Ruffians [الاوغاد] (Farouk Al-Fichawi) - (1985)

Ruffians (1985) - (Farouk Al-Fichawi) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1985 95-minute Ahmed Al-Nehas color film Ruffians [al-awghad] starring Farouk Al-Fichawy based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ahmed Al-Nehas with cinematography by Mohamed Taher. Plot summary: Mahmoud [Farouk Al-Fichawy] is a taxi driver married to Hosnia [Bussy]. They have a happy life together, but Mahmoud is accused of hitting a boy named Medhat [Wael Nour] and stealing 20000 pounds from him. Mahmoud goes to see Medhat at the hospital to persuade him to tell the truth, but he fails. He gets into his taxi with some of Medhat's friends and the taxi crashes and catches fire in a remote location while Mahmoud is trying to get confessions from them. Mahmoud hides in graveyards and disguises himself. He goes to the hospital to get the names of the boys from Medhat, who dies while struggling with him. While Mahmoud is chasing one of the offenders, the offender falls from a balcony before making a confession. A police inspector named Kamal [Mohi Ismail] chases him as he is following another collaborator named Mostafa [Abdalla Mahmoud], and catches both of them. Thus Mostafa had lost the 20000 pounds among strangers and colluded with his friends in accusing Mahmoud, fearing his father's punishment.

Cast and crew: Ahmed Al-Nehas, Mohi Ismail, Ahmed Bedir, Abdalla Mahmoud, Ahmad Salama, Wael Nour, Ahmed Khalil, Hafez Amin, Ahmad Hegazi, Bussy, Farouk Al-Fichawi, Awatef Youssef, Youssef Fawzi, Nagwa al-Mawgi, Mona Darwish, Mohamed Taher

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The Emigrant المهاجر (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1994) Egyptian one-sheet

The Emigrant (1994) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a somewhat worn 27" x 39" promotional poster for the 1994 Youssef Chahine 120-minute color film The Emigrant [al-mohager] with screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Chahine, poster art by Jan and cinematography by Ramses Marzouk. Plot summary: Ram [Khaled Nabawy] lived with his old father [Michel Piccoli] in a poor tribe outside Egypt. Ram suffered from an unhappy dislike of his position as the favorite of his father's seven sons; he refused to accept that situation or to live in fear of drought, famine and flood. He dreamed of being in control of his own life and of his tribe being prosperous. He decided to go to Egypt to learn agriculture and to make use of other areas of knowledge found in Egyptian civilization. His brothers tied him up and threw him into the hold of a ship bound for Egypt, believing they had gotten rid of him forever, but Ram made it to Egypt and began learning agriculture. There he discovered the Egyptians were more interested in the arts and embalming. Ram met Amihar, [Mahmoud Hemida] the leader of the Egyptian armies. Amihar was impotent despite his physical strength and was unable to satisfy his wife Simihit [Youssra] after she fell in love with him. Amihar gave Ram a plot of land to farm. Ram fell in love with a pretty Egyptian girl named Haty [Hanan Turk] who said she would marry him. The two of them joined with an Egyptian minister farming the new land; they successfully cultivated the plot from Amihar. They divided the crop to help alleviate the famine that was threatening Egypt and Ram became a minister in the Pharaoh's government. Nonetheless he longed to return to his country after disclosing his identity to his seven brothers; he returned to his tribe with his wife, where he met with his father after long years of absence. He found his father had gone blind crying so much in the belief he had died, as his lying brothers had claimed. This film was banned by religious authorities in Egypt in 1994 and 1995, both times for violating Islamic strictures against depicting religious prophets--in this case the Prophet Joseph. After the ban was lifted The Emigrant became Chahine's most popular film.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Khaled el Nabaoui, Ahmed Bedir, Safia El Emari, Mahmoud Hemida, Yousef Ismail, Khaled Nabawy, Michel Piccoli, Ahmad Salama, Hanan Turk, Youssra, Ramses Marzouk, Menaha al-Batrawy, Sayed Abdel Karim, Amru Abdel Khalil, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Pierre Sioufi

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