The Exile سفر برلك Fairuz 1966 Italian Billboard

(1961) - (Fairuz) Italian billboard

This is a 79" x 169" Italian billboard designed by Studio Paradiso for the 1966 Henry Barakat musical The Exile [safar barlek] written by Assi and Mansour Rahbani and starring Fairuz as Adla. Plot summary: The film is set in 1914 when Lebanon was under Ottoman rule and Adla was living with her grandmother. She was awaiting the day of her engagement with her beloved Abdo [Ihsan Sadek]. When Abdo was out shopping for a wedding ring he was seized by Ottoman soldiers and impressed into forced labor chopping trees in the local forest to be taken for military use. Ottoman soldiers were occupying Adla's village of Ain El Joz, confiscating its wheat and exploiting its labor.

Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Studio Paradiso, Assi Rahbani, Mansour Rahbani, Fairuz, Elie Choueiri, Berj Fazlian, Salwa Haddad, Abdallah Homsy, Huda, Leila Karam, Mahmoud Mabsout, Joseph Nassif, Ihsan Sadek, Nasri Shamseddine, Salah Tizani

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The Guard's Daughter بنت الحارس Fairuz 1967 Italian Billboard

The Guard's Daughter (1967) - (Fairuz) Italian billboard

This is a 79" by 169" Italian billboard poster by an unknown artist for the 1967 Henry Barakat film The Guard's Daughter [bint al-hares] written by Assi and Mansour Rahbani and starring Fairuz as Nejma. Plot Summary: When Nejma's father Tawfic Abboud [Nasri Shamseddine] is fired from his job as a guard because the town has run out of criminals, Nejma pretends to be a thief to justify the restoration of his job.

Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Assi Rahbani, Mansouer Rahbani, Fairuz, Elie Choueiri, Berj Fazlian, Abdallah Homsi, Leila Karam, Mahmoud Mabsout, Elias Ruzk, Samir Shamas, Nasri Shamseddine, Elie Snaifer, Salah Tizani

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The Exile سفر برلك (Fairuz) - (1966) Lebanese one-sheet poster

The Exile (1966) - (Fairuz) Lebanese one-sheet

This is a 26.75" x 38" Lebanese poster designed by Ragheb for the 1966 Henry Barakat musical The Exile [safar barlek] written by Assi and Mansour Rahbani and starring Fairuz as Adla. Plot summary: The film is set in 1914 when Lebanon was under Ottoman rule and Adla was living with her grandmother. She was awaiting the day of her engagement with her beloved Abdo [Ihsan Sadek]. When Abdo was out shopping for a wedding ring he was seized by Ottoman soldiers and impressed into forced labor chopping trees in the local forest to be taken for military use. Ottoman soldiers were occupying Adla's village of Ain El Joz, confiscating its wheat and exploiting its labor.

Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Assi Rahbani, Mansour Rahbani, Fairuz, Elie Choueiri, Berj Fazlian, Salwa Haddad, Abdallah Homsy, Huda, Leila Karam, Mahmoud Mabsout, Joseph Nassif, Ihsan Sadek, Nasri Shamseddine, Salah Tizani

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Auliban the Seller of Jokes بياع الخواتم Fairuz 1965 Italian Billboard

Auliban the Seller of Jokes (1965) - (Fairuz) Italian billboard

This is a 79" x 169" Italian billboard poster designed by Manfredo for the 1965 Youssef Chahine film Auliban the Seller of Jokes written by Assi and Mansour Rahbani and starring Fairuz as Rima. Plot summary: The story is set in the year 1914 in a peaceful mountain village in Lebanon. The mayor, seeing that the population is bored, invents a fictitious character named Rajeh; he tells stories to villagers about the exploits of this person, who is a robber and a murderer. One day the mayor (Nasri Shamseddine) warns the villagers that Rajeh is heading to the village itself and tells them they must beware. Two clever men realize the mayor has been lying and decide to impersonate the fictitious Rajeh, steal money and assault the mayor in the dark. Eventually an old man who is really named Rajeh arrives in the village, amid public fears. Then it became obvious that Rajeh was merely a seller of rings for weddings who had wanted to marry his son to the mayor's daughter Homa (Fairuz). The two miscreants willingly go to jail for exploiting the mayor's prank.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Manfredo, Assi Rahbani, Mansour Rahbani, Fairuz, Nasri Shamseddine, Joseph Azar, Phelemone Wehbe, Joseph Nassif, Elie Choueiri, Mansour Rahbani, Salwa Haddad, William Hasswani, Huda, Andre Domage

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Birds of Paradise [عصافير الجنة] (Fairuz) - (1955)

Birds of Paradise (1955) - (Fairuz) Egyptian one-sheet

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

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Auliban the Seller of Jokes بیاع الخواتم (Youssef Chahine) - (1965) Italian Locandina

Auliban the Seller of Jokes [baya' al-khawatim] (1965) - (Fairuz)

This is an extremely rare poster for the 1965 Youssef Chahine film Auliban the seller of Jokes [baya' al-khawatim], literally "The Seller of Rings." I think the poster was made in Italy because of its exceptionally high quality and the fact that it is on the same paper stock normally used for the Italian locandina. It is also interesting because it belongs to a subgenre of films made by Egyptian directors and set in Lebanon, and it features the Lebanese diva Fairuz when when she was in her prime.

Plot summary: The story is set in the year 1914 in a peaceful mountain village in Lebanon. The mayor, seeing that the population is bored, invents a fictitious character named Rajeh; he tells stories to villagers about the exploits of this person, who is a robber and a murderer. One day the mayor (Nasri Shamseddine) warns the villagers that Rajeh is heading to the village itself and tells them they must beware. Two clever men realize the mayor has been lying and decide to impersonate the fictitious Rajeh, steal money and assault the mayor in the dark. Eventually an old man who is really named Rajeh arrives in the village, amid public fears. Then it became obvious that Rajeh was merely a seller of rings for weddings who had wanted to marry his son to the mayor's daughter Homa (Fairuz). The two miscreants willingly go to jail for exploiting the mayor's prank.

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