This is a 27" x 39" Lebanese poster for the 1967 Helmy Rafla
film The Sheikh's Daughter based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Said El Mogharabi and starring Samira Tewfik as Samara,
daughter of Sheikh Hesham. Plot summary: The governor of the city was
feeling his age and asked his friend Sheikh Hesham [Imad Hamdi] to
succeed him after his death and to bring with him the Knight Karim
Khan to take care of government security. The governor's wife and her
lover [Ali Marjan] poisoned the governor before the arrival of Sheikh
Hesham but the governor had been cautious and written a will.
Cast and crew: Helmy Rafla, Said El Moghrabi, Imad Hamdi, Samira
Tewfik, Soad Yalaz, Amira, Guzia Fargen, Awia Biri, Ahmed Kamel,
Jaafar Khan, Ahmed, Nurhan, Mohamed Ali Ghorab, Anisa Abdou, Talal
Morad, Aziza Jaafar, Hassan Al-Wali, Ahmed Siran, Almaz Karim, Hassan
Gamil, Mohammad Ali Arab, Ali Marjan, Mahmoud Damir
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman for the
1986 Said Tantawi film My Daughter and the Jackal based on
screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Abouzayd and Sabry Ezzat and
starring Shams El-Barudy as Azhar. Plot summary: Azhar suffered
because of the actions of her rebellious son. On the other hand
Mostafa [Hassan Youssef] had an unspoken love for her. Youssef [Nour
El-Sherif] also courted her. Azhar did not reveal her secret and
simply observed the situation at a mansion belonging to her aunt
[Naima Wasfy]. She discovered that Mostafa was working there and was
planning to court her. She also rebuffed his attentions.
Cast and crew: Said Tantawi, Kamal Korayem, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim,
Shams El-Barudy, Nour El-Sherif, Hassan Youssef, Mahmoud El-Meliguy,
Said Tantawi, Safia El Emari, Amira, Mohammed Tawfik, Naima Wasfy,
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Kamal Korayem, Abdel Rahim Abu Aouf, Mahmoud
Abouzayd, Sabry Ezzat
This is a 39" x 53" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy
and Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1970 Houssam El-Din Mustafa
film Duel at Alamein AKA Al-Ashrar written by Houssam
El-Din Mustafa and Faisal Nada and starring Rushdy Abaza as Khaled.
Plot summary: In Egypt's northern Sahara at Alamein, the site of a
major World War II battle between the allied and axis powers, a small
gang of smugglers is transporting a large sum in stolen US dollars to
an American client. As they do this, tourists looking at graves and
broken war machinery are woven into the narrative while romance, greed
and betrayal appear among the smugglers to keep the story on edge.
Cast and crew: Faisal Nada, Aly Kheiralla, Abdel Khalek Saleh,
Nahed Sherif, Rushdy Abaza, Adel Adham, Ibrahim Khan, Houssam El-Din
Mustafa, Salah Nazmi, Aly Kheiralla, Amira
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour and Sabry to promote the 1976 Muhammed Salman film Where Do
We Begin the Story [nebtedi meneen al-hekaya] starring Soheir
Ramzy with story, screenplay and dialogue by Muhammed Salman and
cinematography by Mahmoud Sabu. Plot summary: Hanan [Soheir Ramzy]
was a spoiled pretty girl, the only daughter of a wealthy merchant
[Omar El-Hariri]. She claimed she had been blinded to avoid marriage.
Her father was confused and the doctors were unable to cure her. The
father contacted a phychologist named Dr. Ali [Sa'eed Saleh], who
brought with him a friend named Hassan [Mostafa Fahmy], who was
claiming to be a special physician. They made an agreement that the
psychologist would be paid 5000 pounds for curing Hanan. They began
treating Her, and Hassan discovered she was not really blind. A
relationship began to form between them but Hanan had realized he was
not really a doctor and was afraid to marry Hassan, fearing she might
hate him. He discovered she had a deep complex because an old
incident she had witnessed between her parents when she was a child.
When the complex suddenly disappeared due to an unexpected shock at
the end of the film, the two were free to marry. The film includes a
singing performance along the Nile by Ahmed Awadiyya.
