This is a 26" x 38.5" Egyptian poster designed by Samir Abdel Moneim
for the 1987 Mohammed Khan film Wife of an Important Man based
on story, screenplay and dialogue by Raouf Tawfik and starring Ahmed
Zaki as Hesham. Plot summary: The film tells the story of the rise
and fall of Colonel Hesham Abol-Wafa, an Egyptian police officer
during the Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat years (1962 - 1980). It
received the Silver Award at the Damascus Film Festival in 1987 and
was also shown in competition at the Moscow Film Festival in 1987. It
was shown as well at the Montreal, Valencia, Tetouan, Digne, Istanbul
and Nantes Film Festivals in 1987 and 1988.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Ahmed Zaki, Mervat Amin, Hassan Hosny,
Zizi Mustafa, Nahed Samir, Mohsen Ahmed, Ali Al Ghandour, Khairy
Beshara, Hafez Amin, Hassan Hosny, Abdel Halim Hafez, Nazim Shaarawy,
Mohsen Ahmed, Othman Abdelmonem, Abdel Ghany Naser, Mahmoud
al-Dardiri, Ahmed Moukhtar, Raouf Tawfik
This isa 27" x39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda for the 1995
film Meet Fol AKA Great! a comedy written and directed
by Raafat El-Mihi and starring Sherihan as Dalal. Plot summary: Kamal
[Hesham Selim] was working as a porter in a hotel. He fell in love
with Dalal, a secretary there, but they lied to each other constantly.
He claimed he was from a wealthy family, but the truth of the matter
became known after they were married. They were later adopted as
brother and sister by a wealthy benefactor, who did not know they were
married. Kamal was known to their benefactor as Meet Fol, while Dalal
was known to him as Safia.
Cast and crew: Rafaat El-Mihi, Hassan Hosny, Achraf Abdel Baqi, Sherihan, Hesham Selim
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown designer for the
1991 Mohamed Khan film The Knight of the City AKA fares
al-medina based on a story by Mohamed Khan with screenplay and
dialogue by Fayez Ghaly and starring Mahmoud Hemida as Fares. Plot
Summary: The film is set in Cairo in the year 1988. The filming was
done in 32 days beginning 26 May 1990. It tells a complex story about
the life of Fares Hassan al-Helali, a prosperous and somewhat
conniving mid-level businessman dealing in currency, automobiles and
real estate. His wealth comes from currency trading and the running
of a number of large commercial projects. The main line of this
multi-threaded plot is a conflict between Fares and another slightly
more prosperous businessman and drug merchant Ahmed Al-Wezzan [Abdel
Aziz Makhyoun]. As the film begins Fares worries how he will raise the
five million pounds he needs to pay a debt to Ahmed. He ends up
selling everything to manage it, but in the end it is Fares who
triumphs in a series of tense and sometimes violent encounters.
In the beginning Fares quarrels with his ex wife Dalal [Soad Nasr]
about their son [Abdel Aziz al-Qarantili]. He had separated from
Dalal to live with her son Bakr [Farid Naguib Sorur], a university
student, and with his new lover. This is the start of another plot
line in which the son is kidnapped by Ahmed's gang, disappears,
eventually becomes addicted to drugs and is then found using them and
beaten up by Fares in a public bathroom.
In the beginning Fares quarrels with his ex wife Dalal [Soad Nasr]
about their son [Abdel Aziz al-Qarantili]. He had separated from
Dalal to live with her son Bakr [Farid Naguib Sorur], a university
student, and with his new lover. This is the start of another plot
line in which the son is kidnapped by Ahmed's gang, disappears,
eventually becomes addicted to drugs and is then found using them and
beaten up by Fares in a public bathroom.
In a moment of despair, after having lost everything to Ahmed,
Fares hits an elderly pedestrian with his car and then takes him to a
big hospital, checks him in as his own father and pays for his
treatment. Although Fares does not know at first, the old man is in
the habit of throwing himself in front of fancy automobiles so he can
live comfortably for a while in a big hospital. Fares and the old
opportunist find a bond of some kind and eventually become drinking
buddies, replicating in a superficial way the false identities of
father and son, an idea the elderly man had first broached to Fares
while he was checking his "victim" into a hospital.
Soon after they establish the new bond of trust the old man
confesses to Fares with startling honesty his fraudulent practice of
fake victimhood. He recounts his specific encounter with Fares in
detail, and explains how he had sized him up and set out to dupe him.
