This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1979
Mohamed Abdel Aziz film Take Care of Your Neighbors based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Farouq Sabry and starring Adel Imam
as the attorney Ahmed. Plot summary: A couple shares an apartment on
their honeymoon with some strange neighbors.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Lebleba, Madiha Yousri, Fouad
El-Mohandes, Wahid Seif, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Mimi Gamal, Aly El
Cherif, Farouq Sabry
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1980 Samir Seif
film The Suspect based on story, screenplay and dialogue by
Ibrahim al-Mawgi and starring Soad Hosny as Fatma/Batta. Plot
summary: Maher [Adel Imam] was a thief who met the whore Fatma/Batta
while he was robbing an apartment. They got married and decided to
repent their crimes.
Cast and crew: Samir Seif, Fouad Ahmed, Aly El Cherif, Naima Al
Soghayar, Soad Hosny, Adel Imam, Sa'eed Saleh, Farouk Al-Fichawi,
Ibrahim al-Mawgi
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty for the 1980
Ashraf Fahmy film The Homeless based on a story by Naguib
Mahfouz, screenplay by Ahmed Saleh and starring Naglaa Fathy as Laila.
Laila was a successful attorney married to a wealthy contractor named
Fathy [Mahmoud Yassine]. They were entirely different culturally. He
was ignorant whereas she was a hard worker in a high social position.
She was constrained in her life with him and withdrew from him after
failing to improve his social worth. Fathy took up with a woman with
a bad reputation named Sausan [Nabila Ebeid]. Laila learned about his
relationship with her and asked him for a divorce, which she got.
Laila defended a woman in a case similar to the one in her own life.
The person she was defending killed her husband after discovering he
had been unfaithful to her, even though he had lifted her out of
poverty and married her, and this is what had happened to Laila.
During a visit to Sausan Fathy suddenly had a severe heart attack.
Sausan contacted Laila to tell her about his illness. Laila felt
regret about the way she had treated him and asked him to forgive her,
but he died in Sausan's home as a result of the heart attack.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Naglaa Fathy, Mikhtar Al Sayed,
Mahmoud Yassine, Naguib Mahfouz, Nabila Ebeid, Salah Nazmi, Essam
Farid, Imane, Aly El Cherif, Nawal Fahmy, Hassan Hussein, Ahmad Khamees,
Aleya Abdel Moneim, Salah Nazmi, Badr Nofal, Qadreya Qadry, Enaam
Salousa, Ahmed Saleh
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the 1982 Ahmed
Sarwat film Five in Hell based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Sami Ghoneim, cinematography by Said Chimi and starring
Sa'eed Saleh as Fahmy. Plot summary: Fahmy makes an agreement
with his friends Nasr [Younes Shalaby] and Kamal [Ahmed Adawiyya] to
steal a company's treasury to pay for the medical expenses of Fahmy's
son. After stealing the money they hide it before they are arrested.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Tharwat, Sa'eed Saleh, Sami Ghoneim, Younes
Shalaby, Ahmed Adawiyya, Wahid Seif, Aly El Cherif, Essad Youniss,
Aida Riad, Ahmed Abdel Waress, Zizi Mustafa, Said Chimi, Othman Abdul
Menem, Mohamed Abo Hashish, Salah Yehia, Nasr Hammad
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1978
Hassan El-Seify film A Type of Woman based on a story by
Mostafa Moharram, screenplay and dialogue by Ali Salem and starring
Nahed Sherif as Samia. Plot summary: The widow Samia saw a strong
resemblance between Hussein [Sameer Ghanem] and her late husband Hosni
and she therefore became attached to him, while Hussein saw her as a
young and wealthy woman. They married. He got to know Kawsar [Safia
El Emari] because they saw each other everywhere and she was the
couple's only friend. A gang kidnapped Hussein thinking he was their
leader Hosni, although Kawsar knew the difference because she had had
a special relationship with Hosni. Hussein found out about Samia's
first husband, his role as the gang leader and his relationship with
her friend Kawsar.
Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Sameer Ghanem, Hassan El-Seify,
Mostafa Moharram, Ali Salem, Safia El Emari, Salah Nazmi, Aly El
Cherif, Ahmed El Haddad, Ahmed Bedir, Mohammad Shawqi, Ahmed Shawqi,
Hossan Iliani, Nadia Shamseddine, Hassan Mostafa Ali
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1981
Simon Saleh film A Person Lives Once AKA al-insan yaeesh
mara wahida written by Wahid Hamid and starring Adel Imam as Hani.
