This is a 26" x 38.5" Egyptian poster designed by Samir Abdel Moneim
for the 1987 Mohammed Khan film Wife of an Important Man based
on story, screenplay and dialogue by Raouf Tawfik and starring Ahmed
Zaki as Hesham. Plot summary: The film tells the story of the rise
and fall of Colonel Hesham Abol-Wafa, an Egyptian police officer
during the Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat years (1962 - 1980). It
received the Silver Award at the Damascus Film Festival in 1987 and
was also shown in competition at the Moscow Film Festival in 1987. It
was shown as well at the Montreal, Valencia, Tetouan, Digne, Istanbul
and Nantes Film Festivals in 1987 and 1988.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Ahmed Zaki, Mervat Amin, Hassan Hosny,
Zizi Mustafa, Nahed Samir, Mohsen Ahmed, Ali Al Ghandour, Khairy
Beshara, Hafez Amin, Hassan Hosny, Abdel Halim Hafez, Nazim Shaarawy,
Mohsen Ahmed, Othman Abdelmonem, Abdel Ghany Naser, Mahmoud
al-Dardiri, Ahmed Moukhtar, Raouf Tawfik
This an Egyptian 27" x 39" one-sheet poster designed by Amal and
Gasour for the 1981 Mohamed Khan film Dinner Date based on a
story by Mohammed Khan with screenplay and dialogue by Bachir El Dik
and Starring Soad Hosny as Nawal. The film is set in Alexandria
Egypt; Ahmed Zaki plays the part of hairdresser Shokri, who falls in
love with Nawal. Plot summary: Nawal is oppressed by her husband
Ezzat Abul-Rous [Hussein Fahmy]. She catches him with another woman
and demands a divorce on the spot, but he refuses. Nawal despairs and
eventually divorces Ezzat anyway, then Marries Shokri. Ezzat has
Shokri killed to get revenge. Nawal learns of Shokri's death when she
is called to a morgue to identify his corpse. In the final "dinner
date" scene Nawal pretends to be resigned to resuming life with Ezzat,
but she serves poisoned food. Both of them eat it and presumably die,
but the film only shows a sad conversation in which the two seem to
know this is their last meal. Dinner Date was remade in the UK
in 1985 as Claudia (aka Claudia's Story) by Anwar
Kawadri, starring Deborah Raffin.
Cast and crew: Zuzu Madi, Ragaa Al-Gidawy, Mohsen Nasr, Soad Hosny,
Hussein Fahmy, Ahmed Zaki, Mohamed Khan, Bachir El Dik, Mohsen Nasr,
Eglal Zaki, Hamdy Gheith, Zuzu Madi, Claudia, Anwar Kawadri
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour and Morteda
Anise for the 1982 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film The Balah Agency
written by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Nadia El Guindy as Nematollah.
Plot summary: Nematollah lived at the Balah Agency. She had married
most of the merchants and used her relationship with the important
employee Amgad, [Ahmed Louxor] who helped her learn the secrets of
bargaining. She did not hesitate to kill her competitors. Abdollah
[Mahmoud Yassine] came to the agency and went to work for Nematollah.
She liked him, married him and made him the boss of the agency in
charge of her affairs. This angered her former husband Abdoun
[Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] who had gone to work for her after his
bankruptcy. Abdollah discovered the truth about Nematollah and her
crimes. He left her, met Amgad's daughter Mervat, [Samia Al-Alfy]
married her and established a special agency with Amgad's help.
Nematollah tried to bring Abdollah back but he refused. She took
revenge against him by arranging to kill Amgad so no one would help
him when she got her assistants to steal Amgad's goods. Abdollah
thought of returning to her and asked her to confess to her crimes.
