This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1978 Ashraf Fahmy
film Until the End of Life based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Youssef El Sebai and starring Nagwa Ibrahim as Mona. Plot
summary: Mona married Ahmed [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] who was later
paralyzed by injuries he suffered fighting in the Yom Kippur War. She
had a conflicting relationship with Mahmoud, [Omar Nagy] a member of
her sports club.
Cast and crew: Youssef El Sebai, Ashraf Fahmy, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz,
Omar Khorshid, Imad Hamdi, Hayat Kandeel, Sa'eed Saleh, Nagwa Ibrahim,
Omar Nagy
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour to promote the 1976 109-minute Hassan Al Imam color
film The Nightingale Has Lips [al-kerwan luh shafayef] starring Soheir
Ramzy based on a story by Roget Lahont, screenplay and dialogue by
Hassan Al Imam and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary:
Hussein [Samir Sabri] and Qasem [Youssef Chaban] worked with Kerwan,
[Soheir Ramzy] the female star of a dance troupe. The troupe fell
heavily into debt and there was a breakup. Afterwards there was a
false murder accusation and an incident of marital infidelity,
followed by a resumption of what had gone before.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Roget Lahont, Imad Hamdi, Soheir
Ramzy, Nabila Ebeid, Naima Al Soghayar, Youssef Chaban, Abu Bakr
Ezzat, Hayat Kandeel, Samir Sabri, Enaam Salousa, Wahid Farid, Robab,
Farouq Naguib, Walid Tewfiq, Enaam Salousa
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Aziz and Wahib
Fahmy for the 1975 Hussein Kamal film Love in the Rain based on
a story by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay and dialogue by Mamdouh El
Leithy and starring Mervat Amin. Plot summary: Hassan the
cinematographer opened his home to many different segments of society.
It served both as a nightclub and a place of debauchery; he kept
both functions going in earnest. He therefore needed to find a home
for this purpose, and this is what Aliat and Senia did for him because
they needed money. There was a close relationship between Aliat and
Senia. Senia's brother Marzouq courted Aliat and the officer Ibrahim
courted Senia. The film director Mohamed Reshwan met Marzouq and
offered him work opposite the film star Fetna, who found Marzouq to be
the right man for her and began flirting with him. Meanwhile the
director Adel thought he deserved the artist Fetna, but she quickly
married Marzouq after his courtship of Aliat fell apart, who had gone
back to Hassan's house to engage in lewd behavior. Adel decided to
take revenge against Marzouq and Fetna and he disfigured Marzouq's
face. Life became impossible between Marzouq and Fetna. He divorced
her and went back to Aliat, whom he married after forgiving her for
her past.
Cast and crew: Magda El-Khatib, Hayat Kandeel, Hamdy Ahmed, Samira
Mohsen, Ahmed Al-Gezeiry, Mervat Amin, Adel Adham, Ahmed Ramzy, Imad
Hamdi, Hussein Kamal, Naguib Mahfouz, Kamal Karim, Mahmoud Kabil,
Mohamed Wafik, Kamal Korayem, Mamdouh El Leithy, Salah Nazmi, Hamdy
Ahmed
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Hassan
Mazhar Gasour and Dar Hani for the 1974 Henry Barakat film The Most
Beautiful Days of My Life AKA Agmal Ayam Hayati based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hay Adib and starring Naglaa
Fathy as Hoda. Plot summary: Hoda hid one night on a ship bound for
Beirut, where she met Samir [Hussein Fahmy]. She did not tell him she
was running away from her father Gamal [Imad Hamdi] so she could marry
her Lebanese lover Rafiq who was waiting for her in Beirut, that her
father was offering a reward to whoever could find her or that the
people looking for her were waiting at the port. Samir helped her
hide in a chest above the hold and then helped her get away. They then
explored Lebanon and Samir learned the truth about her. He got her to
confess and they fell in love. He decided to take her to her father
so they could marry. When they got there the father realized his
daughter loved Samir and encouraged her to marry whomever she loved,
especially since Samir was refusing the reward he had been offering.
