This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by
Walid Wahig for the 1962 film Judgment Day written and directed
by Abdel Rahman Sharif and starring Samira Ahmed as Yasmin / Salwa.
Plot summary: In the year 1946 in Port Said Enayat [Samiha Ayoub] is
involved with the smuggler Amin, [Hassan Hamed] who goes to prison.
When he gets out, he wants revenge and gets close to Enayat's husband
Ahmed [Imad Hamdi] and daughter Salwa. He is killed later; Ahmed is
accused of the murder and sent to prison for 15 years.
Cast and crew: Samira Ahmed, Imad Hamdi, Kamal Salaheddine, Abdel
Rahman Sharif, Samiha Ayyoub, Tewfik El Dekn, Fakher Fakher, Hassan
Hamed, Wedad Hamdy, Ibrahim Emara, Zuzu Madi, Nahed Sabri
Pictured is an Egyptian black-and-white still showing Ismail
Yasseen as Ostaz Charlie from the 1952 Anwar Wagdi film Drop of Dew
[qatr al-neda] starring Shadia as Drop of Dew based on a story
by Anwar Wagdi, with screenplay by Anwar Wagdi, dialogue and songs by
Abou Seoud El-Ibiary and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary:
The unknown artist Wahid (Anwar Wagdi) married his colleague the
unknown artist Drop of Dew (Shadia) and they set out to create work
for themselves that was worthy of their talents. Time passed and this
was not achieved. Wahid decided to play a trick to make himself into a
famous person; he claimed he had killed his wife. His trick succeeded
and he acquired great fame. A lady's body was found; the police
thought it was his wife's body and that he was really the
murderer. Wahid said his wife had not been killed and that she was
alive somewhere. His wife had been in an automobile accident which
caused memory loss. Wahid was sentenced to death. The lawyer tried to
restore the wife's memory quickly to save Wahid from the gallows; he
succeeded in doing this at the last moment and Wahid was accordingly
released. His fame began there; then there was a quick change in
his theater contracts and the trick enabled him to achieve the kind of
renown he had never imagined.
Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Shadia, Ismail Yasseen, Saraj Munir,
Wahid Farid, Ibrahim Emara, Zeinat Sedki, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Abou
Seoud El-Ibiary, Elias Moadab, Sayed Soliman, Reyad al-Kasabgi, Salah
Mansour, Abdel Qader al-Masiri, Ahmed Darwish
This is a 47" x 35" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Ragheb
for the 1948 Niazi Mostafa musical Princess Leila AKA layla
al-amiriya AKA Leila and Magnun written by Abol-Farag
al-Isfahani and starring Kouka as Leila. Plot summary: In a desert
village in 7th Century Arabia Qays ibn al-Mulawah [Yehia Chahine] fell
madly in love with his cousin Leila and incessantly recited poems
about her. His story spread through the village, but it was a
violation of tradition. Moreover, although Leila was happily spending
her days with Qays, Qays had a rival for her hand in a man named Ward
[Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. When the rival proposed her father [Ibrahim
Emara] agreed and married Leila to him without her consent. The
distraught poet took to wandering aimlessly, reciting poems and
hallucinating about his lost love, while Leila got sick and died.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Yehia Chahine, Kouka, Mahmoud
El-Meilguy, Reyad El Kasabgy, Ibrahim Emara, Abol-Farag al-Isfahani,
Rafia al-Shal, Abdullah al-Husseini, Ali Rushdy, Mohamed Nehad, Shafiq
Noureddine, Husny Claude, Awham George
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown artist for the
1963 Niazi Mostafa film Rabea al-Adawiyah based on a story by
Saneya Qoraa and starring Nabila Ebeid as Rabea al-Adawiyah. Plot
summary: This film depicts the life of Rabea al-Adawiyah, an 8th
century female Sufi poet and saint living in Basra in what is now
Iraq. This was Nabila Ebeid's first film performance. The film covers
her life as a Sufi recluse after she moved to Basra and developed a
relationship with Essam Eddine [Imad Hamdi]. She then met the Sufi
Sauban, who led her to the right path.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Nabila Ebeid, Om Kolsum, Farid
Shawqi, Imad Hamdi, Hussein Riad, Nabilah, Ibrahim Emara, Abdel Ghani
Kamar, Sherifa Maher, Salwa Mahmoudd, Zouzou Nabil, Mustafa Abdel
Fatah, Saneya Qoraa, Ibrahim Adel, Samia Rushdy, Abdullah Gheith,
Hassan Hamed, Nazim Shaarawy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour and Ahmed
Fouad for the 1961 Ibrahim Emara film For a Handful of Kids
[min agle khefnet awlad] based on a story by Sami Ghanim, screenplay
by Mohammad Mostafa Sami and starring Rushdy Abaza as Hassan. Plot
summary: Hassan was an elementary school teacher at a school directed
by Mr. Madbouly [Abdel Moneim Madbouly]. Hassan lived happily with
his wife Nadia [Soheir al-Morshedy] even though they had been married
seven years without having any children. Then they began to quarrel
about not having children and one of Hassan's friends suggested he
marry the director's sister so he could have children. He did this and
kept it secret from his first wife Nadia. Then both of the women had
children. Nadia had a girl and the second wife [Soheir Zaki] had a
boy. He was able to meet the costs of both households, but the women
kept having children until Hassan had eight. Then there were so many
problems Hassan's situation became unbearable.
