This is an original 23.5"x 35" Egyptian poster for the 1949 Mahmoud
Zulfikar film The Night is Ours based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Youssef Gohar and starring Sabah as Nawal. Plot summary:
Nawal is a singer who falsely presents herself as a student to
Dr. Medhat, [Mahmoud Zulfikar] who falls in love with her. After she
confesses she is not really a student, he says he still loves her and
wants to marry her.
Cast and crew: Youssef Gohar, Sabah, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Soleiman
Naguib, Salah Nazmi, Bruno Salvi, Wahba Hessaballah, Nelly Mazloum,
Salah Nazmi, Mohamed Kamel, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Shafik Nour El Din,
Mahmoud Azmy, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Mousen Hassanein
This is a 23.75" x 34.5" Egyptian poster designed by Stamatis
Vassiliou for the 1961 film Wonderful Memories AKA maa
al-zekriat written and directed by Saad Arafa and starring Ahmed
Mazhar as Sherif. Plot summary: While playing a role in a film the
actor Sherif shot his colleague Elham [Mariam Fakhr Eddine] after the
sexually tormented hunchback Madbouli [Salah Mansour] had maliciously
replaced the blanks in Sherif's pistol with live bullets; this was a
profound shock to Sherif. His cousin Amal [Nadia Lutfi] tried in vain
to soothe him, but she looked too much like Elham. Her feelings for
him turned into deep love, made stronger by his determination to
overcome his loneliness and obsession with memories. The facts slowly
emerged about the incident in which Elham had died.
Cast and crew: Saad Arafa, Ahmed Mazhar, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Nadia
Lutfi, Salah Mansour, Bruno Salvi, Ahmed Louxor, Fotouh Neshati, Said
Khalil, Mokhtar El Sayed
This is a 27" x 29" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Hassan
Mazhar Gasour and Mohammad Aziz for the 1958 Youssef Maalouf
film Bahbouh Effendi بحبوح افندي with screenplay and dialogue by William
Basili, cinematography by Bruno Salvi and starring Ismail Yasseen as
Bahbouh Effendi. Plot summary: Babouh Effendi left the country to go
to Cairo with his partner in the livestock trade, the teacher Awis
(Fouad Shafik). There they lived frivolously passing their time in
nightclubs. They met a girl (Zahrat El-Ola) who worked in a
nightclub, and they saved her from a gang. They went home with her,
which caused problems for her with her neighbors, but Bahbouh married
the girl the next morning after discovering that she was honorable and
that she had been obliged to go to the nightclub due to circumstances
beyond her control.
Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Zahrat El-Ola, Fouad Shafik, Reyad
Al Kasabgy, Youssef Maalouf, William Basili, Bruno Salvi, Gamalat
Zayed, Said Khalil, Abdel Nabi Mohammed
This is a 33" x 44.5" stone litho Egyptian film poster designed by
Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1955 El Sayed Ziada film Show
Me the Way People [dillouni ya nass] based on a story by El-Sayed Ziada
with cinematography by Bruno Salvi and starring Doria Ahmed as Nahed.
Plot summary: Nahed was the daughter of a rich woman renowned for her
cruelty. When she fell in love with Hassan [Shukry Sarhan] her mother
forbade them to marry and then found the two of them together in a
public place. When Nahed fled the scene to avoid her mother she fell into a coma and woke up with amnesia. Lost and confused, she
fell prey to an evil magician [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] who
bewitched her and employed her as a singer. He contrived to keep her
with him and deceive all the people who were looking for her.
Cast and crew: El-Sayed Ziada, Doria Ahmed, Shukry Sarhan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Bruno Salvi, Kitty, Zeinat Sedki, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Hind Rostom, Tewfik El Dekn, Alawia Gamil, Omar al Gizawy, Hussein Issa, Shoushou Ezzeddine
This is an original-year 23.5" x 35" Egyptian poster designed by
Studio Gasour and Khatab and printed by al-Halaby printers of Cairo to
promote the 1950 Helmy Rafla film The Girl from Paris [bint
bariz] starring Taheya Cariocca based on story and dialogue by Abou
Seoud El-Ibiary with cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: The
manager of a theater where Adel [Mohammad Fawzi] worked as a musician
hired a French dancer to work with him; when a cable came to the
manager apologizing that the dancer would not be coming to Cairo, he
hired a local look-alike [Taheya Cariocca] whom he falsely presented
as the French dancer. Adel was not aware of the impersonation at
first but he fell in love with the substitute and married her even
after he realized what had happened.
