This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1981 Zaki Saleh
film Beware We Are the Crazy Ones based on story, screenplay
and dialogue by Anwar Abdel Malek and starring Nahed Sherif as Ashjan.
Plot summary: Hoda [Safa Abu Al-Saud] loved Wahid [Mustafa Fahmy] who
lived in an apartment in the building her mother owned. Wahid got
mixed up in narcotics smuggling and got involved with Ashjan, one of
the smugglers. He was arrested, after which he and Hoda were reunited.
Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Mustafa Fahmy, Sa'eed Saleh, Younes
Shalaby, Zaki Saleh, Safa Abu Al-Saud, Salah El-Saadany, Mohamed Reda,
Aqila Ratib, Seif Allah Mokhtar, Magda Hamada, Samir Wali Eddine,
Mohamed Hamdi, Anwar Abdel Malek
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1970 Anwar El-Shenawy film black-and-white film The Mirage
based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Nour El-Sherif as
Kamel. Plot Summary: Kamel (Nour El-Sherif) is a wealthy boy who
marries a teacher named Rebab (Magda). A lot of time is consumed
early in the film with a series of silent flirtations as they shyly
watch each other from a distance in and out of metro cars. They
finally break the tension with an awkward conversation in which he
proposes in his first complete sentence to her. On the wedding night
she discovers he is impotent. Kamel goes to Dr. Amin the psychiatrist
(Rushdy Abaza) who assures him his problems are caused by things that
happened during his childhood. Dr. Amin knows Rebab. He asks her to
help Kamel overcome his problem to get through the marriage crisis and
restore him to full health. The dysfunction continues as Kamel is
unable to perform with his wife, especially since his mother (Aqila
Ratib), who does not like Rebab, dominates his thinking; he is only
able to do this in a brothel. However Kamel still loves Rebab very
much. During this period a relationship begins between Dr. Amin and
Rebab after a furious fight between her and Kamel. This affair
results in pregnancy; when Rebab is on her way home Kamel tells her he
has been cured, but she is not able to respond to him, and he
discovers the truth. Then she dies of a hemhorrage during a
miscarriage.
Cast and crew: Magda, Nour El-Sherif, Naguib Mahfouz, Anwar
El-Shenawy, Aqila Ratib, Taheya Cariocca, Abbas Fares, Rushdy Abaza,
Mahmoud Nasr, Ali El Zorkani, Aziza Helmy, Zeinat Sedki, Mimi Gamal,
Mohammed Abaza, Zeinat Alawy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by al-Khad and Morteda
Anise for the 1978 Ashraf Fahmy film The Other Woman based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Hassan Ramzy and Ahmed Abdel Wahab
and starring Mervat Amin as Hoda. Plot summary: After Mahmoud [Nour
El-Sherif] got his doctorate in America he was struck by the poverty
in which his family was living; he decided to open a special office
for his niece Hoda, a girl who secretly loved him. He met Soad,
[Nabila Ebeid] the daughter of a businessman named Mokhtar [Imad
Hamdi]. Mokhtar encouraged him and arranged a match between him and
Soad. Mahmoud wanted to be wealthy but his marriage became unstable
after he became bored with his wife. Hoda discovered there was a
relationship between Soad and Adel [Magdy Wahba] and tried to separate
them. Mahmoud found Hoda had stolen the details of an auction to a
competitor's clients and confronted her with it. Mokhtar got involved
after Hoda confirmed the relationship between Soad and Adel.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Hassan Ramzy, Ahmed Abdel Wahab, Magdy
Wahba, Leila Gamal, Imad Hamdi, Aqila Ratib, Rashuan Tewfik, Mervat
Amin, Nour El-Sherif, Nabila Ebeid, Medhat Ghali, Badria Abd El Gawad,
Mohamed Abu Hashish, Farouk Fathalla, Kamal Korayem
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown designer
for the 1977 Mohamed Abdel Aziz film Some Go to the Justice of the
Peace Twice based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Farouk
Sabry and starring Adel Imam as Masoud. Plot summary: This is a
comedy about marriages in crisis. Dr. Mamdouh's [Nour El-Sherif] wife
Mona [Mervat Amin] was consumed with jealousy despite his love for
her, while his brother Masoud's wife Mahasin [Lebleba] was preoccupied
with house and children. They were referred to their uncle Ezzat
[Sameer Ghanem] and his approach to his wife Sonia [Amal Ramzy]. He
was untrue to her but at the same time he smothered her with love and
attention. There were many complications when Mamdouh and Masoud
adopted Ezzat's idea.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Mervat Amin, Kamal Korayem, Nour
El-Sherif, Lebleba, Sameer Ghanem, Farouk Sabry, Mohamed Abdel Aziz,
George Sidhum, Aqila Ratib, Mimi Gamal, Amal Ramzy, Hana al-Shourbagy,
Galila Mahmoud, Ibrahim Abdel Razzaq, Amima Salim, Salama Elias, Nelly
Wanoura, Raafat Ragi, Abdel Hamid al-Monir
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by
Walid Wahib for the 1955 Henry Barakat musical Days and Nights
based on a story by Henry Barakat and Youssef Gohar, screenplay by
Henry Barakat, cinematography by Wahid Farid, music by Mohamed Abdel
Wahab and starring 26-year-old Abdel Halim Hafez (1929-1977) as
Yehia. Plot summary: A wealthy man married a woman who had divorced an
irresponsible alcoholic painter [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. The wealthy man
educated her two sons, one of whom was from another husband, and the
boys grew up together like twins. Yehia, the son of the painter,
