This is a 24.25" by 35.75" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly for
the 1952 Ibrahim Helmi film Ten from the Country AKA ashara
baladi based on a story by Gamal Hamdi and starring Mohammad Amin
as himself. Plot summary: This is a farce where a rich man named
Abdel Fatah [Abdel Fatah Al Kasri] falls in love with Hoda, [Hoda
Shamseddine] one of the dancers at his cabaret. One day two men
[Mohammad Amin and Ismail Yasseen] offer to sell him love insurance,
but Mohammad Amin has an ulterior motive.
Cast and crew: Ibrahim Helmi, Zeinat Sedki, Mohammad Amin, Ismail
Yasseen, Klelio, Gamal Hamdi, Hoda Shamseddine, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri,
Mohamed El-Tabei, Fatheya Fouad, Mimi Aziz
This is a promotional poster for designed by Ahmed Hamed for the 1961 Hassan El-Seify 90-minute
black-and-white film Fattouma starring Hind Rostom with story,
screenplay and dialogue by Zaki Saleh and cinematography by Alvisy
Orphanily. Plot summary: Fattouma (Hind Rostom) told her boyfriend
Dr. Wahid Farid (Kamal Al-Shennawi) that her husband had left her a message
saying he intended to commit suicide. Wahid advised her to leave the
message beside the body so the police would not be suspicious. She
asked him to do this himself. He went to the home of the deceased and
was surprised to find him threatening him with a pistol instead of dead.
He took out his own pistol and killed the husband of his mistress. He
told the police he had known Fattouma long ago when she almost committed
suicide, but Dr. Wahid had given her hope and asked her to marry him. He
spent the night with her and the next morning he left a message with her
but the wind blew it out the window before she saw it. When she woke up she decided to
kill herself. Then she married Khorshid (Mahmoud El-Meliguy) so he would
take care of her son. Wahid went back, met her by chance and became her
lover. Fattouma's account to the police was from a different point of
view. She said when her husband knew Wahid had returned from abroad he
invented the story to blackmail him to get money for his son. She claimed
she told her lover about the killing of her husband so he could face him,
and that she had changed the pistol because of the extent of the danger to
her lover. The lovers were then accused, but the attorney was able to
prove they had not collaborated in the killing.
Cast and crew: Hind Rostom, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Ahmed Hamed, Hassan El-Seify, Zaki Saleh, Khayria Ahmed, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Orlando, Hoda Shamseddine, Alvisy Orphanily
