This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1985 Samir Seif
film The Indigent based on story, screenplay and dialogue by
Wahid Hamed and starring Adel Imam as Arafa. Plot summary: Arafa is a
poor uneducated village laborer with no social graces who marries
Warda, [Elham Shaheen] a widow with a bad reputation. The village is
controlled by ruthless gangsters who do whatever they wish with
impunity because of government indifference. Arafa, who has no other
options or prospects, is drawn into their operations.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Elham Shaheen, Sa'eed Saleh, Salah Kabil,
Samir Seif, Wahid Hamed, Ibrahim Al Sharkawi, Hamdi Al Wazir, Umran
Bahar, Hussein El Sherbiny, Wedad Hamdy, Nagwa al-Mawgi, Wafik Fahmy,
Na'im Esa, Zizi Fared, Mustafa Gamaleddin, Wahid Farid
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Azem for the
1987 Samir Seif film The Tiger and the Female AKA al-nimr
wal-onsa based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ibrahim
al-Mawgi and starring Adel Imam as Waheed. Plot summary: Waheed, a
narcotics officer, gets help from Naeema [Athar El-Hakim] and her
young son Tamer [Maher Essam] so he can infiltrate a family of drug
dealers.
Cast and crew: Samir Seif, Essam Farid, Azem, Adel Imam, Athar
El-Hakim, Anwar ismail, Ahmed Akl, Ibrahim Al Sharkawi, Youseff Daoud,
Maher Essam, Mustafa Metwalli, Sayed Sadek, Youssef Eid, Rafat Ragi,
Aida Abdel Aziz, Hanem Mohamed, Ibrahim al-Mawgi
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty to promote
the 1984 103-minute Henry Barakat color film The Widow and the
Devil [al-armala wal-shaytan] starring Safia El Emari based on
story and screenplay by Rafiq al-Saban, dialogue by Hesham
al-Salambouni and cinematography by Kamal Korayem. Plot summary: The
wealthy widow Hanan [Safia El Emari] lives in Ismailia with her nanny
Om Hamdi [Souraya Helmy]. She refuses to remarry because her suitors
are all just after her wealth. Lobna [Maali Zayed] is a woman who
works for the seamstress who makes Hanan's clothing. Hanan
sympathizes with her because she is pregnant and needs to marry her
fiance Atef [Farouk Al-Fichawy], who does not have an apartment; she
gives Lobna a small building rent-free in the garden at her villa were
she and Atef can live, and she also hires Atef as her driver. She
does this over the objections of Om Hamdi, who is suspicious of Lobna.
Then Atef makes a pass at Hanan and begins showing other signs of
affection for her. This upsets Lobna and leads to violent arguments
between her and Atef, one of which ends with Lobna's death. Hanan and
Atef wrap the body in a shower curtain, put in the trunk of her
automobile and take it to a field, where Atef buries it. This
collaboration seems to cement their once tentative and forbidden
relationship. Hanan receives blackmail letters and telephone calls
threatening to report the crime and demanding huge amounts of money;
then she learns Lobna's death was a ruse and that she is still alive
living in an apartment with Atef. The remainder of the film is about
Hanan's revenge.
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Maali Zayed, Ibrahim Al Sharkawi, Souraya Helmy, Kamal Karim, Safia El Emari, Henry Barakat, Farouk Al-Fichawy, Ibrahim Al Sharkawi, Ahmed Abou Ebia, Motawei Awis, Reshwan Mostafa, Aran Bahr, Sousou Mostafa, Rafiq al-Saban, Hesham al-Salambouni, Kamal Korayem
We have here a 27" x 29" Egyptian poster designed by Al-Khad to
promote the 1986 Hossam El-Din Mostafa 118-minute color film The
Racketeers [al-harafish] starring Mahmoud Yassine based on a story
by Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay and dialogue by Ahmed Saleh and
cinematography by Mamoun Ata. Plot Summary: In this film generations
of urban poor and their families come and go; this repetitive flow is
the story. Soleiman al-Nagy [Mahmoud Yassine] defeats Atris [Salah
Kabil] in a stick fight, establishes himself as the local tough guy
and distributes justly to the district racketeers the assets he has
collected from the rich. The rich people try to get rid of him.
Sania marries him after he divorces his first wife. She is able to
separate him from the racketeers and draw him into wealthy
circles. He opens a big agency. Khedr works with his father Soleiman
at the agency. He marries Bakr Redwana, [Laila Eloui] who loves him;
then he runs away from home after Bakr accuses him of disloyalty.
Soleiman's father becomes ill and moves to the home of his old wife
after she returns to his protection. When it becomes known that he
is bankrupt Atris becomes the neighborhood tough guy again. Khedr
returns and buys the agency at auction to bring dignity back to the
family after overcoming Atris. He discredits Bakr Redwana, who
acknowledges his brother's innocence before she dies.
Cast and crew: Mahmoud Yassine, Laila Eloui, Salah Kabil, Sawsan Badr, Naguib Mahfouz, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Safia El Emari, Mamdouh Abd El Aleem, Ibrahim Al Sharkawi, Mamoun Ata, Ahmed Saleh, Leila El Emari, Ezzat Abdul Jawad, Abdel Gawad Metwally, Nadia Shamseddine, Ahmed Abou Abih, Shirin Omar, Fifi Mady, Mohamed Abou Hashish
