This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by
Walid Wahig for the 1962 film Judgment Day written and directed
by Abdel Rahman Sharif and starring Samira Ahmed as Yasmin / Salwa.
Plot summary: In the year 1946 in Port Said Enayat [Samiha Ayoub] is
involved with the smuggler Amin, [Hassan Hamed] who goes to prison.
When he gets out, he wants revenge and gets close to Enayat's husband
Ahmed [Imad Hamdi] and daughter Salwa. He is killed later; Ahmed is
accused of the murder and sent to prison for 15 years.
Cast and crew: Samira Ahmed, Imad Hamdi, Kamal Salaheddine, Abdel
Rahman Sharif, Samiha Ayyoub, Tewfik El Dekn, Fakher Fakher, Hassan
Hamed, Wedad Hamdy, Ibrahim Emara, Zuzu Madi, Nahed Sabri
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the
1957 Hassan Al Imam film Lawahez based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Mohamed Mostafa Samy and starring Shadia [1931-2017] as
Lawahez. Plot summary: Lawahez was a bright star among the great
performers, who sang and danced with wonder and fascination. Her
parents had been sent to prison and she was summoned to visit her
ailing mother at the prison hospital. Her mother confessed to her
that she was not the daughter of the convicted "bachelor teacher."
She was the daughter of a respected man who had married her mother
secretly and had not left her. She later married "the teacher" who
took advantage of her and involved her in his crimes. The mother died
and the girl felt she had been released from the domination of the
criminal she had thought to be her father, who had been sending her
threatening extortionist letters from the prison. The girl refused to
pay anything to the messenger then went to a police officer to seek
protection from him. By chance this officer was the son of the second
wife of the respected man who was the girl's true father. He spoke to
his mother's husband about the tragedy of the girl he had seen in his
office and the man realized the girl Lawahez was his daughter. He
told the officer and asked him to conceal the matter to avoid angering
his mother. The officer decided the only way to save the girl from
the miserable night life was to bring her home to work as a maid for
her father, his mother's husband, who had taken ill. Lawahez agreed
to this because she loved the officer. She lived at her father's house
without telling her friends, and the young son, who was her half
brother, flirted with her. She and the officer fell in love. The
"teacher" got out of prison and went looking for the girl. He broke
into the father's home and demanded that the girl be returned to him.
The real father refused. The teacher offered to pay to have the girl
turned over to him. Then the wife discovered the girl had worked in a
cabaret and banished her from the home to return to her old work. The
teacher and his gang went to the cabaret where they abducted the girl
and took her to his hideout. He tried to rape her but the girl
resisted and stabbed him to death with a knife just when the officer
arrived with policemen to save her.
Cast and crew: Shadia, Hassan Al Imam, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Mahmoud
El-Meliguy, Mahmoud Ismail, Zouzou Nabil, Alvisy Orphanily, Mohamed
Mustafa Samy, Kariman, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Fakher Fakher, Aziza
Helmy, Qatquta, Shafik Noureddin, Salwa Sami, Hussein Ismail, Mohsen
Hassanein, Salwa Mahmoud, Abbas Al-Dali, Anwar Zaki, Souraya Hassan,
Mahmoud El Guindi, Elham Ibrahim
This is a first printing of a 8" x 11" 8-page Egyptian Arabic film
program for the 1954 110-minute Youssef Maalouf black-and-white
comedy The Adventures of Ismail Yasseen starring Ismail Yasseen
based on a screenplay and story by Youssef Isa with cinematography by
Masoud Isa. The film was distributed by Aflam Nahdet al-Sharq (Paul Moradian) 42
Sherif St. Cairo and produced by Nahdet al-Sharq Films.
Plot summary: Two journalist friends were working at a news agency
trying to find effective reports for publication. One of them told a
girl he was in love with her. She tried to trap them for an
international gang that was working to smuggle goods out of the
country. The two friends discovered what the girl was doing and
decided to go after the gang and expose her criminal activities to
international and local authorities. The chase began but the girl
decided to leave the gang and help her lover. The gang was arrested
and the boy married his repentant love.