Fares accepts this with equanimity and they remain friends. In this
moment of candor with the old man, Fares also tells the nurse in
attendance Hoda [Lucy] the story of their contrived relationship,
makes a date to meet her and begins a relationship with her.
There is much freeway footage in and around Cairo by
cinematographer Kamal Abdel Aziz as well as multiple insertions of
original cuts from old Om Kolsum performances to illustrate the
fondness Fares has for her music and sometimes to accentuate points in
the story line with her lyrics.
Cast and crew: Mahmoud Hemida, Mohamed Khan, Aida Riad, Soad Nasr,
Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Hassan Hosny, Ahmed Bedir, Fayez Ghaly, Kamal
Abdel Aziz, Lucy, Osman Abdel Moneim, Mohamed Metwalli, Atia Oweysi,
Lotfi Labieb, Khaled El Sawy, Mahmoud Al-Lawzi, Abdel Aziz
al-Qarantili, Farid Naguib Sorur
This is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour for the 1991 120-minute Salah Abouseif color film War in the
Land of Egypt [al-mowaten: masri] starring Omar Sharif, based on
the novel al-harb fi bar misr by Youssef El-Kaeed with
screenplay by Mohsen Zayed and cinematography by Tarek El-Telmisany.
Plot summary: In 1973 in an Egyptian village Abdel Zeraq al-Shershabi
(Omar Sharif), a shrewd feudal mayor, recovered his farmland by court
order after the lifting of a receivership. His young second wife
threatened to tell people he had become sexually impotent if he did
not prevent their only son Tawfiq from being drafted into the army
along with his other children from his first wife. The mayor
pressured an oppressed farm laborer named Abel Mawgud to have his son
Masri, who was exempt from the draft, take the place of his son Tawfiq
in the induction in exchange for the Mayor giving him the five feddans
he was farming, assigning him a special work crew and giving him a
cash reward. Abdel Mawgud and his son agreed to this. Then Masri was
killed in the October War, but he had already confessed the truth
about what had happened to a recruiter named Hassan [Ashraf Abdel Baqi]. The police were
investigating the incident, but Abdel Mawgud denied being Masri's
father out of fear of the Mayor's anger, who had only paid him 261
pounds and refused to give him the land he had promised.
Cast and crew: Omar Sharif, Achraf Abdel Baqi, Ezzat El Alaili, Safia El Emari, Salah Abouseif, Abdullah Mahmoud, Khaled Nabawy, Youssef El-Kaeed, Enaam Salousa, Hassan Hosny, Hanan Shawki, Ashraf Abdel Baqi, Rushdi El Mahdi, Lola Mohamed, Mohsen Zayed, Tarek El-Telmisany, Yousef al-Qa'eed, Al-Montaser Billah, Magdi Sobhi, Mohamed Al-Seba, Rushdi El Mahdi, Abol Fotouh Omara, Naim Esa, Lola Mohamed
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour to promote the 1990 108-minute Hussein Kamal color film Drug
Users [al-masatil المساطيل] starring Laila Eloui based on story, screenplay
and dialogue by Wahid Hamid with cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh.
Plot summary: A group of lost youth were involved in drug abuse and
crime and they had committed a murder. Nadia [Lalia Eloui] was the
most prominent among them. She was in love with Samir but he refused
to marry her because she was too poor. She had to go away to marry a
rich man, but it only lasted three months, and when she returned she
found her father had lost his job, and she had also lost hers. She
took up prostitution and began associating with a bad group of people
who would use drugs together to forget the miserable realities of
their lives. Among these people was the sexually impotent Ahmad, who
believed drugs might cure him. Another was Talaat, a corrupt court
worker who illegitimately sold judicial documents. There was also an
unemployed man named Abbas who had married a wealthy cafe owner and
then killed her to get her money. Samir was unable to find happiness
with his wife, whom he did not love, so he broke into the gathering of
drug users to be with Nadia, whom he did love, but he refused to tell
them his story. They forced him to take an overdose of heroin, which
killed him; then they they threw his body into the Nile. Nadia
confessed to the police she had been with the drug users and had been
responsible for Samir's death.
