Showing posts with label Houssam El-Din Mustafa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Houssam El-Din Mustafa. Show all posts

Saturday, August 1, 2020

The Heroes الابطال Farid Shawqi 1974 Egyptian one-sheet

The Heroes (1974) - (Farid Shawqi) Undated rerelease Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Walid Wahig for the 1974 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film The Heroes written by Mohamed Abu Youssef and starring Farid Shawqi as Saber. Plot summary: Four thieves break into a house and rob it, then kill the owner, his wife and his daughter. The son Ahmed [Ahmed Ramzy] is unharmed because he is hiding under a bed. When Ahmed grows up to become a karate champion he decides to take revenge on his family's killers after Saber, who was unjustly convicted of the crime, is released from prison. The tagline in red at the top of the poster says this is "the first Egyptian karate film."

Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Ahmed Ramzy, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ghassan Mattar, Ibrahim Saleh, Abdalaziz Abu Allel, Ali Ezz Eldein, Mona Gabr, Qadreya Kamel, Tawfiq Al Kurdi, Eskandar Mansy, Kamal Sarhan, Mohamed Sobeih, El Tokhy Tawfik, Farouk Youssef



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Monday, May 7, 2018

Al-Bateniyya الباطنية Nadia El Guindy 1980 Egyptian one-sheet

Al-Bateniyya (1980) - (Nadia El Guindy) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour and Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1980 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film Al-Batenia written by Ismail Wali El Deen and Mostafa Moharram and starring Nadia El Guindy as Wardah. Plot summary: Wardah and Fathy [Farouk Al-Fishawy] become owners of a coffee shop in the Batenyyia district. Fathy abandons her under pressure from his father [Farid Shawqi] who with the Akkad controls the drug trade. When Warda gives birth to a son Akkad agents kidnap him and one of them tells her he has died.

Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ismail Wali El Deen, Mostafa Moharram, Mohamed Abu Hashish, Farouk Al-Fishawy, Nadia El Guindy, Mohamed Abu Hashish, Farouk Al-Fishawy, Imad Hamdi, Hosny Abdul Jalil, Qadreya Kamel, Ahmed Maher, Emad Moharam, Ibrahim Qadry, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud Yassine, Ahmed Zaki





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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Devils on Vacation الشياطين في اجازة Mohamed Awad 1973 Egyptian one-sheet

Devils on Vacation (1973) - (Mohamed Awad) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1973 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film Devils on Vacation based on story screenplay and dialogue by Adly El-Mowaled and starring Mohamed Awad as Hamada. Plot summary: While Hamada was in the Abu Qir Mediterranean resort area Awad [Ghassan Mattar] hid some valuable diamonds in his camera. Hamada did not realize this because he was too busy enjoying himself with his friends Galal [Hassan Youssef] and Salah [Youssef Fakhr Eddine]. Awad's gang was pursuing them to get the diamonds; the police were also monitoring the situation waiting for the right time to get involved.

Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ibrahim Saleh, Adly El-Mowaled, Mohamed Awad, Hassan Youssef, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Soheir Ramzy, Lebleba, Ghassan Mattar, Kanaan Wasfy, Tewfik El Dekn, Ahmed Abaza





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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Farewell to Love وداعا يا حب (Mariam Fakhr Eddine) - (1960) Egyptian rerelease one-sheet

Farewell to Love (1960) - (Mariam Fakhr Eddine) Egyptian rerelease one-sheet

Pictured is an undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist for the 1960 Houssam El-din Mustafa 90-minute color film Farewell to Love [wedaan ya hob] with story, screenplay and dialogue by Fathy Abol-Fadl and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Sharif [Muharram Fouad] was a young musician who did not complete his university studies. One day he found a gold chain in front of the Opera belonging to Amani [Mariam Fakhr Eddine]. He went to return it to her after reading a report about the loss of the chain. He met Amani on a farm and refused the reward. She asked him to manage the farm, which improved Ramzy's [Khalil Badreddine] straitened circumstances at a time when he was wanting to seize Amani's money. Things improved on the farm and it produced a return, but Ramzi, who was trying to manage Sharif, became more angry. He told Amani that a woman had come to him on the farm. Amani's cousin Samir came and told her he would love to marry her in accordance with her father's command. Feelings of love developed between Sharif and Amani and she asked her uncle to help Sharif sing at the Opera. She gave him some money and Sharif made a successful appearance while Ramzi became more angry; he followed Sharif when he returned to the village after the ceremony and shot him. The people were able to catch the killer but they were not able to save the life of the musician.

