The Hunger الجوع (Soad Hosny) - (1986) Egyptian one-sheet

The Hunger (1986) - (Soad Hosny) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani for the 1986 Ali Badrakhan film The Hunger based on characters developed by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay by Esam Ali and Ali Badrakhan and starring Soad Hosny as Zubaida. Plot summary: This film is a remake of the 1986 Houssam El-Din Mustafa epic film The Racketeers [al-harafish]. In the year 1886 Farag Al-Gebali [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] worked as a wagon driver to support his mother. He was married to Zeinab [Soad Hosny]. His brother Gaber [Abdel Aziz Makhyoun] worked as a blacksmith and married the poor girl Zubeida [Sanaa Younes] after the death of the thug who had raped her during a brawl among the neighborhood gangs. The people of the neighborhood appointed Farag as their main tough guy but he snubbed them after his marriage to a wealthy woman, [Youssra] moving into her mansion and running her agency. The nile subsided, the rains did not come, famine began, the people became poor and the merchants played their games because they feared their stocks would be raided when the people became hungrier and prices went up. Farag exploited the famine in Cairo by hoarding grain. He broke all his old promises and made a pact with the rich that the tough guy had to side with the nobility. Zubaida led the racketeers against Farag who was killed, and appointed her husband Gaber as the new tough guy, but Gaber refused and advised them to rely on themselves. The revolution became collective with Zubaida's help.

Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Abdel Ghani, Youssra, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Esam Ali, Aly Badrakhan, Sanaa Younes, Souraya Helmy, Naguib Mahfouz, Mostafa Moharram, Mahmoud Abdelsamie, Youssra, Samiha Tawfiq, Sayed Sadek, Hafez Amin, Ahmed Abu Abih, Said Tarabeek, Hanan Soleyman, Adel Awad, Randa, Naim Esa, Othman Abdul Menem, Youssef Abid, Ibrahim Hussein, Mohamed Tarabeek, Abdelhay Ezzat, Abdel Ghany Naser, Fathy Ibrahim, Sayed Salem, Adel Abulgheit, Madiha Youssri

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Knight of the City فارس المدينة (Mahmoud Hemida) - (1991) Egyptian one-sheet

Knight of the City (1992) - (Mahmoud Hemida) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown designer for the 1991 Mohamed Khan film The Knight of the City AKA fares al-medina based on a story by Mohamed Khan with screenplay and dialogue by Fayez Ghaly and starring Mahmoud Hemida as Fares. Plot Summary: The film is set in Cairo in the year 1988. The filming was done in 32 days beginning 26 May 1990. It tells a complex story about the life of Fares Hassan al-Helali, a prosperous and somewhat conniving mid-level businessman dealing in currency, automobiles and real estate. His wealth comes from currency trading and the running of a number of large commercial projects. The main line of this multi-threaded plot is a conflict between Fares and another slightly more prosperous businessman and drug merchant Ahmed Al-Wezzan [Abdel Aziz Makhyoun]. As the film begins Fares worries how he will raise the five million pounds he needs to pay a debt to Ahmed. He ends up selling everything to manage it, but in the end it is Fares who triumphs in a series of tense and sometimes violent encounters.

In the beginning Fares quarrels with his ex wife Dalal [Soad Nasr] about their son [Abdel Aziz al-Qarantili]. He had separated from Dalal to live with her son Bakr [Farid Naguib Sorur], a university student, and with his new lover. This is the start of another plot line in which the son is kidnapped by Ahmed's gang, disappears, eventually becomes addicted to drugs and is then found using them and beaten up by Fares in a public bathroom.

In the beginning Fares quarrels with his ex wife Dalal [Soad Nasr] about their son [Abdel Aziz al-Qarantili]. He had separated from Dalal to live with her son Bakr [Farid Naguib Sorur], a university student, and with his new lover. This is the start of another plot line in which the son is kidnapped by Ahmed's gang, disappears, eventually becomes addicted to drugs and is then found using them and beaten up by Fares in a public bathroom.

