This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mahar Gasour
for the 1984 Ahmed Al-Sabawy film I killed al-Hanash based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hay Adib and starring Adel
Imam as Hassanein. Plot summary: Al-Hanash [Youssef Chaban] oppresses
both Hassanein and Barhouma [Sa'eed Saleh]. When Hassanein goes to
Greece to work he marries his girlfriend Aziza [Safia El Emari] after
she tells him she is pregnant with their child. Al-Hanash hires men
in Greece to fight Hassanein.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Al-Sabawy, Gasour, Ibrahim Saleh, Abdel Hay
Adib, Youssef Chaban, Adel Imam, Sa'eed Saleh, Safia El Emari, Maali
Zayed, Ahmed Rateb, Ezzat Abdul Jawad, Youssef Fawzi, Hussein
El-Sherbini, Nasr Seif, Shawqi Shamekh
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Walid Wahig for the
1974 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film The Heroes written by Mohamed
Abu Youssef and starring Farid Shawqi as Saber. Plot summary: Four
thieves break into a house and rob it, then kill the owner, his wife
and his daughter. The son Ahmed [Ahmed Ramzy] is unharmed because he
is hiding under a bed. When Ahmed grows up to become a karate
champion he decides to take revenge on his family's killers after
Saber, who was unjustly convicted of the crime, is released from
prison. The tagline in red at the top of the poster says this is "the
first Egyptian karate film."
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Ahmed Ramzy, Houssam El-Din Mustafa,
Ghassan Mattar, Ibrahim Saleh, Abdalaziz Abu Allel, Ali Ezz Eldein,
Mona Gabr, Qadreya Kamel, Tawfiq Al Kurdi, Eskandar Mansy, Kamal
Sarhan, Mohamed Sobeih, El Tokhy Tawfik, Farouk Youssef
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1973 Houssam El-Din Mustafa
film Devils on Vacation based on story screenplay and dialogue
by Adly El-Mowaled and starring Mohamed Awad as Hamada. Plot summary:
While Hamada was in the Abu Qir Mediterranean resort area Awad
[Ghassan Mattar] hid some valuable diamonds in his camera. Hamada did
not realize this because he was too busy enjoying himself with his
friends Galal [Hassan Youssef] and Salah [Youssef Fakhr Eddine].
Awad's gang was pursuing them to get the diamonds; the police were
also monitoring the situation waiting for the right time to get
involved.
Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ibrahim Saleh, Adly
El-Mowaled, Mohamed Awad, Hassan Youssef, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Soheir
Ramzy, Lebleba, Ghassan Mattar, Kanaan Wasfy, Tewfik El Dekn, Ahmed
Abaza
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour and Morteda
Anise for a 1978 film biography of Taha Husayn. The film was directed by
Atef Salem based on a story by Kamal al-Malakh with screenplay and
dialogue by D. Rafiq al-Saban, Samir Abdel Azeem and Moussa Sabry;
cinematography was by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: Taha Husayn was
born in poverty in upper Egypt in the province of Al-Mina. He became
blind because of the poverty and ignorance that were prevalent in
society, but he learned how to overcome the problems of blindness, how
to compensate for it with hearing, how to succeed with books and even
how to get admitted to Al-Azhar University and succeed with his
studies there. He later became a candidate for literature studies in
the city of Montpelier France while he was on a government mission
there. He went there with his brother who looked after him and helped
him deal with adverse circumstances. He met his lifetime French
friend Susan, who helped him with reading. Love developed between them
while he was studying for his doctorate and they married after he
received his diploma. In Cairo Taha Husayn was appointed professor
and then dean at a university. He then became minister of education
and waged an intellectual struggle with the people in the government
to make education free for all people.
Cast and crew: Atef Salem, Hamdy Ahmed, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Taha
Husayn, Mahmoud Yassine, Yehia El-Fakharany, Abdel Alim Khattab,
Ibrahim Saleh, Yolande Folliot, Kamal al-Malakh, D. Rafiq al-Saban,
Samir Abdel Azeem, Moussa Sabry, Ibrahim Saleh, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim,
Salama Elias, Farouk Youssef, Hussein El-Sherbini, Abdel Ghani
Al-Nagdi, Fakry Azer, Nader Nour, Adib Tarablos, Mohammad
al-Shourbagy, Adawi Gheith, Mahmoud Rashad, Sayed Madbouli, Rafiq
Fahmy, Abdel Moneim al-Nemr, Ahmed Omar
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anise for
the 1984 Hassan Al Imam film God's World AKA The Honey of
Bitter Love based on story by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay and
dialogue by Essam Al-Gomblati and starring Nour El-Sherif as Ibrahim.