The police came and arrested Namatollah. Abdoun pick up an axe to
kill Abdollah with it out of revenge but Nematollah sacrificed herself
for him and met her demise.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet designed by Amal and printed by
Gasour for the 1981 Mohamed Khan film Bird on the Road based on
a story by Mohamed Khan with story, screenplay and dialogue by Bachir
El Dik and starring Ahmed Zaki as Fares. Plot Summary: This is one of
several Mohammed Khan road films, where most of the action follows a
journey motif. The bird on the road in this film is the taxi driver
Fares, who apparently has no home other than his car and spends his
days driving passengers between Alexandria and Cairo. As the film
opens Fares awakens in the morning after spending the night in his
white station wagon taxi parked on a beach near Alexandria. He is
then shown breakfasting at a cafe and listening to a morning radio
broadcast as he prepares to begin a workday. Fares is innocently in
love with a tomboy named Esmat, [Athar El-Hakim] who works at a
ready-to-wear clothing store. He sees her on the street shortly after
driving to Cairo. Ismail, [Amin El-Heinedy] the personal driver for
the wealthy Gad, [Farid Shawqi] asks Fares to drive the old man's car
because he is feeling exhausted. Fares meets Fawzia, [Fardous Abdel
Hamid] when he is driving her and her husband Gad to the farm he owns
in Fayad. Fares knew Fawzia had been suffering from her life with
Gad, whom she had married because of threats from her father. Fares
and Fawzia fall in love. Esmat marries someone else after she sees
Fares's relationship with Fawzia. Fawzia agrees to marry Fares, even
though Gad had refused to grant her a divorce. When Gad learns from
his mother [Mimi Shakeeb] that his wife is pregnant he knows she has
betrayed him. Fares calls Fawzia and senses she is in danger. Gad
shoots at Fawzia with a shotgun as she is running from the farmbut
misses, and she escapes. Fares hurries in his taxi to save Fawzia in
Fayad, but is killed in a traffic accident on the way and never
reaches her.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Farid Shawqi,
Ahmed Zaki, Athar El-Hakim, Mimi Shakeeb, Amin El-Heinedy, Said Shimi,
Bachir El Dik, Hafez Amin
This is a 26.5" x 38" Egyptian poster by an unknown designer made to
promote the 2006 Sherif Arafa film Halim written by Mahfouz
Abdel Rahman and starring Ahmed Zaki as Abdel Halim Hafez. Wikipedia:
Halim is a 2006 Egyptian film about the Egyptian singer Abdel Halim
Hafez. Production had started in 2004 with Ahmed Zaki in the title
role, but the actor died prior to the film's completion, so his son
(Haitham Ahmed Zaki) filled in several scenes. The film was released
in July 2006 with Mona Zaki, Solaf Fawakhergi, directed by Sherif
Arafa, written by Mahfouz Abd El-Rahman and produced by Good News 4
Film & Music Company.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Zaki, Sherif Arafa, Mahfouz Abdel Rahman, Mona Zaki, Ezzat Abou Aouf, Haitham Ahmed Zaki, Mahfouz Abdel Rahman, Samira Abdel Aziz, Solaf Fawakhergy, Gamal Soliman, Salah Abdallah, Solaf Fawakhergy, Sameeha Abdel Aziz, Asser Yassin, Youssef Fawzi, Mohamed Shoman, Youssef El Sherif
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by
Walid Wahib for the 1955 Henry Barakat musical Days and Nights
based on a story by Henry Barakat and Youssef Gohar, screenplay by
Henry Barakat, cinematography by Wahid Farid, music by Mohamed Abdel
Wahab and starring 26-year-old Abdel Halim Hafez (1929-1977) as
Yehia. Plot summary: A wealthy man married a woman who had divorced an
irresponsible alcoholic painter [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. The wealthy man
educated her two sons, one of whom was from another husband, and the
boys grew up together like twins. Yehia, the son of the painter,
loved Samia [Imane] but his brother made trouble for him and Samia
turned away from him. They quarreled at a party when he was quite
drunk and then he got in his car and killed a pedestrian. At his
trial he confessed the truth. This caused tension in the family but
when he returned to his father the painter, the father took
responsibility for the first time; he had a reconciliation with his
wife and his son when he saw the love between mother and son and the
son's confession of the truth. The film includes the hit
song Toba [Never
Again]: Lyrics and translation
Cast and crew: Abdel Halim Hafez, Imane, Ahmed Ramzy, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Henry Barakat, Kamal Hussein, Seraj Munir, Aqila Ratib, Wahid Farid, Youssef Gohar, Ahmed Zaki, Adly Kasseb, Soheir El-Barouni, Samia Rushdy, Souraya Fakhry, Zeinat Alawy
This an Egyptian 27" x 39" one-sheet poster designed by Amal and
Gasour for the 1981 Mohamed Khan film Dinner Date based on a
story by Mohammed Khan with screenplay and dialogue by Bachir El Dik
and Starring Soad Hosny (1943 - 2001) as Nawal. The film is set in
Alexandria Egypt; the late Ahmed Zaki (1949-2005) plays the part of
hairdresser Shokri, who falls in love with Nawal. Nawal is oppressed
by her husband Ezzat Abul-Rous [Hussein Fahmy]. She catches him with
another woman and demands a divorce on the spot, but he refuses.