Cast and crew: Hussein Kamal, Negah El-Mogui, Hassan Hosny, Ahmed Maher, Soad Hussein, Mahmoud Hemida, Laila Eloui, Ibrahim Saleh, Wahid Hamid, Hendia, Soad Hussein
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Samir A. Moneim of
Atelier Graphics House to promote the 1996 Mohamed Fadel film Naser
56 starring Ahmed Zaki based on story, screenplay and dialogue by
Mahfouz Abdel Rahman with cinematography by Abdel Latif Fahmi, Essam
Farid and Ibrahim Saleh. Plot Summary: 1956 was the year when on 26
July Gamal Abdel Nasser [Ahmed Zaki] nationalized the Suez Canal,
followed by the Tripartite Invasion the same year, an unsuccessful
effort by England, France and Israel to take the canal back. This
historical drama carefully documents those events from the
perspective of President Gamal Abdel Nasser with emphasis and
attention given to his personal habits and family life and
some original newsreel footage from the era.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Zaki, Mohamed Fadel, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Hassan Hosny, Ahmed Maher, Hani Ramzy, Mahmoud El-Bezzawy, Tareq El-Desouki, Abdula Farghali, Ahmed Khali, Mamdouh Wafi, Hasan Kami, Amina Rizk, Mahfouz Abdel Rahman, Abdel Latif Fahmi, Essam Farid, Ibrahim Saleh, Mahfouz Abdel Rahman, Ahmed Khalil, Shaaban Hussein, Adel Hashem, Rushdi El Mehdi, Mokhles El Behiry
This is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour for the 1991 120-minute Salah Abouseif color film War in the
Land of Egypt [al-mowaten: masri] starring Omar Sharif, based on
the novel al-harb fi bar misr by Youssef El-Kaeed with
screenplay by Mohsen Zayed and cinematography by Tarek El-Telmisany.
Plot summary: In 1972 in an Egyptian village Abdel Zeraq al-Shershabi,
a shrewd feudal mayor, recovered his farmland by court order after the
lifting of a receivership. His young second wife threatened to tell
people he had become sexually impotent if he did not prevent their
only son Tawfiq from being drafted into the army along with his other
children from his first wife. The mayor pressured an oppressed farm
laborer named Abel Mawgud to have his son Masri, who was exempt from
the draft, take the place of his son Tawfiq in the induction in
exchange for the Mayor giving him the five feddans of he was farming,
assigning him a special work crew and giving him a cash reward. Abdel
Mawgud and his son agreed to this. Then Masri was killed in the
October War, but he had already confessed the truth about what had
happened to a recruiter named Hassan. The police were investigating
the incident, but Abdel Mawgud denied being Masri's father out of fear
of the Mayor's anger, who had only paid him 261 pounds and refused to
give him the land he had promised.
Cast and crew: Omar Sharif, Achraf Abdel Baqi, Ezzat El Alaili, Safia El Emari, Salah Abouseif, Abdullah Mahmoud, Khaled Nabawy, Youssef El-Kaeed, Enaam Salousa, Hassan Hosny, Hanan Shawki, Ashraf Abdel Baqi, Rushdi El Mahdi, Lola Mohamed, Mohsen Zayed, Tarek El-Telmisany, Yousef al-Qa'eed, Al-Montaser Billah, Magdi Sobhi, Mohamed Al-Seba, Rushdi El Mahdi, Abol Fotouh Omara, Naim Esa, Lola Mohamed
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz
and Wahib Fahmy for the 1982 Atef-E Taieb film The Bus Driver
written by Mohamed Khan and Bachir El Dik and starring Nour El-Sherif.
Plot Summary: Hassan [Nour El-Sherif] was a bus driver for the Public
Transportation Agency and one of the heroes of the October 1973 war.
From time to time he would meet his war buddies. He lived happily
with his wife Khadiga [Mervat Amin] who owned a taxi and was
renovating its interior. His father Abu Soltan [Imad Hamdi] owned a
commercial workshop in the Bulaq area that was in financial
difficulties. He was trying to protect the workshop from the
imposition of back taxes. Hassan tried to gather funds and get help
from his two sisters who lived in Dumyat and Port Said, but without
success. He went to see his sister in Dumyat but she was not able to
help. He went to see his other sister in Port Said whose husband was
a merchant in the free trade zone; the husband did not give Hassan
anything despite his financial power; instead he wanted to sell the
workshop. Hassan even asked his wife to sell the taxi but she
demanded a divorce and left home. The father died while Hassan was
trying to collect the needed funds with the help of his army buddies.
This film was directed by Atef E-Taieb and written by my favorite Egyptian director, Mohamed Khan.
Cast and crew: Atef E-Taieb, Nour El-Sherif, Imad Hamdi, Hassan Hosny, Mervat Amin, Nabila El-Sayed, Bachir El Dik, Said El-Shiemy, Wahid Seif, Zahrat El-Ola, Aziza Helmy, Mohamed Khan
