Samara the Prince سمارة الامير (Nabila Ebeid) - (1992) Egyptian one-sheet

Samara the Prince (1992) - (Nabila Ebeid) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anise for the 1992 Ahmed Yehia film Samara the Prince based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Nabila Ebeid as Shalabia/Samara. Plot Summary: Shalabia, a beautiful country girl, moved from her village to work as a maid in a pasha's palace in Alexandria. However she fell in love with the pasha's opportunist driver Ali [Mahmoud Hemida] and made the other maids jealous. One of them told the pasha about their relationship so he would fire them both. He took advantage of the opportunity to exploit his lover Shalabia in the acquisition of much wealth for his illegitimate purposes. He swept her out with the trash after using her as a dancer at the Al-Faramawy Nightclub and promising to marry her while he was improving his financial situation. Shalabia learned the art of dancing and changed her name to Samara the Prince to increase her fame among the wealthy people who frequented the nightclub. Her fans who showered her with wealth multiplied. They included Marwan Amin the nationalist journalist, Mr. Faw the English stockbroker and Mehdi Pasha, a prominent politician. When Samara the Prince met the tax agent Omar Abdel Awi she found in him a life partner and married him hoping to begin an honorable life without depravity. She tried to quit the night life but her first lover Ali refused to allow this because he wanted to keep stealing her money. Ali decided she had to return to her work as a dancer. Her husband Omar negotiated for a divorce in return for a sum of money but when Ali failed to win the argument with Omar he killed him to punish Samara.

Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Ahmed Yehia, Wahid Seif, Youseff Daoud, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Hamdy Ghayth, Nabila Ebeid, Mahmoud Hemida, Ramses Marzouk, Mostafa Moharram, Mohammad Tawfik, Sanaa Shafei, Ahmad Mostafa, Umran Bahar, Howeida Omran, Ahmed Abu Abih, Osman Al-Hamamsi

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The Night the Moon Cried ليلة بكى فيها القمر Sabah 1980 Lebanese one-sheet

The Night the Moon Cried (1980) - (Sabah) Lebanese one-sheet

This is a 27.5" x 39" Lebanese poster designed by Gasour and Abdel Rahman for the 1980 Ahmed Yehia film The Night the Moon Cried AKA [leilet baka fiha al-qamar] based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Farouk Sabry and starring Sabah as Hanan. Plot summary: The luxury automobile belonging to a famous elderly singer named Hanan broke down on a desert highway. A penurious man named Ahmed Fahmy [Hussein Fahmy] stopped to help in his battered old Volkswagen, recognized her and then gradually found other ways to work his way into her affluent life. She fell in love with him, began following him around and even helped him realize his dream of producing theatrical exhibitions.

Cast and crew: Ahmed Yehia, Samir Farag, Sabah, Hussein Fahmy, Minerva, Farouk Sabry, Nabil al-Dessouki, Nazim Shaawy, Nabila El Sayed, Wahid Seif, Alia Ali, Minerva, Mohamed Abu Hashish, Ahmed El Tohamy

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Karakon in the Street كراكون في الشارع Adel Imam (1986) Lebanese one-sheet

Karakon in the Street (1986) - (Adel Imam) Lebanese one-sheet

This is a 27" x 40" Lebanese poster derived from an Egyptian poster designed by al-Khad for the 1986 Ahmed Yehia film Karakon in the \ Street عراشلا يف نوكارك [karakon fil-share'] based on story and screenplay by Ahmad Al-Khatib and starring Adel Imam as Engineer Sherif al-Masri. This movie is an Egyptian story about building and occupying a tiny house in Cairo. Plot summary: Engineer Sherif, his wife Soad [Youssra] the teacher, their daughter Sara, their son Hani and his mother [Naima El Saghira] were living in a shelter after the destruction of their home. Because of the inhumane conditions in the shelter they took refuge in a barn, but were surprised to find Abou Douma [Ali El Cherif] living there. The public prosecutor ordered them to partition the barn. Sherif made a mobile dwelling out of wood and started living in it despite the many problems. Inspired by Sherif a number of people began building their own mobile homes. Some of them moved into the desert with them.