Cast and crew: Youssef Maalouf, Masoud Isa, Youssef Isa, Farag,
Ismail Yasseen, Shadia, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Fakher Fakher, Abdel Ghani
Qamar, Lutfi al-Hakim, Reyad El Kasabgy, Edmond Tuema, Ahmed
Al-Gazayeri, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Ahmed Abaza, Hana Adel
This is a 24" x 35" original Egyptian poster designed by Alzaria for
the 1941 film Leila, the Girl from the Country written and
directed by Togo Mizrahi and starring Laila Mourad as Leila. Plot
summary: Laila Mourad has the part of a country girl who becomes
disillusioned with city life in Cairo and returns to her farm with a
new appreciation for country life.
Cast and crew: Togo Mizrahi, Laila Mourad, Youssef Wahby, Mimi
Shakeeb, Taheya Cariocca, Bechara Wakim, Zouzou Shakeeb, Anwar Wagdi,
Ferdoos Mohammad, Hassan el Baroudi, Fakher Fakher, Salwa Elaam, Abdel
Salam Al Nabulsy, Soad Abdou
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1963 Ahmed Diaeddin film Without an Appointment based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Yousef Eisa and starring Soad Hosny as
Salwa. Plot summary: Salwa was in love with Wahid [Mohamed Soltan]
but no one knew, and he did not reciprocrate her feelings because he
loved Nadia [Nadia Lutfi]. At the same time Kamal [Moharram Fouad] was
also in love with Nadia and nobody knew about that either. He did not
know his friend Wahid also loved Nadia. When Kamal found out about
this he decided to get out of the way.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Diaeddin, Soad Hosny, Nadia Lutfi, Muharram
Fouad, Mohamed Sultan, Fakher Fakher, Zouzou Mady, Sair Sabri, Khayria
Ahmed, Salah Jahine, Mimi Shakeeb, Victor Antoun, Yousef Eisa
This is a 35" x 61" original three-piece stone litho Egyptian poster
designed by Marcel for the 1962 Salah Abouseif film Letter from an
Unknown Woman starring Farid Al Atrache as Ahmed Sameh. Plot
summary: The musician Ahmed Sameh received a letter on the evening of
his birthday. He was used to receiving flowers every birthday but this
time he was reading a letter from a woman he did not know. Her name
was Amal [Lobna Abdel Aziz] and she lived in front of him in his old
home. She loved him without him knowing about it; she seldom saw him
or had any reason to go into his home, but she knew his servant
Ibrahim. However her mother had to get married and moved to another
city. From time to time Amal looked at the home of her beloved who
did not know her. One day he stopped his car for her, took her to his
home and she became pregnant by him, but he forgot her because she was
just another girl to him. He lived the life of a musician. Amal
worked in an office. The owner of the office offered to marry her but
he knew there was another man in her life so he left her alone. Amal
met her beloved one night but he did not remember her. He avoided her
son but one day the son was hurt in a collision with a bus. The
doctor said the type of blood the injured boy needed was rare. Amal
was obliged to send her letter to Ahmed Sami, who came to the hospital
on the evening of his birthday. He gave the blood to his son and
married Amal after he realized how long she had loved him. This film
was directed by Salah Abouseif based on the 1922 novella of the same
title by Stefan Zweig, which was also the basis for a 1948 movie with
the same title starring Joan Fontaine.
Cast and crew: Farid Al Atrache, Lobna Abdel Aziz, Amina Rizk,
Marie Munib, Salah Abouseif, Ezzat El Alaili, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim,
Fakher Fakher, Hussein al-Sayed, Abdel Ghani Nagdi, Mary Ezzedine,
Nawal Abul Foutouh, Fatthy Zaky, Wafia Khayry, El Sayed Bedeir, Aly
Hassan, Stefan Zweig
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian one-sheet poster
designed by Magdi William for the 1961 Niazi Mostafa film Blood on
the Nile [dema ala al-nil] based on a story by Ahmed Shoukry,
screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hay Adib and starring Farid Shawqi as
Baghram Awad. Plot summary: Ghalia [Hend Rostom] fell in love with
Baghram Awad after she learned he had taken revenge against the
brother of her husband, who had tried to kill her and her son. She
moved far from her village and began a new life with Awad.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Abdel Hay Adib, Ahmed Shoukry, Farid
Shawqi, Hend Rostom, Amina Rizk, Fakher Fakher, Mahmoud Faraq, Hassan
Youssef, Klelio, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Khaled Al-Agabani, Salwa
Mahmoud, Hassan el Baroudi, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Hassan Atala
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist for
the 1961 Kamal El Sheikh film My Only Love based on a story by
Sabry Ezzat, screenplay and dialogue by Ali El Zorkani and Sabry Ezzat
and starring Omar Sharif as Adel. Plot summary: Adel was a commercial
airline pilot who loved a girl named Mona [Nadia Lutfi] while Shukry
[Kamal Al-Shennawi] a friend of Mona's family was also trying to get
close to her. She stopped him because she knew Adel was planning to
propose. However Shukry still got the jump on Adel and ended up
marrying Mona because Mona thought Adel was seeing another woman.