In a moment of despair, after having lost everything to Ahmed, Fares hits an elderly pedestrian with his car and then takes him to a big hospital, checks him in as his own father and pays for his treatment. Although Fares does not know at first, the old man is in the habit of throwing himself in front of fancy automobiles so he can live comfortably for a while in a big hospital. Fares and the old opportunist find a bond of some kind and eventually become drinking buddies, replicating in a superficial way the false identities of father and son, an idea the elderly man had first broached to Fares while he was checking his "victim" into a hospital.

Soon after they establish the new bond of trust the old man confesses to Fares with startling honesty his fraudulent practice of fake victimhood. He recounts his specific encounter with Fares in detail, and explains how he had sized him up and set out to dupe him. Fares accepts this with equanimity and they remain friends. In this moment of candor with the old man, Fares also tells the nurse in attendance Hoda [Lucy] the story of their contrived relationship, makes a date to meet her and begins a relationship with her.

There is much freeway footage in and around Cairo by cinematographer Kamal Abdel Aziz as well as multiple insertions of original cuts from old Om Kolsum performances to illustrate the fondness Fares has for her music and sometimes to accentuate points in the story line with her lyrics.

Cast and crew: Mahmoud Hemida, Mohamed Khan, Aida Riad, Soad Nasr, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Hassan Hosny, Ahmed Bedir, Fayez Ghaly, Kamal Abdel Aziz, Lucy, Osman Abdel Moneim, Mohamed Metwalli, Atia Oweysi, Lotfi Labieb, Khaled El Sawy, Mahmoud Al-Lawzi, Abdel Aziz al-Qarantili, Farid Naguib Sorur

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Woman Marked for Destruction امراة آيلة للسقوط (Youssra) - (1991) Egyptian one-sheet

Woman Marked for Destruction (1991) - (Youssra) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a promotional poster designed by Morteda Anise for the 1991 120-minute color film Woman Marked for Destruction [emraa ayla lel soqut] written and directed by Medhat El-Sebaiy and starring Youssra as Ahlam based on a story taken from court cases, with cinematography by Tarek El-Telmisany. Plot summary: Poverty drove Ahlam to the commission of illegal acts for which she was never arrested such as swindling, theft and prostitution; she formed a professional gang with two clever thieves named Mohsen [Mohamed Kamel] and Sharif [Ramzi Gheith]. Ahlam fell in love with Shukry, [Mahmoud Hemida] a novice journalist and they dreamed together about wealth and freedom. Then she dumped him for a wealthy man who refused to marry her after seducing her. She was passed from one man to another and became a whore. She was imprisoned on false testimony; after her release she married a waiter named Hamdy [Abdel Aziz Makhyoun] at a nightclub where she worked, but then she discovered he was addicted to heroin. The owner of the house raped her in front of her husband, but he made no move to save her. The thieves Mohsen and Sharif broke into a wealthy woman's villa, stole her jewels and killed her and her son. Her young daughter Abir [Amira Ibrahim] saw them and ran away. The thieves hid the stolen jewels in Ahlam's apartment but the police arrested the three of them. Ahlam was sentenced to death because the evidence of the crime was found in her apartment. Ahlam's former fiancee Shukry came to her defense and went looking for Abir, the only witness who could save Ahlam from the noose.

Cast and crew: Medhat El-Sebaiy, Farid Shawqi, Youssra, Hoda Soltan, Mohsen Sarhan, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Mahmoud Hemida, Salah Kabil, Ragaa Hussein, Seif Abdel Rahman, Seif El Dine, Mohamed Kamel, Mohamed Wafik, Tarek El-Telmisany, Mohammad Rafiq, Mohsen Sarhan, Mahmood Massood, Zeinab Wahbi, Shadia Abdel Hamid, Sayed Sadek, Mufid Ashour, Ibrahim Mabruk, Anwar Abdel Aziz, Mervat Hafez, Amira Ibrahim, Mostafa Ibrahim

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Divorced Woman امراة مطلقة (Naglaa Fathy) - (1985) Egyptian posters

Divorced Woman (1985) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian one-sheet

