The Exile سفر برلك (Fairuz) - (1966) Lebanese one-sheet poster

The Exile (1966) - (Fairuz) Lebanese one-sheet

This is a 26.75" x 38" Lebanese poster designed by Ragheb for the 1966 Henry Barakat musical The Exile [safar barlek] written by Assi and Mansour Rahbani and starring Fairuz as Adla. Plot summary: The film is set in 1914 when Lebanon was under Ottoman rule and Adla was living with her grandmother. She was awaiting the day of her engagement with her beloved Abdo [Ihsan Sadek]. When Abdo was out shopping for a wedding ring he was seized by Ottoman soldiers and impressed into forced labor chopping trees in the local forest to be taken for military use. Ottoman soldiers were occupying Adla's village of Ain El Joz, confiscating its wheat and exploiting its labor.

Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Assi Rahbani, Mansour Rahbani, Fairuz, Elie Choueiri, Berj Fazlian, Salwa Haddad, Abdallah Homsy, Huda, Leila Karam, Mahmoud Mabsout, Joseph Nassif, Ihsan Sadek, Nasri Shamseddine, Salah Tizani

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Auliban the Seller of Jokes بیاع الخواتم (Youssef Chahine) - (1965) Italian Locandina

Auliban the Seller of Jokes [baya' al-khawatim] (1965) - (Fairuz)

This is an extremely rare poster for the 1965 Youssef Chahine film Auliban the seller of Jokes [baya' al-khawatim], literally "The Seller of Rings." I think the poster was made in Italy because of its exceptionally high quality and the fact that it is on the same paper stock normally used for the Italian locandina. It is also interesting because it belongs to a subgenre of films made by Egyptian directors and set in Lebanon, and it features the Lebanese diva Fairuz when when she was in her prime.

Plot summary: The story is set in the year 1914 in a peaceful mountain village in Lebanon. The mayor, seeing that the population is bored, invents a fictitious character named Rajeh; he tells stories to villagers about the exploits of this person, who is a robber and a murderer. One day the mayor (Nasri Shamseddine) warns the villagers that Rajeh is heading to the village itself and tells them they must beware. Two clever men realize the mayor has been lying and decide to impersonate the fictitious Rajeh, steal money and assault the mayor in the dark. Eventually an old man who is really named Rajeh arrives in the village, amid public fears. Then it became obvious that Rajeh was merely a seller of rings for weddings who had wanted to marry his son to the mayor's daughter Homa (Fairuz). The two miscreants willingly go to jail for exploiting the mayor's prank.

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