Later Mona realized she had been mistaken and asked Shukry for a
divorce so she could go back to Adel.
Cast and crew: Ali El Zorkani, Sabry Ezzat, Omar Sharif, Nadia
Lutfi, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Kamal El Sheikh, Kamal Korayem, Abdel Moneim
Ibrahim, Showeikar, Fakher Fakher, Fotouh Neshati, Mohamed Abaza,
Nazim Shaarawy, Samia Rushdy, Souraya Fakhry, Amal Ramzy
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Mohammad
Abdel Aziz to promote the 1962 124-minute Kamal El Sheikh
black-and-white film Chased by the Dogs [al-liss wal-kelab]
starring Shadia and Shukry Sarhan based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz
with screenplay by Sabry Ezzat, dialogue by Ali El Zorkani and
cinematography by Kamal Korayem. Plot summary: Said Mohran [Shukry
Sarhan] worked as a house servant in a student's home. Because of his
mother's illness he had to steal a watch from a student. Raouf Alwan
[Kamal al-Shennawi] got involved, tried to save him and took him as a
protege in crime. Said became a big thief. His assistant Alish [Zein
El-Ashmawy] informed on him so he would be free to marry his wife
Nabawiya. When Said Mohran got out of prison his goal was to take
revenge against Alish and Nabawiya, but he killed some innocent people
instead by blindly shooting at window silhouettes, because Alish and
Nabawiya had fled their home. Said ran away and became a fugitive.
Raouf, who had become a famous journalist, denounced Said in newspaper
articles, turning public opinion against him. Said confessed what he
had done to his former lover Nour [Shadia] and lived in her house. He
also sought solace with a Sufi sheikh but found no relief. Although
Nour tried help him, the police found his hiding place and killed him
on a mountain during a chase.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Shadia, Shukry Sarhan, Kamal El Sheikh, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Fakher Fakher, Samir Sabri, Salah Mansour, Kamal Korayem, Ali El Zorkani, Sabry Ezzat, Salwa Mahmoud, Salah Jahine, Adly Kasseb, Zein El-Ashmawy, Nazim Shaarawy
Pictured is a first printing of a 33.5" x 45" Egyptian stone
lithograph poster made by an unknown designer to promote the
105-minute Mostafa Hassan black-and-white film The Unknown
Singer [al-moghani al-maghul] starring Mohammed Al Kahlawi based
on an idea by Mohammed Al Kahlawi with screenplay and dialogue by Abu
Seoud El-Ibiary and cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. Plot summary:
Mohammad and Shafiq grew up together. Shafiq became an engineer while
Mohammad was unable to finish school and became a skilled decorator.
Mohammad also had a beautiful voice and was able to record his singing
for radio broadcasts. Mahasen, Shafiq's cousin, loved Mohammad and he
reciprocated, but Shafiq also loved her. When Mohammad proposed to
Mahasen her father refused to allow it because he wanted her to marry
Shafiq. However when Mohammad won a prize for his singing he became
an important person and Mahasen's father changed his mind and allowed
the marriage.
