A Bit of Fear [شئ من الخوف] (Shadia) - (1969) Egyptian one-sheet

A Bit of Fear [شئ من الخوف] (1969) - (Shadia) Egyptian one-sheet

This film was directed by Hussein Kamal based on a story by Tharwat Abaza, with screenplay and dialogue by Sabry Ezzat; the cinematography was done by Ahmed Khorshed; it is on Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films. The poster was designed by Mohamed Hussein. Plot Summary: Atris the grandson became the image of his grandfather in cruelty, violence, tyranny and crime. He ruled the life of his village with the terror he imposed upon its inhabitants. He had loved Fouada since she was a child but she refused him after he came to resemble his grandfather in spirit and action. Atris courted Fouada and asked her father for her hand in marriage but Fouada refused the marriage. Her father feared Atris's anger, and instead of announcing her refusal of the marriage he announced her agreeent to it. Atris was overjoyed when he heard this news, but Sheikh Ibrahim incited the people against Atris and his gang, declaring that his marriage to Fouada had been cancelled. Ignoring Atris's orders, Fouada allowed water to flow into the lands of the farmers after he had denied it to them. The people defied Atris and his gang and burned his mansion while he was in it.

Cast and crew: Shadia, Hussein Kamal, Sabry Ezzat, Amal Zayed, Yehia Chahine, Mohammed Tawfik, Mahmoud Moursy, Ahmed Khorshed, Salah Nazmi, Tharwat Abaza, Sabry Ezzat

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You Are My Love [إنت حبيبي] (Farid Al Atrache) - 1957)

You Are My Love [enta habibi] (Farid Al Atrache) (1957) original Egyptian oversize stone litho film poster

This is a 33" x 45" original Egyptian stone litho poster designed by Studio Adly to promote the 1957 109-minute Youssef Chahine black-and-white film You are My Love [enta habibi] starring Farid Al Atrache and Shadia based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary with cinematography by Ahmed Khorshed. Plot summary: The two cousins Yasmina [Shadia] and Farid [Farid Al Atrache] despise each other but decide to marry anyway because that is the only way they can meet the conditions of their grandfather's will, which stipulates they will be disinherited if they are not married. They agree the marriage will be on paper only. Nana [Hind Rostom], the woman to whom Farid's heart really belongs, accompanies them as a chaperone on their honeymoon to Aswan along with Farid's friend Zaher [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim]. Then during the honeymoon Yasmina discovers she really loves Farid and Farid also discovers he loves only Yasmina; the two restart their honeymoon.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Ali Abdel Al, Farid Al Atrache, Hind Rostom, Shadia, Ahmed Khorshed, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Seraj Munir, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Zeinat Sedki, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Mimi Shakeeb, Abdel Ghani Nagdi, Sayed Soleiman, Abdul Nabi Mohammad

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I Love You Only [احبك انت] (Farid Al Atrache) - (1949)

I Love You Only [ahebak enta] (1957) - (Farid Al Atrache) original Egyptian two-piece 33x46 film poster

I Love You Only [abebak enta] (Farid Al Atrache) (1957) original Egyptian 23.5x35 stone litho film poster

Pictured art two first-printing Egyptian posters designed by Studio Adly and Ahmed Fouad to promote the 1949 113-minute Ahmed Badrakhan black-and-white film I Love You Only [ahebak enta] starring Farid Al Atrache and Samia Gamal based on story and dialogue by Youssef Gohar with screenplay by Ahmed Badrakhan and cinematography by Ahmed Khorshed. Plot summary: Monir [Farid Al Atrache] was an insignificant employee at the Telegraph Company, and an artist: a musician who had never found a place for himself. He met a dancer named Nadia [Samia Gamal] and they fell in love, but Monir soon became jealous of Nadia's dancing teacher Ghazal [Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy] and ended his relationship with her. He met a girl named Souraya [Zeinat Sedki] who was about to commit suicide because her father [Hassan Fayek] was forcing her to marry someone she did not love. Monir saved her from doing that, but her fiance immediately disliked him. It later became apparent Monir had no interest in marrying Souraya and he went back to Nadia after his faith in her love was restored. His father financed his production of a big musical, which was an outstanding success.

