This is a 35" x 23.5" Egyptian stone litho one-sheet designed by
Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1952 Hassan Al Imam 150-minute
black-and-white film Whose Daughter Am I? based on story and
dialogue by Mohamed Mustafa Samy, screenplay by Hassan Al Imam and
starring Leila Fawzi as Nemat. Plot summary: Moharram [Mohsen
Hassanein] is managing his niece Zizi's money; Zizi has killed her
father with the help of Hamed [Farid Shawqi]. Galal [Mohsen Sarhan],
the son of Moharram, has a relationship with Nemat and she becomes
pregnant, but Moharram will not allow his son to marry her. She is
obliged to flee the scandal and live with the blind Sheikh Saleh,
where she has her baby, a girl named Samiha. Hamed burns the home of
Sheikh Saleh when he finds out Nemat is living there. He kidnapped
the girl and adopted her. Galal married Zizi. Samiha grows up a poor
orphan without knowing the identity of her father.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Mohsen Sarhan, Mohsen Hassanein, Hussein Riad, Sanaa Gamil, Hassan el Baroudi, Farid Shawqi, Leila Fawzi, Ahmed Allam, Sherifa Maher, Mohamed Mustafa Samy, Mostafa Hassan, Mansi Fahmi, Wedad Hamdy, Fakher Fakher, Salah Wahbi, Souraya Fakhry, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohammad Idris, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Soheir Fakhry
This is a 33" x 44" oversize Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly
to promote the 1955 Helmy Rafla film Revolt in the City
[thawret al-medina] starring Mohammad Fawzi and Sabah based on
screenplay and dialogue by Nairuz Abdel Malek with cinematography by
Masud Isa. Plot summary: This is a musical melodrama showcasing the
singing talents of Sabah and Mohammad Fawzi. Fatima's [Sabah] mother
died giving birth to her and her father [Hussein Riad] believed women
died immediately after giving birth. Fatima was raised believing this
too, so she avoided marriage and the idea of having children. However
she still fell in love with Ahmad [Mohammad Fawzi], a boy from a rich
family, and he asked her to marry him. Then her father was killed in
a factory accident and combined impact of mourning her father and her
psychological anti-marriage complex caused her to spend a lot of time
resisting before she finally accepted Ahmad's proposal. After
marriage, Fatima had children and was expecting to die, but she did
not die. This resolved her fear of dying because of childbirth and
she went on with her life in "happily ever after" mode. The "revolt"
theme in the title and on the poster is about an incident in the film
where the family home was destroyed in a riot while Fatima was still a
child, and has nothing at all to do with the main story. The image on the poster of Mohammad Fawzi carrying Sabah as an adult is from a different part of the film that is unrelated to the riot.
Cast and crew: Sabah, Mohammad Fawzi, Hussein Riad, Helmy Rafla, Ahmed Allam, Wedad Hamdy, Masud Isa, Shafik Noureddin, Hussein Ismail, Nairuz Abdel Malek, Qadria Qadri, Mohamed Kamel, Mohamed Sabih, Suleiman al-Guindy, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Ragaa Youssef, Qadria Kamel, Doha Nagdi
The poster shown here was designed by Stamatis Vassiliou to promote
the 1955 135-minute black-and-white Hassan Al Imam film Girls of
the Night [banat al-lail] based on a story by Hassan Al Imam with
screenplay and dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir and cinematography by
Alevise Orfanelli. Plot summary: One of the girls of the night, the
daughter of a decent man, fell into the ways of seduction and
became a cabaret professional, but she was deeply unhappy and wanted
to return to a pure upright life. One night the girl happened to see
a conservative family who had been her neigbors before her fall. They
loved her and made an agreement with her to save her. They welcomed
her back into the old friendship that had connected the two families
and agreed to a marriage between her and their son, believing she was
still pure. The girl was pregnant and felt that her hopes for
marriage had died, but the nurse who treated her told her to sell the
child at birth to a barren woman who was afraid she would lose her
husband if she could not give him a child.
However the girl refused to sell her baby and decided to tell her
fiance everything. Her fiance's father discovered the truth about her
life and what she had done, forbade his son to marry her and threw her
out of the house. Then the boy had an accident at work, broke his
spine and was taken to the hospital. He was told an operation would
be needed that would cost his father a lot of money. The girl learned
about it and agreed to sell her baby and give the money to the
hospital. The boy she loved was saved and then she had her baby and
gave it to the barren woman, who took advantage of her husband's
travel as a naval officer and told him she had borne the child in his
absence. The days passed and the girl left Egypt for Lebanon. There
she ran across her daughter with the woman who had bought her, and
motherly emotions stirred in her heart. She followed the woman to
Egypt, where she asked her to return her child to her. However the
woman told her husband the whole truth and he went with her to the
cabaret where the girl worked. There the fiance and his father met and
tried to intervene to resolve the situation. They found the girl doing her
dance on a high platform. She died after it became clear that the
woman's husband was the baby girl's father, the one who had previously
had a relationship with her.
Cast and crew: El Sayed Bedeir, Madiha Yousri, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Hind Rostom, Zuzu Hamdi, Souraya Helmy, Hassan Al Imam, Hussein Riad, Ahmed Allam, Alevise Orfanelli, Zuzu Hamdi, Ferdoos Mohammad, Nadia Al-Shennawi, Soraya Hassan, Abdel Azim Kamel, E'tedal Shahin, Khayria Khayri, Saleha Qasin, Mohamed Shawky, Mohamed Sabih