Cast and crew: Mostafa Hassan, Mohammed Al Kahlawi, Amira Amir, Aziza Amir, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Choukoukou, Hassan Fayek, Bechara Wakim, Hagar Hamdi, Fakher Fakher, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Naima Gamal, Soad Hussein, Mousa Helmy, Abbas Ahmed, Gaber Ahmed, Abbas Hassan
This is a 35" x 45" two-piece Egyptian poster made to promote the 1953
Ezzel Dine Zulficar 92-minute black-and-white film Night Train
[qattar al-leil] starring Samia Gamal based on a story by Stephan
Rosti with screenplay by Zaki Saleh, Stephan Rostam and Ezzel Dine
Zulficar with cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: The father
of Samia [Samia Gamal] was in a severe financial crisis and decided to
sell his house to get out of it. Samia's boyfried Adel [Imad Hamdi]
tried to prevent this by paying off her father's debt, but was unable
to do so before the house was sold, and to make matters more
complicated, Samia also told him she no longer wanted to be in a
relationship with him.
Cast and crew: Ezzel Dine Zulficar, Stephan Rosti, Wahid Farid, Zaki Saleh, Samia Gamal, Imad Hamdi, Seraj Munir, Suleiman Naguib, Fakher Fakher, Salah Nazmi, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Hussein Isa, Hussein Eisa, Zaki Ibrahim, Aida Kamal, Abdel Alim Khattab
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian promotional poster designed by Hassan
Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1953 101-minute Youssef Wahby
black-and-white musical comedy The Marital Obedience Dwelling [beyt
al-ta'a] starring Youssef Wahby based on story and screenplay by
Youssef Wahby with cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. Plot summary: In
this domestic battle of the sexes comedy there is harsh bickering
between husband Gamil Rushdy [Youssef Wahby] and wife Fekiya [Hoda
Soltan]. The husband insults his wife and their life becomes such an
unbearable hell that the husband uses an obedience cane on his wife.
This only makes matters worse so they go to a judge. The wife demands
a divorce and the husband demands that she live with him in a marital
obedience dwelling. The judge sides with the husband and orders the
wife to obey her husband and live in a special obedience dwelling
where she must do as he directs. The wife complies and goes to the
obedience dwelling (a special apartment that has been rented and
furnished for the purpose with such things as signs that read
"relatives are scorpions" and "down with my mother-in-law") along with her
mother [Marie Munib], who was the reason for most of the
bickering. The husband works on refining his wife and the
mother-in-law learns not to interfere in her daughter's affairs. Peace
is restored, the disagreements between them disappear and love and
happiness replace the disputes that were ruining their lives.
Cast and crew: Youssef Wahby, Hoda Soltan, Ismail Yasseen, Farid Shawqi, Marie Munib, Zouzou Mady, Mostafa Hassan, Hagar Hamdi, Fakher Fakher, Hussein El-Meliguy, Shafik Noureddin, Amina Kheyri, Hassan el Baroudi, Mohamed Sabih, Gamalat Zayed, Abdel Aziz Badawi
Pictured is an Egyptian rerelease poster by an unknown designer
made to promote the 1957 120-minute Salah Abouseif black-and-white
film Tough Guy [al-fotuwwah] starring Farid Shawqi based on a
story by Mahmoud Sobhi and Farid Shawqi with screenplay by Naguib
Mahfouz, Salah Abouseif, Mahmoud Sobhi and El Sayed Bedir and
cinematography by Hesham Wadid Serri.
The man pictured on the poster is the late Farid Shawqi
(1920-1998), one of Egypt's most popular and prolific actors, who
appeared in 275 films made in Egypt, Turkey and Syria. The poster
shows Shawqi as a peasant wearing a traditional galabiyya, holding
the tail of it between his teeth to make it easier to run.
The film is about a man from a rural area who comes to Cairo
looking for work, rises to social prominence as the owner of a
successful produce business and then eventually loses most of what he
has and almost his life in an altercation with an arch competitor. It
is a black-and-white thriller with overtones of an old-time urban
gangster film. The film is included on critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007
list of Egypt's 100 most important films, and it is also in the top
100 according to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq.