Cast and crew: Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Amal Farid, Nagwa Fouad, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Hassan el Baroudi, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Muharram Fouad, Wedad Hamdy, Samir Shadid, Ezzat Wahid, Nawal Attiya, Fathy Abol-Fadl, Mohamed Abdel Azim



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Friday, March 24, 2017

The Balah Agency وكالت البلح (Nadia El Guindy) - (1982) Egyptian one-sheet

The Balah Agency (1982) - (Nadia El Guindy) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour and Morteda Anise for the 1982 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film The Balah Agency written by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Nadia El Guindy as Nematollah. Plot summary: Nematollah lived at the Balah Agency. She had married most of the merchants and used her relationship with the important employee Amgad, [Ahmed Louxor] who helped her learn the secrets of bargaining. She did not hesitate to kill her competitors. Abdollah [Mahmoud Yassine] came to the agency and went to work for Nematollah. She liked him, married him and made him the boss of the agency in charge of her affairs. This angered her former husband Abdoun [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] who had gone to work for her after his bankruptcy. Abdollah discovered the truth about Nematollah and her crimes. He left her, met Amgad's daughter Mervat, [Samia Al-Alfy] married her and established a special agency with Amgad's help. Nematollah tried to bring Abdollah back but he refused. She took revenge against him by arranging to kill Amgad so no one would help him when she got her assistants to steal Amgad's goods. Abdollah thought of returning to her and asked her to confess to her crimes. The police came and arrested Namatollah. Abdoun pick up an axe to kill Abdollah with it out of revenge but Nematollah sacrificed herself for him and met her demise.

Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Wahid Seif, Sayed Zayan, Nadia El Guindy, Hesham Wadid Serri, Wadid Serri, Ahmed Zaki, Mostafa Moharram, Samia Al-Alfy, Farouk Feloux, Imad Moharram, Ahmed Louxor, Mohamed Al-Shawihi, Hafez Amin



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Thursday, December 29, 2016

Devils of the Sea شياطين البحر (Shukry Sarhan) - (1972) Egyptian one-sheet

Devils of the Sea (1972) - (Shukry Sarhan) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1972 Houssam El-Din Mustafa crime comedy Devils of the Sea based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Adly El-Mowalid and starring Shukry Sarhan. Plot summary: In the city of Alexandria Hamada, [Mohamed Awad] Salah [Youssef Fakhr Eddine] and Hassan [Hassan Youssef] were brought together by friendship and locale. The three of them were trying to get into a relationship with some men dealing in contraband. One day they stole Haroun's [Ahmed Louxor] automobile, fled in it and were chased by the police. The three friends went to a recruiting office and joined the navy. At the same time Salah's sister Samia [Nelly] went to work for Haroun as his secretary; she was also helping Adel, [Shukry Sarhan] an undercover detective, in his effort to trap Haroun's gang.

Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Nelly, Mohamed Reda, Ghassan Mattar, Shukry Sarhan, Hassan Youssef, Mohamed Awad, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Ahmed Louxor, Kanaan Wasfy, Fathia Shahin, Baligh Habashi, Nabil El-Hegrassy, Ibrahim Saleh, Adly El-Mowalid





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Saturday, August 20, 2016

Sonya and the Madman سونيا والمجنون (Naglaa Fathy) - (1977) Egyptian one-sheet

Sonya and the Madman (1977) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian one-sheet

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

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Saturday, August 6, 2016

Duel at Alamein الاشرار Rushdy Abaza (1970) two-piece Egyptian poster

Duel at Alamein (1970) - (Rushdy Abaza) Egyptian two-piece poster

This is a 39" x 53" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy and Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1970 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film Duel at Alamein AKA Al-Ashrar written by Houssam El-Din Mustafa and Faisal Nada and starring Rushdy Abaza as Khaled. Plot summary: In Egypt's northern Sahara at Alamein, the site of a major World War II battle between the allied and axis powers, a small gang of smugglers is transporting a large sum in stolen US dollars to an American client. As they do this, tourists looking at graves and broken war machinery are woven into the narrative while romance, greed and betrayal appear among the smugglers to keep the story on edge.

