This isa 27" x39" Egyptian poster designed byGasour and Abdel Aziz
for the 1976 Nader Galal film No Time for Tears based on a
story by Rizq Helmy, screenplay by Rizq Helmy and Abdel Hay Adib and
starring Naglaa Fathy as Azza. Plot summary: Azza is a dancer who
falls in love with an Egyptian army officer named Amr [Hussein Fahmy]
and promises to marry him. When she hears he has been killed, she
immerses herself dancing in Cairo's nightclubs to pay expenses and
cope with her grief; she is shocked and confused when Amr unexpectedly
turns up alive and well. She does not know where to begin.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Rizq Helmy, Abdel Hay Adib, Hussein
Fahmy, Nader Galal, Mahmoud Nasr, Nour El-Sherif, Mahmoud El-Meliguy,
Amina Rizk, Hussein El-Sherbini, Ehsan Sherif, Ahmed Abaza, Mohamed
Shawky, Safia El Emari
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly for the
1960 Ramses Naguib film Baheyya based on a story by Hamed Abdel
Aziz, screenplay and dialogue by Youssef El Sebai and starring Lobna
Abdel Aziz as Beheyya. Plot summary: This film is a tale of murder,
corruption and blood vengeance directed by Ramses Naguib. Baheyya and
Yassine [Rushdy Abaza] had promised to marry but the death of
Baheyya's father Marzouq ruined everything. The girl decided not to
marry before taking revenge against her father's murderer. Yassine
tried to get her to change her mind but could not do so. He went into
the military service. The bey who was running things for his own
benefit took control of a large part of the village with the help of
Sheikh Abdul Rahim [Hussein Riad], who had a good reputation among the
people. Two people close to Baheyya told her the Sheikh was the
murderer of her father. Sheikh Hamza the father of Yassine was
murdered, which led Yassine to seek revenge for his father. He became
hostile to Beheyya thinking she was the cause of his father's death.
Baheyya went to the Bey's compound to avenge her father, but it was
Abdul Rahim who killed his father, took Baheyya hostage and fled.
Yassine pursued him to save Baheyya and avenge his father. The police
came to intervene after one of the Sheikh's victims cut out his tongue
in retaliation.
Cast and crew: Ramses Naguib, Rushdy Abaza, Lobna Abdel Aziz,
Abdelhalim Nasr, Hamed Abdel Aziz, Youssef El Sebai, Hussein Riad,
Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Zaki Toleimat, Ahmed Abaza, Alawihah Gamil
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly and Abdel
Rahman to promote the 1964 81-minute Nour El-Demerdash black-and-white
film The Price of Freedom starring Mahmoud Moursy adapted for
cinema by Naguib Mahfouz from the 1948 play Montserrat by
Emmanuel Robles based on an Arabic translation done in Lebanon by
Sohail Idris. The screenplay was done by Lutfy El-Kholy and Tulba
Radwan and cinematography was by Masud Isa. The components of the
story are taken directly from the original play with changes of name
and locale to suit the Egyptian environment. Plot summary: During the
British occupation of Egypt (1882-1956) there was a secret
organization led by a young fighter named Ahmed Abdel Hafiz. The
organization was opposed to the occupying forces. The British
governor ordered an Egyptian officer to find the chief of the
organization quickly. If this could not be done it would be necessary
to arrest the first six people to pass on the street in front of the
office and kill them by firing squad. The officer was not able to
find the fighter so six people were arrested, including a cart driver,
a merchant who had left a dinner party for his wedding, a student
whose brother had died as a martyr during his resistance to the
occupation, a mother who was returning to her small children who had
no one but her and were waiting for her return at the time, and a
pretty girl who was singing a Sayed Darwish patriotic tune. The
randomly arrested bystanders were left alone with the Egyptian officer
and told they had one hour to persuade him to divulge the location of
Ahmed Abdel Hafiz. When this did not produce the desired results, the
British officer prepared to shoot the innocents, but before doing that
he shot and killed the Egyptian officer. The multiple venues where
this play has appeared in film and on stage were traced by Nehad
Selaiha for Al-Ahram Weekly on 20 February 2013.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Nour El-Demerdash, Masud Isa, Mahmoud Moursy, Abdallah Gheith, Karima Mokhtar, Salah Mansour, Ahmed Al-Gezeiry, Nahed Samir, Ahmed Abaza, Hamed Morsi, Masud Isa, Faiza Fouad, Kamal Yasseen, Mohammed Tawfik, Hamed Moursy, Mahmoud al-Hadini, Sabri Abdel Aziz, Mohammed Abaza, Sayed al-Rais, Gamil Ezzedine, Mohamed Yahya Soleyman, Emmanuel Robles, Lutfy El-Kholy, Tulba Radwan, Sohail Idris, Ahmed al-Hamaqi
This is a promotional film poster designed by Gasour for an Egyptian
version of My Fair Lady, a 1968 Helmy Halim 105-minute
black-and-white film called Days of Love [ayam al-hob] based on
the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion with screenplay and
story by Helmy Halim, dialogue by Mohamed Abou-Seif and cinematography
by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: Sherif Lutfi [Ahmed Mazhar] was a film
director looking for someone new to play the starring role in a film
about a famous actress. Not finding the right actress, he persuaded
Eshta, [Nadia Lutfi] an attractive woman he happened to meet during a
trip to Alexandria, to take up acting in the cinema. After long
hesitation she agreed and with lessons in diction, posture and table
manners he made an aristocratic girl of her. After much effort she
learned to play the role and their first film was a great success.
She then rebelled against him and he tried to break her down with his
egoism; he promoted her personality and the fact that he was the one
who had made her. He later regretted this and asked her to forgive
him. She did so and they were married.
Cast and crew: Helmy Halim, Nadia Lutfi, Ahmed Mazhar, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Adel Adham, Tewfik El Dekn, Salah Mansour, Soheir El-Bably, Zouzou Mady, Ahmed Abaza, Naemaa Elsoghyr, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Wahid Farid, Mohamed Reda, Mohamed Abou-Seif, Kawsar Shafiq, Ragaa Al-Gidawy, Hussein Ismail, Edmond Tuema, Iskandar Mansi