Cast and crew: Muhammad Fawzi, Taheya Cariocca, Leila Fawzi, Helmy Rafla, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Aziz Osman, Samiha Tawfiq, Stephan Rosti, Elias Moadab, Abou Seoud El-Ibiary, Bruno Salvi, Sanaa Samih, Wedad Hamdy, Edmond Tuema, Abdel Moneim Ismail
Pictured is an original year Egyptian 35"x45" poster designed by
Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1953 Ibrahim Emara 106-minute
black-and-white film I'm on My Own [malish had] starring Shadia
based ond story and dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa Sami with screenplay
by Ebrahim Emara with cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A
man [Abbas Fares] was living happily in Alexandria with his wife and
daughters [Shadia and Magda], but after his wife died he found a love
letter among her papers giving him the idea she might have betrayed
him. As his doubts grew he began to think his two daughters might be
from another man. He began to treat them harshly and took up drinking
and gambling to forget. This caused him to lose all his money and his
factories. His daughters ran away from home. He then realized his
wife was innocent when he found a letter that had been written to his
wife's sister. He regretted his behavior and tried to repair the
damage he had done to his daughters and recover his lost fortune. He
succeeded in doing this and the family's wounds were healed.
Cast and crew: Ibrahim Emara, Magda, Choukoukou, Shukry Sarhan, Shadia, Abbas Fares, Bruno Salvi, Mary Queenie, Mohamed Mustafa Sami, Ferdoos Mohammed, Samiha Tawfiq, Zeinat Sedki, Mahmoud El-Sebai, Zaki al-Fayoumi, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohamed al-Dib, Shafik Noureddin, Mohsen Hassanein, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Lutfi al-Hakim, Mohamed Soleiman
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian rerelease poster designed to promote the
1959 105-minute Atef Salem black-and-white film We Are the
Students [ehna al-talamiza] based on a story by Tewfik Saleh and
Kamel Youssef with screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz, dialogue by Mohamed
Abu Youssef and cinematography by Bruno Salvi. The film was
originally distributed by the Dollar Film Company. Plot summary: The
three students Adel [Omar Sharif], Hassanein [Shukry Sarhan] and Samir
[Youssef Fakhr Eddine] all had problems. Adel loved his neighbor
Saham [Amal Farid], but her father refused to allow them to marry and
banned him from the house. Hassanein's uncle [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]
came to him from upper Egypt to emphasize the importance of rising up
against the ones who had killed his father. Samir was suffering from
his father's neglect. Samir and the maid Fatma [Ferdoos Mohammed] had
illicit relations and she became pregnant. Adel learned from the
dancer Gamalat [Taheya Cariocca] about Fatma's miscarriage. The three
robbed the bar where they drank to get the money to provide medical
treatment for the miscarriage but the money they stole did not cover
the costs and Fatma died. Gamalat screamed and the neighbors and the
police came. They were all tried and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of the top
100 Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Atef Salem, Shukry Sarhan, Omar Sharif, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Taheya Cariocca, Bruno Salvi, Tewfik Saleh, Amal Farid, Kamel Youssef, Mohamed Abu Youssef, Youssef Fakhreddine, Zizi El-Badrawy, Abdelaziz Ahmed, Tahani Rached, Kamal Hussein, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Ferdoos Mohammed, Fouad Shafik, Mimi Shakeeb, Nagwa Fouad
Pictured is a 23" x 35" poster designed by Dimitri Gabriel and Hassan
Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1951 Helmy Rafla two-hour
black-and-white film The Beloved Country [al-balad al-mahbub]
starring Taheya Cariocca based on a story by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary with
dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, screenplay by Helmy Rafla and
cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A wealthy farmer owns
hundreds of acres of land. He advises his son to marry his friend's
daughter but she refuses because she does not want to marry a
farmer. Her father pressures her to marry him because this will
relieve him of financial hardship due to the money he will get
after they marry. However the girl loves her cousin in Cairo who does
not have money. The boy meets a dancer and and asks her to teach him
the ways of modern life and how to interact with girls. He wants all
of this so he can please the girl who has refused him. The dancer
falls in love with him. Meanwhile the girl discovers the truth about
her cousin, who abandons her after learning her father is on the verge
of bankruptcy. Then the girl agrees to marry the first boy. The dancer
withdraws from their lives.
Cast and crew: Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Helmy Rafla, Bruno Salvi, Taheya Cariocca, Ismail Yasseen, Saad Abdel Wahab, Soad Makawy, Hassan Fayek, Sherifa Maher, Zeinat Sedki, Abdel Waress Assar, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Wedad Hamdy, Soraya Fakhry, Zaki Ibrahim, Amina El-Said, Dalal Mahmoud, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim
Pictured is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by
Wahib Fahmy to promote the 1950 117-minute Helmy Rafla black-and-white
musical The Unmarried Mother [al-anisa mama] starring Sabah
based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary with
cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A girl named Nimra who
loved to sing [Sabah] fell in love with a famous musician named Monir
Yousri [Muhammad Fawzi]. When Monir began preparing an operetta Nimra
competed to be in it and won a place for herself. Monir's father
[Suleiman Naguib] liked her and began courting her but at the same
time he sensed her feelings for his son. To make Monir jealous Nimra
made an agreement with his father that he would claim they had agreed
to marry. This shocked Monir. At first Monir's father doted on Nimra
but he ultimately had no alternative but to acknowledge their feelings
for each other and support their marriage.