loved Samia [Imane] but his brother made trouble for him and Samia
turned away from him. They quarreled at a party when he was quite
drunk and then he got in his car and killed a pedestrian. At his
trial he confessed the truth. This caused tension in the family but
when he returned to his father the painter, the father took
responsibility for the first time; he had a reconciliation with his
wife and his son when he saw the love between mother and son and the
son's confession of the truth. The film includes the hit
song Toba [Never
Again]: Lyrics and translation
Cast and crew: Abdel Halim Hafez, Imane, Ahmed Ramzy, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Henry Barakat, Kamal Hussein, Seraj Munir, Aqila Ratib, Wahid Farid, Youssef Gohar, Ahmed Zaki, Adly Kasseb, Soheir El-Barouni, Samia Rushdy, Souraya Fakhry, Zeinat Alawy
This is a 33" x 45" Egyptian oversize stone litho poster for the 1954
film Money and Children [المال والبنون al-mal wal-banun] directed by Ibrahim Emara,
starring Aqila Ratib and Mohsen Sarhan. The film tells the story of
two married friends and their children, where the desire for children
and the ability to have them are restrained by financial
considerations. One of the men takes a second wife to make the
addition of children easier. The poster art is a joint project by
Studio Adly and Ahmed Fouad; printing by Dar al-Taba'a of Cairo.
Cast and crew: Ibrahim Emara, Aqila Ratib, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mohsen Sarhan, Zahrat El-Ola, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Wedad Hamdy, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Bassioni, Masud Isa
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammed Abdel
Aziz to promote the 1978 Hussein Kamal 137-minute color film We're
the Bus People [ehna bitu' al-otobis] starring Adel Imam based on
the 1976 Jalal al-Din Al-Hamamsi novel Dialogue behind the
Walls [hewar wara' al-aswar] with screenplay and dialogue by
Farouk Sabry and cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: The
story's events begin in the days leading up to the 1967 six-day war. A
quarrel breaks out on a crowded bus between two acquaintance
passengers named Gaber [Adel Imam] and Marzouq [Abdel Moneim Madbouly]
and the bus conductor. Gaber and Marzouq are eventually jailed for
their conduct. A group of arrested political dissidents later joins
them in the jail. They are all transferred to another holding facility
and accused of distributing publications calling for the overthrow of
the government; of course Gaber and Marzouq refuse to sign confessions since they have been accidentally grouped with the
dissidents. They are not believed, brutally flogged, tortured and
forced to confess to crimes of which they are not guilty. Marzouq is
later killed by gunfire from guards during a prison revolt. The title
of the film is a line Marzouq repeats several times while pleading his
innocence under interrogation. This film is widely understood
as a fierce indictment of oppression under corrupt Arab governments.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Moshira Ismail, Hussein Kamal, Aqila Ratib, Said Abdel Ghani, Younes Shalaby, Ibrahim Saafan, Wagdy El-Araby, Essad Youniss, Gamal Ismail, Gamal Ismail, Madhar Abol Naga, Abdalah Mishrif, Ahmed Salama, Reshwan Said, Ali Al Ghandour, Adawy Gheith, Alia Abdel Moneim, Ahmed Salama, Abdel Hamid al-Monir, Abou Al-Seoud Attia, Sayed Mahmoud, Rafet Ragi, Faisal Azab, Reshwan Mostafa
Pictured is a 25" x 35" Egyptian stone lithograph poster designed to
promote the 1941 Togo Mizrahi 94-minute black-and-white film A
Thousand and One Nights [alf layla wa layla] starring Ali
Al-Kassar based on story and screenplay by Togo Mizrahi, dialogue by
Badie Khayri and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: One
of the tales told by the legendary Scheherezade becomes the main plot
in this film. While fishing one day a fisherman named Othman Abd
al-Baset [Ali Al-Kassar] finds a child in a floating basket, raises
him and teaches him how to fish. After 20 years or so when the son
(named Morgan) has become a man, Othman is arrested and put in prison
for fishing in a forbidden area, but the daughter of the prince [Aqila Ratib]
intervenes and gets him released. Othman catches a big fish and gives
it to his son to give to the princess as a gift. As Morgan approaches
the home of the princess he hears some beautiful singing and responds
with some beautiful singing of his own. The adviser to the father of
the prince wants to marry the princess to a fake prince so he can take
her money. While fishing one day Othman finds a box and opens
it. This releases a genie (a man dressed in a devil suit with stuffed
horns), who rewards Othman with a magic scepter. Later on, the genie
appears before him again another day and tells him his son Morgan is
in danger. At that moment Morgan is singing as usual under the window
of the princess. They arrest him and turn him over to the adviser, who
realizes because of a star tatooed on his arm that Morgan is the
missing prince, Bahaeddin, [Hamed Morsi] who is also the cousin of this princess. To
prevent Morgan's true identity from becoming known, the adviser orders
him imprisoned and held for execution. Just as they are about to cut
off his head, Othman appears and proves the adviser's treachery. The
princess sees the tattoo, realizes who Morgan is and introduces him to
his real father and mother. The two cousins marry and Othman is
rewarded.
