This is a 27" x39" Egyptian rereleae one-sheet poster for the 1938
Mohamed Abdel Gawad film The Life of Christ based on a
screenplay by Taha Hussein. Plot summary: The film follows the life
of Christ as told in the New Testament.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Taha Hussein, Aziza Helmy,
Ahmed Alam, Samiha Ayyoub, Abdel Alim Khattab, Salah Sarhan, Tewfik El
Dekn, Saad Ardash, Stephan Rosti, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Fawzia Ibrahim,
Afaf Shaker
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour and Morteda
Anise for a 1978 film biography of Taha Husayn. The film was directed by
Atef Salem based on a story by Kamal al-Malakh with screenplay and
dialogue by D. Rafiq al-Saban, Samir Abdel Azeem and Moussa Sabry;
cinematography was by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: Taha Husayn was
born in poverty in upper Egypt in the province of Al-Mina. He became
blind because of the poverty and ignorance that were prevalent in
society, but he learned how to overcome the problems of blindness, how
to compensate for it with hearing, how to succeed with books and even
how to get admitted to Al-Azhar University and succeed with his
studies there. He later became a candidate for literature studies in
the city of Montpelier France while he was on a government mission
there. He went there with his brother who looked after him and helped
him deal with adverse circumstances. He met his lifetime French
friend Susan, who helped him with reading. Love developed between them
while he was studying for his doctorate and they married after he
received his diploma. In Cairo Taha Husayn was appointed professor
and then dean at a university. He then became minister of education
and waged an intellectual struggle with the people in the government
to make education free for all people.
Cast and crew: Atef Salem, Hamdy Ahmed, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Taha
Husayn, Mahmoud Yassine, Yehia El-Fakharany, Abdel Alim Khattab,
Ibrahim Saleh, Yolande Folliot, Kamal al-Malakh, D. Rafiq al-Saban,
Samir Abdel Azeem, Moussa Sabry, Ibrahim Saleh, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim,
Salama Elias, Farouk Youssef, Hussein El-Sherbini, Abdel Ghani
Al-Nagdi, Fakry Azer, Nader Nour, Adib Tarablos, Mohammad
al-Shourbagy, Adawi Gheith, Mahmoud Rashad, Sayed Madbouli, Rafiq
Fahmy, Abdel Moneim al-Nemr, Ahmed Omar
Pictured is a first printing of a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed
by Mohammad Abdel Aziz to promote the 1964 90-minute Houssam El-Din
Mustafa black-and-white film The Three Devils [al-shayatin
al-thalatha] starring Rushdy Abaza based on a story idea from Lucien
Lambert with screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Kamel Abdel Salam and
Behgat Kamar and cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot summary:
Prisoners are breaking up rocks at Abu Zaabal Prison. Saadawi [Rushdy
Abaza] is serving time for murder, Fatouh Madaan [Hassan Youssef] for
selling narcotics and Azab [Ahmed Ramzy] for fighting with a fish
merchant. When their sentences are served, before release they swear
to live peaceful lives, especially Azab, who loves Zeinab [Nawal Abdul
Fotouh] and plans to marry her after telling her family he will be
taking a trip abroad. Azab asks the fish merchant Abdel Razeq [Abdel
Alim Khattab] to return to him his automobile, which he has left with
him while in prison. Abdel Razeq refuses and he and his men beat up
Azab. The three friends meet Hamdia [Berlanty Abdel Hamid], a woman
who owns a fishing boat in Suez. Like the other fishermen, she
suffers from the domination of Abdel Razeq, who has a monopoly on the
shipping of fish to Cairo. The three friends try to establish an
understanding with him but the only language he understands is the
language of force and violence. They work with Hamdia and Shalabi,
Zeinab's father, buy a new truck for transporting the fish and begin a
freelance business doing this. Abdel Razeq and his men burn the truck
but Saadawy has insured it so he buys another one. Abdel Razeq and
his men then stash narcotics in the fish the three men are shipping to
Cairo thinking they belong to Hamdia. Meanwhile the police have been
watching Abdel Razeq's gang while they are taking the narcotics to
shore using Hamdia's boat. After a big fight they arrest Abdel Razeq
and his men.
Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Ahmad Ramzy, Hassan Youssef, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Berlanty Abdel Hamid, Behgat Kamar, Mohamed Kamel Abdel Salam, Lucien Lambert, Nawal Abdul Foutouh, Abdel Alim Khattab, Nasr Seif, Mohamed Sabih, Hussein Ismail, Mohamed al-Tukhi
Pictured is a 23.5" x 35.5" first printing of an Egyptian poster designed by
Dimitri, Studio Adly and Meftah to promote the 1951 111-minute Kamal
Attia black-and-white film The Much-Loved One [habaebi ketir]
starring Ragaa Abdou with story and dialogue by Abdel Aziz Salam and
cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: The musician Nabila
[Ragaa Abdou] paid no attention to the admirers who gathered around
her every day. Nabila lived only for her art and did not care for
anything but her art and singing. Then a young man named Raouf who
managed an advertising company [Kamal Al-Shennawi] appeared in her
life and tried to tear down the walls Nabila had built around herself.