Cast and crew: Sami Ghanim, Mohammad Mostafa Sami, Rushdy Abaza,
Soheir El-Morshidy, Soheir Zaky, Ibrahim Emara, Mostafa Shawqi, Rafet
Fahim, Mostafa Helmy, Mostafa Reshwan, Hani Shaker, Atef Mokaram,
Abdel Azim Kamel, Aqila Ratib, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Soheir Zaki, Ali
Al-Moawen, Soheir Al-Morshedy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
and Ahmed Fouad for the 1952 film Eternal Love [habib al-ruh].
The film was written and directed by its star Anwar Wagdi with
cinematography by Wahid Farid. It tells the story of a talented woman
named Layla [Laila Mourad] who gives up her promising musical
profession for the benefit of her husband Wahid [Anwar Wagdi] who
needs her and demands that she devote herself to him instead of her
career as a performer.
Cast and crew: Youssef Wahby, Mimi Shakeeb, Ferdoos Mohammed,
Ibrahim Emara, Wedad Hamdy, Abdel Nabi Mohammed, Wahid Farid, Anwar
Wagdi, Laila Mourad, Salah Mansour
This is a 33" x 45" Egyptian oversize stone litho poster for the 1954
film Money and Children [المال والبنون al-mal wal-banun] directed by Ibrahim Emara,
starring Aqila Ratib and Mohsen Sarhan. The film tells the story of
two married friends and their children, where the desire for children
and the ability to have them are restrained by financial
considerations. One of the men takes a second wife to make the
addition of children easier. The poster art is a joint project by
Studio Adly and Ahmed Fouad; printing by Dar al-Taba'a of Cairo.
Cast and crew: Ibrahim Emara, Aqila Ratib, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mohsen Sarhan, Zahrat El-Ola, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Wedad Hamdy, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Bassioni, Masud Isa
Pictured is an original year Egyptian 35"x45" poster designed by
Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1953 Ibrahim Emara 106-minute
black-and-white film I'm on My Own [malish had] starring Shadia
based ond story and dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa Sami with screenplay
by Ebrahim Emara with cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A
man [Abbas Fares] was living happily in Alexandria with his wife and
daughters [Shadia and Magda], but after his wife died he found a love
letter among her papers giving him the idea she might have betrayed
him. As his doubts grew he began to think his two daughters might be
from another man. He began to treat them harshly and took up drinking
and gambling to forget. This caused him to lose all his money and his
factories. His daughters ran away from home. He then realized his
wife was innocent when he found a letter that had been written to his
wife's sister. He regretted his behavior and tried to repair the
damage he had done to his daughters and recover his lost fortune. He
succeeded in doing this and the family's wounds were healed.
Cast and crew: Ibrahim Emara, Magda, Choukoukou, Shukry Sarhan, Shadia, Abbas Fares, Bruno Salvi, Mary Queenie, Mohamed Mustafa Sami, Ferdoos Mohammed, Samiha Tawfiq, Zeinat Sedki, Mahmoud El-Sebai, Zaki al-Fayoumi, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohamed al-Dib, Shafik Noureddin, Mohsen Hassanein, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Lutfi al-Hakim, Mohamed Soleiman
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian rerelease poster designed by Ahmed
Fouad to promote the 1955 Ibrahim Emara 133-minute black-and-white
film Song of Truth [lahn al-wafa] starring Abdel Halim Hafez
with story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohammed Mustafa Sami and
cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: A musician named Alam
[Hussein Riad] is wounded in love by an unfaithful wife, then develops
hatred for women; later he falls in love with his foster son Galal's
[Abdel Halim Hafez] intended bride Saham [Shadia], a Cairo chorus
girl. When this does not succeed either he abandons his feelings for
the girl, she marries the foster son and life returns to normal.
