Hope against Hope [لا تطفئ الشمس] (Faten Hamama) - (1961)

Hope against Hope [la tutfi al-shams] (Faten Hamama) (1961) Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mahmoud Atef to promote the 1961 137-minute Salah Abouseif black-and-white film Hope against Hope [la tutfi al-shams] starring Faten Hamama based on story and dialogue by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, screenplay by Lucien Lambert and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: This film is set in the time of the Tripartite Aggression; it tells the story of an aristocratic family that has lost its breadwinner. The oldest son Ahmed [Shukry Sarhan] enlists in the Egyptian army and is shown in desert military action, but in his civilian life he slowly develops a relationship with the a woman named Shahira [Nadia Lutfi], which ends in marriage after a few relatively minor complications. The daughter Layla [Faten Hamama] falls in love with her piano teacher [Imad Hamdi], who is married. This relationship is fraught with difficult moral and social problems that are never resolved. The younger son Mamdouh [Ahmed Ramzy] is more concerned with the practical matter of earning a livelihood; he serves a vehicle for showing how class and social issues in Egypt can disrupt productive economic activity.

Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Faten Hamama, Imad Hamdi, Nadia Lutfi, Ahmed Ramzy, Shukry Sarhan, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Lucien Lambert, Helmy Halim, Abdelhalim Nasr, Aqila Ratib, Laila Taher, Samiha Ayyoub, Shirin, Mohammed Alwan, Omar Zolficar, Mohamed Hamdi, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Ya'qub Michail, Amru Targoman, Adel Al-Mahilmi, Abdel Aziz Mikawi, Nesim Shehab, Alaa Badredin, Salah Musa, Laila Sadeq

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The Heart Has Commands القلب له احكام - (Faten Hamama) - (1956) Egyptian one-sheet

The Heart Has Commands (1956) - (Faten Hamama) Egyptian one-sheet

This Egyptian film poster was designed by Stamatis Vassiliou and Marcel to promote the 1956 95-minute Helmy Halim black-and-white film The Heart Has Commands [al-'alb lu ahkam] starring Faten Hamama with screenplay by Aly Al-Zarkany, dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir and cinematography by Ahmed Khorshed. Marcel and Vassiliou were two of the great early poster designers in Egypt (neither was Egyptian). This is the only poster I have where they collaborated.

Plot summary: A girl attending medical college was a poor orphan living in the Bulaq neighborhood with her grandfather. The people in the neighborhood loved her and helped her with her living expenses. She loved one of her rich classmates at the college but he had no feeling for her or any sense of her emotions. Meanwhile an undertaker loved her and was also trying to marry her. The girl went to see a friend who owned a bakery in the Zeinat Sedky neighborhood and told her the secret of her love for her rich classmate. Her friend made a plan for her to get her classmate's attention. The girl then succeeded in attracting her classmate's interest and he promised to meet her at an acquarium. There she discovered he had been gambling with his classmates about making a hit with her, and she fled from him in sadness and disappointment. However the boy's sentiments, which began in frivolity, turned into true love and he offered to marry her. The girl took him to her home and told him about her poverty, but he was still determined to marry her. He told his father the rich contractor about it, claiming she was from a big family. His father agreed to hold a party at his mansion to introduce the girl before giving his final opinion. There was an aristocratic family that wanted to marry their daughter to the rich student by means of a speculative broker who would make a plan to prevent the marriage. At the party the rich contractor was surprised by the people of Bulaq who stormed the mansion at the broker's invitation. He realized they were the family of his son's fiance and his friends and he threw them out. However there was a brawl in which the members of the bankrupt aristocratic family tried to assualt the contractor and his son. The girl's friends intervened in the brawl, and the contractor agreed to his son's marriage to the girl.

Cast and crew: Faten Hamama, Ahmed Ramzy, Helmy Halim, El Sayed Bedeir, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Ahmed Ramzy, Stephan Rosti, Zeinat Sedki, Ahmed Khorshed, Mimi Shakeeb, Seraj Munir, Ahmed Khorshed, El Sayed Bedeir, Aly Al-Zarkany

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Entire Life Story حكاية العمر كله (Farid Al Atrache) - (1965) Three-piece Egyptian poster

Entire Life Story (1965) - (Farid Al Atrache) Egyptian 64x39 poster

Pictured is a three-piece promotional poster for the 1965 130-minute black-and-white Helmy Salim film The Entire Life Story, with story and screenplay by Helmy Salim and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot Summary: The musician Farid (Farid Al Atrache) had many friends who spent the night at his home. He lived his life fully. Nadia (Faten Hamama) came to his house one day to tell him she was the daughter of his professor who had just died. Farid asked her to stay at his house. There was no doubt that the presence of the girl in his house would be quite undignified for him and would tarnish his reputation; this caused him to have a heart attack. Nadia began taking care of him and nursing him; feelings of love grew in one of them, and that was the musician. However Nadia loved Mamdouh (Ahmed Ramzy), Farid's little brother who had returned from abroad. Their affairs fell into disarray as the love between the two of them grew, while Farid tried to reveal his feelings to Nadia without knowing about his brother's feelings for Nadia. A friend tried to convince Farid that she loved him and Farid's best friend Sami defended her in that. However Laila (Laila Fawzi) always felt frustrated while Farid was always distracted from Laila and tried to give the reasons why he loved Nadia, who ran away with her love and by chance went to the city of Alexandria for a honeymoon. Farid met them at the train station to bless them and acknowledge their love.

Cast and crew: Helmy Halim, Farid Al Atrache, Leila Fawzi, Faten Hamama, Ahmed Ramzy, Maha Sabry, Wahid Farid, Ahmed Ramzy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Kamel Anwar

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Days of Love ايام الحب (Nadia Lutfi) - (1968) Egyptian one-sheet

Days of Love (1968) - (Nadia Lutfi) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a promotional film poster designed by Gasour for an Egyptian version of My Fair Lady, a 1968 Helmy Halim 105-minute black-and-white film called Days of Love [ayam al-hob] based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion with screenplay and story by Helmy Halim, dialogue by Mohamed Abou-Seif and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: Sherif Lutfi [Ahmed Mazhar] was a film director looking for someone new to play the starring role in a film about a famous actress. Not finding the right actress, he persuaded Eshta, [Nadia Lutfi] an attractive woman he happened to meet during a trip to Alexandria, to take up acting in the cinema. After long hesitation she agreed and with lessons in diction, posture and table manners he made an aristocratic girl of her. After much effort she learned to play the role and their first film was a great success. She then rebelled against him and he tried to break her down with his egoism; he promoted her personality and the fact that he was the one who had made her. He later regretted this and asked her to forgive him. She did so and they were married.

Cast and crew: Helmy Halim, Nadia Lutfi, Ahmed Mazhar, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Adel Adham, Tewfik El Dekn, Salah Mansour, Soheir El-Bably, Zouzou Mady, Ahmed Abaza, Naemaa Elsoghyr, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Wahid Farid, Mohamed Reda, Mohamed Abou-Seif, Kawsar Shafiq, Ragaa Al-Gidawy, Hussein Ismail, Edmond Tuema, Iskandar Mansi

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