This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet designed by an unknown artist
for the 1960 Hussein Fawzi film My Beloved [ya
habibi] يا حبيبي based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Hussein Fawzi and starring Rushdy Abaza as
Galal. Plot summary: Galal was studying engineering and working
construction jobs to help his mother and complete his studies. He
loved his neighbor the orphan Elham [Laila Taher] who lived with her
uncle Ershi [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. Her uncle wanted to marry her but
she refused because she loved Galal.
Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Hussein Fawzi, Laila Taher, Nagwa
Fouad, Klelio, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Hassan Fayek, Mohammad Ziauddin,
Neda, Mahmoud Azmy, Kamal Hussein, Abdel Ghani Al-Nagwa, Anwar
Mohammad, Samia Rushdy
Pictured is a 27" x 39" poster designed by Marcel to promote the 1954
Mohammed Karim 120-minute black-and-white film Love's Madness [gonoun
al-hob] starrring Raqiya Ibrahim as Nadia and Soheir with screenplay and dialogue by Abdel
Waress Assar and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary:
Nadia and Soheir were living a carefree life with their parents, but
an imbalance developed when the parents began showing more affection
for Nadia than Soheir, to the point where Soheir suspected her parents
hated her and began hating society and her sister. This feeling grew
for Soheir and she even came to believe people loved her sister and
hated her. The young men who liked her did not hesitate to leave her
when they saw Nadia. Even the ones who had made her marriage offers
withdrew them. A conflict raged between the two sisters in this atmosphere
charged with anger; one of them had the innocence of angels and the
other was in a wretched state unable to find her way to
happiness. Soheir looked for the misery of others. Her mother
died, then her father. Soheir dominated Nadia like a tyrant and
exploited her sensitivities and weaknesses. Nadia became her sister's
victim. She was afraid of the dark and terrified of cats; she was
also sure she was the one who had killed her mother and father and was
the cause of her sister's misery. In this state of affairs, in a
thrilling finale Soheir attempted to murder Nadia, fought off Nadia's
rescuers in a gunfight, then paid the price for her crimes. Nadia got
married to the man who loved her.
Cast and Crew: Raqiya Ebrahim, Mohammed Karim, Anwar Wagdi, Imad Hamdi, Suleiman Naguib, Abdel Waress Assar, Ferdoos Mohammed, Marcel, Abdelhalim Nasr, Anwar Mohammad, Mohammad Shorubi, Ruhia Gamal, Ahmed Talaat, Farouq Nasir, Hussein Assar, Ahmed Said