Cast and crew: Muhammed Salman, Omar El-Hariri, Mimi Gamal, Amira, Nagwa Fouad, Ahmed Adawiyya, Soheir Ramzy, Mostafa Fahmy, Sa'eed Saleh, Leila Gamal, Hassan Mostafa, Sameer Ghanem, George Sidhum, Mahmoud Sabu, Morsi Al-Khattab, Medhat Gamal, Mohammad Shawqi, Ahmed Rateb, Zizi Farid, Sayed Mohammad, Fatma Wagdi, Ezzet Sherif, Samira Wagdi, Fatma Mahmoud, Sayed Ibrahim, Nagwa Fouad
This is an Egyptian poster designed to promote the 1974 Mohamed Abdel
Aziz 106-minute color film We Must Love in the Summer [fil-seyf
lazem neheb] starring Salah Zulfikar based on a story by Mohamed
Hassan and Mohamed Salem with screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Salem
and cinematography by Mostafa Imam. Plot summary: Dr. Nabil [Salah
Zulfikar] took four of his patients from a hospital for nervous
disorders to Alexandria believing they would be cured by mixing with
the people. One of them was Ahmed [Nour El-Sherif, who lived with
numbers and had a breakdown while working at a bank. The second was
an amateur musician named Medhat Youssef [Samir Sabri], who competed
for a prize at a song festival but failed. The third was Mohamed
Youssef the mathematician who went to the hospital because of a
personal crisis, and the fourth was Geneidy [Sameer Ghanem] the soccer
player who had failed as his team's goalee and who believed there were
conspiracies all around him. On the way to Alexandria they met a man
named Fadel Abdel Hafiz [Abdel Moneim Madbouly] and his daughters on
the al-Agami beach. Maggie [Magda El-Khatib] became friends with
Ahmed, Mohamed became friends with Zainab [Amira], Medhat became
friends with Madiha [Madiha Kamel] and Geneidy became friends with
Rawia [Lebleba]. In the midst of comedic, musical and dance scenes at
the beach and in the hotel Dr. Nabil restored his patients to health,
and they even demonstrated they were all normal when the police came
to investigate a complaint about the presence of deranged people at
the hotel. Of course they all fell in love and lived happily ever
after.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Magda El-Khatib, Nour El-Sherif, Madiha Kamel, Lebleba, Samir Sabri, Sameer Ghanem, Sa'eed Saleh, Amira, Wedad Hamdy, Mohamed Lutfy, Imad Hamdi, Tewfik El Dekn, Ibrahim Saafan, Salah Zulfikar, Mohamed Hassan, Salama Hassan, Mohamed Salem, Mostafa Imam, Mohammed Latif, Osama Abbas
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mostafa El-Seyyed
and Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1976 Houssam El-Din Mustafa
94-minute color film Tawhida starring the late Magda El-Khatib (1943-2006) as Tawhida based on
the play Fanny by Marcel Pagnol with screenplay by Naguib
Mahfouz, dialogue by Sabry Ezza and cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh.
Plot Summary: Tawhida and Hussein [Nour El-Sherfi]
were passionately in love in Alexandria and she became pregnant.
Hussein left her and the unborn child because he did not have enough
income to provide for them. Tawhida could not find anyone to save her
and her child from this predicament other than an older man named Said
Bey [Rushdy Abaza] who married her; she had the child after marrying
him. Hussein returned to learn that his love had married. He tried
to restore their relationship but she turned away from him; he also
discovered she had had a son by him and they quarreled over this. Then
he withdrew from their lives. Then Said also withdrew, realizing that
it was the best thing for everyone, and Tawhida and her son finally
went back to Hussein. At 41:58 one sees the ill-fated Italian cruise ship
Achille Lauro docked at
the Port of Alexandria about ten years before it was hijacked off the
coast of Egypt by four men representing the Palestine Liberation
Front.
Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Sanaa Gamil, Farid Shawqi, Achille Lauro, Magda El-Khatib, Amira, Nour El-Sherif, Naguib Mahfouz, Ibrahim Saleh, Marcel Pagnol, Sabry Ezzat
This is an undated rerelease Egyptian poster made by an unknown
designer to promote the 1970 Abdel Moneim Shoukry 88-minute
black-and-white film I Love You Sweetie [bahebak ya helwa]
starring Nahed Sherif based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ahmed
Abdel Wahab with cinematography by Abdel Moneim Bahnassy. Plot
summary: This is a burlesque romantic comedy set in the city of Luxor
involving three men who are occupying an apartment on falsified terms
while looking for women and more stable housing. There is a lot of
adapted American hit music in the soundtrack, primarly from the
repertoire of Herb Alpert.
Cast and crew: Nahid Sherif, Adel Imam, Hassan Youssef, Hassan Mostafa, Abdel Moneim Shoukry, Amira, Ahmed Abdel Wahab, Abdel Moneim Bahnassy, Salama Elias, Abdel Alim Khattab, Esmat Rafat
The Brave Ones [al-shaga'an] (1992) - (Mahmoud Yassine) Egyptian film poster
This film was directed by Tareq Al-Nahry with screenplay
and dialogue also by Tareq Al-Nahry. Cinematography was by Ibrahim
Saleh. Plot summary: In the context of the intelligence wars between
Egypt and Israel a team of Egyptian intelligence men was given a
secret mission to abduct a military leader in Greece to get critical
information. The secret team was led by Officer Ibrahim and included
Officers Mahmoud and Adel. At the same time since there was no
guarantee in the matter they sent the three intelligence officers with
different visas even though they were brothers. Colonel Ibrahim's
daughter Noha went with him, just as Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad's
wife Lobna Behgat accompanied him for a honeymoon. During the flight
from Cairo to Athens Sergeant Adel met the girl Susan who was going to
Greece to work as a disco musician. The official mission for the
intelligence team began with the search for the Egyptian spy Fawzi who
was cooperating with Israel, to catch him and take him back to Cairo,
but Mossad knew about this mission and took counter measures; the
Egyptian intelligence team led by Colonel Ibrahim addressed this
situation shrewdly and allowed agent Fawzi, who ran an espionage
network against Egypt, to abduct and torture Lobna and Noha. When one
of them raped Lobna she killed herself with a knife. Colonel Ibrahim
confirmed Susan's betrayal and asked her friend Sergeant Adel to kill
her and the conflicts continued between the Egyptian commandos and
Fawi's espionage network supported by Israeli intelligence. Colonel
Ibrahim decided to avenge Egypt and Lobna and rescue Noha, then
capture Fawzi to take him back to Cairo for trial.
Cast and crew: Tareq Al-Nahry, Mahmoud Yassine, Amira, Tareq Al-Nahry, Mamdouh Abd El Aleem, Nahla Salama, Amira Abdel Qader, Yousef Fawzy, Ibrahim Saleh, Elshahat Mabrouk, Sahar Ramy
