The Purple Rose [زهرة البنفسج] (Zubaida Tharwat) - (1977) Egyptian one-sheet

Purple Rose (1977) - (Zubaida Tharwat) Egyptian one-sheet poster

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani and Wahib Fahmy to promote the 1977 Abdel Rahman El Khamesy 92-minute black-and-white film The Purple Rose [zahret al-banafseg] starring Zubaida Tharwat based on a story by Ibrahim al-Mawgi with screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Rahman El Khamesy and Ahmed El Khamesy and cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot summary: As a married couple Kamal [Mohamed Lutfy] and Samiha [Moshira Ismail] had their dreams disrupted after Kamal discovered he had a critical disease, which he concealed from everyone. One night Kamal met an actress named Hayat [Zubaida Tharwat], who was working at a night club to make ends meet after her husband died. She was planning to quit the night club but its manager Rashed [Ahmad Taufiq] wanted her to stay, so he kidnapped her daughter to get leverage. Hayat fell in love with Kamal. Kamal decided to end his relationship with Hayat and tell her about his illness, but he died in his train seat on the way to see her in Alexandria and never had a chance to do it. In a dramatic final scene, standing on the train platform waiting for his arrival Hayat saw him through the window sitting dead in his seat, but his body was not removed and she watched as the train continued on its way with its dead passenger.

Cast and crew: Abdel Rahman El Khamesy, Zubaida Tharwat, Adel Imam, Mohamed Lutfy, Ahmed Taufiq, Youssef Chaban, Mohsen Sarhan, Adel Abdel Azim, Moshira Ismail, Alia Abdel Moneim

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The Purple Rose (1977) - (Zubaida Tharwat)

The Purple Rose [zahret al-banafseg] (1977) - (Zubaida Tharwat) Egyptian film poster

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani and Wahib Fahmy to promote the 1977 Abdel Rahman El Khamesy 92-minute black-and-white film The Purple Rose [zahret al-banafseg] starring Zubaida Tharwat based on a story by Ibrahim al-Mawgi with screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Rahman El Khamesy and Ahmed El Khamesy and cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot summary: As a married couple Kamal [Mohamed Lutfy] and Samiha [Moshira Ismail] had their dreams disrupted after Kamal discovered he had a critical disease, which he concealed from everyone. One night Kamal met an actress named Hayat [Zubaida Tharwat], who was working at a night club to make ends meet after her husband died. She was planning to quit the night club but its manager Rashed [Ahmad Taufiq] wanted her to stay, so he kidnapped her daughter to get leverage. Hayat fell in love with Kamal. Kamal decided to end his relationship with Hayat and tell her about his illness, but he died in his train seat on the way to see her in Alexandria and never had a chance to do it. In a dramatic final scene, standing on the train platform waiting for his arrival Hayat saw him through the window sitting dead in his seat, but his body was not removed and she watched as the train continued on its way with its dead passenger.

Cast and crew: Abdel Rahman El Khamesy, Zubaida Tharwat, Adel Imam, Mohamed Lutfy, Ahmed Taufiq, Youssef Chaban, Mohsen Sarhan, Adel Abdel Azim, Moshira Ismail, Alia Abdel Moneim

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The Mirror المراية (Naglaa Fathy) - (1970) Egyptian one-sheet

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The Mirror (1970) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian film poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz and Ahmed Fouad to promote the 1970 Ahmed Diaeddin 89-minute black-and-white film The Mirror [al-maraya] starring Naglaa Fathy as Karima based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohieddin Aref with cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Karim's [Abdel Moneim Madbouly] first daughter Karima had breathtaking beauty. She loved a boy named Kamal [Samir Sabri] whose wealth she envied, but at the same time she was madly in love with her cousin, an ambitious engineer named Ahmad [Nour El-Sherif]. Meanwhile her sister Hoda's life had long been limited since her cousin had been chosen as a husband and they loved each other. The mother pushed her daughter Karima towards Kamal, but Karima's heart was with Ahmad. In light of Karima's ambivalence Ahmad saw no way out other than a relationship with his colleague Safa, while Kamal distanced himself from Karima and married a rich girl. Karima had fallen victim to her own ambivalence. Meanwhile her sister Hoda introduced her to an Arabic language teacher at the school where she worked, professor Younes, and tried to present her to him as a bride, but he quickly discovered she was worthless because she did not know how to do anything around the house. She was so interested in clothing and decorations that she became sick, and in the efforts by the physician, the sister, her husband and the father to heal Karima, Hamdi sent a letter to summon Ahmad to come and cure Karima, but she could not accept his marriage. She tried to separate them but failed and became disgusted with her own life. She rejected her mother's advice about making a new commitment to the completion of her studies.