Nawal despairs and eventually divorces Ezzat anyway, then Marries
Shokri. Ezzat has Shokri killed to get revenge. Nawal first learns
of Shokri's death when she is called to a morgue to identify his
corpse. In the final "dinner date" scene Nawal pretends to be
resigned to resuming life with Ezzat, but she serves poisoned food.
Both of them eat it and presumably die, but the film only shows a sad
conversation in which the two seem to know this is their last
meal. Dinner Date was remade in the UK in 1985
as Claudia (aka Claudia's Story) by Anwar Kawadri,
starring Deborah Raffin.
Cast and crew: Zuzu Madi, Ragaa Al-Gidawy, Mohsen Nasr, Soad Hosny, Hussein Fahmy, Ahmed Zaki, Mohamed Khan, Bachir El Dik, Mohsen Nasr, Eglal Zaki, Hamdy Gheith, Zuzu Madi, Claudia, Anwar Kawadri
Pictured is an Egyptian poster designed by Al-Khad to promote the 1982
123-minute Houssam El-Din Mustafa color film The Love District
[darb al-hawa] starring Youssra based on a story by Ismail Wali El
Deen with screenplay by Mostafa Moharram, dialogue by Sherif El
Menbawy and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: Hosnia and
the pimp Saleh [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] ran a house of prostitution called
the Hotel of Princesses in the Darb Tayyab neighborhood. Samiha
[Madiha Kamel] ended up there seeking refuge from the bad treatment of
her mother's husband, while Elham [Youssra] was driven there by
poverty. Men of all social levels frequented the hotel, such as Abdel
Aziz [Ahmed Zaki], the university professor of philosophy and his
friend Morad, Abdel Hafiz Basha, Abdel Aziz's uncle and a candidate
for parliament who attacked prostitution in campaign speeches, even
though it made him happy to hear the prostitutes insult him. It also
made him happy to be able to drop his guard with them. Saleh tried to
dominate Samiha but he was content with Hosnia, who loved him.
Cast and crew: Madiha Kamel, Youssra, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Zaki, Faruq al-Ghayshawi, Hassan Abdeen, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ismail Wali El Deen, Mostafa Moharram, Sherif El Menbawy, Farouk Al-Fichawy, Shouweikar, Farouk Falawkas, Ibrahim Abdel Razaq, Salwa Khattab, Amal Ibrahim, Aziza Helmy
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour and Anise to promote the 1979 Aly Badrakhan 109-minute color
film Shafiqa and Metwali starring Soad Hosny based on a story by
Shawqi Abdel Hakim with screenplay and dialogue by Salah Jahine and
cinematography by Abdelhalim and Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: This film
is director Aly Badrakhan's revised and very popular version of the
timeless Egyptian tale of an honor killing in which a prostitute named
Shafiqa [Soad Hosny] is murdered by her brother Metwali [Ahmed Zaki]
for dishonoring his family. The story is set in the 19th Century
during the construction of the Suez Canal [1859-1869] when Metwali is
pressed into forced labor for the project leaving Shafiqa to the
depredations of the lascivious male inhabitants of her village. In
the Badrakhan version Shafiqa is shot by one of her lovers named
Effendia [Gamil Ratib] to prevent her revealing secrets she has
learned about his business dealings, just as the returning Metwali is
about to stab her with his sword. Badrakhan's story, unlike the
original moral drama, does not provide narrative support for the
practice of honor killing. It makes a point of showing that the men
in Shafiqa's life are just as guilty as she is in different ways and
that ethical failings are distributed throughout society.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Ahmed Mazhar, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Zaki, Aly Badrakhan, Gamil Ratib, Mahmoud El Guindi, Malek Al-Gamal, Hamza al-Shimi, Naima Al-Soghayar, Ahmed Hegazi, Ahmed Bedir, Abdel Waress Assar, Younes Shalaby, Abdelhalim Nasr, Mohsen Nasr, Salah Jahine, Shawqi Abdel Hakim
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anis to
promote the 1985 Ashraf Fahmy film Saad the Orphan [saad
al-yatim] starring Ahmed Zaki based on a story by Yousry Al-Gendy with
screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hai Adib and cinematography by Mohsen
Nasr. Plot summary: Saad the Orphan [Ahmed Zaki] was in love with
Sabah [Naglaa Fathy], the daughter of a gang leader named Badran
[Mahmoud Moursy]. Another gang leader named al-Halbawy [Farid Shawqi]
also wanted to marry Sabah. This created a conflict for Sabah's