Cast and crew: Ali Al-Kassar, Aqila Ratib, Togo Mizrahi, Hamed Morsi, Mohammad Shukry, Zaki Ibrahim, Zouzou Nabil, Loutfi El Hakim
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mahmoud Atef to
promote the 1961 137-minute Salah Abouseif black-and-white
film Hope against Hope [la tutfi al-shams] starring Faten
Hamama based on story and dialogue by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, screenplay
by Lucien Lambert and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary:
This film is set in the time of the Tripartite Aggression; it tells
the story of an aristocratic family that has lost its breadwinner.
The oldest son Ahmed [Shukry Sarhan] enlists in the Egyptian army and
is shown in desert military action, but in his civilian life he slowly
develops a relationship with the a woman named Shahira [Nadia Lutfi],
which ends in marriage after a few relatively minor complications.
The daughter Layla [Faten Hamama] falls in love with her piano teacher
[Imad Hamdi], who is married. This relationship is fraught with
difficult moral and social problems that are never resolved. The
younger son Mamdouh [Ahmed Ramzy] is more concerned with the practical
matter of earning a livelihood; he serves a vehicle for showing how
class and social issues in Egypt can disrupt productive economic activity.
Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Faten Hamama, Imad Hamdi, Nadia Lutfi, Ahmed Ramzy, Shukry Sarhan, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Lucien Lambert, Helmy Halim, Abdelhalim Nasr, Aqila Ratib, Laila Taher, Samiha Ayyoub, Shirin, Mohammed Alwan, Omar Zolficar, Mohamed Hamdi, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Ya'qub Michail, Amru Targoman, Adel Al-Mahilmi, Abdel Aziz Mikawi, Nesim Shehab, Alaa Badredin, Salah Musa, Laila Sadeq
Pictured is a promotional poster for the 1978 Ahmed Yehia 110-minute
color film Farewell to Torment [weda'an lil-'azab] based on the
1926 King Vidor film La Boheme starring Naglaa Fathy with
screenplay and dialogue by Aly Al-Zarkany and cinematography by Wahid
Farid. Plot summary: In a poor neighborhood the orphan girl Layla
[Naglaa Fathy] took up residence in a room in the home of Zenouba
[Zixi Mustafa]. Two other residents of the same house, Adel and Nour
[Hussein Fahmy], tried to get close to Layla. Layla worked in the
service of the crazy rich lady Fahima and won her friendship and
confidence, even though the woman mistreated her and enjoyed it. The
neighborhood leader Haj Hassan objected to Layla's presence in the
house but Salah [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] accepted her and brought her back
to the house, even though she was suffering from a critical illness
that required a surgical operation. Nour, Salah, Adel and Zenouba
raised the money for the operation, which was a success.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Ahmed Yehia, Aqila Ratib, Salah Nazmi,
Hassan Hussein, Zizi Mustafa, Hussein Fahmy, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Aly
Al-Zarkany, Wahid Farid, Samir Hosny, Ibrahim Qadry, Safinaz
Al-Guindy, Abdel Moneim Al-Nemr, Aly Ezzedin, Samir Reda, Ibrahim
Al-Sayed, Wafa Abdel Halim, Mona Abdulla, King Vidor
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Fathy al-Khadri for
the 1945 Salah Abouseif film Always in My Heart starring Aqila Rateb as Seniyya. This film is an
adaptation of the 1940 Mervyn LeRoy film Waterloo Bridge
starring Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh. Like the prototype, this
film portrays a tragic heroine who falls in love with a sailor, but
unlike the prototype, in this Egyptian variation, an important early
effort by the great realist/socialist director Salah Abouseif, the
heroine is an orphan rather than a ballerina. The themes of despair,
prostitution and separated lovers are common to both.
Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Imad Hamdi, Aqila Ratib, Ahmed Khorshed, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Zouzou Nabil, Said Abu Bakr, Dawlad Abiad, Mervyn LeRoy, Mostafa Al-Sayed, El Sayed Bedeir, Zeinat Sedki, Mansi Fahmi, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa, Hassan Kamel
This is a large 33" x 45" poster for the 1954 Egyptian film Money and Children [al-mal wal-banun] directed by Ibrahim Emara, starring Aqila Ratib and Mohsen Sarhan. The film tells the story of two married friends and their children, where the desire for children and the ability to have them is conditioned by financial considerations. One of the men takes a second wife to make the addition of children easier. The art is a joint project by Studio Adly and Ahmed Fouad.