He succeeded and she fell in love with him, but her wicked brother
Farid [Farid Shawqi] did not like this because he had been planning
for her to marry a wealthy man named Ghandur Bey [Abdel Ghani
al-Nagdi]. The two of them fought over this; Nabila finally prevailed
and married the one she loved.
Cast and crew: Ragaa Abdou, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Magda, Farid Shawqi, Ismail Yasseen, Kamal Attia, Bruno Salvi, Abdel Aziz Salam, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Hassan Kamel, Fathia Chahine, Soad Ahmed, Gamalat Zayed, Abdel Alim Khattab, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Samir Ezzat, Souraya Fakhry, Ibrahim Fawzi, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Gihane
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
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Khalil and Hassan
Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1967 Kamal El Sheikh film The
Saboteurs [al-mokharibun] starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Ahmed
Mazhar based on a story by Ibrahim El-Bady with screenplay by Hassan
Ramzy and Fathy Zaky, dialogue by Moussa Sabry and cinematography by
Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: This film is authentic Egyptian
urban noir. Engineer Adel [Ahmed Mazhar] was framed in a
construction fraud case, convicted of the crime and imporisoned. Adel
escaped from prison, found the ones who had framed him, turned them
over to the police and got himself acquitted.
Cast and crew: Kamal El Sheikh, Lobna Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Mazhar, Omar El-Hariri, Leila Fawzi, Hassan Ramzy, Mahmoud Nasr, Ibrahim El-Bady, Fathy Zaky, Moussa Sabry, Adel Adham, Abdel Alim Khattab, Rashuan Tewfik, Hussein El-Sherbini, Wagih Eskandar, Hussein Assar, Samir Walieddine, Nabil al-Ashari, Abbas Rahmy, Lutfy Ahmed al-Sirafi
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Marcel to promote the
1965 Abbas Kamel 109-minute color and black-and-white film Wisdom and Money [al-aql wal-mal]
starring Ismail Yasseen based on a story by Ezzedin Aref with
screenplay and dialogue by Abbas Kamel and cinematography by Mahmoud
Nasr. Plot summary: Fakhreddine [Ismail Yasseen] believed love was
the foundation for everything and he bet his friend [Tewfik El Dekn] he could live
happily with his beloved Shamsolasil, but his friend told him money
was the basis for everything because with money one could buy other
people and the needs of the people. When Fakhreddine saw his beloved
he told her he was going to marry her and told her about the bet he
had made with his friend about whether wisdom was better than money.
Shams gave him a novel and asked him to read it. The story was about
a man who wasted his money because he was unwise. After reading the
novel Fakhreddine concluded that wisdom is attractive in life but one
must also hang on to one's money.
Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Mahmoud Nasr, Abbas Kamel, Hassan Fayek, Tewfik El Dekn, Madiha Kamel, Abdel Alim Khattab, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Ibrahim Khan, Tarub, Mohammad Shawky, Kamel Anwar, Zaki Ibrahim, Anwar Mohamed, Hussein Ismail, Aly Kamel, Zeinab Alawy, Qatquta, Kitty, Kawsar al-Asal, Abdel Nabi Mohamed, Khaled Agabani, Soheir Magdi
Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Khalil to
promote the 1959 100-minute Mohamed Abdel Gawad black-and-white
film A Kiss in the Night [qabbelni fil-zalam] starring Hind
Rostom based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohammed Abdel Gawad
with cinematography by Klelio. Plot summary: Aziz married an
aristocratic girl named Lola, but they soon soon had a disagreement
that ended in divorce. Lola's father Abdel Hamid lost his wallet
containing money and important papers. Hussein found it and returned
it to him intact despite his proverty, then he refused the money Abdel
Hamid offered him as a reward. Lola began courting him so she could
forget her life with Aziz and she asked him to work for her to keep
her from going back to her husband. Then she backed off, but Hussein
remained interested. Abdel Hamid saw Hussein's honesty and dedication
to his work. Lola decided to behave as if Hussein was her husband but
she had an episode of jealousy when he got close to her cousin. Over
time Lola became sure of her feelings and her love for Hussein, and
her father Abdel Hamid agreed to let her marry him.