Plot summary: Ibrahim worked as a company employee. He met an
itinerant vendor named Yasmine [Maali Zayed] and liked her. He told
her he knew a delivery boy who looked just like the one who had the
job of delivering employee salaries. Yasmine's friend Hamuda [Saeed
Saleh] told her she should go with Ibrahim, whom he knew to be the
delivery agent planning to embezzle the salaries and make a getaway to
Alexandria. Ibrahim stole the salaries and went to the port with
Yasmine. In Alexandria Yasmine quarreled with him, broke a chair over
his head and ran away with the cash. She went to her friend Hamuda
and found he had married his old friend Aziza [Essad Youniss]. Hamuda
emphasized to Yasmine that the police were looking for her because she
had killed Ibrahim. He pretended he would try to hide her and told
her she had to leave the cash with him. Yasmine recognized the
deception and told the police about her crime, but then she discovered
Ibrahim had not died and they had all been arrested after a chase.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Ibrahim Saleh, Sa'eed Saleh, Maali
Zayed, Naguib Mahfouz, Essad Youniss, Sanaa Younes, Leila Gamal,
Shafik Galal, Ibrahim Saleh, Essam Al-Gomblati, Al-Montaser Billah,
Abdel Wahab Galil, Magda Hamada, Mahmoud Al Zohairy, Mohamed Abdel
Magid, Mohamed Al-Oraby, Mostafa Karim, Qadria Kamel, Samir Rostam,
Said Tarabeek, Souraya Ezzedine
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy and
al-Khad for the 1983 Ahmed Fouad film The Cart Driver
AKA al-arbagy based on story, screeenplay and dialogue by Wahid
Hamed. Cinematography was by Ibrahim Saleh and the poster art was by
Wahib Fahmy and al-Khad. Plot Summary: The cart driver Sayed [Mahmoud
Yassine] lived with his wife Fakiha [Shouweikar] and his children. He
convinced the lottery ticket seller Shalabia [Maali Zayed] to sell him
one so he could try his luck. He won 1000 pounds and decided to spend
the money on an adventure. The people in the neighborhood were happy
for him with the exception of Sheikh Nazir who said he was just going
to waste the money in nightclubs. However this was too much money to
gamble, so he used it to make a deal with a corrupt manipulator, whose
betrayal he soon discovered when he lost the money. He told the
police, they caught the criminal; then the cart driver went back home
and continued living as before.
Cast and crew: Mahmoud Yassine, Younes Shalaby, Shouweikar, Maali
Zayed, Ahmed Fouad, Bahgat Kamar, Nabil Badr, Zizi Mustafa, Ibrahim
Saleh, Wahid Hamed, Samir Wahid, Farouk Youssef, Shawqy Shamekh,
Mohammad Abo Hashih, Abdel Aziz Esa, Zizi Mustafa
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Mohammad
Abdel Aziz for the 1978 film Love Over a Volcano written and
directed by Hassan Al Imam and starring Naglaa Fathy as Ne'ma. Plot
summary: Hussein [Hussein Al Imam] stole all the money belonging to
his half brother Ahmed [Hussein Fahmy] so he could spend it on a dance
hall girl; then Ahmed married his blind neighbor Ne'ma.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Naglaa Fathy, Hussein Fahmy, Fardous
Abdel Hamid, Lebleba, Sa'eed Saleh, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Hassan Al
Imam, Mohamed Shawky, Shafik Galal, Ibrahim Saleh, Hussein Al Imam,
Mohamed El Dafrawy, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Badreia Abdel Gawad, Mokhtar
El Sayed, Mohammad Shawqi, Amir Kedwani, Abdel Wahab Khalil, El Sayed
Bedir
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1977
Houssam El-Din Mustafa film Sonya and the Madman based on the
1866 Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel Crime and Punishment with
screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Diab, cinematography by Ibrahim
Saleh and starring Naglaa Fathy as Sonya. Plot summary: In 1940s
Cairo, law student Mokhtar [Mahmoud Yassine] found a poor girl
sleeping in the street named Sonya whose circumstances were driving
her to vice and crime. He fell in love with her and asked her to stop
being a girl of the night in exchange for his financial help. In this
adaptation Mokhtar is the madman who has Raskalnikov's part in the
Dostoyevsky story. Naglaa Fathy's Sonya is also Dostoyevsky's Sonya.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Imad Hamdi, Sa'eed Saleh, Abdel
Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam
El-Din Mustafa, Ibrahim Saleh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ruhia Khaled, Nazim
Shaarawy, Naima Al Soghayar, Mahmoud Diab, Soheir Reda
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Al-Khad
for the 1990 Hussein Kamal film Light of Her Eyes based on the
novel by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay and dialogue by Wahid Hamid and
starring Adel Adham as Deibis. Plot Summary: Deibis killed his rival
Hosouma. Hosouma's widow gave birth to a daughter named Nour [Fifi
Abdou] at the very moment Deibis was killing him. Nour's mother hid
her daughter and educated her. After the death of the mother the
daughter found herself alone but still remembering her past and her
desire for revenge against Deibis. Nour married her cousin Mohsen
[Abdel Salam Mohamed], who tried to provoke bad behavior in her. This
got her put in prison for indecency. After she served her time she
got a divorce. She decided to get a job in Deibis's factory to get
revenge against him. Deibis made advances to Nour but she rebuffed
him and he fired her. Nour then became a professional dancer; Deibis
found her, offered to marry her and confessed to his crime. She told
him who she really was and after many years Deibis was arrested and
had to pay for his crime.
