This is a 27" x 39" poster for the 1968 Ahmed Mazhar film Souls in
Distress, designed by Mohamed Abdel Aziz and Wahib Fahmy. The
film contains three stories written by Ahmed Mazhar and starring
Mervat Amin. In one of the stories Layla is a Bedouin girl from a
delta tribe who falls in love with an outsider named Rashwan [Ahmed
Mazhar]. Her tribe will not allow her to marry Rashwan; it requires
her to marry her cousin instead.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Mazhar, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Wahib Fahmy,
Mervat Amin, Salah Nazmi, Shafik Noureddin, Wahid Farid, Abdel Aziz
Fakhry, Qadria Kamel, Hassan Attila, Ibrahim Qadri, Imane, Malek
Ismail
Pictured is an undated Egptian rerelease poster designed by Abdel
Rahman to promote the 1967 148-minute Essa Karama black-and-white
film That Man Is Driving Me Crazy [al-ragol da haganini]
starring Fouad El-Mohandes based on story, screenplay and dialogue by
Abdel Fatah al-Sayed with cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. Plot
summary: Attia [Fouad El-Mohandes] was a good man whose wife Amina
[Shouweikar] complained about his weak character and finally left him.
He did not know what happened to her or their daughter [Madiha
Salem]. After a few years Attia decided decided to look for work in
the cinema. He met a greedy producer [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] and learned
that he intended to use a wealthy woman to produce films for him
because he was bankrupt. Attia learned that this woman was none other
than his wife, who had been left a large amount of money from a man
she had been nursing. Attia tried to save his daughter, who thought he
had died, and his wife from the greedy producer. He hid his identity
from his daughter [Madiha Salem] hoping to prevent her from marrying
the producer's son [Samir Sabri], but then he had a change of heart
when the producer's son turned out to be different from his father;
the marriage eventually took place and Attia and Amina were also
reconciled again.
