The Drowned Woman الغرقانة - (Nabila Ebeid) - (1993)

The Drowned Woman [al-gharqana] Egyptian film poster

This is a 26.75" x 38.75" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda to promote the 92-minute Mohamed Khan color film The Drowned Woman [al-gharqana] starring Nabila Ebeid as Warda based on screenplay and dialogue by Mostafa Moharram and a story by Hassan Shah, with cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: In a village on the southern coast of the Sinai the pretty Bedouin woman Wafa was in heartbreak and pain because she had become a widow to three husbands. People were accusing her of being bad luck for men! Warda went to see the village sorcerer, a swindler and a quack, to ask him how to break the spell. He persuaded her to marry him and told her this would purge the curse. She agreed to the marriage and gave birth to a deformed midget, whom the father named Mabruk. The father attributed miracles to him and accumulated much wealth by using simple devices to promote superstition and quackery. Warda started supprting herself as a dancer in a tourist village. Then Mabruk drowned while playing in the sea in his parents' absence; the local women told the sorcerer his wife had caused it, so he drowned her too. The sorcerer then went back to swindling the villagers with the help of a local assistant, who claimed Mabruk's soul had dissolved into the body of his father!

Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Mostafa Moharram, Nabila Ebeid, Mahmoud Hemida, Ahmad Tawfiq, Hassan Shah, Mostafa Moharram, Mohsen Nasr, Nahla Salama, Hamdi Al Wazir, Abir Al-Saghir, Ayman Ahmad, Ali Hassanein, Mohamed Sabri, Ahlam Khaled, Nahla Salama

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The Red Rose الوردة الحمراء (dir Inas Al Degheidy) 1999

The Red Rose (1985) - (dir: Inas Al Degheidy) Egyptian one-sheet

This film directed by Inas Al Degheidy is based on the 1946 American film Gilda directed by Charles Vidor and starring Rita Hayworth. This Egyptian version of that classic film was a box office failure, but it has a beautiful poster designed by Takht Ahd. Plot summary: Jamila (Youssra) is a singer married to Azmi (Ahmed Ramzi), the owner of one of the hotels where she works. The hotel has a new manager named Salah (Mustafa Fahmi) who had recently been released from prison. Salah, who has a secret side business as an arms dealer, is an extremely cruel man. In his earlier years his marriages had been unsuccessful because of his infidelities and now he has become an older man without ever being close to a woman. Jamila takes up with him and abandons her husband for the sake of her career, thinking he can help her socially, but she then tires of Salah and returns to Azmi; this leads to a violent altercation when Salah tries to take revenge against Jamila for abandoning him.

Cast and crew: Ahmed Ramzy, Youssra, Inas Al Degheidy, Mustafa Fahmy, Shams, Hussein El Imam, Tarek El-Telmessani, Angel Aaram, Ali Hassanein, Hisham Madkour, Sayed Gabr, Abdel Hai Adib, Gilda, Charles Vidor

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Al-Kitkat (1991)

Al-Kitkat (1991) - (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz) Egyptian film poster (designed by Nagy Shaker)

This film is based on the novel al-Malek al-Hazin [The Sad King] by Aslan. Plot summary: In the al-Kitkat neighborhood the blind Sheikh Hosni (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz) seemed to be the overseer of the affairs of the people and the pulse of their real concerns even though he had lost his sight, his wife and his job. He lived with his aged mother (Amina Rizk) and his good-for-nothing son (Sherif Mounir) without abandoning hope, smiles or laughter. At night it was his hobby to sing at drug-smoking gatherings to forget the gloomy reality since the sale of his home. Hosni's son Youssef did not find a job after his graduation from the university and he also failed to find work abroad. His interest in his neighbor the divorcee Fatima (Aida Reyad) was due to the affliction with Hosni's incapacity. When someone in the neighborhood died Sheikh Hosni was summoned for the mourning. When the microphone was left on after readings from the Koran Sheikh Hosni found out about some of the scandals among the people of al-Kitkat, such as the cuckolding by the teacher Haram (Nagah El-Mogui) of his sick friend with his pretty wife, Rawayeh (Jihan Nasr) leaving her husband the insensitive jeweler and even the special relationship with Rawayeh's mother and his son's relationship with Fatima!

Cast and crew: Daoud Abdel Sayed, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sherif Mounir, Aida Reyad, Nagah El-Mogui, Amina Rizk, Ali Hassanein, Galeela Mahmood, Jihan Nasr, Raqueh Daoud, Ahmed Kamal, Amal Ibrahim, Mohamed Gebril, Galila Mahmoud, Maged Habashi, Othman Abdul Menem

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