Cast and crew: Sabah, Muhammad Fawzi, Ismail Yasseen, Helmy Rafla, Bruno Salvi, Hagar Hamdi, Zeinat Sedki, Salah Mansour, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Suleiman Naguib, Mohamed Kamal al-Masri, Hussein Ibrahim, Soad Ahmed, Fahmy Aman, Saleha Qasin
Pictured is an Egyptian poster designed by Fawzi to promote the
114-minute 1957 Essa Karama black-and-white film Ismail Yassine at
the Wax Museum [ismail yasseen fi mathaf al-shami] starring Ismail
Yasseen based on story and screenplay by Gamal Hamdi and Essa Karama,
dialogue by Gamal Hamdi and cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot
summary: A police officer discovered a plan hatched by some gang
members to smuggle jewelry inside some wax figures. Two gravediggers
Ibrahim and Abdou [Ismail Yasseen and Abdel Fatah Al Kasri] became
involved in a plan bury the statues. A dancer named Kitty came to the
museum looking for her lover and pretended she was a statue for the
benefit of the gravediggers. After a long series of comedic sketches
and heinous murders among the figures in the wax museum, the officer
finally discovered to his surprise that the gang leader was a woman,
who fell off a roof to her death almost immediately after her mask was
removed.
Cast and crew: Essa Karama, Ismail Yasseen, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Berlanty Abdel Hamid, Bruno Salvi, Gamal Hamdi, Kitty, Sanaa Gamil, Fouad Gafaar, Mohamed Tawfik, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Ali Abdel Al, Ali Rushdy, Soad Ahmed, Fifi Youssef, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Mohsen Hassanein, Lola Sedki, Mohamed al-Dib, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi
Pictured is a 23.5" x 35.5" first printing of an Egyptian poster designed by
Dimitri, Studio Adly and Meftah to promote the 1951 111-minute Kamal
Attia black-and-white film The Much-Loved One [habaebi ketir]
starring Ragaa Abdou with story and dialogue by Abdel Aziz Salam and
cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: The musician Nabila
[Ragaa Abdou] paid no attention to the admirers who gathered around
her every day. Nabila lived only for her art and did not care for
anything but her art and singing. Then a young man named Raouf who
managed an advertising company [Kamal Al-Shennawi] appeared in her
life and tried to tear down the walls Nabila had built around herself.
He succeeded and she fell in love with him, but her wicked brother
Farid [Farid Shawqi] did not like this because he had been planning
for her to marry a wealthy man named Ghandur Bey [Abdel Ghani
al-Nagdi]. The two of them fought over this; Nabila finally prevailed
and married the one she loved.
Cast and crew: Ragaa Abdou, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Magda, Farid Shawqi, Ismail Yasseen, Kamal Attia, Bruno Salvi, Abdel Aziz Salam, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Hassan Kamel, Fathia Chahine, Soad Ahmed, Gamalat Zayed, Abdel Alim Khattab, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Samir Ezzat, Souraya Fakhry, Ibrahim Fawzi, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Gihane
This is a promotional poster designed by Abdel Rahman for the 1949
Helmy Rafla 110-minute black-and-white film Fatma, Marika and Rachel
فاطمة و ماريكا و راشيل starring Mohammad Fawzi based on the 1778 play
The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, with
story, screenplay and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary and
cinematograpy by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A wealthy young playboy
who loved virgins to obtain pleasure with them met a Jewish girl named
Rachel. He told her his name was Youssef and that he was a practicing
member of her religion. Her father sent her with him to her tailor
named Marika to pay her for the dresses account. Youssef met Marika.
He liked her and learned she was of Greek extraction. He told her he
was also of Greek extraction and established a relationship with her;
then Rachel learned about it and quarreled with Marika. Youssef fled
this situation while his rural father sent him a request that he marry
Fatma, the daughter of his friend, who was living with her uncle in
Cairo and doing nothing but depriving him of his inheritance. The boy
and his friend planned to go together to Fatma and claim that the
friend was the groom so she would be disgusted with both of them.