father Badran and a rivaly between al-Halbawy and Saad the Orphan,
although arrangements had been made for Saad the Orphan to marry
Sabah, since this was what Sabah wanted and her father Badran had
agreed to it. There was a fight on the wedding night between
al-Halbawy and Saad the Orphan where Saad the Orphan prevailed. Then
there was another fight the same night where Badran was killed after
Saad the Orphan learned that Badran, his father-in-law, had been the
killer of his father and mother.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Naglaa Fathy, Ahmed Zaki, Mahmoud Moursy, Tewfik El Dekn, Shouweikar, Karima Mokhtar, Ashraf Fahmy, Ahmed Bedir, Mohamed Wafik, Ahmed Ghanem, Zizi Mustafa, Mohsen Nasr, Ibrahim Abdel Razaq, Yousry Al-Gendy, Abdel Hai Adib
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Samir A. Moneim of
Atelier Graphics House to promote the 1996 Mohamed Fadel film Naser
56 starring Ahmed Zaki based on story, screenplay and dialogue by
Mahfouz Abdel Rahman with cinematography by Abdel Latif Fahmi, Essam
Farid and Ibrahim Saleh. Plot Summary: 1956 was the year when on 26
July Gamal Abdel Nasser [Ahmed Zaki] nationalized the Suez Canal,
followed by the Tripartite Invasion the same year, an unsuccessful
effort by England, France and Israel to take the canal back. This
historical drama carefully documents those events from the
perspective of President Gamal Abdel Nasser with emphasis and
attention given to his personal habits and family life and
some original newsreel footage from the era.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Zaki, Mohamed Fadel, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Hassan Hosny, Ahmed Maher, Hani Ramzy, Mahmoud El-Bezzawy, Tareq El-Desouki, Abdula Farghali, Ahmed Khali, Mamdouh Wafi, Hasan Kami, Amina Rizk, Mahfouz Abdel Rahman, Abdel Latif Fahmi, Essam Farid, Ibrahim Saleh, Mahfouz Abdel Rahman, Ahmed Khalil, Shaaban Hussein, Adel Hashem, Rushdi El Mehdi, Mokhles El Behiry
Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed
by Morteda Anise to promote the 1993 111-minute Mohamed Khan color
film Mister Karate starring Ahmed Zaki (1949-2005) based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Raouf Tawfik with cinematography by
Kamal Abdel Aziz. Plot summary: After Salah [Ahmed Zaki] gets his
intermediate educational certificate he moves from his village to
Cairo to take a job parking cars at the garage where his late father
had once worked. He meets Nadia [Nahla Salama] who works in a video
shop next to the garage. She introduces him to the Karate films she
is selling and an innocent friendship develops between them. He also
becomes friends with a Karate coach named Hassan, [Ibrahim Nasr] who
gets him into advanced training at a sports club and gives him the
nickname Mister Karate. Salah is injured in a traffic accident and
comes out of the hospital with a pronounced limp. He leaves his job
at the garage and goes to work parking cars at another garage. There
he occasionally uses his karate skills against local thugs and gets
favorable attention from a wealthy man; this represents a positive
move from the life of a homeless person with no purpose to that of
someone with slightly greater significance. When Salah discovers bags
of heroin in the trunk of the wealthy man's car, he is beaten up by
the man's gang. Nadia discovers she cannot live without Salah and
agrees to marry him despite his poverty; they go together to his
village where they become farmers after all their dreams in the city
have fallen through. In a March 2005 interview shortly before his
death Ahmed Zaki said he regretted the title because the film is
really about the troubles of a simple man trying to survive in Cairo.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Ihab Muntasir, Ibrahim Nasr, Nahla Salama, Zouzou Nabil, Mamdouh Wafi, Zouzou Nabil, Ahmed Zaki, Kamal Abdel Aziz, Raouf Tawfik, Nader Noureddine, Osman Abdel Moneim, Alaa Morsi, Wahid Agami, Hassan al-'adl, Ezzat Kamel, Fouad Ferghali, Ahmad Abutaleb, Sabah Mahmoud, Mahmoud Alwan, Ali Ragab, Hamdi al-Naggar, Said al-Tuhami, Gamal al-Toukhi
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian promotional poster designed by Hassan
Mazhar Gasour for the 1986 Ali Abdel-Khalek 120-minute color
film Fish Market starring Nabila Ebeid as Jamalat and Ahmed
Zaki as Ahmad based on a story by Nabil Nassar with screenplay and
dialogue by Abdel Gawad Youssef and cinematography by Mamoun Ata.
