This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
and Mohammad Aziz to promote the 1965 Hassan El-Seify film Please Kill Me
based on a screenplay by Hassan Hamed and starring Fouad
El-Mohandes as Adel. Plot summary: Adel believes he is going to die
within weeks and decides to end it all quickly. When a thief [Hassan
Hamed] comes to his apartment to rob him he pays him 100 pounds to
kill him within 48 hours. Then Dr. Nabil [Abu Bakr Ezzat] assures him
he is healthy so he tries to avoid his hired killer, who follows him
everywhere.
Cast and crew: Hassan El-Seify, Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Mohammad
Aziz, Fouad El-Mohandes, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Shouweikar, Abu Bakr
Ezzat, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Hassan Hamed, Soheir Magdy, Safa Magdy,
Salama Elias, Badr Nofal, Abdel Ghani El-Nagdi, Sayyed El Araby,
Monir Yassine, Galal El Masry, Eskandar Menassa, Hassan Atla, Abdel
Monem Basiony, Ahmed Abiya, Hussain Ismael, Mokhtar El Sayed, Mohsen
Hafez, Ezzat Al-Mashad, Ali Mohieddin, Nabila Abaza, Bahgat Amar,
Mostafa Hassan
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour to promote the 1976 109-minute Hassan Al Imam color
film The Nightingale Has Lips [al-kerwan luh shafayef] starring Soheir
Ramzy based on a story by Roget Lahont, screenplay and dialogue by
Hassan Al Imam and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary:
Hussein [Samir Sabri] and Qasem [Youssef Chaban] worked with Kerwan,
[Soheir Ramzy] the female star of a dance troupe. The troupe fell
heavily into debt and there was a breakup. Afterwards there was a
false murder accusation and an incident of marital infidelity,
followed by a resumption of what had gone before.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Roget Lahont, Imad Hamdi, Soheir
Ramzy, Nabila Ebeid, Naima Al Soghayar, Youssef Chaban, Abu Bakr
Ezzat, Hayat Kandeel, Samir Sabri, Enaam Salousa, Wahid Farid, Robab,
Farouq Naguib, Walid Tewfiq, Enaam Salousa
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly for the
1964 Hassan Reda film The River of Life based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Sobhi and starring Salah Kabil as
Ahmed. Plot summary: Poverty caused an ailing father [Abu Bakr Ezzat]
to force his daughter Amina [Mona Morad] to marry her stingy old rich
uncle Abbas, [Abdel Ghani Kamar] which made her life hell. Then
she had a new encounter with her first love Ahmed and demanded a
divorce.
Cast and crew: Salah Kabil, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Mona Morad, Hassan
Reda, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Mostafa Hassan, Amal Ramzy, Leila Fahmi,
Samir Sabri, Alim Abdel Monem, Soheir Zaky
This is a 27.5" x 39.5" Lebanese poster designed by Gasour and Aziz
for the 1979 Yehia El Alami film Afraid of Something based on a
story by Fathy Abol-Fadl, screenplay and dialogue by Yehia El Alami,
cinematography by Wadid Serri and starring Nagwa Ibrahim as Esmat.
Plot summary: Rashed [Abu Bakr Ezzat] drugged and kidnapped Esmat,
a student, and took her to his home. Before he could
attack her he was surprised by a thief named Raouf [Ezzat El Alaili]
who killed him and then fled with Esmat. To get her sympathy, Raouf
confessed to Esmat that he was being forced to steal so he could pay
for his sick daughter's [Laila Eloui] medical care.
Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Yehia El Alami, Fathy Abol-Fadl, Ezzat
El Alaili, Gamil Ratib, Nagwa Ibrahim, Imad Hamdi, Hussein
El-Sherbini, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Madiha Yousri, Safi El Emari, Soheir
Reda, Essad Younes, Laila Eloui, Hanem Mohammed, Mariam Fakhr Eddine,
Farouq Naguib, Mahmoud Abuzaid, Ibrahim Helmy, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi,
Saleh al-Iskanderani, Samia Mahmoud, Mohamed Shaker, Wadid Sirri
This is a 27" x 39" Lebanese poster designed by Dar Hani and Gasour
for the 1976 Hassan Al Imam film Amar al-Zaman starring Naglaa
Fathy as Amar al-Zaman. Plot summary: Amar al-Zaman was an innocent,
naive girl who left her home town of al-Mansoura to look for work in
Cairo. Someone tried to rape her when she arrived in Cairo but she was
rescued by an acquaintance named Soltan [Sa'eed Saleh] who worked as a
magician in a cabaret. He got her a job in the cabaret but she failed
as a waitress because she was clumsy. A carnival puppeteer and former
ballet dancer named Mohsen [Mustafa Fahmy] fell in love with her.
Mohsen was obliged to work in cabarets because of a war injury and
doubted Amar al-Zaman cared for him, but in fact she loved him too.