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Divorced Woman (1985) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured are two promotional posters for the 110-minute 1985 Ashraf Fahmy color film Divorced Woman [emra'a motlaqa] starring Naglaa Fathy as Salwa based on a story by Hassan Shah with screenplay and dialogue by Mostafa Moharram and cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: Zeinab [Samira Ahmed] was a nurse married to Fathy, [Mahmoud Yassine] an ambitious bank employee who worked his way into a big bank center then married the secretary Salwa. He threw Zeinab out of his apartment after divorcing her because her social standing was not high enough. Zeinab went to a judge and got an order allowing her to stay in the apartment with Fathy and Salwa because she was pregnant. She tried to keep the baby so she could remain alone in the apartment after the child was born, but she finally gave up and left. Salwa sympathized with Zeinab because of her financial situation. Zeinab finally gave in to the teacher Fahim [Aly El Cherif] who wanted to marry her, even though she was not happy about it and had refused him repeatedly, because marrying him would provide her with a secure home.

Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Farid Shawqi, Salah Kabil, Khayria Ahmed, Samira Ahmed, Karima Mokhtar, Aly El Cherif, Farida Seif El Nasr, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Ashraf Fahmy, Nagah El-Mogui, Naima Al-Soghayar, Mohsen Nasr, Mostafa Moharram, Hassan Shah, Fouad Khalil

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Fares of the City [fares al-medina] (1992)

Fares of the City [fares al-medina] (1992) - (Mahmoud Hemida) Egyptian film poster

Plot Summary: This film by director Mohamed Khan is set in Cairo in the year 1988. The filming was done in 32 days beginning 26 May 1990. It narrates a complex tale about the life of Fares (Mahmoud Hemida) who is a prosperous and somewhat conniving mid-level businessman dealing in currency, automobiles and real estate. His wealth comes from currency trading and the running of a number of large commercial projects. The main line of this multi-threaded plot is a conflict between Fares and another slightly more properous businessman and drug merchant Ahmed Al-Wezzan (Abdel Aziz Makhyoun). As the film begins Fares worries how he will raise the five million pounds he needs to pay a debt to Ahmed and he ends up selling everything to manage it, but in the end it is Fares who triumphs in a series of tense and sometimes violent encounters.

When the story begins Fares is quarrelling with his wife Dalal (Soad Nasr) about their son (Abdel Aziz al-Qarantili). He had separated from Dalal to live with her son Bakr (Farid Naguib Sorur), a university student, and with his new lover. This is the beginning of another plot line in which the son is kidnapped by Ahmed's gang, disappears, eventually becomes addicted to drugs and is then found using them and beaten up by Fares in a public bathroom.

In a moment of despair, after having lost everything to Ahmed Fares hits an ederly pedestrian with his car and then takes him to a big hospital to treat him at his own expense. Although Fares does not know this at first, this old man makes a habit of throwing himself in front of fancy automobiles so he can live comfortably for a while in a big hospital. Fares and the old opportunist find a bond of some kind and eventually become drinking buddies, replicating in a superfical way the false identities of father and son, an idea the elderly man had first broached to Fares while he was checking his "victim" into a hospital.

Soon after they establish this new bond of trust the old man confesses to Fares with startling honesty his habitual strategy of becoming a fake victim in traffic accidents to get periods of free hospital room and board for himself. He recounts his specific encounter with Fares in detail, and explains how he had sized him up and intentionaly set out to dupe him. Fares accepts this with equanimity and they remain friends. In this moment of candor with the old man, Fares also tells the nurse in attendance Hoda (Lucy) the story of their contrived relationship, makes a date to meet her and begins a relationship with her.

This film is full of freeway footage in and around Cairo by cinematographer Kamal Abdel Aziz, with frequent insertion of original cuts from old Om Kolsum performances to illustrate the fondness Fares has for her music and sometimes to accentuate points in the story line with her lyrics.

The film's performers are Mahmoud Hemida, Aida Riad, Soad Nasr, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Hassan Hosny, Ahmed Bedir, Lucy, Osman Abdel Moneim, Mohamed Metwalli, Atia Oweysi, Lotfi Labieb, Khaled El Sawy, Mahmoud Al-Lawzi, Abdel Aziz al-Qarantili and Farid Naguib Sorur.

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