Bird on the Road طائر على الطريق Ahmed Zaki 1981 Egyptian one-sheet

Bird on the Road (1981) - (Ahmed Zaki) Egyptian one-sheet

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

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Sayed Darwish [سيد درويش] - (Karam Metaweh) - (1966)

Sayed Darwish (1966) - (Karam Metaweh) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a picture of a 27" x 39" Egyptian stone litho poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1966 112-minute Ahmed Badrakhan black-and-white film Sayed Darwish starring Hind Rostom and Karam Metaweh based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mostafa Sami with cinematography by Aly Hassan. Plot summary: This is a documentary film about the life of composer Sayed Darwish (1892 - 1923) [Karam Metaweh], who wrote the Egyptian national anthem and was also said by many to have been the father of Egyptian popular music. Hind Rostom has the part of a woman he loved named Jalila.

Cast and crew: Ahmed Badrakhan, Hind Rostom, Karam Metaweh, Aly Hassan, Amin El-Heinedy, Zizi Mustafa, Nahed Samir, Mostafa Sami, Adel Imam, Ashraf Al-Salahdar, Adib al-Tarablosi, Hani Shaker, Hussein Omar, Fatma Emara, Sherif Yehia

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Street of Water Carriers حارة السقايين - (dir: El-Seyed Ziada) - (1966) Egyptian one-sheet

The Street of Water Carriers (1966) - (dir: El-Seyed Ziada) Egyptian one-sheet

This Egyptian film poster was designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1966 85-minute El-Sayed Ziada black-and-white film Street of the Water Carriers with screenplay and dialogue by Anwar Abdalla and cinematography by Gamal Ebada. Plot Summary: The film is a caricature of the Egyptian film industry as seen by poor Egyptian audiences who dream of participation. It is about a girl named Fakiha [Sharifa Fadel] who lived in the district of the water carriers with her uncle Hussein [Amin El-Heinedy] the composer. Her uncle was a talented man whose work was not appreciated until a film studio gave him the opportunity to write a song for a new movie. When she went to the studio with her uncle, as a singer Fakiha also got a chance for a role in the new film to replace the lead actress, whose singing the producer did not like. Fakiha's fiancee Salem [Mohamed Awad] became angry with her because he was afraid she would get a job in the movies and leave him, but she just ignored him. Fakiha left the district of the water carriers and went to live with her uncle in an upscale neighborhood while preparing herself to become a movie star. She was bitterly disappointed later to find that her role had been given back to the original lead actress. She returned to the district of the water carriers with her uncle; Salem was there waiting for her and everybody in the district of the water carriers was happy to have her back.

Cast and crew: El-Sayed Ziada, Nahed Sharif, Amin El-Heinedy, Mohamed Awad, Sharifa Fadel, Mohamed Reda, Amal Ramzy, Mohamed Rushdy, Anwar Abdalla, Gamel Ebada, Abdel Latif El-Telbany, Mohamed Hamdi, Fouad Ga'afar, Aleyah Abdel Monem, Nabil El-Hegrassy, Mohsen Hafez, Nawal Fahmy, Sa'ida Galal

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Honeymoon without Disturbances شهر عسل بدون ازعاج (Nahed Sherif) - (1968) Egyptian film poster

Honeymoon without Disturbances

(1968) - (Nahed Sherif) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a poster designed by Abdel Alim to promote the 1968 100-minute black-and-white Abdel Moneim Shoukry film Honeymoon without Disturbances starring Hassan Youssef and Nahed Sherif based on a story by Ahmed Abdel Wahab with screenplay also by Ahmed Abdel Wahab, dialogue by Esmat Khalil and cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Monir (Hassan Youssef) was a young doctor who lived in Alexandria. He married the girl he loved (Nahed Sherif) against the wishes of his father, who was from Upper Egypt. The father read about the marriage in the newspapers, had a fit of rage and decided to kill his son. He was then surprised to learn that Madbouli, with whom he had an old quarrel, had been released from prison. The father knew Madbouli wanted to kill Monir to get revenge. During a chase Madbouli thought Monir was the nurse he had met at a clinic, then learned the truth and tried to kill Monir, but failed again. He fell in the water and almost drowned, but Monir saved him. This had a great effect on Madbouli and he stopped trying to kill Monir. The father married a woman he had met at a hotel in Alamein and the couple finished enjoying their honeymoon.

Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Mohamed Awad, Amin El-Heinedy, Hassan Hamed, Hassan Youssef, Abdel Moneim Shoukry, Abdel Moneim Shoukry, Adel Abdel Azim, Ahmed Abdel Wahab, Linda Badawy

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A Dancer from Sonbat [غازية من سنباط] (Sharifa Fadel) (1967)

A Dancer from Sonbat [غازية من سنباط] (1967) - (Sharifa Fadel) US one-sheet

The poster shown is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Abdel Alim and Wahib Fahmy for the 1967 95-minute El-Sayed Ziada black-and-white film A Dancer from Sonbat [ghazia men sonbat] starring Sharifa Fadel as Salwa based on a story by Hassan Nashaat with screenplay and dialogue by Kamal Salaheddin and cinematography by Gamal Ebada. Plot summary: A dancer named Salwa rebelled against her family in the Ghawazi neighborhood in the city of Sonbat after they tried to make her marry an old man whose wealth they coveted. Salwa fled her hometown and her pushy parents for the city of Cairo. There she met Ahmad, Ruhia, Nabil and Barghuta, who worked at weddings as a band. She joined the team as a musician, but her success bothered Taghrid, the team's traditional singer and also the dancer Helawa, who decided to leave the band. There was a sense of crisis in the band but Salwa tried to make a place for herself and was successful with her songs. The band prepared a big show for presentation in the city's major theaters. Taghrid and Helawa decided to rejoin the band to be in the show, which was an immediate success.

Cast and crew: Doria Ahmed, El-Sayed Ziada, Hassan Nashaat, Sharifa Fadel, Mohamed Awad, Amin El-Heinedy, Shafik Galal, Abdel Latif El-Telbany, Hassan Nashaat, Kamal Salaheddin, Sayed Al-Malah, Saad Makawy, Gamal Ebada

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