal
was obliged to send her letter to Ahmed Sami, who came to the hospital
on the evening of his birthday. He gave the blood to his son and
married Amal after he realized how long she had loved him. This film
was directed by Salah Abouseif based on the 1922 novella of the same
title by Stefan Zweig, which was also the basis for a 1948 movie with
the same title starring Joan Fontaine.
Cast and crew: Farid Al Atrache, Lobna Abdel Aziz, Amina Rizk,
Marie Munib, Salah Abouseif, Ezzat El Alaili, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim,
Fakher Fakher, Hussein al-Sayed, Abdel Ghani Nagdi, Mary Ezzedine,
Nawal Abul Foutouh, Fatthy Zaky, Wafia Khayry, El Sayed Bedeir, Aly
Hassan, Stefan Zweig
This is a 27" x 39" Egytian poster designed by Morteda Anise for the
1986 Ashraf Fahmy film Naked Shame based on a story by Naguib
Mahfouz with screenplay and dialogue by Mostafa Moharram and starring
Youssra as Elham. Plot summary: After being sentenced to a prison
term in an indecency case Aziza [Hoda Soltan] of Alexandria admitted
to her son Mokhtar [Nour El-Sherif] that his father was the wealthy
Sayed Al-Gamei; she gave him his picture and her marriage contract
with him. Mokhtar went to Cairo to look for his father. He published
a photo of his father in the newspapers a number of times without
result. He got into relationships with Karima, [Shahira] a clerk at
his hotel and the wife of an old man named Khalil Mokhtar [Mohammed
Tawfik] and also with Elham. Mokhtar killed Khalil for his money to
please Karima. Karima had another lover who killed her for her money,
but Mokhtar, who because of circumstances was thought by the police to
be the one who had murdered her, was wrongly arrested and sentenced to
death.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Naguib Mahfouz, Mostafa Moharram,
Ramses Marzouk, Nour El-Sherif, Youssra, Youssef Chaban, Shahira,
Mohammed Tawfik, Hoda Soltan, Ahmed Ghanem, Naima Al Soghayar, Mariam
Fakhr Eddine, Hassan Hussein
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anise for the
1992 Ahmed Yehia film Samara the Prince based on a story by
Naguib Mahfouz and starring Nabila Ebeid as Shalabia/Samara. Plot
Summary: Shalabia, a beautiful country girl, moved from her village to
work as a maid in a pasha's palace in Alexandria. However she fell in
love with the pasha's opportunist driver Ali [Mahmoud Hemida] and made
the other maids jealous. One of them told the pasha about their
relationship so he would fire them both. He took advantage of the
opportunity to exploit his lover Shalabia in the acquisition of much
wealth for his illegitimate purposes. He swept her out with the trash
after using her as a dancer at the Al-Faramawy Nightclub and promising
to marry her while he was improving his financial situation. Shalabia
learned the art of dancing and changed her name to Samara the Prince
to increase her fame among the wealthy people who frequented the
nightclub. Her fans who showered her with wealth multiplied. They
included Marwan Amin the nationalist journalist, Mr. Faw the English
stockbroker and Mehdi Pasha, a prominent politician. When Samara the
Prince met the tax agent Omar Abdel Awi she found in him a life
partner and married him hoping to begin an honorable life without
depravity. She tried to quit the night life but her first lover Ali
refused to allow this because he wanted to keep stealing her money.
Ali decided she had to return to her work as a dancer. Her husband
Omar negotiated for a divorce in return for a sum of money but when
Ali failed to win the argument with Omar he killed him to punish
Samara.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Ahmed Yehia, Wahid Seif, Youseff
Daoud, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Hamdy Ghayth, Nabila
Ebeid, Mahmoud Hemida, Ramses Marzouk, Mostafa Moharram, Mohammad
Tawfik, Sanaa Shafei, Ahmad Mostafa, Umran Bahar, Howeida Omran, Ahmed
Abu Abih, Osman Al-Hamamsi
This is a 23.5" x 35" Egyptian poster designed by Al-Zaria for the
1942 film Leila the Schoolgirl written and directed by Togo
Mizrahi and starring Laila Mourad as Leila. Plot summary: Youssef
[Youssef Wahby] is a famous attorney who welcomes his orphan cousin
Leila into his mansion after she completes her studies. Leila brings
happiness to the mansion. This changes Youssef and makes him happy,
but he falls in love with an unfaithful woman. Leila tries to correct
her, but Youssef believes Leila is the one who has a lover and he
throws her out of his house.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1986 Mohamed Khan
film Omar's Journey based on a story by Mohamed Khan and Raouf
Tawfiq and starring Farouk Al-Fichawy. Plot Summary: Omar [Farouk
Al-Fichawy] lives dependent on his father the wealthy Al-Gawahargi
[Mohamed Reda]. His father wants him to deliver a bag of jewels to a
colleague in Tanta. On the way he runs out of gas. A worker also
named Omar [Mamdouh Abd El Aleem] at a rural gas station tries to help
him refuel but uses the wrong type. While they are trying to solve
this problem a driver [Ahmad Abdel Waress] who had agreed to provide
the correct type of fuel arrives in a big yellow dump truck and beats
up Omar. The two Omars later continue the trip after picking up a
local prostitute named Negah [Mediha Kamel] who is on her way to Port
Said. With nothing to deliver in Tanta, they change the itinerary to
take Negah to Port Said. When they stop at a restaurant for food they
see the thieves in the bathroom and get into a brief inconclusive
fight. Then they continue, driving at night. That night the first
Omar and Negah sleep together when they stop at a hotel; then they
continue the trip. On the way they are attacked again by the same
thieves with the big yellow truck, who steal the jewelry and the car
and abandon the truck. The three of them continue to Suez in the
truck. There they find Omar's stolen automobile abandoned and wrecked
by the road on a rocky beach. Negah and the second Omar continue in
the truck, leaving the first Omar with the wrecked automobile. Negah
gets out of the truck and hitches a ride with another truck driver
after the two of them argue. She immediately begins coming on to her
new driver; the film ends with the first Omar sitting sadly in his
useless automobile. A radio is playing.
Cast and crew: Ahmad Abdel Waress, Mohamed Reda, Mamdouh Abd El
Aleem, Ahmed Bedir, Zahrat El-Ola, Madiha Kamel, Farouk Al-Fichawy,
Mohamed Khan, Tarek El-Telmessani, Raouf Tawfiq, Youcef Rajai, Samia
Al-Alfy, Ismail Mahmoud, Osman Abdel Moneim, Hanem Mohamed, Zakaria
Mouafi, Hosny Abdul Jalil, Ahdey Sadek, Ahmed Abu Abih, Mohamed
Al-Dardiri, Magdy Ahmed Aly, Hanan Youssef
This is a 24.25" by 35.75" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly for
the 1952 Ibrahim Helmi film Ten from the Country AKA ashara
baladi based on a story by Gamal Hamdi and starring Mohammad Amin
as himself. Plot summary: This is a farce where a rich man named
Abdel Fatah [Abdel Fatah Al Kasri] falls in love with Hoda, [Hoda
Shamseddine] one of the dancers at his cabaret. One day two men
[Mohammad Amin and Ismail Yasseen] offer to sell him love insurance,
but Mohammad Amin has an ulterior motive.
Cast and crew: Ibrahim Helmi, Zeinat Sedki, Mohammad Amin, Ismail
Yasseen, Klelio, Gamal Hamdi, Hoda Shamseddine, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri,
Mohamed El-Tabei, Fatheya Fouad, Mimi Aziz
