This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anise and
Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1990 Mohamed Abdel Aziz film
Hanafy al-Obahah based on story, screenplay and dialogue by
Basyouni Othman and starring Adel Imam as Hanafy. Plot summary: Hanafy
and his accomplices rob a jewelry store and leave the briefcase with
the money with his brother Ahmed [Abdulla Mahmoud] before Hanafy is
arrested. His three accomplices are able to escape. Lieutenant
Colonel Sherif Barakat [Farouk Al-Fichawy] is assigned to the case; he
arranges for a temporary release of Hanafy so he can guide the police
to the gang's hideout.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Basyouni Othman, Morteda Anis,
Gasour, Adel Imam, Farouk Al-Fichawi, Ragaa Al-Gidawy, Youssef Dawood,
Noha El Amroussi, Hindeya, Mona Ibrahim, Mustafa Metwalli, Abdel Salam
Mohamed, Ola Rami, Hoda Ramzi, Magdy Wahba, Mohsen Nasr
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1980 Samir Seif
film The Suspect based on story, screenplay and dialogue by
Ibrahim al-Mawgi and starring Soad Hosny as Fatma/Batta. Plot
summary: Maher [Adel Imam] was a thief who met the whore Fatma/Batta
while he was robbing an apartment. They got married and decided to
repent their crimes.
Cast and crew: Samir Seif, Fouad Ahmed, Aly El Cherif, Naima Al
Soghayar, Soad Hosny, Adel Imam, Sa'eed Saleh, Farouk Al-Fichawi,
Ibrahim al-Mawgi
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour to promote the 1985 95-minute Ahmed Al-Nehas color
film Ruffians [al-awghad] starring Farouk Al-Fichawy based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Ahmed Al-Nehas with cinematography
by Mohamed Taher. Plot summary: Mahmoud [Farouk Al-Fichawy] is a taxi
driver married to Hosnia [Bussy]. They have a happy life together,
but Mahmoud is accused of hitting a boy named Medhat [Wael Nour] and stealing
20000 pounds from him. Mahmoud goes to see Medhat at the hospital to
persuade him to tell the truth, but he fails. He gets into his taxi
with some of Medhat's friends and the taxi crashes and catches fire in
a remote location while Mahmoud is trying to get confessions from
them. Mahmoud hides in graveyards and disguises himself. He goes to
the hospital to get the names of the boys from Medhat, who dies while
struggling with him. While Mahmoud is chasing one of the offenders,
the offender falls from a balcony before making a confession. A
police inspector named Kamal [Mohi Ismail] chases him as he is
following another collaborator named Mostafa [Abdalla Mahmoud], and catches both of
them. Thus Mostafa had lost the 20000 pounds among strangers and
colluded with his friends in accusing Mahmoud, fearing his father's
punishment.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Al-Nehas, Mohi Ismail, Ahmed Bedir, Abdalla Mahmoud, Ahmad Salama, Wael Nour, Ahmed Khalil, Hafez Amin, Ahmad Hegazi, Bussy, Farouk Al-Fichawi, Awatef Youssef, Youssef Fawzi, Nagwa al-Mawgi, Mona Darwish, Mohamed Taher
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
to promote the 1990 Nader Galal 122-minute color film Network of
Death [shabaket al-mawt] starring Nadia El Guindy based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Bachir El Dik with cinematography by Samir
Farag. Plot summary: Nadia El Guindy plays the part of Nour Abdel
Rahman, a widow whose daughter is addicted to drugs. In an effort to
save her daughter, Nour gets involved with a gang smuggling drugs into
Egypt from Greece. This is another film with many astonishing
displays of expert marksmanship with pistols, showing scene after
scene where victims are instantly killed by pistols fired by shooters
who barely take the time to aim. These master gunmen appear on both
the criminal and law enforcement sides.
Cast and crew: Nadia El Guindy, Farouk Al-Fichawi, Nader Galal, Yousef Fawzy, Samir Farag, Bachir El Dik, Nabil al-Helfawy, Osman Mohammad Ali, Ahmed Abdel Hadi
Billboard advertising this film near Gomhuria Street, Cairo 1990
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy to promote
the 1982 124-minute Hisham Abu El-Nasr color film The Mawardy
Cafe ['ahwet al-mawardy] starring Farid Shawqi based on a story by
Ahmed Galal with screenplay and dialogue by Mohsen Zayed and
cinematography by Abdel Moneim Bahnassy. Plot summary: Hassanein Abu
Sena [Youssef Chaban] got out of prison after killing one of the
residents of his building. Fear overtook the people in his
neighborhood because of his domination. Abu Sena persuaded some of
the people to leave their apartments in his building in exchange for
money and he converted those units into commercial shops and
import-export offices. Abu Sena convinced Ghabasha [Hassan Hosny] to
rent a furnished apartment to a wealthy Arab named Redwan. A
journalist named Ahmad [Farouk Al-Fichawi] recorded the changes that
had been happening in the neighborhood but his editor refused to
publish his articles. Safrut [Abdel Salam Mohamed] liked Farawla
[Nabila Ebeid] but she rejected him. He therefore quit his job
working in the coffee house owned by her father al-Mawardy [Farid
Shawqi] and left the neighborhood. Al-Mawardy married his mistress
Ragaa after having problems with Abu Sena. Ghabasha pressured his
niece Warda [Maha Osman] to marry Redwan, but on the wedding day she
fled to Alexandria. She also liked her neighbor the student Mamdouh
[Farid Mahmoud], but he had no feelings for her. Safrut returned to
the neighborhood after becoming wealthy. Abu Sena and Safrut made an
agreement with Ghabasha to kill Ahmad on the night of his marriage to
Farawla. Al-Mawardy divored his wife Ragaa. Ahmad's friend Shabaan
[Mamdouh Abd El Aleem] collected his articles about the neighborhood
and published them in a book of memories. When Mamdouh read what
Ahmed had written about him he recognized his mistake and went back to
Warda in Alexandria. The two of them married in a celebration in the
neighborhood. Abu Sena died at the hands of unknown murderers.
Cast and crew: Hisham Abu El-Nasr, Farid Shawqi, Nabila Ebeid, Mohsen Zayed, Ahmed Galal, Mamdouh Abd El Aleem, Alim Abdel Monem, Alia Abdel Monem, Farouk Al-Fichawi, Hafez Amin, Youssef Chaban, Naima El Soghayar, Hassan Hosny, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Ibrahim Nasr, Maha Osman, Nadia Zaghloul, Abdel Moneim Bahnassy, Mahmoud Amer, Qadria Kamel, Nader Fathollah, Farid Mahmoud