Cast and crew: Ahmed Yehia, Ahmad Al-Khatib, Adel Imam, Youssra, Hafez Amin, Umran Bahar, Yousseff Daoud, Aly El Cherif, Diaa El-Merghani, Naima El Saghira

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Apartment Owner Suicide انتحار صاحب الشقة (Nabila Ebeid) - 1986 Egyptian film poster

Apartment Owner Suicide [entehar saheb al-sha'ah] (1986) - (Nabila Ebeid) Egyptian film poster

Pictured here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Khad to promote the 1986 115-minute Ahmed Yehia color film Apartment Owner Suicide [entehar saheb al-sha'ah] Starring Nabila Ebeid based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay and dialogue by Mostafa Moharram and cinematography by Abdel Moneim Bahnassy. Plot summary: Farida lived with her husband Hamdi in Hamdi's family apartment; they both worked at the same company. His mother was always trying to turn him against her, and she finally separated from him. The company director Abdel Aziz liked her. After she became fed up with her mother-in-law's behavior she went to live with her coworker Mervat. Hamdi divorced her and then Farida married Abdel Aziz. He had a luxury apartment but he was also a drunk who liked to play with the maids while his wife was was sleeping. She found about it and left him, then went back to him. She exploited his weakness until she became the owner of the apartment and caused his death when he fell off the balcony while flirting with her; upon investigation this was found to be a suicide. She went back to her first husband Hamdi and gave him the apartment becuase she was afraid of Abdel Aziz's heirs. Then Hamdi's family took over the apartment. At first they merely lived there with her but they ended up driving her out.

Cast and crew: Nabila Ebeid, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Hatem Zulfikar, Taheya Cariocca, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Ahmed Yehia, Abdel Moneim Bahnassy, Mimi Gamal, Amal Ibrahim, Wael Nour, Liza, Samia Mohsen, Hosny Abdel Galil, Hayam Abdel Latif

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Farewell to Torment وداعا للعذاب Naglaa Fathy 1981 Egyptian one-sheet

Farewell to Torment (1978) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a promotional poster for the 1978 Ahmed Yehia 110-minute color film Farewell to Torment [weda'an lil-'azab] based on the 1926 King Vidor film La Boheme starring Naglaa Fathy with screenplay and dialogue by Aly Al-Zarkany and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: In a poor neighborhood the orphan girl Layla [Naglaa Fathy] took up residence in a room in the home of Zenouba [Zixi Mustafa]. Two other residents of the same house, Adel and Nour [Hussein Fahmy], tried to get close to Layla. Layla worked in the service of the crazy rich lady Fahima and won her friendship and confidence, even though the woman mistreated her and enjoyed it. The neighborhood leader Haj Hassan objected to Layla's presence in the house but Salah [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] accepted her and brought her back to the house, even though she was suffering from a critical illness that required a surgical operation. Nour, Salah, Adel and Zenouba raised the money for the operation, which was a success.

Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Ahmed Yehia, Aqila Ratib, Salah Nazmi, Hassan Hussein, Zizi Mustafa, Hussein Fahmy, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Aly Al-Zarkany, Wahid Farid, Samir Hosny, Ibrahim Qadry, Safinaz Al-Guindy, Abdel Moneim Al-Nemr, Aly Ezzedin, Samir Reda, Ibrahim Al-Sayed, Wafa Abdel Halim, Mona Abdulla, King Vidor

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Alexandria-New York (2004)

Alexandria-New York (1004) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian film poster

This film, which among other things represents Chahine's mixed feelings about the United States, won 6 awards at the Egyptian Film Society Festival, including Best Director, Best Makeup, Best Poster, Best Coming Actor (Ahmed Yehia), Best Actress (Yousra El Lozy), and Best Actor (Mahmoud Hemeda). It was also voted best film of the year 2004 in a readers poll conducted by the newspaper Al-Ahram.

Plot Summary from IMDB: "Egyptian film director Yehia encounters his first love Ginger as he was being celebrated in New York. Back then they were 19 years old. The American Dream was the thing of the 20th century. Yehia, the boy from Alexandria, and Ginger, the American gal, were students at Pasadena Playhouse.40 years later, they are back together but the world has changed and the American Dream is no longer what it used to be. Yehia finds out that he had begotten an American child, a boy. Through a boisterous epic in which heroes love, sing, dance, laugh and cry, Youssef Chahine reconsiders his past and his ambiguous relationship to America which he loved so much. Written by www.YoussefChahine.us"

Cast and Crew: Youssef Chahine, Mahmoud Hemida, Ahmed Yehia, Youssra, Yousra El Lozy, Lebleba, Hala Sedki, Magda El-Khatib, Nelly Karim,Mohamed Hasabo, Sanaa Younes, Soad Nasr, Yousra Selim, Mahmoud Saad, Mahmoud El Lozy, Hamdy El Sakhawy

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