This is a picture of a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by al-Khad to
promote the 1991 133-minute Samir Seif color film Shams
al-Zanati starring Adel Imam based on the 1960 John Sturges
film The Magnificent Seven with story, screenplay and dialogue
by Magdy Hidaya and cinematography by Samir Farag. Plot summary: Shams
al-Zanati [Adel Imam] was an Egyptian rebel who fought British
forces in Egypt during the Second World War. The film depicts Shams
al-Zanati's love for and eventual marriage to a young Bedouin widow
named Hanna [Sausan Badr], which begins while Hanna is working in a
Cairo coffee shop and helping Shams al-Zanati evade British agents.
The marriage takes place in Hanna's oasis village after a bloody
shootout there between Shams al-Zanati's insurgent gang and another
gang led by Marshall Borei.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Mahmoud Hemida, Sawsan Badr, Samir Seif, Mustafa Metwalli, Abdulla Mahmoud, Ibrahim Nasr, Noha El Amroussi, Mahmoud El Guindi, Rushdi El Mahdi, Ahmed Maher, Said Tarabeek, Magdy Hidaya, Ali Abdel Rahim
Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed
by Morteda Anise to promote the 1993 111-minute Mohamed Khan color
film Mister Karate starring Ahmed Zaki (1949-2005) based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Raouf Tawfik with cinematography by
Kamal Abdel Aziz. Plot summary: After Salah [Ahmed Zaki] gets his
intermediate educational certificate he moves from his village to
Cairo to take a job parking cars at the garage where his late father
had once worked. He meets Nadia [Nahla Salama] who works in a video
shop next to the garage. She introduces him to the Karate films she
is selling and an innocent friendship develops between them. He also
becomes friends with a Karate coach named Hassan, [Ibrahim Nasr] who
gets him into advanced training at a sports club and gives him the
nickname Mister Karate. Salah is injured in a traffic accident and
comes out of the hospital with a pronounced limp. He leaves his job
at the garage and goes to work parking cars at another garage. There
he occasionally uses his karate skills against local thugs and gets
favorable attention from a wealthy man; this represents a positive
move from the life of a homeless person with no purpose to that of
someone with slightly greater significance. When Salah discovers bags
of heroin in the trunk of the wealthy man's car, he is beaten up by
the man's gang. Nadia discovers she cannot live without Salah and
agrees to marry him despite his poverty; they go together to his
village where they become farmers after all their dreams in the city
have fallen through. In a March 2005 interview shortly before his
death Ahmed Zaki said he regretted the title because the film is
really about the troubles of a simple man trying to survive in Cairo.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Ihab Muntasir, Ibrahim Nasr, Nahla Salama, Zouzou Nabil, Mamdouh Wafi, Zouzou Nabil, Ahmed Zaki, Kamal Abdel Aziz, Raouf Tawfik, Nader Noureddine, Osman Abdel Moneim, Alaa Morsi, Wahid Agami, Hassan al-'adl, Ezzat Kamel, Fouad Ferghali, Ahmad Abutaleb, Sabah Mahmoud, Mahmoud Alwan, Ali Ragab, Hamdi al-Naggar, Said al-Tuhami, Gamal al-Toukhi