Cast and crew: Adel Adham, Fifi Abdou, Mahmoud El Guindi, Naguib
Mahfouz, Hussein Kamal, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Hisham Abdullah, Sayed
Sadek, Ibrahim Saleh, Wahid Hamid, Mohammed Tawfik, Aziza Rashed, Nour
Abdel Aziz, Mohamed Abu Hashish,Samira Bayoumi, Matawei Oweysi,
Ibrahim al-Hamasani
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mostafa El-Seyyed
and Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1976 Houssam El-Din Mustafa
94-minute color film Tawhida starring the late Magda El-Khatib (1943-2006) as Tawhida based on
the play Fanny by Marcel Pagnol with screenplay by Naguib
Mahfouz, dialogue by Sabry Ezza and cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh.
Plot Summary: Tawhida and Hussein [Nour El-Sherfi]
were passionately in love in Alexandria and she became pregnant.
Hussein left her and the unborn child because he did not have enough
income to provide for them. Tawhida could not find anyone to save her
and her child from this predicament other than an older man named Said
Bey [Rushdy Abaza] who married her; she had the child after marrying
him. Hussein returned to learn that his love had married. He tried
to restore their relationship but she turned away from him; he also
discovered she had had a son by him and they quarreled over this. Then
he withdrew from their lives. Then Said also withdrew, realizing that
it was the best thing for everyone, and Tawhida and her son finally
went back to Hussein. At 41:58 one sees the ill-fated Italian cruise ship
Achille Lauro docked at
the Port of Alexandria about ten years before it was hijacked off the
coast of Egypt by four men representing the Palestine Liberation
Front.
Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Sanaa Gamil, Farid Shawqi, Achille Lauro, Magda El-Khatib, Amira, Nour El-Sherif, Naguib Mahfouz, Ibrahim Saleh, Marcel Pagnol, Sabry Ezzat
This is an Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the
1977 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 122-minute color film
Sonya and the Madman [sonya wal-magnun], with cinematography by
Ibrahim Saleh, printed by Arabic Cinema Printers. The film is based on
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, but the central
character is switched and in this Egyptian film adaptation becomes
Dostoevsky's Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov (Sonya) who in the novel
falls in love with the criminal protagonist, Rodio Romanovitch
Raskalnikov (Rodya); Raskalnikof (the madman) is played in this
Egyptian film by Mahmoud Yassine.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Imad Hamdi, Sa'eed Saleh, Abdel Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Naima Al Soghayar, Nazim Shaarawy, Ruhia Khalid, Ibrahim Saleh, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour to promote the 1990 108-minute Hussein Kamal color film Drug
Users [al-masatil المساطيل] starring Laila Eloui based on story, screenplay
and dialogue by Wahid Hamid with cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh.
Plot summary: A group of lost youth were involved in drug abuse and
crime and they had committed a murder. Nadia [Lalia Eloui] was the
most prominent among them. She was in love with Samir but he refused
to marry her because she was too poor. She had to go away to marry a
rich man, but it only lasted three months, and when she returned she
found her father had lost his job, and she had also lost hers. She
took up prostitution and began associating with a bad group of people
who would use drugs together to forget the miserable realities of
their lives. Among these people was the sexually impotent Ahmad, who
believed drugs might cure him. Another was Talaat, a corrupt court
worker who illegitimately sold judicial documents. There was also an
unemployed man named Abbas who had married a wealthy cafe owner and
then killed her to get her money. Samir was unable to find happiness
with his wife, whom he did not love, so he broke into the gathering of
drug users to be with Nadia, whom he did love, but he refused to tell
them his story. They forced him to take an overdose of heroin, which
killed him; then they they threw his body into the Nile. Nadia
confessed to the police she had been with the drug users and had been
responsible for Samir's death.
