This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown artist for an
undated rerelease of the 1952 Mohammed Karim film Zeinab based
on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohammad Hussein Heikal and
starring Raqiya Ibrahim as Zeinab. Plot summary: Zeinab, a country
girl who lived at the beginning of the 20th century, was in love with
Ibrahim, [Yehia Chahine] who worked on the basha's estate. Her father
was opposed to her love for Ibrahim and decided she had to marry a
rich boy named Hassan [Farid Shawqi]. Ibrahim left the village, Zeinab got
tuberculosis and Hassan's family refused to treat her. When Ibrahim
returned he was concerned about her and tried to help.
Cast and crew: Mohammed Karim, Muhammad Hussein Heikal, Yehia
Chahine, Raqiya Ibrahim, Farid Shawqi, Shahrzad, Sami Brail, Suleiman
Naguib, Abdel Waress Assar, Ferdoos Mohammed, Hussein Assar, Sanaa
Gamil, Naima Wasfy, Wedad Hamdy
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 a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Taki, Mohamed Abdel
Aziz and Studio Marcel to promote the 1963 Mahmoud Zulfikar
film Soft Hands [al-aydi al-na'ema] based on a story by
Tewfik El-Hakim with screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Gohar and
cinematography by Hesham Wadid Serri. Plot summary: This film tells
the story of a man's problematic descent from a life of sumptious
aristocratic privilege to the life of an ordinary member of the
wealthy middle class. He never loses his huge home or suffers any
drastic losses of comfort or convenience; his journey is accompanied
with occasional sweet ballads by Sabah, who finally becomes his
wife. As the narrative goes, Prince Shawkat [Ahmed Mazhar] loses
his wealth and the revolution leaves him with only his mansion. He
lives in hopes of selling his paintings. One night while out
walking he sees someone selling roasted corn and tries to trade one
of his medals for an ear of it, but the seller refuses the trade. A
man named Hamuda [Salah Zulfikar] observes this. Hamuda, also broke
even though he has a doctorate in Arabic grammar, buys the prince an
ear of roasted corn. The two develop a rapport and the prince
appoints Hamuda as his private secretary in exchange for room and
board. When Hamuda sees paintings on a wall belonging to the prince's
daughters Jihan [Mariam Fakhr Eddine] and Mervat [Laila Taher], the
prince tells him Jihan has died, while his daughter Mervat has
married Salem [Ahmed Louxor], a mechanical engineer. This marriage
has angered the prince and Mervat's sister Jihan, who has had to move in with Mervat and
Salem.
Salem's sister Karima [Sabah] is living in a villa with
their father Abdul Salam [Hussein Assar]. Karima is a young widow
who likes the prince and decides to go with his daughter Jihan to
make a secret visit to the palace. Knowing the prince is broke, she
leaves him some money on a table. Jihan sees Hamuda, recognizes him
and assures him she is not really dead. Karima insists the prince
must go with her to the market so he can carry the vegetables and a
goose. He begins cultivating his own garden but he wears gloves
while doing this to keep from hurting his soft hands. The prince
decides to try to get a job playing the role of a prince in a film,
but he fails the audition while Hamuda succeeds and gets the
role. Hamuda is now able to propose to Jihan. The prince begins
composing a symphony at a piano; Mervat and Jihan buy the symphony
after a number of other people refuse to do so. The prince believes
people like his music until Hamuda tells him the truth; this angers
him and he decides to look for a job. He finds one with a tourist
company as an Egyptian riverboat pilot and tour guide. Hamuda,
Karima and Jihan are with him on one of his Nile cruises. Karima is
happy the prince is working and earning with the sweat of his brow.
After he finishes his descriptions of the attractions for the tourists the prince gives
Karima an engagement ring; Hamuda does the same thing with
Jihan--the happy ending complete with marriages! We all knew it
was coming.
Cast and crew: Sabah, Mariam Fakhr El-Din, Ahmed Mazhar, Salah Zulfikar, Laila Taher, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Tewfik El-Hakim, Youssef Gohar, Wedad Hamdy, Kamel Anwar, Hussein Assar, Ahmed Louxor, Ahmed Khamis
Pictured is a first printing of a 24" x 35" Egyptian poster designed by Sherif to promote the 1939 Ahmed Kamal Morsi 90-minute
black-and-white film Return to the Countryside [al-'awdet ila
al-reef] starring Mahmoud Zulfikar based on story and screenplay by
Ahmed Kamal Morsi with cinematography by Francois Verkash. It was
printed by al-Raghaeb and
distributed by Behna Films. Plot summary: This film tells a story of
an incident in the lives of a wealthy family that forces them to move
from the city to the country, where they become aware of the needs of
the peasant laborers on their land and the issues surrounding the
question of absentee ownership.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Kamel Morsi, Malak, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Francois Verkash, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Fouad Al-Raisi, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Hussein Assar, Nesim Neda
This is an Egyptian promotional poster for the 1963 85-minute Houssam
El-Din Mustafa black-and-white film The Complaints of Girls
starring Soad Hosny as Amani based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Adly
El-Mowalid and with cinematography by Masud Isa. Plot summary: The
story is set in the time before the 1952 23 July revolution. When the
sons of Sheikh Salem, [Hussein Assar] who supervised Mahmoud Bey's
[Adly Kasseb] farm, graduated from high school he decided to enroll
them at Cairo University. Sheikh Salem went to Mahmoud Bey for help
but he was against the idea of educating the children of farmers so
Sheikh Salem's wife [Fatheya Ali] decided to sell her gold so she
could send their boys Ibrahim and Ali to the university. Mahmoud Bey
was angry and demanded that Sheikh Salem send his daughter Amani to
work for him as a maid at his mansion. Despite the entreaties and
tears of her parents Amani [Soad Hosny] had to go there and work as a
maid, even though she had played with Mahmoud Bey's son Hossam [Ahmed
Ramzi] since she was a child and they had fallen in love forever.
However now she was a maid and because of that his father chose Shen
Shen [Nawal Abul Foutouh] for him, the daughter of Prime Minister Al-Izmerli Pasha.
Because of that marriage Mahmoud Bey was able to obtain money, an
endowment and more wealth. Amani was angry about her childhood friend
Hossam's proposal to Shen Shen, and she insulted her when she was
walking with Hossam. Mahmoud Bey struck her with a whip, whereupon she
ran away and got on a train to Cairo to look for her brothers. Her
brothers Ibrahim and Ali had opened a sandwich stand inside the
university to manage their expenses and their classmates were helping
them. Amani came to support them. She worked with them and quickly
became acquainted with their friends. She became so stylish that her
brothers Ibrahim and Ali almost did not know her. For this reason
Hossam, her childhood friend and a student at the same university, did
not recognize her. Hossam loved Amani's new look and wanted to tell
her he was in love with her, but one day she came to him in peasant
clothes and told him who she was. Although he initially rebelled, in
the end he asked her brother Ibrahim for her hand and love won the day
despite the opposition from Sheikh Salem and Mahmoud Bey.
Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Soad Hosny, Ahmed Ramzy, Youssef Fakhreddine, Adly El-Mowalid, Masud Isa, Hassan Fayek, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Nawal Abul Foutouh, Adly Kasseb, Hussein Assar, Samira Mohsen, Mokhtar Amin, Nadia Al-Naqrashi, Nagy Esmail, Karima Al-Sharif, Qadria Kamel, Fatheya Ali