Plot Summary: A man from upper Egypt named Haridi [Farid Shawqi] is
looking for a way to feed himself working in a vegetable market. The
work is hard manual labor but he succeeds in the employ of an
important merchant named Abu Zayd [Zaki Rostom] and also with the help
of a experienced woman named Husseinia [Taheyya Cariocca]. Haridi
becomes one of Abu Zayd's close associates and learns all his secrets,
ways of taking bribes, holding public auctions and peddling
influence. Haridi then separates from Abu Zayd, marries Husseinia and
becomes an important merchant. After a long series of heated and
sometimes violent clashes with Haridi, Abu Zayd goes to prison and
Haridi becomes the social boss of the market using Abu Zayd's methods
and following in his footsteps as another oppressor. He even acquires
the title "Bey." When Abu Zayd is released from prison there is a
dispute between him and Haridi over a big auction. The dispute
becomes a hot confrontation in which Abu Zayd dies and Haridi is
arrested.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Taheya Cariocca, Salah Abouseif, Zaki Rostom, Mimi Shakeeb, Tewfik El Dekn, Fakher Fakher, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa, Naguib Mahfouz, Hassan el Baroudi, Mohamed Reda, Abdel Alim Khattab, Hoda Soltan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Hesham Wadid Serri, Wadid Serri, Naima Wasfy, Loutfy El Hakim, Salwa Mohamed, Mahmoud Sobhi, El Sayed Bedeir, Kamal Yassine, Nazim Shaarawy, Ahmed al-Hamaqi, Abdou Youssef
Pictured is a 35" x 41" three-piece Egyptian poster designed by Abdel
Aziz to promote the 1962 124-minute Kamal El Sheikh black-and-white
film Chased by the Dogs [al-liss wal-kelab] starring Shadia and
Shukry Sarhan based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay by
Sabry Ezzat, dialogue by Ali El Zorkani and cinematography by Kamal
Korayem. Plot summary: Said Mahran [Shukry Sarhan] worked as a house
servant in a student's home. Because of his mother's illness he had
to steal a watch from a student. Raouf Alwan [Kamal al-Shennawi] got
involved, tried to save him and took him as a protege in crime.
Said became a big thief. His assistant Alish [Zein El-Ashmawy] informed
on him so he would be free to marry his wife Nabawiya [Salwa Mahmoud]. When Said
Mahran got out of prison his goal was to take revenge against Alish
and Nabawiya, but he killed some innocent people instead by blindly
shooting at window silhouettes, because Alish and Nabawiya had fled
their home. Said ran away and became a fugitive. Raouf, who had
become a famous journalist, denounced Said in newspaper articles,
turning public opinion against him. Said confessed what he had done
to his former lover Nour [Shadia] and lived in her house. He also
sought solace with a Sufi sheikh but found no relief. Although Nour
tried help him, the police found his hiding place and killed him on
the Mokattam Mountain during a chase.
According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of the top
100 Egyptian films. The title is literally translated as The Thief
and the Dogs.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Shadia, Shukry Sarhan, Kamal El Sheikh, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Fakher Fakher, Samir Sabri, Salah Mansour, Kamal Korayem, Ali El Zorkani, Sabry Ezzat, Salwa Mahmoud, Salah Jahine, Adly Kasseb, Zein El-Ashmawy, Nazim Shaarawy
Pictured is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by
Stamatis Vassiliou and Dimitri Gabriel to promote the 1962 Hassan Al Imam 146-minute
black-and-white film Sins [al-khataya] starring Abdel Halim
Hafez based on a story by Mohamed Osman with screenplay and dialogue
by Mohamed Moustapha Sami and Mohamed Osman and with cinematography by
Wahid Farid. Plot summary: This film depicts a family conflict over
which of its two sons Hussein [Abdel Halim Hafez] or Ahmed [Hassan
Youssef] should marry Soheir [Nadia Lutfi], even though Soheir and
Hussein have decided they want to marry. The father [Mahmoud
El-Meliguy] does not want to give his blessing because he does not
believe Hussein is actually his son; he tries to drive Hussein out of
the family after he and Ahmed have been raised as brothers, which
proves to be an impossibility. The film showcases the singing of
Abdel Halim Hafez.