Plot summary: Jamalat was a widow dealing with big operators in the
Alexandria fish market like Atris, Safwan and Selim. After her
husband died she became a fishmonger there. The market big shots
challenged her and forcibly prevented her from working, citing a law
that prevents sales outside the market. Ahmad, [Ahmed Zaki] a simple
worker from upper Egypt, stood by Jamalat, married her and started
marketing her goods himself. Ahmad succeeded in his struggle and
became a respected merchant at the market after buying his own
stall. Then he denied his principles and his wife, practiced monopoly
methods and moved to an upscale neighborhood. He divorced Jamalat and
married Susie, [Khaloud] a woman from a wealthy family. The market
leaders formed an alliance against Ahmad and assassinated him. After
his death life in the market went on as usual.
Cast and crew: Ali Abdel-Khalek, Ahmed Zaki, Nebila Ebeid, Mohamed
Reda, Sabby Abdelmonim, Aly El Cherif, Shawqy Shamekh, Nabil Nassar,
Mohamed Hamdi, Abdel Gawad Youssef, Nabil Nassar, Abdel Mohsen Saleem,
Mohamed Hamdy, Mutawe Owais, Mamoun Ata, Khaloud
This film is included on Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of Egypt's 100 most important films. In 1979 it won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and was also nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear. Also in 1979 it was nominated at the Chicago International Film Festival for the Gold Hugo Award for best feature.
Plot Summary: The film is an historic and autobiographical tale interpreting the life of director Youssef Chahine, World War II in North Africa and several other interwoven story lines. It is set in 1942 as British and Arab forces are fighting the German army advancing towards Alexandria. In Alexandria, the boy Yehia (the young Chahine) dreams of Hollywood musicals, Shakespeare and studying acting in the USA. A beautiful Jewish socialite is caught between the urge to flee the advancing Germans with her father and remaining in Alexandria with her Egyptian lover, who is secretly collaborating with the Germans. An Egyptian aristocrat is murdering occupying British soldiers one by one, but then becomes attached to a young British soldier.
Cast and Crew: Youssef Chahine, Mohsen Zayed, Ahmed Zaki, Naglaa Fathy, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mohsen Nasr, Ezzat El Alaili, Youssef Wahby, Yehia Chahine, Leila Fawzi, Mohsena Tewfik, Akela Kateb, Zeinab Sedky, Seif El Dine, Ahmad Abdel Waress, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Gerry Sundquist
This poster was designed and printed by the award-winning Egyptian
poster designer Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1989 Mohamed Khan
film Dreams of Hind and Camilia based on story and screenplay
by Mohamed Khan and starring Ahmed Zaki as Aid. As with many films by
great directors, the magic of this film is in the visual detail that
gives life to the story. The combination of director Mohamed Khan and
the work of the late Ahmed Zaki and his two co-stars Naglaa Fathy and
Aida Reyad are potent and engaging in this film, in ways not conveyed
by the outline of the story. Plot Summary: Hind [Aida Reyad] was a
pretty and honorable young widow who worked in homes as a maid. Her
dreams were taken up with the search for the right man who would
rescue her from her miserable life. She met Aid [Ahmed Zaki], a
charming swindler who loved her for the moment and got her involved in
many problems and difficulties because of his deviant character. He
was put in prison and left a foetus in her belly without marrying her.
Camilia [Naglaa Fathy] was a divorced beauty who also worked as a
maid. She helped her unemployed brother, his wife and their children
in return for them allowing her to live in their apartment. Camilia
constantly resented her miserable situation and kept hoping to improve
her life. She married a greedy old man who forced her to steal.
Camilia mediated between Hind and Aid so they would marry. Hind had a
beautiful child that she named Ahlam [dreams]. Aid stole some money
but was arrested and imprisoned. Hind and Camilia stumbled upon the
money Aid had stolen and hidden. They took Ahlam on a taxi trip to
Alexandria to fulfill some of their small dreams. The taxi driver and
his assistant drugged them and robbed them. When they woke up where
the driver had left them beside the ocean they had lost everything,
but Ahlam was still standing nearby on the beach.
Cast: Ahmed Zaki, Naglaa Fathy, Aida Reyad, Mohsen Nasr, Hassan El Adl, Mohamed Kamel and Mohga Abdel Rahman.
Bronze Award at the Valencia Film Fest in 1988. Best Direction from Egyptian Film Society Festival in 1989. Best Film from the Catholic Film Centre in Cairo in 1989.
Screened at the Tashkent, Carthage, Bahrain, Nantes and Tetouan Film Festivals, between 1989 and 1995, named one of the 100 landmarks of Egyptian film in 2007 by the Bibliothecha Alexandarina.
