Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour to promote the 1976 109-minute Hassan Al Imam color
film The Nightingale Has Lips [al-kerwan luh shafayef] starring Soheir
Ramzy based on a story by Roget Lahont, screenplay and dialogue by
Hassan Al Imam and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary:
Hussein [Samir Sabri] and Qasem [Youssef Chaban] worked with Kerwan,
[Soheir Ramzy] the female star of a dance troupe. The troupe fell
heavily into debt and there was a breakup. Afterwards there was a
false murder accusation and an incident of marital infidelity,
followed by a resumption of what had gone before.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Roget Lahont, Imad Hamdi, Soheir
Ramzy, Nabila Ebeid, Naima Al Soghayar, Youssef Chaban, Abu Bakr
Ezzat, Hayat Kandeel, Samir Sabri, Enaam Salousa, Wahid Farid, Robab,
Farouq Naguib, Walid Tewfiq, Enaam Salousa
This is a 25.75" x 36.5" Egyptian poster for the 1998 Atef-e Taieb
psychological thriller Consolation [gabr al-khawater] based on
a story by Abdel Fatah Rizk, screenplay and dialogue by Bachir El Dik
and starring Sherihan as Nawal Ibrahim al-Saadi. Plot summary: In
Alexandria Nawal Ibrahim al-Saadi was suffering from schizophrenia in
a psychiatric clinic after being forcibly separated from her divorced
husband and her only son Adel. She met many patients suffering from
various problems. Dr. Mahmoud Shaker [Ashraf Abdel Baqi] sympathized
with Nawal and tried to help her as much as possible, but he saw the
hospital director Dr. Al-Meliguy [Hassan Mostafa] was subjecting the
patients to unsafe experiments; this prompted him to take action
against the schemes.
This is a 26.5" x 38.5" Egyptian poster designed by Tamer Nady for the
2003 Ahmed Nader Galal film I Want My Right عايز حقي based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Tarek Abdel Galil and starring Hami Ramzi
as Saber At-Tayeb. Plot summery: Saber At-Tayeb is a struggling taxi
driver who discovers Egypt's constitution allows him a share in the
totality of Egypt's public property. He tries to take advantage of
this by acquiring through power of attorney the rights to the property
shares owned by over 50 percent of the population, so he can marry his
fiancee Wafaa [Hend Sabry].
Cast and crew: Ahmed Nader Galal, Tarek Abdel Galil, Hani Ramzi, Hend Sabry, Esam Karika, Hajjaj Abdul Azim, Abdalah Mishrif, Enaam Salousa, Lotfy Labib, Wahid Seif, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Fouad Khalil, Hanan Altaweel, Samira El Hawary
This is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour for the 1991 120-minute Salah Abouseif color film War in the
Land of Egypt [al-mowaten: masri] starring Omar Sharif, based on
the novel al-harb fi bar misr by Youssef El-Kaeed with
screenplay by Mohsen Zayed and cinematography by Tarek El-Telmisany.
Plot summary: In 1973 in an Egyptian village Abdel Zeraq al-Shershabi
(Omar Sharif), a shrewd feudal mayor, recovered his farmland by court
order after the lifting of a receivership. His young second wife
threatened to tell people he had become sexually impotent if he did
not prevent their only son Tawfiq from being drafted into the army
along with his other children from his first wife. The mayor
pressured an oppressed farm laborer named Abel Mawgud to have his son
Masri, who was exempt from the draft, take the place of his son Tawfiq
in the induction in exchange for the Mayor giving him the five feddans
he was farming, assigning him a special work crew and giving him a
cash reward. Abdel Mawgud and his son agreed to this. Then Masri was
killed in the October War, but he had already confessed the truth
about what had happened to a recruiter named Hassan [Ashraf Abdel Baqi]. The police were
investigating the incident, but Abdel Mawgud denied being Masri's
father out of fear of the Mayor's anger, who had only paid him 261
pounds and refused to give him the land he had promised.