Cast and crew: Abdel Halim Hafez, Nadia Lutfi, Hassan Youssef, Fakher Fakher, Imad Hamdi, Hassan Al Imam, Wahid Farid, Madiha Yousri, Mohamed Osman, Galal Issa, Zein El-Ashmawy, Mohamed Moustapha Sami, Kamal Hussein, Abdel Ghani Al-Nagdi, Fifi Youssef
This is a picture of a 27" x 39" undated Egyptian rerelease poster
designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1963 Hassan Al Imam
108-minute color film Shafiqa the Copt [shafi'a al-'ebtia]
starring Hind Rostom as Shafiqa based on a story by Galil Al-Badrawy
with screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Mustafa Samy and
cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: This biographical
film portrays the life of Shafiqa the Copt, the most famous Egyptian
dancer of the early 20th century, with Hind Rostom in the role of
Shafiqa. Plot summary: Shafiqa was obliged to leave her only son in
the care of her mother, who had banished Shafiqa from the home in
deference to the demands of Shafiqa's conservative father. Although
Shafiqa had a vast fortune and some of her best friends were important
men in the government, the father did not permit her to see her son.
Aziz grew up, came into his prime and fell in love with Soad, the
daughter of Prime Minister Asad Pasha, who at the time was himself
Known as the greatest lover in his government. Shafiqa formed a
relationship with her son later. She invited him many times to her
home without telling him she was his mother or that she was a famous
dancer. In the presence of his daughter, Asad Pasha was indifferent
to Aziz when he asked for her hand, but in turn the minister was
indifferent to his wife because of Shafiqa's influence. He then
ordered Aziz imprisoned and abandoned the dancer. Shafiqa's maid
Bahia became the minister's consort after the theft of the assets of
her mistress. Soad abandoned the life of the world, entered a convent
and refused to marry Aziz after his escape from prison. Finally as
she was dying in his arms, Aziz realized Shafiqa was his mother.
Cast and crew: Hind Rostom, Zizi El-Badrawy, Hassan Youssef, Fouad El-Mohandes, Hassan Al Imam, Amina Rizk, Hussein Riad, Fakher Fakher, Hamed Morsi, Gamal Ismail, Ibrahim Heshmat, Abdelhalim Nasr, Mohamed Mustafa Samy, Galil Al-Badrawy, Salwa Mahmoud, Abbas Rahmy, Mohammed Abaza, Sayed Darwish
This is an original 24" x 35.5" Egyptian stone lithograph poster
designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1945 Togo Mizrahi 100-minute black-and-white
film Salama [سلامه] starring Om Kolthum based on a story by Ali Ahmed
Bakathir with dialogue and songs by Bayramn El Tounsi and
cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: This film is a
musical melodrama showcasing the singing of Om Kolsum. As the film
begins Salama [Om Kolsum] is shown passing in silence without
returning a greeting from a man sitting with a group of friends. When
asked why Salama did not return his greeting, the man tells her story.
Salama once lived with her companion Shawq as a maid in the home of
Sheikh Abu Wafa. She had a beautiful voice and developed songs during
the day and sang them at night, until Sheikh Abu Wafa got tired of her
songs and sold her and Shawq on the maid market. She was bought by a
libertine named ibn Soheir who commercialized the voice of his new
maid. Salama met and fell in love with a pious man named Sheikh Abdel
Rahman al-Qos [Yehia Chahine] who was ridiculed for his love of a maid
by the other Arabs. When ibn Soheir went bankrupt and sold his maids
and all his property, Abdel Rahman came forward to buy her and marry
her, but found that she had been summoned to the caliph's palace and
had then fled the palace. Abdel Rahman looked for her and became ill;
Salama came looking for him, only to find him just as he was breathing
his last. The scene returns to Salama, her silence and the man
relating the events of her life.
Soon after this film's release director Togo Mizrahi was accused of Zionism and forced out of Egypt. He died in exile in Italy. A brief biography is at cineplot here.
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Cast and crew: Om Kolsum, Yehia Chahine, Togo Mizrahi, Zouzou Nabil, Fouad Shafik, Abdel Waress Assar, Abdelhalim Nasr, Fakher Fakher, Stephan Rosti, Ali Ahmed Bakathir, Bayram El Tounsi, Yehia Chahine, Soad Zaki, Sharafnath, Ister Shatta, Mohamed Kamel, Rafia al-Baroudi, Abdel Qader al-Masiri
