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 Puppeteer [الاراجوز] (1989) - (Omar Sharif)

The Puppeteer (1989) - (Omar Sharif) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Nagy Shaker to promote the 1989 Hany Lasheen 109-minute color film The Puppeteer [al-aragoz] starring Omar Sharif based on an idea by Hany Lasheen with screenplay and dialogue by Essam El Shamaa and cinematography by Mohsen Ahmed. Plot summary: The puppeteer Mohammad Gad Al-Karim [Omar Sharif] taught his craft to his son Bahlul [Hesham Selim], who later completed his higher education. Mohammad married a beautiful carnival worker named En'am [Mervat Amin], who loved his profession and was not ashamed of it. However Mohammad's educated son Bahlul tried to distance himself from his father's class of people. Bahlul asked his father to leave his old profession and stay at home, because he had come under the influence of a corrupt pasha, had married the pasha's daughter and set his sights on winning a seat in Parliament. The father stuck with his principles hoping to rekindle Bahlul's ethics and idealism. En'am bore Mohammad another son who grew up to become a puppeteer with a puppeteer's ethics, characteristics and class attributes. Omar Sharif's portrayal of a traditional itinerant Egyptian puppeteer is authentic and emotionally sympathetic. Hesham Selim, as the ambitious son entering a changing world with a traditional background, experiences the conflicts and pressures that arise as time passes and generations confront new social circumstances.

Cast and crew: Omar Sharif, Mervat Amin, Hesham Selim, Salwa Khattab, Hany Lasheen, Mohsen Ahmed, Ahmed Khalil, Nader Nour, Abdel Gawad Metwalli, Badriya Abdel Gawad, Abol Futouh Omara, Mohsen Ahmed, Essam El Shamaa

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The Puppeteer (1989)

The Puppeteer [al-aragoz] (1989) - (Omar Sharif) Egyptian film poster

This film was directed by Hany Lasheen. Plot summary: The puppeteer Mohammad Gad Al-Karim taught his son Bohlul, who later completed his higher education. Mohammad married a beautiful carnival worker named En'am, who loved his profession and was not embarrassed by it. However Mohammad's educated son Bohlul tried to distance himself from his class. Bohlul asked his father to leave his old profession and stay at home, because he had come under the influence of a corrupt pasha, had married the pasha's daughter and set his sights on winning a seat in Parliament. The father sticks with his principles hoping to rekindle Bohlul's ethics and idealism. En'am bears a new son for Mohammad who grows up to become a new puppeteer with the ethics, characteristics and class attributes of a puppeteer. The poster was designed by Nagy Shaker.

Cast and crew: Omar Sharif, Mervat Amin, Hesham Selim, Salwa Khattab, Hany Lasheen, Mohsen Ahmed, Ahmed Khalil

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