Cast and crew: Abu Bakr Ezzat, Hassan Al Imam, Mustafa Fahmy,
Sa'eed Saleh, Younes Shalaby, Hala Fakher, Naglaa Fathy, Hala Sedki,
Ramses Marzouk, Saleh Iskandarani, Mohamed Shawky, Mohammad Nagam,
Ibrahim Nasr, Eza Kamal, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Mona Abdulla
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster for the 1969 Kamal El
Sheikh film Miramar ميرامار based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz and
starring Shadia as Zohra. Plot summary: Zohra left her village and
went to the Miramar boarding house in Alexandria, where she worked as
a maid. There were various classes of people in the boarding house
including feudal lords who were resentful of the revolution's
nationalization of their land, a former ministry attorney who had lost
his influence, the old journalist Amer Wagdi [Imad Hamdi] and Mansour
Bahi, [Abdel Rahman Ali] the perplexed man of culture. Sarhan
al-Beheiri [Youssef Chaban] was a member of the Socialist Union and
his opportunistic side appeared in his effort to steal the company
where he worked and in his telling Zohra falsely that he loved her
before abandoning her and marrying someone else. Talaba Marzuq
[Youssef Wahby] stood by Zohra. The boarding house seemed to be
divided into two parts, the first part being the class that had been
harmed by the revolution and did nothing but make jokes and womanize
as Hosni Alam [Abu Bakr Ezzat] did, and the second part being the
young people like Mansour Bahi, the fugitive from the revolution who
was arrested. Talaba Redwan was an old journalist who had chosen to
live in the shadows. Zohra had been hurt by these circumstances and
was planning to leave the boarding house but then the newspaper seller
Mahmoud Abul-Abbas [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] said he wanted to marry her
because he loved her.
Cast and crew: Kamal El Sheikh, Shadia, Naguib Mahfouz, Youssef Wahby, Youssef Chaban, Imad Hamdi, Nadia El Guindy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Ahmed Taufiq, Ismat Rafat, Abdelhalim Nasr, Abdel Rahman Ali
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty to promote the
1985 108-minute Samir Seif color film The Pursued [al-motarad]
starring Nour El-Sherif based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz with
screenplay and dialogue by Ahmed Saleh and Samir Seif and
cinematography by Mohsen Ahmed. Plot summary: Samaha al-Nagy [Nour
El-Sherif] set a time for his marriage to Mahlabia [Rowa Al-Kateb] but
then discovered the neighborhood tough guy al-Qalali [Magdy Wahba] had
decided to marry her. Samaha and Mahlabia tried to run away but the
tough guy's helpers killed Mahlabia and got Samaha accused of it.
Samaha hid in upper Egypt without returning to Cairo but he found that
al-Qalali's men had come to his town. He disguised himself as a
Sheikh, opened a drug store, married Mahasen [Soheir Ramzy] and told
her the truth about himself. He had a quarrel with the neighborhood
tough guy Dehrug, [Ebrahim Abdelrazek] won the fight with him and
became the neighborhood tough guy himself. He sensed he was being
followed by the police and went into hiding. Through Mahasen he asked
his uncle Khedr [Salah Nazmi] and his brother Redwan [Mohammed Al
Tagy] to contact his helpers the racketeers to form a force to
challenge al-Qalali. Redwan was killed and Khedr was stricken with
paralysis. Mahasen married Helmy [Abu Bakr Ezzat] after he told her
Samaha had died. Samaha came back, killed Helmy and fled.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Samir Seif, Nour El-Sherif, Mohsen Ahmed, Ahmed Saleh, Soheir Ramzy, Magdy Wahba, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Taheya Cariocca, Salah Nazmi, Rowa Al-Kateb, Mohammed Al Tagy, Ebrahim Abdelrazek
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty to promote the
1977 105-minute Henry Barakat color film Mouths and Rabbits
[afwah wa araneb] based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Samir
Abdelazim with cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: Ne'ma
[Faten Hamama] fled her town after her sister [Ragaa Hussein] had
arranged a marriage for her to an illiterate man named al-Bastawi [Aly
El Cherif]. She found work on the land of the weathy Mahmoud Bey
[Mahmoud Yassine]. She became assiduously careful about Mahmoud's
wealth and clashed with the estate's overseer over how to sell the
crops for the best price. Mahmoud liked this so much he put her in
charge of his personal affairs at his home. He was preparing to marry
Nahi [Inas Al Degheidy] who became jealous of Ne'ma. Abdel Magid
[Farid Shawqi] prepared a contract for Ne'ma to marry al-Bastawi while
Nahi told Mahmoud he had to choose between her and Ne'ma. Mahmoud
refused to fire Ne'ma, prompting Nahi to cancel their engagement.
Mahmoud's liking for Ne'mat became love and he asked her to marry him,
which she eventually did after cancelling the arrangements Abdel Magid
had made with al-Bastawi. In contrasting Ne'ma's poverty-stricken
heavily populated rural family life with Mahmoud's more solitary
wealthy urban life, the film and its title seem to be suggesting large
families are partly responsible for Egypt's poverty.