Cast and crew: Ahmed Diaeddin, Naglaa Fathy, Mohammad Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Fouad, Nour El-Sherif, Adel Imam, Zizi Mustafa, Zuzu Shakeeb, Amal Ramzy, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Mimi Shakeeb, Adel Abdel Azim, Samir Sabri, Ibrahim Saafan, Malek Sokar, Taghrid al-Bashbishi, Ahmed Abu Abih, Ibrahim Nasr, Nagi Sayed, Mohieddin Aref, Salah al-Eskanderani

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I Am the Doctor انا الدكتور (Farid Shawqi) - (1968) Egyptian rerelease one-sheet

I Am the Doctor (1968) - (Farid Shawqi) Egyptian film poster

This is an undated rerelease Egyptian promotional poster designed by Wael for the 1968 127-minute black-and-white Abbas Kamel film I Am the Doctor [ana al-doktor] starring Farid Shawqi with screenplay and dialogue by Abbas Kamel and cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. The film tells a tale of Egyptian medical quackery and chicanery. Plot summary: Ibrahim was a nurse who impersonated a doctor so he could work in Dr. Sami's clinic. He bought the clinic to move it to a village in upper Egypt with his former colleague Karim [Adel Imam] and Nadia, [Nelly] whom he had met while she was working as a waitress in a cafeteria. Working as a physician he accumulated enormous wealth by convincing the healthy people in the village that they were sick. He also had a commission from the village pharmacy for charging each patient exhorbitant prices for medicines. Ibrahim and Nadia decided to marry and he told her the truth about what he had been doing, but she still loved him. Then the police arrested him in Alexandria just as the opening of a new hospital was being celebrated.

Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Nelly, Mohamed Reda, Tewfik el-dikn, Adel Imam, Hassan Mustafa, Nadia Seif El-Nasr, Nawal El Sogiera, Abbas Kamel, George Sidhum, Adel Abdel Azim, Mohammad Al-Gizawi

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Honeymoon without Disturbances شهر عسل بدون ازعاج (Nahed Sherif) - (1968) Egyptian film poster

Honeymoon without Disturbances

(1968) - (Nahed Sherif) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a poster designed by Abdel Alim to promote the 1968 100-minute black-and-white Abdel Moneim Shoukry film Honeymoon without Disturbances starring Hassan Youssef and Nahed Sherif based on a story by Ahmed Abdel Wahab with screenplay also by Ahmed Abdel Wahab, dialogue by Esmat Khalil and cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Monir (Hassan Youssef) was a young doctor who lived in Alexandria. He married the girl he loved (Nahed Sherif) against the wishes of his father, who was from Upper Egypt. The father read about the marriage in the newspapers, had a fit of rage and decided to kill his son. He was then surprised to learn that Madbouli, with whom he had an old quarrel, had been released from prison. The father knew Madbouli wanted to kill Monir to get revenge. During a chase Madbouli thought Monir was the nurse he had met at a clinic, then learned the truth and tried to kill Monir, but failed again. He fell in the water and almost drowned, but Monir saved him. This had a great effect on Madbouli and he stopped trying to kill Monir. The father married a woman he had met at a hotel in Alamein and the couple finished enjoying their honeymoon.

Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Mohamed Awad, Amin El-Heinedy, Hassan Hamed, Hassan Youssef, Abdel Moneim Shoukry, Abdel Moneim Shoukry, Adel Abdel Azim, Ahmed Abdel Wahab, Linda Badawy

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