Cast and crew: Ahmed Badrakhan, Farid Al Atrache, Samia Gamal, Ismail Yasseen, Hassan Fayek, Zeinat Sedki, Lola Sedki, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Ahmed Khorshed, Youssef Gohar, Stephan Rosti, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Souraya Helmy, Sanaa Samih, Mohamed al-Dib, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Ali Qadri

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Man of the Future [ragal al-mostaqbal] (1946) - (Ahmed Salem)

Man of the Future [ragal al-mostaqbal] (1946) - (Ahmed Salem) Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a first printing of a 35.5" x 45.5" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Khatab and printed by Dar al-Mostaqbal to promote the 1949 Ahmed Salem 105-minute black-and-white film Man of the Future [ragal al-mostaqbal] starring Ahmed Salem based on story and screenplay by Ahmed Salem with dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir with cinematography by Ahmed Khorshed. The film was produced and distributed by the Egyptian Film Company. Plot summary: Kamel moved into a life of wealth and opulence after receiving an inheritance from a relative. However he did not do well with it and he also attracted ridicule in the press from a journalist named Soheir, who accused him in a number of articles of being a millionaire moron. However as events developed Soheir developed a liking for Kamel and they eventually married.

Cast and crew: Ahmed Salem, El Sayed Bedeir, Mediha Yousri, Ahmed Khorshed, Bechara Wakim, El Seyed Bedeir, Hager Hamdy, Said Abu Bakr, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Mohammad Abdel Motaleb, Nabawiya Mostafa, Pamela

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Honeymoon شهر العسل (Farid Al Atrache) - (1945) Egyptian one-sheet

Honeymoon (1945) - (Farid Al Atrache) Egyptian one-sheet

This poster was designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1945 115-minute Ahmed Badrakhan black-and-white comedy The Honeymoon starring Farid Al Atrache as Farid based on story and dialogue by Badei Khayri, screenplay by Ahmed Badrakhan and cinematography by Ahmed Khorshed. Plot summary: Hanna [Madiha Yousri] was a pretty girl who had to accept a marriage proposal from a man she did love. There was confusion when Farid promised Gamalat [Amina Noureddin] he would give her music lessons at his home. Each of the promised husbands of Hanna and Gamalat thought the other girl was his future wife. When Farid met Hanna he thought she was Gamalat and confirmed the appointment with her at his house. Consequently both girls went for the same meeting. The farce continued until Farid ended up marrying Hanna.

Cast and crew: Farid Al Atrache, Ahmed Badrakhan, Madiha Youssri, Zeinat Sedki, Hassan Fayek, Badei Khayri, Ahmed Khorshed, Mohammed Al-Bakkar, Souraya Helmy, Charfantah, Amina Noureddin, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Sayed Soleyman, El-Sayed Bedeir

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The Heart Has Commands القلب له احكام - (Faten Hamama) - (1956) Egyptian one-sheet

The Heart Has Commands (1956) - (Faten Hamama) Egyptian one-sheet

This Egyptian film poster was designed by Stamatis Vassiliou and Marcel to promote the 1956 95-minute Helmy Halim black-and-white film The Heart Has Commands [al-'alb lu ahkam] starring Faten Hamama with screenplay by Aly Al-Zarkany, dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir and cinematography by Ahmed Khorshed. Marcel and Vassiliou were two of the great early poster designers in Egypt (neither was Egyptian). This is the only poster I have where they collaborated.

Plot summary: A girl attending medical college was a poor orphan living in the Bulaq neighborhood with her grandfather. The people in the neighborhood loved her and helped her with her living expenses. She loved one of her rich classmates at the college but he had no feeling for her or any sense of her emotions. Meanwhile an undertaker loved her and was also trying to marry her. The girl went to see a friend who owned a bakery in the Zeinat Sedky neighborhood and told her the secret of her love for her rich classmate. Her friend made a plan for her to get her classmate's attention. The girl then succeeded in attracting her classmate's interest and he promised to meet her at an acquarium. There she discovered he had been gambling with his classmates about making a hit with her, and she fled from him in sadness and disappointment. However the boy's sentiments, which began in frivolity, turned into true love and he offered to marry her. The girl took him to her home and told him about her poverty, but he was still determined to marry her. He told his father the rich contractor about it, claiming she was from a big family. His father agreed to hold a party at his mansion to introduce the girl before giving his final opinion. There was an aristocratic family that wanted to marry their daughter to the rich student by means of a speculative broker who would make a plan to prevent the marriage. At the party the rich contractor was surprised by the people of Bulaq who stormed the mansion at the broker's invitation. He realized they were the family of his son's fiance and his friends and he threw them out. However there was a brawl in which the members of the bankrupt aristocratic family tried to assualt the contractor and his son. The girl's friends intervened in the brawl, and the contractor agreed to his son's marriage to the girl.