Cast and crew: Omar Sharif, Achraf Abdel Baqi, Ezzat El Alaili, Safia El Emari, Salah Abouseif, Abdullah Mahmoud, Khaled Nabawy, Youssef El-Kaeed, Enaam Salousa, Hassan Hosny, Hanan Shawki, Ashraf Abdel Baqi, Rushdi El Mahdi, Lola Mohamed, Mohsen Zayed, Tarek El-Telmisany, Yousef al-Qa'eed, Al-Montaser Billah, Magdi Sobhi, Mohamed Al-Seba, Rushdi El Mahdi, Abol Fotouh Omara, Naim Esa, Lola Mohamed
This is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour for the 1991 120-minute Salah Abouseif color film War in the
Land of Egypt [al-mowaten: masri] starring Omar Sharif, based on
the novel al-harb fi bar misr by Youssef El-Kaeed with
screenplay by Mohsen Zayed and cinematography by Tarek El-Telmisany.
Plot summary: In 1972 in an Egyptian village Abdel Zeraq al-Shershabi,
a shrewd feudal mayor, recovered his farmland by court order after the
lifting of a receivership. His young second wife threatened to tell
people he had become sexually impotent if he did not prevent their
only son Tawfiq from being drafted into the army along with his other
children from his first wife. The mayor pressured an oppressed farm
laborer named Abel Mawgud to have his son Masri, who was exempt from
the draft, take the place of his son Tawfiq in the induction in
exchange for the Mayor giving him the five feddans of he was farming,
assigning him a special work crew and giving him a cash reward. Abdel
Mawgud and his son agreed to this. Then Masri was killed in the
October War, but he had already confessed the truth about what had
happened to a recruiter named Hassan. The police were investigating
the incident, but Abdel Mawgud denied being Masri's father out of fear
of the Mayor's anger, who had only paid him 261 pounds and refused to
give him the land he had promised.
Cast and crew: Omar Sharif, Achraf Abdel Baqi, Ezzat El Alaili, Safia El Emari, Salah Abouseif, Abdullah Mahmoud, Khaled Nabawy, Youssef El-Kaeed, Enaam Salousa, Hassan Hosny, Hanan Shawki, Ashraf Abdel Baqi, Rushdi El Mahdi, Lola Mohamed, Mohsen Zayed, Tarek El-Telmisany, Yousef al-Qa'eed, Al-Montaser Billah, Magdi Sobhi, Mohamed Al-Seba, Rushdi El Mahdi, Abol Fotouh Omara, Naim Esa, Lola Mohamed
This Egyptian film poster was designed by Al-Khad to promote the 1980
115-minute Henry Barakat color film I Am Neither a Devil Nor an
Angel [lestu shaytanan wa la malakan] based on story, screenplay
and dialogue by Samir Abdelazim with cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh.
Plot summary: Kawsar [Soheir Ramzy] left her fiance Ahmed [Nour
El-Sherif] and married the elderly rich man Shamis, [Aly El Cherif]
the owner of a factory in which her father worked, after there was a
quarrel between her and Ahmed over her father. Ahmed finished his
studies and graduated from the college of engineering. He established
a relationship with his classmate Engineer Nahed [Hoda Ramzi] and they
decided to marry. Shamis was killed by the husband of his mistress.
Kawsar asked Engineer Ahmed to help her manage her late husband's
factory because she was having many problems doing it herself. By
chance she learned about the relationship between Ahmed and Nahed;
this got her to thinking about firing Nahed from her job at the
factory. Ahmed went to see Kawsar at her home and asked her not to do
this. After he left her home Shamis's son stabbed Kawsar with a knife
and she was taken to a hospital. Ahmed emphasized to Nahed that his
relationship with Kawsar had been just a work relationship and what
had happened earlier was just a memory; so the two of them began their
life together.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Henry Barakat, Ihsan Sherif, Soheir Ramzy, Hoda Ramzi, Aly El Cherif, Wahid Seif, Mohammed Tawfik, Zein El-Ashmawy, Salah Nazmi, Enaam Salousa, Soheir Zaky, Ibrahim Saleh, Samir Abdelazim, Samy Fahmy