Scheherezade شهرزاد Hussein Sedki 1946 Egyptian film program

Scheherezade (1946) - (Hussein Sedki) Egyptian film program

This is an original year printing of a 9.25" x 6.75" 12-page Egyptian program for the 1946 Fouad El Jazairly 100-minute black-and-white film Scheherezade [shahrzad] starring Hussein Sedki based on a screenplay by Fouad El Jazairly with cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Aziz. The film was produced by Modern Egypt Films and distributed by Montakhebat Behna. Plot Summary: The young sultan Shahriar announced his desire to marry, then chose a bride who betrayed him. This transformed his attitude towards women. He declared women were only good for enjoyment and did not deserve wealth. He then declared he would marry a virgin every night, then kill her at dawn after he had enjoyed her. After his swordsman had killed many of them he chose a minister's daughter named Scheherezade who had decided to save other girls from this oppressive sultan. She told him a story that did not end by dawn so he did not kill her, hoping the story would end the next night. However when she finished the story the next night he let her start another. This continued for 1001 nights. She was able to win Shahriar's heart and save herself as well as all the other women in the kingdom. This made her an immortal legend.

Cast and crew: s, Soad Ahmed, Istar Shatta, Nelly Mazlum, Yahya Negati, Saleheh Qasin, Amina Sedki, Safia Helmy

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Scheherezade شهرزاد Hussein Sedki 1946 Egyptian production still

Scheherezade (1946) - (Hussein Sedki) Egyptian production still

This is an original year printing of a 12" x 15" Egyptian production still of Hussein Sedki as Sultan Shahriar and Elham Hussein as Scheherezade from the 1946 Fouad El Jazairly 100-minute black-and-white film Scheherezade [shahrzad] starring Hussein Sedki based on a screenplay by Fouad El Jazairly with cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Aziz. The film was produced by Modern Egypt Films and distributed by Montakhebat Behna. Plot Summary: The young sultan Shahriar announced his desire to marry, then chose a bride who betrayed him. This transformed his attitude towards women. He declared women were only good for enjoyment and did not deserve wealth. He then declared he would marry a virgin every night, then kill her at dawn after he had enjoyed her. After his swordsman had killed many of them he chose a minister's daughter named Scheherezade who had decided to save other girls from this oppressive sultan. She told him a story that did not end by dawn so he did not kill her, hoping the story would end the next night. However when she finished the story the next night he let her start another. This continued for 1001 nights. She was able to win Shahriar's heart and save herself as well as all the other women in the kingdom. This made her an immortal legend.

Cast and crew: Fouad El Jazairly, Hussein Sedki, Elham Hussein, Samia Gamal, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Monsi Fahmy, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Mohammed Youssef, Mohammad al-Dib, Lutfy al-Hakim, Reyad El Kasabgy, Soad Ahmed, Istar Shatta, Nelly Mazlum, Yahya Negati, Saleheh Qasin, Amina Sedki, Safia Helmy

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The Shores of Love [شاطئ الغرام] (Laila Mourad) - (1950)

The Shores of Love (1964) - (Laila Mourad) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy to promote the 1950 Henry Barakat 125-minute black-and-white film The Shores of Love [shati al-gharam] starring Laila Mourad based on story and screenplay by Henry Barakat with dialogue by Ali Al-Zarkani and Youssef Isa and cinematography by Abelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: The Egyptian mediterranean resort of Mersa Matruh provides a picturesque setting for this romantic drama. Adel [Hussein Sedki] was a young man who did not know the meaning of love. He spent his time at racetracks, dance halls and in the arms of prostitutes. While on a beach vacation at Mersa Matruh, Adel fell in love with a schoolteacher named Laila [Laila Mourad] and asked her father for permission to marry her. The father agreed and Adel took Laila with him back to Cairo. Adel's aunt and her husband were surprised by his sudden marriage, because the aunt had been planning for him to marry her daugher Mona so she could use Adel's wealth to lift her family out of bankruptcy. On the other hand Adel's mistress Soheir [Taheya Cariocca] had also been hoping to marry him. The aunt devised a scheme to disrupt the marriage by accusing Laila of being unfaithful and she succeeded with it because Adel believed her. He sent Laila back to her father in Mersa Matruh. However Adel then learned his aunt was just after his money and that the accusation was false, so he went to Mersa Matruh to correct the mistake and bring his wife back to Cairo again.

Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Taheya Cariocca, Laila Mourad, Mohsen Sarhan, Hussein Sedki, Salah Mansour, Abdelhalim Nasr, Ali Al-Zarkani, Youssef Esa, Samiha Ayyoub, Stephan Rosti, Zaki Ibrahim, Gom'a Idris, Mimi Shakeeb, Mona, Edmond Tuema, Nahed Farid, Shafik Noureddin

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My Country and My Love وطني وحبي (Hussein Sedki) - (1960) Egyptian one-sheet

My Country and My Love (1960) - (Hussein Sedki) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman to promote the 1960 119-minute Hussein Sedki black-and-white film My Country and My Love [watani wa hobi] starring Hussein Sedki based on a story by Fouad al-Qasas and Hussein Sedki with dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa Sami and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Hussein Sedki has the part of an army officer named Wahid on a secret mission to Damascus tracking a gang that is plotting against his country. In his travels Wahid meets and falls in love with a journalist named Hala [Hala Shawkat] and eventually captures and destroys the gang.

Cast and crew: Hussein Sedki, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Fouad Al-Qasas, Mohamed Mostafa Sami, Omar El-Hariri, Hassan el Baroudi, Salah Mansour, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Hala Shawkat, Samia Rushdy, Hassan Ismail, Ali Rushdy, Nazim She'rawy, Abbas Rahmy, Zaki Ibrahim

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My Heart Worships You قلبي يهواك (Hussein Sedki, Sabah) - (1955) Egyptian one-sheet

My Heart Worships You (1955) - (Hussein Sedki) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 34.75" x 23.5" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman to promote the 1955 109-minute Hussein Sedki black-and-white film My Heart Worships You ['albi yahwak] starring Hussein Sedki and Sabah based on story and screenplay by Hussein Sedki with dialogue by Abdel Aziz Salam and cinematography by Awhan Hagun. Plot summary: Soad loved Ahmad but married Zaki. Ahmad married his divorced wife Afkar again, but she soon became a problem for him. Soad was also having a lot of problems with her husband Zaki. Then Zaki fell in love with Afkar. When Zaki had a painful accident in the mountains of Lebanon, Soad separated from him and Afkar also separated from Ahmad. Then Zaki married Afkar and Ahmad married Soad.

Cast and crew: Hussein Sedki, Sabah, Abdel Aziz Salam, Awhan Hagub, Samiha Ayyoub, Mohammad al-Dib, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Nadia Gamel, Akram Gawdat, Nour El-Demerdash, Zaki Ibrahim, Victoria Habiqa, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Ibrahim Heshmat, Rashad Hamed

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Struggle for Life معركة الحياة Hussein Sedki (1951)

Struggle for Life (1951) - (Hussein Sedki) Egyptian oversize film poster

Pictured is a 46.75" x 34.75" Egyptian poster by an unknown artist for the 100-minute black-and-white Hussein Sedki film Struggle for Life starring Hussein Sedki based on a screenplay by Hussein Sedki with cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim with dialogue by Abdel Moniem Shaker. Plot summary: Ahmed worked successfully at a law firm. His brother Fadel worked in a factory. The two of them were different on religious matters because Ahmed was a firm religious believer while Fadel was a materialist. He married Samia, the daughter of the owner of the factory where he worked, because he was hoping to get some of her father's money. When he got one of his fellow workers fired, his brother Ahmed agreed to defend the worker in court, but Fadel plotted to have the worker kidnapped to prevent him appearing in court to defend himself. Ahmed married a woman named Fathia and had a child, while Fadel and Samia lived a life of luxury and partying. Then Fadel became ill and died and Ahmed became trustee of his family affairs. Samia objected to this, but finally went insane in a mental hospital.

Cast and crew: Hussein Sedki, Abdel Moniem Shaker, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Samiha Tewfik, Hassan Fayek, Stafan Rosti, Stefan Rosti, Nazok, Zaki Ibrahim, Souraya Fakhry, Mohammad al-Dib, Kitty, Mohamed Abdel Azim

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Scheherezade (1946) - (Hussein Sedki)

Scheherezade [shahrzad] (1946) - (Hussein Sedki) Egyptian film poster

This is a first printing of a 21.5" x 32" Egyptian poster designed by Dimitri and Abdel Rahman to promote the 1946 Fouad El Jazairly film Scheherezade.