Cast and crew: Faten Hamama, Ahmed Ramzy, Helmy Halim, El Sayed Bedeir, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Ahmed Ramzy, Stephan Rosti, Zeinat Sedki, Ahmed Khorshed, Mimi Shakeeb, Seraj Munir, Ahmed Khorshed, El Sayed Bedeir, Aly Al-Zarkany

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The Choice الاختيار (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1971) Egyptian one-sheet

The Choice (1971) - (Soad Hosny) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1971 Youssef Chahine (1926-2008) film The Choice based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz and Youssef Chahine. It won the Tanit d'Or prize at the 1971 Carthage Film Festival. Cinematography was by Ahmed Khorshed. Plot Summary: Sayed [Ezzat El Alaili] was a famous writer and researcher living in Alexandria who had climbed to the top of the social and political pyramid. He was married to Sharifa [Soad Hosny]. He and his wife were preparing for a trip abroad to work in a UN delegation. He read a report in a newspaper about the murder of his twin brother Mahmoud [Ezzat El Alaili] and postponed his trip. He contacted the police and asked them to investigate. Mahmoud was a sailor who lived his life far and wide as he wished to do, without any responsibilities. He had absolutely no interest in social or political centers; in this he was the opposite of his brother who tried to be at the top of social affairs. However he was often defeated by his own reworked ideas, which contained nothing new. Mahmoud stayed away from the social life Sayed loved; he preferred instead to live his life free of tedious problems. He moved as he wished according to whim, across Mahmoud's magical world and frequenting all its places from the homes of artists to magificent mansions. The police officer was skeptical about what was happening around him and began to develop a plan for tracking this writer Sayed, who was living a double life: The cultured man was caught between the true roots of culture and the effort to rise socially. Sayed fled but the police caught him and put him in a mental hospital. "When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother--a famous novelist--is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn that Sayed's successful fictions owe much to the inspiration of his brother Mahmoud's adventurous life. Just as the evidence against the novelist seems overwhelming, Mahmoud turns up alive. But why are the twins never seen together...? In this very personal film, one can see the symbolic outlines of the uneasy relationship between Egyptian intellectuals and the problems of the proletariat". From the Cornell University Library web site.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Saad Ardash, Abdel Kader Hussein, Mahmoud Sobhi, Rashad Hamed, Kemal Morsy, Ashraf al-Solhdar, Hoda Soltan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Naguib Mahfouz, Ezzat El Alaili, Seif El Dine, Soad Hosny, Seif Eddine Shawkat, Ahmed Khorshed, Mimi Shakeeb, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra, Madiha Kamel, Youssef Wahby, Aly El Cherif

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A Bit of Fear (1969)

A Bit of Fear [shay min al-khawf] (1969) - (Shadia) Egyptian film poster

This film was directed by Hussein Kamal based on a story by Tharwat Abaza, with screenplay and dialogue by Sabry Ezzat; the cinematography was done by Ahmed Khorshed; it is on Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films. The poster was designed by Mohamed Hussein. Plot Summary: Atris the grandson became the image of his grandfather in cruelty, violence, tyranny and crime. He ruled the life of his village with the terror he imposed upon its inhabitants. He had loved Fouada since she was a child but she refused him after he came to resemble his grandfather in spirit and action. Atris courted Fouada and asked her father for her hand in marriage but Fouada refused the marriage. Her father feared Atris's anger, and instead of announcing her refusal of the marriage he announced her agreeent to it. Atris was overjoyed when he heard this news, but Sheikh Ibrahim incited the people against Atris and his gang, declaring that his marriage to Fouada was cancelled. Ignoring Atris's orders, Fouada allowed water to flow into the lands of the farmers after he had denied it to them. The people defied Atris and his gang and burned his mansion while he was in it.

Cast and crew: Shadia, Hussein Kamal, Sabry Ezzat, Amal Zayed, Yehia Chahine, Mohammed Tawfik, Mahmoud Moursy, Ahmed Khorshed, Salah Nazmi, Tharwat Abaza, Sabry Ezzat

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Always in My Heart دائما في قلبي (dir: Salah Abouseif) - (1945) Egyptian one-sheet

Always in My Heart (1945) - (Dir: Salah Abouseif) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Fathy al-Khadri for the 1945 Salah Abouseif film Always in My Heart starring Aqila Rateb as Seniyya. This film is an adaptation of the 1940 Mervyn LeRoy film Waterloo Bridge starring Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh. Like the prototype, this film portrays a tragic heroine who falls in love with a sailor, but unlike the prototype, in this Egyptian variation, an important early effort by the great realist/socialist director Salah Abouseif, the heroine is an orphan rather than a ballerina. The themes of despair, prostitution and separated lovers are common to both.

Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Imad Hamdi, Aqila Ratib, Ahmed Khorshed, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Zouzou Nabil, Said Abu Bakr, Dawlad Abiad, Mervyn LeRoy, Mostafa Al-Sayed, El Sayed Bedeir, Zeinat Sedki, Mansi Fahmi, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa, Hassan Kamel

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