On the night of the marriage to Rafiq the father helped and encouraged
his daughter to go away and marry Samir. Then the two boarded a ship
to Canada so they could marry there and begin a new life.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Hossein Fahmy, Imad Hamdi, Henry
Barakat, Wadid Serri, Abdel Hay Adib, Mohammad Shawqi, Hayat Kandeel,
Saeed Saleh, Aia Abdel Moneim, Samir Shamas, Maged Afyouni, Ibrahim
Mar'ashli, Shafiq Hassan, Zein Shahin
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster desiged by Wahib
Fahmy for the 1974 Mahmoud Farid film Devils Forever based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Behgat Kamar and Kamal Zakaria and
starring Adel Imam as Fakhrani. Plot summary: Fakhrani and Kamal
Taleban [Farouk Youssef] wanted to marry the sisters Faten [Safa Abu
al-Saud] and Ferial [Hayat Kandeel] but their father the Sergeant
Maghawy [Mohamed Reda] refused to allow it because their family's
military tradition required the husbands of its daughters to be
soldiers. Fakhrani and Kamal therefore joined the Police Institute
Trustees after finishing school. Their father then agreed to let his
daughters marry them. The plan was delayed when Maghawy's youngest
son Galal was kidnapped.
Cast and crew: Mahmoud Farid, Safa Abu Al-Saud, Hayat Kandeel,
Nagwa Fouad, Nabila El Sayed, Mohamed Reda, Adel Imam, Behgat Kamar,
Victor Antoun, Kamal Zakaria, Farouk Youssef, Safaa Abo Seud, Madhar
Abol Nega, Ibrahim Saafan, Medhat Gamal, Nasr Seif, Ahmed Salama,
Mohamed Abo Hashish, Mahmoud al-Tufi, Sayed Ibrahim, Ahmed Nabil
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1977
Houssam El-Din Mustafa film Sonya and the Madman based on the
1866 Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel Crime and Punishment with
screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Diab, cinematography by Ibrahim
Saleh and starring Naglaa Fathy as Sonya. Plot summary: In 1940s
Cairo, law student Mokhtar [Mahmoud Yassine] found a poor girl
sleeping in the street named Sonya whose circumstances were driving
her to vice and crime. He fell in love with her and asked her to stop
being a girl of the night in exchange for his financial help. In this
adaptation Mokhtar is the madman who has Raskalnikov's part in the
Dostoyevsky story. Naglaa Fathy's Sonya is also Dostoyevsky's Sonya.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Imad Hamdi, Sa'eed Saleh, Abdel
Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam
El-Din Mustafa, Ibrahim Saleh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ruhia Khaled, Nazim
Shaarawy, Naima Al Soghayar, Mahmoud Diab, Soheir Reda
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty for the 1981
Henry Barakat film Valley of Memories AKA wadi
al-zekriat based on a story by Michel Sawaya, screenplay by Rafiq
al-Saban and starring Shadia as Soad. Plot summary: Rafat [Mahmoud
Kabil] married Soad despite strong family opposition and the two of
them went to Syria where Soad's aunt was living. Rafat died after a
critical illness and Soad worked to finance the education of her
daughter Sahar [Hayat Kandeel]. This reinforced the bond of love
between them. Sahar fell in love with their neighbor Walid [Mahmoud
Abdel Aziz] and they made plans to marry. Soad became ill but hid it
from her daughter. Sahar went to Cairo to live with her rich aunt
Dowlat [Leila Fawzi]. A physician decided Soad needed surgery. When
Dowlat heard about this she asked Sahar to marry a wealthy boy named
Adham to get the money to pay for Soad's operation. After objecting
strenuously, Sahar finally agreed for her mother's sake and told Walid
about her situation. Soad became upset when she heard what was
happening and flew to Egypt, where she had a confrontation with
Dowlat; then Dowlat regretted interfering and gave the money to Soad.
