This is a 25" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Nagy Shaker for the
1999 Youssef Chahine film The Other written by Youssef Chahine
and Khaled Youssef and starring Hanan Turk as Hanane. Plot summary:
Adam [Hani Salama] is a student from a wealthy family who returns to
Cairo from New York for a break from his studies and a visit. During
his Cairo break Adam falls in love with Hanane, a journalist of modest
means who is conducting a campaign against the wealthy Egyptian elite
as they plunder the country. Adam's parents, who are themselves part
of the corrupt Egyptian upper class, and especially his mother
Margaret, [Nabila Ebeid] are opposed to the relationship between Adam
and Hanane.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef, Nabila Ebeid,
Mahmoud Hemida, Hanan Turk, Hani Salama, Lebleba, Hassan Abdel Hamid,
Ezzat Abou Aouf, Ahmed Fouad Seli, Amr Saad, Ahmed Wafik, Edward Said,
Hamdine Sabahi, Tamer Samir
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 2001 Youssef Chahine
film Silence We're Rolling starring Latifa as Malek. Plot
summary: Malek is a popular singing star who lives with her aristocrat
mother and her daughter Lola in an old villa, where she has been
living since her divorce. Malek has fallen in love with Lam'i, a
conniving boy who is after her wealth and wants to use her to get into
film. Because of this relationship Malek neglects her art. Lola
collaborates with Naser in an effort to expose Lam'i.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Latifa, Ahmed Bedir, Ahmed Wafik,
Magda El-Khatib, Zaki Abdel Wahab, Ahmed Mehrez, Mostafa Shaaban,
Ruby, Cherif Mohy Eddine, Khaled Fouad, Hani Salama, Hanan Turk,
Khaled El Ghandour, Mohamed El Abendani, Aina Yehia
Pictured is a somewhat worn 27" x 39" promotional poster for the 1994
Youssef Chahine 120-minute color film The Emigrant [al-mohager] with
screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Chahine, poster art by Jan and
cinematography by Ramses Marzouk. Plot summary: Ram [Khaled Nabawy]
lived with his old father [Michel Piccoli] in a poor tribe outside
Egypt. Ram suffered from an unhappy dislike of his position as the
favorite of his father's seven sons; he refused to accept that
situation or to live in fear of drought, famine and flood. He dreamed
of being in control of his own life and of his tribe being prosperous.
He decided to go to Egypt to learn agriculture and to make use of
other areas of knowledge found in Egyptian civilization. His brothers
tied him up and threw him into the hold of a ship bound for Egypt,
believing they had gotten rid of him forever, but Ram made it to Egypt
and began learning agriculture. There he discovered the Egyptians were
more interested in the arts and embalming. Ram met Amihar, [Mahmoud
Hemida] the leader of the Egyptian armies. Amihar was impotent
despite his physical strength and was unable to satisfy his wife
Simihit [Youssra] after she fell in love with him. Amihar gave Ram a
plot of land to farm. Ram fell in love with a pretty Egyptian girl
named Haty [Hanan Turk] who said she would marry him. The two of them
joined with an Egyptian minister farming the new land; they
successfully cultivated the plot from Amihar. They divided the crop
to help alleviate the famine that was threatening Egypt and Ram became
a minister in the Pharaoh's government. Nonetheless he longed to
return to his country after disclosing his identity to his seven
brothers; he returned to his tribe with his wife, where he met with
his father after long years of absence. He found his father had gone
blind crying so much in the belief he had died, as his lying brothers
had claimed. This film was banned by religious authorities in Egypt in
1994 and 1995, both times for violating Islamic strictures against
depicting religious prophets--in this case the Prophet Joseph. After
the ban was lifted The Emigrant became Chahine's most popular
film.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Khaled el Nabaoui, Ahmed Bedir, Safia El Emari, Mahmoud Hemida, Yousef Ismail, Khaled Nabawy, Michel Piccoli, Ahmad Salama, Hanan Turk, Youssra, Ramses Marzouk, Menaha al-Batrawy, Sayed Abdel Karim, Amru Abdel Khalil, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Pierre Sioufi