Scheherezade [shahrzad] (1946) - (Hussein Sedki) Egyptian film poster

These are first printing Egyptian posters by an unknown designer printed by Raghaeb printers to promote the 1946 Fouad El Jazairly 100-minute black-and-white film Scheherezade [shahrzad] starring Hussein Sedki based on a screenplay by Fouad El Jazairly with cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Aziz. The film was produced by Modern Egypt Films and distributed by Montakhebat Behna. Plot Summary: The young sultan Shahriar announced his desire to marry, then chose a bride who betrayed him. This transformed his attitude towards women. He declared women were only good for enjoyment and did not deserve wealth. He then declared he would marry a virgin every night, then kill her at dawn after he had enjoyed her. After his swordsman had killed many of them he chose a minister's daughter named Scheherezade who had decided to save other girls from this oppressive sultan. She told him a story that did not end by dawn so he did not kill her, hoping the story would end the next night. However when she finished the story the next night he let her start another. This continued for 1001 nights. She was able to conquer Shahriar's heart and save herself as well as all the other women in the kingdom. This made her an immortal legend.

Cast and crew: Fouad El Jazairly, Hussein Sedki, Elham Hussein, Samia Gamal, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Monsi Fahmy, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Mohammed Youssef, Mohammad al-Dib, Lutfy al-Hakim, Reyad El Kasabgy, Soad Ahmed, Istar Shatta, Nelly Mazlum, Yahya Negati, Saleheh Qasin, Amina Sedki, Safia Helmy

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My Heart Worships You (1955)

My Heart Worships You ['albi yahwak] (1955) - (Hussein Sedki) Egyptian oversize stone litho film poster

Egyptian 46x35 stone litho poster for the 1955 Hussein Sedki film My Heart Worships You featuring Hussein Sedki and Sabah, art by Abdel Rahman, printed by Rahgaeb Printers of Cairo.

Cast and crew: Hussein Sedki, Sabah, Abdel Aziz Salam, Awhan Hagub, Samiha Ayyoub, Mohammad al-Dib, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Nadia Gamel, Akram Gawdat, Nour El-Demerdash, Zaki Ibrahim, Victoria Habiqa

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Determination [al-azima] 1939

Determination [al-azima] (1939) - (Fatma Rouchdi) very rare Egyptian film poster 27" x 39" printed by Matabi Masr of Cairo

In the 1995 Cairo 100 Years of Egyptian Cinema Festival this film was ranked number one among the top 100 films. Directed by Kamal Selim, cinematography Very Varkash. Starring Fatma Rouchdi, Abd Al-Aziz Khalil, Zaki Rostom, Hussein Sedki, Anwar Wagdi, Abbas Fares, Marie Munib, Mokhtar Osman, Mokhtar Hussein, Hikmat Fahmi, Souraya Fakhry, Hassan Kamel.

In his 1969 book An Introduction to the Egyptian Cinema Egyptian director Mohamed Khan says of this film: "The story of Determination is only a skeleton to serve the film's other deeper aims. It takes place in a poor district in Cairo and concerns, among others, Mohamed, the local barber's son, who resists becoming a government official after finishing his secondary school. Mohamed hopes to better himself through a business deal with a rich man's son. This deal fails and while Mohamed is awaiting his government appointment he is threatened with the loss of his sweetheart to the local butcher. Eventually Mohamed succeeds in becoming a business man and marrying his girl. Determination is regarded as the first film of a school which was new to the Egyptian scene: the realistic school. For the first time an Egyptian film-maker dealt realistically with a social problem drawn from real life and conditions in Egypt. The deepest traditions of the Egyptian people reflect the respect and esteem accorded to officials, to the exclusion of other social classes such as tradesmen, craftsmen and independent workers. The official in his suit and Tarboosh (the Effendi) is compared with the tradesman or craftsman in his galabia, the official and his fixed regular salary and the independent worker and his uncertain earnings. This grave problem produced consequences which had a great influence on Egyptian society, especially during this period. If a young man were fortunate enough to obtain his secondary school certificate or university degree, his only hope of a stable income was to become a government employee. The result was that only foreigners went into trade or industry. The owners of the commercial or industrial companies in Egypt were Italians, Greeks, French, Swiss or British, and it was unusual to find a single Egyptian among them. Egyptian families of the middle class always chose an official to marry their daughters, however small his income might be, rejecting an independent worker even if his income was higher. Selim's film had a really overwhelming success, such as had never previously been known in the Egyptian cinema."

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