Cast and crew: Faisal Nada, Aly Kheiralla, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Nahed Sherif, Rushdy Abaza, Adel Adham, Ibrahim Khan, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Salah Nazmi, Aly Kheiralla, Amira





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Friday, March 25, 2016

I Won't Forget You [بفكر في اللي ناسيني] - (Hind Rostom) - (1959) Egyptian one-sheet

I Won't Forget You [بفكر في اللي ناسيني] (1959) - (Hind Rostom) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Walid Wahig for the 1959 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film I Won't Forget You [بفكر في اللي ناسيني based on a screenplay by Mohamed Osmani, story and dialogue by Abdel Hamid Gawda al-Sahar and starring Hind Rostom as Sawsan. Plot summary: Laila [Fayrouz] was in love with Engineer Hossam [Shukry Sarhan] and he wanted to propose to her, but her family would not allow them to marry until her big sister Sawsan married. Although Sawsan was beautiful and very appealing, nobody wanted to marry her because she was too egotistical and greedy. Then she suddenly became obsessed with Hossam and married him; Laila had a breakdown. After that Hossam's friend Kamal [Rushdy Abaza] instantly fell in love with Sawsan when she flirted with him, seemingly oblivious of Sawsan's marriage to his friend Hossam. Kamal turned his back on his wife and became so crazy about Sawsan that he quarreled with her when he found her talking to another man, so she yanked a heavy statue from a mantle and struck him on the head with it, killing him. They gave Sawsan a ten-year jail sentence; when Hossam heard what had happened he went back to his first love Laila, whom he had never forgotten.

Cast and crew: Hind Rostom, Fayrouz, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Rushdy Abaza, Zahrat El-Ola, Shukry Sarhan, Mohamed Osmani, Abdel Hamid Gawda al-Sahar, Ferdoos Mohammed, Fouad Shafik, Salah Nazmi, Yasmin



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Friday, May 30, 2014

The Love District درب الهوى (Youssra) - (1982) Egyptian Film Poster

The Love District [darb al-hawa] (Youssra) - (1982) Egyptian film poster

Pictured is an Egyptian poster designed by Al-Khad to promote the 1982 123-minute Houssam El-Din Mustafa color film The Love District [darb al-hawa] starring Youssra based on a story by Ismail Wali El Deen with screenplay by Mostafa Moharram, dialogue by Sherif El Menbawy and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: Hosnia and the pimp Saleh [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] ran a house of prostitution called the Hotel of Princesses in the Darb Tayyab neighborhood. Samiha [Madiha Kamel] ended up there seeking refuge from the bad treatment of her mother's husband, while Elham [Youssra] was driven there by poverty. Men of all social levels frequented the hotel, such as Abdel Aziz [Ahmed Zaki], the university professor of philosophy and his friend Morad, Abdel Hafiz Basha, Abdel Aziz's uncle and a candidate for parliament who attacked prostitution in campaign speeches, even though it made him happy to hear the prostitutes insult him. It also made him happy to be able to drop his guard with them. Saleh tried to dominate Samiha but he was content with Hosnia, who loved him.

Cast and crew: Madiha Kamel, Youssra, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Zaki, Faruq al-Ghayshawi, Hassan Abdeen, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ismail Wali El Deen, Mostafa Moharram, Sherif El Menbawy, Farouk Al-Fichawy, Shouweikar, Farouk Falawkas, Ibrahim Abdel Razaq, Salwa Khattab, Amal Ibrahim, Aziza Helmy





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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

The Three Devils [الشياطين الثلاثة] (Rushdy Abaza) - (1964)