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Inas Al Degheidy, Samir Abdelazim, Mohsen Mohieddin, Mahmoud Yassine, Faten Hamama, Ragaa Hussein, Farid Shawqi, Wahid Farid, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Hassan Mustafa, Salah Nazmi, Wedad Hamdy, Hussein Assar, Magda El-Khatib, Aly El Cherif, Hussein El-Sherbini, Nahi Barakat, Mazhar Abolnega, Mohammad al-Saqa, Seifeddin Mokhtar
Pictured are two Egyptian promotional posters designed by Sami for the
1986 Ahmad Fouad film The Train [al-qatar] based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Mohammad Said Marzouk with cinematography by
Ramses Marzouk. Plot summary: The train engineer Ibrahim [Fouad
Ahmed] was sure his wife Gamalat [Amal Ibrahim] had betrayed him with
his assistant and colleague Sobhi [Abu Bakr Ezzat]. He killed her
after confronting her with her confession. He decided to kill his
disloyal colleague while they were on the high-speed train at the
Assyut Station; they got into a fight and fell off the train while it
was throttling down the tracks at high velocity. A drunken passenger saw this while he
was leaning out a window and retching; he told the other passengers
but no one believed him. The train did not stop at its stations on
the way to Aswan and fear and panic spread among the passengers. On
board the wreck-bound train a girl named Farida [Mervat Amin] and a
boy named Khaled [Nour El-Sherif] fell in love after a brief
acquaintance as fellow travelers. Khaled crawled up on the roof and heroically tried to bring
the train into the wheelhouse; a rescue helicopter moved him to the engineer's cabin with a sling so he could stop it
before it crashed. The girl was proud of what the boy she loved had
done. Director Ahmed Fouad makes an appearance as a hitchhiker making
his way to Assyut about 16 minutes into the film.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Mervat Amin, Yousef Chaban, Ahmed Fouad, Amin Al-Heinedy, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Wahid Seif, Nabila El Sayed, Salah Nazmi, Fouad Ahmed, Zizi Mustafa, Seif Allah Mokhtar, Ramses Marzouk, Sabry Abdel Moniem, Amal Ibrahim, Hamdy Hafez, Farouk Youssef, Hanem Mohamed, Hosny Abdel Galil, Abou Hachich, Mohammad Haikal, Motawe Ewais
This is an Egyptian promotional poster for the 1963 85-minute Houssam
El-Din Mustafa black-and-white film The Complaints of Girls
starring Soad Hosny as Amani based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Adly
El-Mowalid and with cinematography by Masud Isa. Plot summary: The
story is set in the time before the 1952 23 July revolution. When the
sons of Sheikh Salem, [Hussein Assar] who supervised Mahmoud Bey's
[Adly Kasseb] farm, graduated from high school he decided to enroll
them at Cairo University. Sheikh Salem went to Mahmoud Bey for help
but he was against the idea of educating the children of farmers so
Sheikh Salem's wife [Fatheya Ali] decided to sell her gold so she
could send their boys Ibrahim and Ali to the university. Mahmoud Bey
was angry and demanded that Sheikh Salem send his daughter Amani to
work for him as a maid at his mansion. Despite the entreaties and
tears of her parents Amani [Soad Hosny] had to go there and work as a
maid, even though she had played with Mahmoud Bey's son Hossam [Ahmed
Ramzi] since she was a child and they had fallen in love forever.
However now she was a maid and because of that his father chose Shen
Shen [Nawal Abul Foutouh] for him, the daughter of Prime Minister Al-Izmerli Pasha.
Because of that marriage Mahmoud Bey was able to obtain money, an
endowment and more wealth. Amani was angry about her childhood friend
Hossam's proposal to Shen Shen, and she insulted her when she was
walking with Hossam. Mahmoud Bey struck her with a whip, whereupon she
ran away and got on a train to Cairo to look for her brothers. Her
brothers Ibrahim and Ali had opened a sandwich stand inside the
university to manage their expenses and their classmates were helping
them. Amani came to support them. She worked with them and quickly
became acquainted with their friends. She became so stylish that her
brothers Ibrahim and Ali almost did not know her. For this reason
Hossam, her childhood friend and a student at the same university, did
not recognize her. Hossam loved Amani's new look and wanted to tell
her he was in love with her, but one day she came to him in peasant
clothes and told him who she was. Although he initially rebelled, in
the end he asked her brother Ibrahim for her hand and love won the day
despite the opposition from Sheikh Salem and Mahmoud Bey.
Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Soad Hosny, Ahmed Ramzy, Youssef Fakhreddine, Adly El-Mowalid, Masud Isa, Hassan Fayek, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Nawal Abul Foutouh, Adly Kasseb, Hussein Assar, Samira Mohsen, Mokhtar Amin, Nadia Al-Naqrashi, Nagy Esmail, Karima Al-Sharif, Qadria Kamel, Fatheya Ali