Plot summary: Dr. Amal [Youssra] moved her practice to Salloum after
the death of her fiance. There she met Hani and formed a strong
relationship with him. Hani became friends with Bakri, [Aly El
Cherif] a school guard from upper Egypt who was being chased by
Haridi, [Naeem Esa] who had a grudge against him. Hani and Amal
decided to marry and go to Cairo with Bakri. Haridi arrived in
Salloum and when he heard about Bakri's trip he jumped on the train
with a small firearm as it was leaving the platform.
Cast and crew: Simon Saleh, Abdel Latif Fahmi, Naeem Esa, Wahid
Hamid, Adel Imam, Youssra, Zein El-Ashmawy, Aly El Cherif, Badr Nofal, Shawqy Shamekh,
Hatem Zolfikar, Said Tarabeek, Ahmed Kamis, Rafat Ragi
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
Shown here is a 26.75" x 38.5" Egyptian poster made to promote the
1980 102-minute Hanry Barakat color film Shaaban the Thief
AKA sha'ban taht al-sefr starring Adel Imam as Shaaban based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Samir Abdelazim with cinematography by Said
Al-Shiemy. Plot summary: Shaaban is a poor worker who loves his
colleague Zeinab [Essad Youniss], but is unable to provide her with an
apartment. He tries to get a loan of 1000 pounds for this purpose
from the wealthy al-Ghatrifi Bey [Imad Hamdi] but is refused. When
al-Ghatrifi dies shortly thereafter his relatives try to take his
wealth but are unable to do so legally, so they talk Shaaban into
impersonating al-Ghatrifi's son with forged papers so he can get the
the money from the government. He agrees to this but insists on being
paid half the total inheritance of 6.5 million pounds.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Henry Barakat, Salah Nazmi, Gamil Ratib, Ahmed Adawiyya, Zizi Mustafa, Imane, Essad Youniss, Said Al-Shiemy, Said Shimi, Samir Abdelazim, Aly El Cherif, Ahmed Maher, Mokhtar Al Sayed, Zizi Mustafa, Imad Hamdi, Angel Aaram, Ahmed Rateb, Shaaban Hussein, Hanem Mohamed, Hafez Amin, Alia Abdel Moneim, Rashad Farag, Mohamed al-Ramali, Sayed al-Sawi, Hassan Hussein, Soraya Shawqi, Ibrahim Qadri
This an original folded 27" x 39" Egyptian movie poster designed by
Raouf for the 1976 Youssef Chahine film Return of the prodigal
son freely adapted from the 1907 André Gide novel, produced in
Egypt and Algeria with screenplay by Salah Jahine and Youssef Chahine
and starring Ali Mahrez as Ali. Plot summary: "Return of the
Prodigal Son is another Chahine parable set between the
Arab-Israeli wars. An activist who's been jailed for more than a
decade, Ali is eagerly awaited by his family. All hope that this just
man will stand up against his ruthless brother's tyranny, but nobody
even recognizes the prodigal when he shows up during a big
party. Prison has so thoroughly crushed Ali's youth and idealism that
he now allies himself with the
oppressor." From the Cornell University Library web site.
The film is a melodrama/musical centering on family strife in the
Madbouli family heightened by the release of the family's youngest son
from prison after serving ten years for construction fraud, who turns
out to be a disappointment when he goes to work at his father's
factory. The family lives on a farm headed by an authoritarian father
[Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. The film has also been seen as an allegorical
treatment of Egypt's poliitical disillusion following the death of
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), who had been criticized by some as an
authoritarian leader of a police state, too dependent on the power of
his personal charisma and unable to create intermediary institutions
or adopt practical programs for national development.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Salah Jahine, Farouk Beloufa,
Raouf, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Shukry Sarhan, Hoda Soltan, Ayda Reyad,
Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Souheir El-Mourchidy, Ali El Scherif, Ali Mahrez,
Sid Ali Kouiret, Ahmed Abdel Waress, Ragaa Hussein, Ahmed Bedir, Magda
El-Roomy, Hesham Selim, André Gide
This film was an important milestone in the career of Adel Imam, best known in the West for his starring role in the 2006 Marwan Hamed film The Yacoubian Building [emaret ya'qubian]. This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian film poster designed by
Moaty to promote the 1979 128-minute Ahmed Fouad color film Ragab
on a Hot Tin Roof [ragab fou' safeeh sakhen] starring Adel Imam
based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ebrahim Maher with
cinematography by Essam Farid. Plot summary: The people in Ragab's
[Adel Imam] village pooled their money to buy a plow and sent him to
Cairo to buy it. As soon as he got there he met Bolbol, [Sa'eed
Saleh] a professional thief, who stole the money the people of Ragab's
village had given him, then disappeared in the Cairo crowds. Ragab
went looking for him. He ended up in a nightclub, where he met
Bobbol's friend Eglal [Nahed Sherif], the owner of a nighclub. Bolbol
had seen Ragab and fled with the money. When Ragab found him he
claimed to have lost all the money gambling. Ragab tried to find
work. When that failed he asked Bolbol to teach him how to gamble.
