Princess Leila ليلى العامرية (Kouka) - (1948) Egyptian two-piece poster

Princess Leila (1948) - (Kouka) Egyptian two-piece poster

This is a 47" x 35" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Ragheb for the 1948 Niazi Mostafa musical Princess Leila AKA layla al-amiriya AKA Leila and Magnun written by Abol-Farag al-Isfahani and starring Kouka as Leila. Plot summary: In a desert village in 7th Century Arabia Qays ibn al-Mulawah [Yehia Chahine] fell madly in love with his cousin Leila and incessantly recited poems about her. His story spread through the village, but it was a violation of tradition. Moreover, although Leila was happily spending her days with Qays, Qays had a rival for her hand in a man named Ward [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. When the rival proposed her father [Ibrahim Emara] agreed and married Leila to him without her consent. The distraught poet took to wandering aimlessly, reciting poems and hallucinating about his lost love, while Leila got sick and died.

Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Yehia Chahine, Kouka, Mahmoud El-Meilguy, Reyad El Kasabgy, Ibrahim Emara, Abol-Farag al-Isfahani, Rafia al-Shal, Abdullah al-Husseini, Ali Rushdy, Mohamed Nehad, Shafiq Noureddine, Husny Claude, Awham George

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My Country and My Love وطني وحبي (Hussein Sedki) - (1960) Egyptian one-sheet

My Country and My Love (1960) - (Hussein Sedki) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman to promote the 1960 119-minute Hussein Sedki black-and-white film My Country and My Love [watani wa hobi] starring Hussein Sedki based on a story by Fouad al-Qasas and Hussein Sedki with dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa Sami and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Hussein Sedki has the part of an army officer named Wahid on a secret mission to Damascus tracking a gang that is plotting against his country. In his travels Wahid meets and falls in love with a journalist named Hala [Hala Shawkat] and eventually captures and destroys the gang.

Cast and crew: Hussein Sedki, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Fouad Al-Qasas, Mohamed Mostafa Sami, Omar El-Hariri, Hassan el Baroudi, Salah Mansour, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Hala Shawkat, Samia Rushdy, Hassan Ismail, Ali Rushdy, Nazim She'rawy, Abbas Rahmy, Zaki Ibrahim

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I Killed My Wife قتلت زوجتي (Madiha Yousri) - (1956) Egyptian one-sheet

I Killed My Wife (1956) - (Madiha Youssri) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian promotional poster designed by Wahib Fahmi to promote the 110-minute 1956 Kamal Attia black-and-white film I Killed My Wife [qatalt zawgati] starring Madiha Yousri based on story and screenplay by Kamal Attia with cinematograpy by Mohamed Abdel Azim. A couple was unable to have children even though they had been married for years. The husband was an insignificant worker who loved his wife, so he kept her. There was a rumor in the neighborhood that love had reemerged between the wife and her former fiance, who had returned from a trip. The husband became suspicious and decided to kill her. He was arrested and an attorney proved the wife had not betrayed her husband, after the former fiance made a confession. The husband was put in prison.

Cast and crew: Kamal Attia, Imad Hamdi, Madiha Yousri, Omar El-Hariri, Zahrat El-Ola, Wedad Hamdy, Ferdoos Mohammed, Ali Rushdy, Aziza Helmy, Mohamed Abdel Azim, El Sayed Bedeir, Souraya Fakhri, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Abdel Alim Khattab, Mohammad Shawqi, Hussein Qandil

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