Cast and crew: Mahmoud Nasr, Ibrahim Emara, Shadia, Abdel Halim Hafez, Hussein Riad, Zouzou Nabil, Abdel Waress Assar, Mustafa Samy, Wedad Hamdy, Hassan el Baroudi, Mohamed Shawky, Ragaa Youssef, Mary Ezzedine, Zaki Ibrahim, Alia Fawzi, Hassan Hamed, Abdel Moneim Bassioni
Money [al-folus] (1945) - (Aziza Amir) Egyptian film poster
Shown here is a 22" x 34" first printing of an Egypian poster designed
by Marcel and printed by L'Art Graphique to promote the 1945 Ebrahim
Emara 100-minute black-and=white film Money [al-folus] starring
Aziza Amir based on a screenplay by Aziza Amir with dialogue written
by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary and cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. The film
was produced by Nahas Film. Plot summary: The father died leaving his
son Kamal and his daughter Salma in the care of their big brother,
whose wife completely dominated him and treated his siblings harshly;
in contrast she was raising her daughter Fifi to be irresponsible.
The brother's wife expelled Kamal and Salma from her home and the two
of them went looking for work. Salma found work as s photographer at a
newspaper. With her connections at the newspaper she was even able to
find work for Kamal at a theater where he loved to sing. Salma and
Kamal succeeded in their work life while their brother's daughter Fifi
remained irresponsible and immoral and she tried to drive a wedge
between Salma and Kamal. She convinced Kamal that he got his job at
the theater because of a relationship between Salma and the theater
director. Kamal became angry and tried to kill the theater director
but Salma found a press picture of the theater director with a call
girl and discovered she was Fifi. She revealed the facts to Kamal and
he apologized to her, while their big brother, his wife and their
daughter Fifi were shamed and dishonored.
The paper on these old Egyptian movie posters is fragile, brittle and has a tendency to crumble. It has never been archivally deacidified and the vast majority of them are long gone. The few survivors like this one have a special aura for me because of their design, the media they represent and the subtle crinkling sounds they make when you pick them up.
Cast and crew: Ibrahim Emara, Aziza Amir, Hassan Fayek, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Mostafa Hassan, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Rawhiyya Khaled, Bechara Wakim, Mohamed Salman, Abdel Waress Assar, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Tawfiq Ismail, Said Abu Bakr, Soad Ahmed, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Samia Rushdy, Nabawiya Mostafa
Pictured is a two-piece promotional poster designed by Gasour and
Ahmed Fouad for the 1952 Anwar Wagdi film Drop of Dew [qatr al-neda]
starring Shadia based on a story by Anwar Wagdi, with screenplay by
Anwar Wagdi, dialogue and songs by Abou Seoud El-Ibiary and
cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: The unknown artist Wahid
(Anwar Wagdi) married his colleague the unknown artist Drop of Dew
(Shadia) and they set out to create work for themselves that was
worthy of their talents. Time passed and this was not achieved. Wahid
decided to play a trick to make himself into a famous person; he
claimed he had killed his wife. His trick succeeded and he acquired
great fame. A lady's body was found; the police thought it was his
wife's body and that he was really the murderer. Wahid said his wife
had not been killed and that she was alive somewhere. His wife had
been in an automobile accident which caused memory loss. Wahid was
sentenced to death. The lawyer tried to restore the wife's memory
quickly to save Wahid from the death penalty; he succeeded in doing
this at the last moment and Wahid was accordingly released. His fame
began with that; then there was a quick change in his theater
contracts and the trick enabled him to achieve the kind of renown he
had never imagined.
Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Shadia, Ismail Yasseen, Saraj Munir, Wahid Farid, Ibrahim Emara, Zeinat Sedki, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Abou Seoud El-Ibiary, Elias Moadab, Sayed Soliman, Reyad al-Kasabgi, Salah Mansour, Abdel Qader al-Masiri, Ahmed Darwish
Eternal Love [habib al-ruh] (1952) - (Anwar Wagdi) Egyptian stone litho film poster
This film was directed by its star Anwar Wagdi with cinematography
by Wahid Farid. It tells the story of a talented woman (Laila Mourad)
who gives up a promising musical career for the benefit of a husband
who needs her and demands that she devote herself to him instead of
her life as a performer. The poster was designed by Gasour.
Cast and crew: Youssef Wahby, Mimi Shakeeb, Ferdoos Mohammed, Ibrahim Emara, Wedad Hamdy, Abdel Nabi Mohammed, Wahid Farid, Anwar Wagdi, Laila Mourad, Salah Mansour
This film tells the story of a family of orphaned children and their quests for fortune and love in the Egyptian newspaper and theater businesses. The art is a joint project by Studio Adly and Ahmed Fouad.
This is a large 33" x 45" poster for the 1954 Egyptian film Money and Children [al-mal wal-banun] directed by Ibrahim Emara, starring Aqila Ratib and Mohsen Sarhan. The film tells the story of two married friends and their children, where the desire for children and the ability to have them is conditioned by financial considerations. One of the men takes a second wife to make the addition of children easier. The art is a joint project by Studio Adly and Ahmed Fouad.