The Three Devils [al-shayatin al-thalatha] (Rushdy Abaza) - (1964) Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a first printing of a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz to promote the 1964 90-minute Houssam El-Din Mustafa black-and-white film The Three Devils [al-shayatin al-thalatha] starring Rushdy Abaza based on a story idea from Lucien Lambert with screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Kamel Abdel Salam and Behgat Kamar and cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Prisoners are breaking up rocks at Abu Zaabal Prison. Saadawi [Rushdy Abaza] is serving time for murder, Fatouh Madaan [Hassan Youssef] for selling narcotics and Azab [Ahmed Ramzy] for fighting with a fish merchant. When their sentences are served, before release they swear to live peaceful lives, especially Azab, who loves Zeinab [Nawal Abdul Fotouh] and plans to marry her after telling her family he will be taking a trip abroad. Azab asks the fish merchant Abdel Razeq [Abdel Alim Khattab] to return to him his automobile, which he has left with him while in prison. Abdel Razeq refuses and he and his men beat up Azab. The three friends meet Hamdia [Berlanty Abdel Hamid], a woman who owns a fishing boat in Suez. Like the other fishermen, she suffers from the domination of Abdel Razeq, who has a monopoly on the shipping of fish to Cairo. The three friends try to establish an understanding with him but the only language he understands is the language of force and violence. They work with Hamdia and Shalabi, Zeinab's father, buy a new truck for transporting the fish and begin a freelance business doing this. Abdel Razeq and his men burn the truck but Saadawy has insured it so he buys another one. Abdel Razeq and his men then stash narcotics in the fish the three men are shipping to Cairo thinking they belong to Hamdia. Meanwhile the police have been watching Abdel Razeq's gang while they are taking the narcotics to shore using Hamdia's boat. After a big fight they arrest Abdel Razeq and his men.

Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Ahmad Ramzy, Hassan Youssef, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Berlanty Abdel Hamid, Behgat Kamar, Mohamed Kamel Abdel Salam, Lucien Lambert, Nawal Abdul Foutouh, Abdel Alim Khattab, Nasr Seif, Mohamed Sabih, Hussein Ismail, Mohamed al-Tukhi





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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Tawhida [توحيده] (Magda El-Khatib) - (1976)

Tawhida (Magda El-Khatib) (1972) Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mostafa El-Seyyed and Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1976 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 94-minute color film Tawhida starring the late Magda El-Khatib (1943-2006) as Tawhida based on the play Fanny by Marcel Pagnol with screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz, dialogue by Sabry Ezza and cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot Summary: Tawhida and Hussein [Nour El-Sherfi] were passionately in love in Alexandria and she became pregnant. Hussein left her and the unborn child because he did not have enough income to provide for them. Tawhida could not find anyone to save her and her child from this predicament other than an older man named Said Bey [Rushdy Abaza] who married her; she had the child after marrying him. Hussein returned to learn that his love had married. He tried to restore their relationship but she turned away from him; he also discovered she had had a son by him and they quarreled over this. Then he withdrew from their lives. Then Said also withdrew, realizing that it was the best thing for everyone, and Tawhida and her son finally went back to Hussein. At 41:58 one sees the ill-fated Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro docked at the Port of Alexandria about ten years before it was hijacked off the coast of Egypt by four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front.

Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Sanaa Gamil, Farid Shawqi, Achille Lauro, Magda El-Khatib, Amira, Nour El-Sherif, Naguib Mahfouz, Ibrahim Saleh, Marcel Pagnol, Sabry Ezzat





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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Sonya and the Madman [سونيا والمجنون] - (Naglaa Fathy) - (1977)

Sonya and the Madman [sunya wal-magnun] (Naglaa Fathy) (1977) Egyptian film poster

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



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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Son of Satan [إبن الشيطان] - (Farid Shawqi) - (1969)

Son of Satan [ibn al-shaytan] (Farid Shawqi) (1969) Egyptian film poster

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1969 89-minute Houssam El-Din Mustafa black-and-white film Son of Satan [ibn al-shaytan] starring Farid Shawqi based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Adly El-Mowalid with cinematography by Victor Antoun. Plot summary: The son of Satan was a disguised criminal whose primary aim in life was to kill all the men who had married again after leaving their wives and children. This was his way of getting revenge against his own father for remarrying. There was a local lunatic who called himself the son of Satan [Tewfiq El Dekn], but there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing against him. The owner of a public place named Atris [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] refused to hold any weddings in the village fearing the son of Satan would take revenge. The police sergeant Morsi [Farid Shawqi], who tried to keep the peace, gave him assurances. Morsi's brother [Ibrahim Khan] came to the village and was kidnapped by the son of Satan. He was saved by Saidia [Naglaa Fathy] who lived with her mother at the home of the son of Satan; she then fled for her life. The Son of Satan chased her everywhere. After a long bloody struggle between the son of Satan, Sergeant Morsi and his brother Ibrahim, they discovered that the real son of Satan was actually Atris, the owner of the public place. He was killed in the struggle and then life continued calmly in the village.

Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Tewfik El Dekn, Naglaa Fathy, Ibrahim Khan, Neemet Moukhatar, Nimat Mukhtar, Adly El-Mowalid, Victor Antoun, Al-Tukhi Tewfiq, Ahmed Morsi, Alia Abdel Moneim, Ahmed Abuebia, Samir Walieddin, Qadria Kamel, Kamal al-Zeini, Hussein Ismail



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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Secret of the Runaway [سر الهاربه] - (Soad Hosny)

The Secret of the Runaway [serr al-harebah] (Soad Hosny) (1963) Egyptian film poster

This is a 27" x 39" undated Egyptian rerelease poster designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1963 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 82-minute black-and-white film The Secret of the Runaway [serr al-harebah] starring Soad Hosny based on a story by Hassan Rashad with screenplay and dialogue by Fayek Ismail and cinematography by Mahmoud Fahmy. Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Shukry Sarhan, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Nagah Salam, Hassan Rashad, Mahmoud Fahmy, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Fayek Ismail, Linda Badawy, Fawzi Darwish, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Souraya Fakhry, Qatquta





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Monday, January 20, 2014

The Search [الطريق] - (Rushdy Abaza)

The Search (Rushdy Abaza) (1964) Egyptian film poster

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman to promote the 1964 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 111-minute black-and-white film The Search [al-tariq] starring Rushdy Abaza based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz with secreenplay and dialogue by Hussein Helmy and cinematograpny by Wadid Serri. Plot summary: Saber al-Rahimi [Rushdy Abaza] resisted when his mother [Taheya Cariocca] was telling him while she was in prison about her scandalous past with his wealthy respectable father. It became his goal to find that father to save him from ruin and give him support and security. He left Alexandria to live in Cairo and on his long trip looking for his unknown father Saber found himself on his general life journey. He met Karima [Shadia] the wife of the owner of the hotel where he stayed. She was a woman softened by lust. Saber wooed her and at the same time he met Elham [Soad Hosny] at the newspaper Al-Akhbar al-Yom where he placed an advertisement looking for his father. A tender love story developed between the two of them but the sensous side developed between him and Karima, who came to his room at night and asked him to kill her husband [Hassan el Baroudi] to leave them free. He agreed to kill the husband but the police suspected him and went looking for him. Karima helped him flee and Elham tried to save him but the police lost no time arresting him and he was sentenced to death. According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of the top 100 Egyptian films.

Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Shadia, Soad Hosny, Taheya Cariocca, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Naguib Mahfouz, Wadid Serri, Hassan el Baroudi, Mohammad Tawfik, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Hussein Helmy, Ahmed Louxor



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Monday, January 13, 2014

Remains of a Virgin [بقايا عذراء] (196] - (Mariam Fakhr Eddine)

The Remains of a Virgin (1962) - (Mariam Fakhr Eddine) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1962 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 119-minute black-and-white film The Remains of a Virgin [baqaya azraa] starring Mariam Fakhr Eddine based on a story by Ismail al-Habruk with screenplay and dialogue by Youssef El Sebai and cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. Plot summary: Nabila [Mariam Fakhr Eddine] went to Cairo to teach and on her first job she quarreled with Hoda Abdel Fattah [Magda El-Khatib], the daughter of a former minster and head of one of the nationalist political parties. Hoda had lost her mother when she was a child and this had made her stubborn and spoiled. Her father [Zaki Rostom] sent for Nabila to tell her this and a strong relationship developed between them which resulted in their marriage, even though she had been in love with the journalist Mahmoud Kamal [Shukry Sarhan] since they were children. However Mahmoud had not wanted to marry her because he was afraid a marriage with a village girl would hurt his career; he was in Algeria covering the revolution when Nabila married Abdel Fattah. He returned to Cairo with the intention of marrying her, only to find that he had missed his opportunity. Nabila was also still in love with Mahmoud and they remained friends. Mahmoud was later falsely accused of a political murder and sentenced to death, but Nabila testified at the trial that he had been with her, so he was acquitted. However they were never able to marry.

Cast and crew: Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Shukry Sarhan, Zaki Rostom, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Magda El-Khatib, Fouad El-Mohandes, Mostafa Hassan, Youssef El Sebai, Nadia Ezzat, Ismail al-Habruk, Salwa Mahmoud, Al-Khawaga Bijou, Abbas Rahmy, Fayeq Behgat, Khayri al-Qalyoubi, Mohamed Taha, Anwar Mohamed

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