Fatma made the same plan so she could get rid of this miserable
groom. She impersonated her maid and said she was refusing the groom,
while the boy refused the bride. After a few laughable exchanges the
boy told his father he would marry the girl he loved and the girl told
her father she would marry the one she loved. The father objected,
but when the truth became clear, everyone realized the girl he loved
was Fatma and the boy Fatma loved was the one who was the candidate
for marriage with her. They married with the consent of the family
and the wealth gave him a reason to live with his wife Fatma.
Cast and crew: Helmy Rafla, Madiha Yousri, Muhammad Fawzi, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Bruno Salvi, Lola Sedki, Ismail Yasseen, Abdel Waress Assar, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Nelly Mazloum, Hassan Kamel, Hurria Hassan, Gamalat Zayed, Shafik Noureddin
Bohbuh Effendi (1958) - (Ismail Yasseen) Egyptian film poster
This film was directed by Youssef Maalouf with screenplay and dialogue
by William Basili, cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Poster art was by
Hassan Mazhar Gasour and Mohammad Aziz. Plot summary: Bobuh Effendi
(Ismail Yasseen) left the country to go to Cairo with his partner in
the livestock trade, the teacher Awis (Fouad Shafik). There they
lived frivolously passing their time in nightclubs. They met a girl
(Zahrat El-Ola) who worked in a nightclub, and they saved her from a
gang. They went home with her, which caused problems for her with her
neighbors, but Bohbuh married the girl the next morning after
discovering that she was honorable and that she had been obliged to go
to the nightclub due to circumstances beyond her control.
Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Zahrat El-Ola, Fouad Shafik, Reyad Al Kasabgy, Youssef Maalouf, William Basili, Bruno Salvi, Gamalat Zayed, Said Khalil, Abdel Nabi Mohammed
As You Like [ala kayfak] (1952) - (Taheya Cariocca) oversize Egyptian film poster (36" x 47")
This film was directed by Helmy Raflah with story and dialogue by Abu
Seoud El-Ibiary. Cinematography was by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A
young man celebrated his wedding day but it was discovered that night
that a child was attributed to him. The child's grandfather learned
about this and appeared to demand that the bridegroom marry his
daughter after going back to her. The young man was innocent of this
accusation, but the only solution
was to find the boy who had gotten the girl pregnant and have him
marry her. Otherwise he would have to refuse to complete the marriage
after being accused about the child. The only way out for the boy
they were looking for was to claim insanity and commit himself. The
bridegroom learned he had done and went to visit him. The boy
emphasized his innocence and then the bride agreed to the completion
of the marriage.
Cast and crew: Taheya Cariocca, Leila Fawzi, Ismail Yasseen, Mohsen Sarhan, Aziz Osman, Wedad Hamdy, Aida Kamel, Nour El-Demerdash, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Helmy Rafla, Bruno Salvi, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Gamalat Zayed, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Kamal Hussein, Negah Salam, Zaki Ibrahim
Plot summary: The old husband of a young woman manager of a
beverage company died and the employees gathered around her. One of
them flattered her because he wanted to be the general director.
However she preferred the company's director of advertising and took
him as a husband instead of appointing him general director, even
though he was already the husband of a good woman and the father of
three girls. The new wife was able to convince her husband to divorce
the mother of his children and keep his daughters with him until they
were of legal age. This separation was painful for the family. The
youngest went to visit her sisters in the home of her father. They
decided to run away and resolved not to separate. The three sisters
passed their nights outside for they had no place to go. Their lives
continued in this painful way. The father and the divorced mother
searched for the fugitive sisters with the police while a journalist
became aware of this social problem, and then the truth was told. The
three sisters disguised themselves as boys and went to work for the
pianist Ibrahim and his boy, another child who had lost his family in
a similar way. The three sisters took up the profession of dancing
and singing accompanied by the piano and stayed in an abandoned bus
procured for them by Nadia. They decided to attack the factory of the
carbonated beverage company owned by the wife of the father. The
three little girls began distributing publications and warning the
people against buying the factory's products. This threatened the
factory and brought it to a sales slump. The angry wealthy wife
lodged complaints against the divorced wife accusing her of inciting
her daughters against her.
The accused was interrogated and the police arrested the girl. The
sisters learned of the arrest and fled with a determination to commit
suicide. The police, the father and the mother began searching for
the sisters and the group found clothing floating in the water. This
seemed to mean the sisters had killed themselves, but then the girls
suddenly appeared and the father embraced his divorced wife.
The Fairuz starring in this film was a much younger Egyptian actress
and is not to be confused with Lebanese diva by the same name.
Cast and crew: Fairuz, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Seif Eddine Shawkat, Nelly, Aziza Helmy, Mohammed Tawfik, Hassan el Baroudi, Abdel Ghani Nagdi, Anwar Madkour, Abbas Rahmy, Hassan Tewfik, Bruno Salvi