Sahar went back to Walid in Syria. Happy ending!
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Shadia, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Leila
Fawzi, Imad Hamdi, Mahmoud Kabil, Hayat Kandeel, Fekry Abaza, Qadria
Qadri, Hani Al-Rumani, Zafira Qatan, Mahmoud Kamel, Anwar Madkour,
Michel Sawaya, Rafiq al-Saban, Abdel Moneim Bahnassy
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour and Mohamed Abdel Aziz to promote the 1975 Hassan Ramzi
94-minute color film The White Gown [al-reda al-abiad] starring
Naglaa Fathy based on screenplay, dialogue and story by Hassan Ramzi
with cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: Omar [Youssef
Wahby] is a man with a good heart who lives in the mentality of the
past. He becomes angry when he learns his only son Kamal [Magdy
Wahba] has married a poor girl named Hoda [Naglaa Fathy] without
telling him about it. Before the marriage, Hoda had been caught
stealing a wallet from a man who was dating her named Ahmed [Ahmed
Mazhar] but then she marries Kamal and they live happily until he dies
in a traffic accident while under stress due to a demand from his
father that he divorce Hoda. Then Hoda is denied custody of her
daughter Sofa [Manal Afifi]. When Sofa gets older she becomes a
beautiful young woman and is later reunited with her mother on her
wedding day. On that same day Hoda is also forgiven in a renewed
contact with Ahmed, the man she had once robbed.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Ahmed Mazhar, Hassan Ramzi, Magdy Wahba, Youssef Wahby, Zahrat El-Ola, Hayat Kandeel, Ibrahim Saafan, Salah Nazmi, Sa'eed Saleh, Leila Fahmi, Huseein Kandil, Hoda Ramzi, Mahmoud Nasr, Fatheya Chahine, Hassan Afifi, Manal Afifi
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Aziz and
Abdel Fathy to promote the 1973 101-minute Helmy Rafla color film The
Sound of Love starring Warda al-Gezaeriyah based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Adly El-Mowaled and with cinematography by
Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: This is a simple romantic musical. It
begins with idylic scenes of the betrothed couple strolling in a
luxury hotel setting and takes an ominous tone when the bride-to-be
reads a note to her fiancee from his father, instructing him to stay
away from her. Dr. Mohsen [Hassan Youssef] loves his nurse Mona [Warda
al-Gezaeriya] and wants to marry her but his father Dr. Shakur [Imad
Hamdy] objects because he does not want his son to marry a nurse.
Mona goes to Dr. Shakur's palatial estate to work as his private nurse
and begins working with him as much as possible; he soon finds he is
unable to do without her and depends on her. This convinces him she
is a worthy wife for his son. While working for Dr. Shakur, Mona
channels Warda and sings a few heavily orchestrated songs while
strolling about the grounds, which also seems to impress the good
Dr. Shakur along with the other members of his impressionable
household.
Cast and crew: Hassan Youssef, Warda al-Gazaeriya, Helmy Rafla, Imad Hamdi, Mohammed El Arabi, Sa'eed Saleh, Hassan Mustafa, Ashraf Abdel Ghafour, Hayat Kandeel, Aziza Rashed, Hussein Assar, Ragaa Sadeq, Nawal Fahmy, Adly El-Mowaled
This is an Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the
1977 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 122-minute color film
Sonya and the Madman [sonya wal-magnun], with cinematography by
Ibrahim Saleh, printed by Arabic Cinema Printers. The film is based on
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, but the central
character is switched and in this Egyptian film adaptation becomes
Dostoevsky's Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov (Sonya) who in the novel
falls in love with the criminal protagonist, Rodio Romanovitch
Raskalnikov (Rodya); Raskalnikof (the madman) is played in this
Egyptian film by Mahmoud Yassine.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Imad Hamdi, Sa'eed Saleh, Abdel Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Naima Al Soghayar, Nazim Shaarawy, Ruhia Khalid, Ibrahim Saleh, Fyodor Dostoevsky