This is an undated rerelease Egyptian poster made by an unknown
designer to promote the 1970 Abdel Moneim Shoukry 88-minute
black-and-white film I Love You Sweetie [bahebak ya helwa]
starring Nahed Sherif based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ahmed
Abdel Wahab with cinematography by Abdel Moneim Bahnassy. Plot
summary: This is a burlesque romantic comedy set in the city of Luxor
involving three men who are occupying an apartment on falsified terms
while looking for women and more stable housing. There is a lot of
adapted American hit music in the soundtrack, primarly from the
repertoire of Herb Alpert.
Cast and crew: Nahid Sherif, Adel Imam, Hassan Youssef, Hassan Mostafa, Abdel Moneim Shoukry, Amira, Ahmed Abdel Wahab, Abdel Moneim Bahnassy, Salama Elias, Abdel Alim Khattab, Esmat Rafat
This film is based on the 1929 Jean Giono novel Un de
Baumugnes, and the 1934 film Angele based on the same
novel directed by Marcel Pagnol and starring Orane Demazis as Angele
Barbaroux. It was directed by Hassan Ramzi with screenplay by Hassan
Ramzi and Naguib Mahfouz, cinematography by Victor Antoun.
Plot Summary: Zeinab believed it was her right to choose her
husband but her father the mayor arranged a marriage to her cousin
against her wishes. Zeinab ran away and her cousin decided he would
kill her if he found her. Zeinab went to Cairo where she met a young
physician who gave her shelter. They fell in love and agreed to marry
in three years after he returned from an assignment in Europe.
However he came home drunk one night and raped her. In the morning he
was unable to explain to her his decision to marry her. He left and
she thought he had fled after deceiving her. She left the house and
went to live with one of the doctor's friends, who treated her as a
sister. They joined a singing group that toured the Arab nations.
When the physician returned he tried to find Zeinab so he could marry
her but no one could say where she was. She was living with the
physician's friend outside Cairo where she had her baby and was
raising the child. She learned from the newspapers that he had become
a representative for the hospital in her town. She decided to return
to Cairo to ask him to acknowledge his son. When she met him he was
confused to learn he had a son. He emphasized he would acknowledge
him but he asked her to give him time. She believed he was fleeing
from her. Suddenly her family summoned him to help her dying father.
She went with him and asked his forgiveness. The father died and the
cousin decided to kill her, but he changed his mind in the end because
of her sister's pleading, and she finally returned to her town. The
physician's friend mediated between Zeinab and the physician and
harmony was restored between them.
Cast and crew: Hassan Ramzi, Shadia, Shukry Sarhan, Zaki Rostom, Kariman, Ferdoos Mohammed, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Victor Antoun, Abdel Alim Khattab, Naguib Mahfouz, Mohamed Sabih, Jean Giono, Marcel Pagnol, Orane Demazis, Angele Barbaroux
Conqueror of Darkness [qaher al-zullam] (1978) - (Mahmoud Yassine) Egyptian film poster
This is a poster for a film biography of Taha Husayn, designed by
Gasour and Anis. The film was directed by Atef Salem based on a story
by Kamal al-Malakh with screenplay and dialogue by D. Rafiq al-Saban,
Samir Abdel Azeem and Moussa Sabry; cinematography was by Ibrahim
Saleh. Plot summary: Taha Husayn was born in poverty in upper Egypt
in the province of Al-Mina. He became blind because of the poverty and
ignorance that were prevalent in society, but he learned how to
overcome the problems of blindness, how to compensate for it with
hearing, how to succeed with books and even how to get admitted to
Al-Azhar University and succeed with his studies there despite the
problems. He later became a candidate for literature studies in the
city of Montpelier France while he was on a government mission there.
He went there with his brother who looked after him and helped him
deal with adverse circumstances. He met his lifetime French friend
Susan, who helped him with reading. Love developed between them while
he was studying for his doctorate and they married after he received
his diploma. In Cairo Taha Husayn was appointed professor and then
dean at a university. He then became minister of education and waged
an intellectual struggle with the people in the government to make
education as free as air and water for all people.
Cast and Crew: Atef Salem, Hamdy Ahmed, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Taha Husayn, Mahmoud Yassine, Yehia El-Fakharany, Abdel Alim Khattab, Ibrahim Saleh, Yolande Folliot, Kamal al-Malakh, D. Rafiq al-Saban, Samir Abdel Azeem, Moussa Sabry, Ibrahim Saleh, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Salama Elias, Farouk Youssef, Hussein El-Sherbini, Abdel Ghani Al-Nagdi, Fakry Azer, Nader Nour, Adib Tarablos, Mohammad al-Shourbagy, Adawy Gheith, Mahmoud Rashad, Sayed Madbouli, Rafiq Fahmy, Abdel Moneim al-Nemr, Ahmed Omar
