The Sin [الحرام] - (Faten Hamama) - (1965)

The Sin [al-haram] (Faten Hamama) (1969) Egyptian stone litho film poster

Pictured is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Studio Marcel to promote the 1965 96-minute Henry Barakat black-and-white film The Sin [al-haram] starring Faten Hamama with screenplay and dialogue by Sa'd al-Din Wahba and cinematography by Dia El-Mahdy.

This film is beautifully made by one of Egypt's great directors. It is on film critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films; it is based on a novel by Youssef Idris. In a 1984 survey by Al-Fonoon magazine it was voted one of the ten best films in the history of Egyptian cinema. Plot summary from Wikipedia: Azizah [Faten Hamama], a poor peasant, portrays worker oppression in this somber social drama. She gets savagely raped by a guard when she goes into the fields to gather potatoes. She does not reveal what has happened to her husband [Abdallah Gheith] who is suffering from an illness. She conceals the pregnancy and throttles the baby after it is born. She also dies soon thereafter. The migrant workers rally around her memory as she becomes a martyr to the cause of the struggling peasants.

Cast and crew: Faten Hamama, Henry Barakat, Zaki Rostom, Abdallah Gheith, Youssef Idris, Sa'd al-Din Wahba, Ahmed Dia Al-Mahdi, Hassan el Baroudi, Abdel Alim Khattab, Hassan Mustafa, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Dia El-Mahdy, Kawsar al-Asal, Mohammad Shawqi, Kheiri al-Qalyoubi, Lutfi Abdel Hamid, Kawsar Shafiq, Sami Sarhan

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The Price of Freedom ثمن الحرية (Mahmoud Moursy) - (1964) Egyptian one-sheet

The Price of Freedom (1964) - (Mahmoud Moursy) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly and Abdel Rahman to promote the 1964 81-minute Nour El-Demerdash black-and-white film The Price of Freedom starring Mahmoud Moursy adapted for cinema by Naguib Mahfouz from the 1948 play Montserrat by Emmanuel Robles based on an Arabic translation done in Lebanon by Sohail Idris. The screenplay was done by Lutfy El-Kholy and Tulba Radwan and cinematography was by Masud Isa. The components of the story are taken directly from the original play with changes of name and locale to suit the Egyptian environment. Plot summary: During the British occupation of Egypt (1882-1956) there was a secret organization led by a young fighter named Ahmed Abdel Hafiz. The organization was opposed to the occupying forces. The British governor ordered an Egyptian officer to find the chief of the organization quickly. If this could not be done it would be necessary to arrest the first six people to pass on the street in front of the office and kill them by firing squad. The officer was not able to find the fighter so six people were arrested, including a cart driver, a merchant who had left a dinner party for his wedding, a student whose brother had died as a martyr during his resistance to the occupation, a mother who was returning to her small children who had no one but her and were waiting for her return at the time, and a pretty girl who was singing a Sayed Darwish patriotic tune. The randomly arrested bystanders were left alone with the Egyptian officer and told they had one hour to persuade him to divulge the location of Ahmed Abdel Hafiz. When this did not produce the desired results, the British officer prepared to shoot the innocents, but before doing that he shot and killed the Egyptian officer. The multiple venues where this play has appeared in film and on stage were traced by Nehad Selaiha for Al-Ahram Weekly on 20 February 2013.

Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Nour El-Demerdash, Masud Isa, Mahmoud Moursy, Abdallah Gheith, Karima Mokhtar, Salah Mansour, Ahmed Al-Gezeiry, Nahed Samir, Ahmed Abaza, Hamed Morsi, Masud Isa, Faiza Fouad, Kamal Yasseen, Mohammed Tawfik, Hamed Moursy, Mahmoud al-Hadini, Sabri Abdel Aziz, Mohammed Abaza, Sayed al-Rais, Gamil Ezzedine, Mohamed Yahya Soleyman, Emmanuel Robles, Lutfy El-Kholy, Tulba Radwan, Sohail Idris, Ahmed al-Hamaqi

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No Time for Love لا وقت للحب (Faten Hamama) - (1963) Egyptian one-sheet

No Time for Love (1963) - (Faten Hamama) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Ahmad Hamed to promote the 1963 111-minute Salah Abuseif black-and-white film No Time for Love [la waqt lil-hob] starring Faten Hamama and Rushdy Abaza based on a story by Youssef Idris with dialogue by Youssef Idris, screenplay by Lucien Lamber and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: This is a story set in the time of the 1952 Cairo fire and revolt against the English, beautifully filmed on carefully constructed, historically accurate sets. Faten Hamama as Fawzia and Rushdy Abaza as Hamza are in a romantic relationship as they collaborate to bomb the English while evading retaliation.

Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Faten Hamama, Abdallah Gheith, Salah Abouseif, Youssef Idris, Lucien Lamber, Abelhalim Nasr, Salah Jahine, Ahmed Tewfik, Abdel Aziz Makyawi, Ibrahim Fawz, Kheiry Al-Qalyoubi, Esmat Mahmoud, Badr Nofal, Hassan Hosny

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