After he learned how to do this he won a lot of money, but one of the
ones who lost money to him went after him with the intent of killing
him; Bolbol tried to defend Ragab and suffered a few stab wounds. The
police intervened and arrested all of them. Ragab did not return to
his village. After his release he took a job in Cairo looking for
newcomers from rural areas and upper Egypt so he could swindle them.
In Egypt Today September 2004 Sherif Awad said of this film:
"Comedian Adel Imam made cinema history with Ragab Fouk Safeeh Sakhen
([Ragab on a Hot Tin Roof], 1979). The film broke all previous
box-office records and spent 37 weeks in theaters. Throughout the past
two decades, he has been the uncontested king of the box office,
churning out roles in every conceivable genre. Now in his fifties,
Imam is still going strong."
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Nahed Sherif, Sa'eed Saleh, Wahid Seif, Zuzu Shakeeb, Ahmed Fouad, Essam Farid, Mimi Gamal, Aly El Cherif, Soad Hussein, Nahed Gabr, George Sidhum, Madhar Abol Naga, Seif Allah Mokhtar, Hafez Amin, Essam Farid, Maher Ibrahim, Farouk Falawkas, Samie Al-Adel, Amima Salim, Ahmed Amer, Sha'ban Taha, Mahmoud al-Eraqi, Mona Abdullah, Fawzi Ibrahim
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour and Anis to promote the 1978 88-minute Ashraf Fahmy color
film My Honor [karamati] starring Imad Abdel Halim and Nagwa
Ibrahim based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ahmed Abdel Wahab
with cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: Amal's husband
Salah betrayed her so she decided to kill herself. Tareq tried to
save her and calm her down, but she saw he was becoming attached to
her and decided to go to Cairo, far away from him. He decided to
follow her home to see where she lived. Salah went to her and
expressed regret about what happened but she refused to go back to him
at first. Later she was hurt in a traffic accident and agreed to
resume their relationship when he visited her at a hospital. This film
is largely a showcase for the singing of Imad Abdel Halim, in a
romantic spirit reminiscent of Abdel Halim Hafez (1929-1977).
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Sa'eed Saleh, Mohamed Khairi, Nagwa Ibrahim, Imad Abdel Halim, Ibrahim Saleh, Ahmed Abdel Wahab, An'am Salusa, Layla Fahmy, Nabil Badr, Aly El Cherif, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Aly Ezzedin, Mazhar Abolnega, Hafez Amin
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anise to
promote the 1983 Mohamed Fadel 124-minute color film Love in
Prison [hob fil-zinzana] starring Adel Imam and Soad Hosny based
on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ibrahim El-Mougy with
cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: Abol Fotouh, [Abdel
Moneim Madbouli] the secretary of the greedy merchant al-Sherbouni,
[Gamil Rateb] persuaded Salah [Adel Imam] to go to prison in exchange
for a promise of an apartment and a lathe workshop. In prison Salah
met the imprisoned artist Farouq [Yehia El-Fakharani] and Ali
Shamsoun, [Aly El Cherif] who was condemned to death but had been
given a reprieve. With the help of hand signals, Salah fell in love
with Faiza, [Soad Hosny] a prisoner in the adjacent women's prison.
After Faiza was released she went to get the apartment but
Al-Sherbouni hid it from her and did not keep his promise. Salah broke
out of prison so he could take revenge against Al-Sherbouni. He
married Faiza and remained in hiding until he could travel abroad with
Farouq's fake passport. Seduced by money, Farouq had to declare the
date of Al-Sharbouni's trip. The police went to the airport but Salah
evaded them and fled. He went to Al-Sherbouni's home and killed him;
then he was put back in prison.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Soad Hosny, Mohamed Fadel, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Yehia El-Fakharany, Gamil Ratib, Aly El Cherif, Mohamed Kamel, Naima El Saghier, Magda Zaki, Ibrahim El-Mougy, Mohsen Nasr, Badr Nofal, Mohamed Shawky, Hamdy Youssef, Abou Lam'a, Sami Moghawari, Awatef Tekla, Ahmed Al-Badri, Mahmoud Massoud, Mohammad Farid, Said Tarabik, Osman Salim
Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian film poster designed by Hassan
Mazhar Gasour and Morteda Anise and printed by Arabic Cinema printers
to promote the 1984 110-minute Hussein El-Wakeel color film The
Curse [al-la'na] starring Nour El-Sherif with screenplay by
Hussein El-Wakeel, dialogue by Salah Gabin and cinematography by
Mostafa Imam, based on the 1963 film Shock Corridor written and
directed by Samuel Fuller. The film was produced by Aflam Eskandaria
and distributed by Ihab al-Leisi films. Plot summary: Chief Editor
Tantawy [Nabil Dessouky] gave the journalist Hamdy [Nour El-Sherif]
the job of investigating the murder of Saluma, an inmate at a mental
hospital. Hamdy gained entrance into the hospital claiming to be
insane, despite the objections of his wife Madiha [Madiha Kamel].
Based on consultations with a psychiatrist he learned how to imitate
the state of a mental patient. At the hospital he found three
witnesses who said the patient Khalil was the one who had killed
Salmuma because she had seen him assault another patient
sexually. Hamdy left the hospital and published his report, but
discovered he had gone insane himself.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Samuel Fuller, Madiha Kamel, Hussein El-Wakeel, Mustafa Imam, Gamil Ratib, Ahmed Bedir, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra, Aly El Cherif, Mohamed Kamel, Mohamed Morshed, Ahmed Abdel Hadi, Mohamed Nouh, Nabil Dessouky, Kamal Hussein
This Egyptian film poster was designed by Al-Khad to promote the 1980
115-minute Henry Barakat color film I Am Neither a Devil Nor an
Angel [lestu shaytanan wa la malakan] based on story, screenplay
and dialogue by Samir Abdelazim with cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh.
Plot summary: Kawsar [Soheir Ramzy] left her fiance Ahmed [Nour
El-Sherif] and married the elderly rich man Shamis, [Aly El Cherif]
the owner of a factory in which her father worked, after there was a
quarrel between her and Ahmed over her father. Ahmed finished his
studies and graduated from the college of engineering. He established
a relationship with his classmate Engineer Nahed [Hoda Ramzi] and they
decided to marry. Shamis was killed by the husband of his mistress.
Kawsar asked Engineer Ahmed to help her manage her late husband's
factory because she was having many problems doing it herself. By
chance she learned about the relationship between Ahmed and Nahed;
this got her to thinking about firing Nahed from her job at the
factory. Ahmed went to see Kawsar at her home and asked her not to do
this. After he left her home Shamis's son stabbed Kawsar with a knife
and she was taken to a hospital. Ahmed emphasized to Nahed that his
relationship with Kawsar had been just a work relationship and what
had happened earlier was just a memory; so the two of them began their
life together.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Henry Barakat, Ihsan Sherif, Soheir Ramzy, Hoda Ramzi, Aly El Cherif, Wahid Seif, Mohammed Tawfik, Zein El-Ashmawy, Salah Nazmi, Enaam Salousa, Soheir Zaky, Ibrahim Saleh, Samir Abdelazim, Samy Fahmy
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
Pictured are two promotional posters for the
110-minute 1985 Ashraf Fahmy color film Divorced Woman [emra'a
motlaqa] starring Naglaa Fathy as Salwa based on a story by Hassan
Shah with screenplay and dialogue by Mostafa Moharram and
cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: Zeinab [Samira Ahmed] was
a nurse married to Fathy, [Mahmoud Yassine] an ambitious bank employee
who worked his way into a big bank center then married the secretary
Salwa. He threw Zeinab out of his apartment after divorcing her
because her social standing was not high enough. Zeinab went to a
judge and got an order allowing her to stay in the apartment with
Fathy and Salwa because she was pregnant. She tried to keep the baby
so she could remain alone in the apartment after the child was born,
but she finally gave up and left. Salwa sympathized with Zeinab
because of her financial situation. Zeinab finally gave in to the
teacher Fahim [Aly El Cherif] who wanted to marry her, even though she
was not happy about it and had refused him repeatedly, because
marrying him would provide her with a secure home.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Farid Shawqi, Salah Kabil, Khayria Ahmed, Samira Ahmed, Karima Mokhtar, Aly El Cherif, Farida Seif El Nasr, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Ashraf Fahmy, Nagah El-Mogui, Naima Al-Soghayar, Mohsen Nasr, Mostafa Moharram, Hassan Shah, Fouad Khalil