Cast and crew: Hussein Kamal, Negah El-Mogui, Hassan Hosny, Ahmed Maher, Soad Hussein, Mahmoud Hemida, Laila Eloui, Ibrahim Saleh, Wahid Hamid, Hendia, Soad Hussein
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour and Anis to promote the 1978 88-minute Ashraf Fahmy color
film My Honor [karamati] starring Imad Abdel Halim and Nagwa
Ibrahim based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ahmed Abdel Wahab
with cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: Amal's husband
Salah betrayed her so she decided to kill herself. Tareq tried to
save her and calm her down, but she saw he was becoming attached to
her and decided to go to Cairo, far away from him. He decided to
follow her home to see where she lived. Salah went to her and
expressed regret about what happened but she refused to go back to him
at first. Later she was hurt in a traffic accident and agreed to
resume their relationship when he visited her at a hospital. This film
is largely a showcase for the singing of Imad Abdel Halim, in a
romantic spirit reminiscent of Abdel Halim Hafez (1929-1977).
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Sa'eed Saleh, Mohamed Khairi, Nagwa Ibrahim, Imad Abdel Halim, Ibrahim Saleh, Ahmed Abdel Wahab, An'am Salusa, Layla Fahmy, Nabil Badr, Aly El Cherif, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Aly Ezzedin, Mazhar Abolnega, Hafez Amin
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by
Gasour to promote the 1970 Shafiq Shamia 80-minute black-and-white
film Honor incident [hadsa sharaf] starring Zubaida Tharwat
based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Idriss with
cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: Banat, the prettiest
girl in her village, lived with her brother Farag and his wife. She
worked with him to meet living costs. All the young men in the
village wanted her because of her charm and beauty but none approached
her other than Shaban, who did so despite his mother's objections. He
made a contract to marry her and her brother Farag felt relieved
because his sister had finally settled on somone and was to be
married. A frivolous boy named Gharib appeared and tried to get Banat
by offering to have the local seamstress Zakia make some clothing for
her, but he failed. Shaban noticed Gharib's attention and Banat's
rejection of him; they quarrelled and he had to cancel the marriage
contract. Farag suggested she marry Gharib, but she vehemently
refused. Gharib came across her once in a field and when she saw him
she was horrified and ran away from him screaming. The people in the
village thought he had raped her and they took her to Om George for an
examination to see if she was still a virgin. Her innocence was
proven, but she could no longer live among them so she went to Zakia
the taylor so she could do what the people in the village wanted her
to do so she could submit herself to Gharib.
Mountain Tough Guy [futuwwet al-gabal] (1982) - (Farid Shawqi) Egyptian film poster
Shown here is a 13.5" x 19.5" poster designed by Sami to promote the
1982 105-minute Nader Galal color film Mountain Tough Guy
[futuwwet al-gabal] starring Farid Shawqi with story, screenplay and
dialogue by Abdel Hai Adib based on the Eugene O'Neil play Desire
under the Elms with cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot
summary: The wealthy Hassan was unable to get close to the dancer
Aziza, who rejected him, but Hassan asked her father for hand and her
father agreed because there was money involved and he needed some
money. This disrupted the plans of Sekina, the widow of Hassan's
brother, who had been hoping to marry Hassan. Meanwhile Sekina's son
Omar was in love with Aziza and he promised to marry her somehow.
They kept meeting even though Omar was torn between loyalty to his
uncle who had educated him and his love for Aziza. Aziza asked Hassan
for a divorce, because he had promied he would give her a divorce
after she had a child, but he refused to keep his promise. She
confessed to him that she was in love with Omar, but when Hassan
learned this he decided to kill Omar. When Aziza tried to save Omar
she killed her husband accidentally. Omar was angered by this and
killed her. Then the police came and arrested Omar.
Cast and crew: Nader Galal, Farid Shawqi, Eugene O'Neil, Desire under the Elms, Abdel Hai Adib, Ibrahim Saleh, Bussy, Farouk Al-Fishawy, Zahrat El-Ola, Saleh al-Iskandarani, Abol Fotouh Omara, Soheir Zaky
This Egyptian film poster was designed by Al-Khad to promote the 1980
115-minute Henry Barakat color film I Am Neither a Devil Nor an
Angel [lestu shaytanan wa la malakan] based on story, screenplay
and dialogue by Samir Abdelazim with cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh.
Plot summary: Kawsar [Soheir Ramzy] left her fiance Ahmed [Nour
El-Sherif] and married the elderly rich man Shamis, [Aly El Cherif]
the owner of a factory in which her father worked, after there was a
quarrel between her and Ahmed over her father. Ahmed finished his
studies and graduated from the college of engineering. He established
a relationship with his classmate Engineer Nahed [Hoda Ramzi] and they
decided to marry. Shamis was killed by the husband of his mistress.
Kawsar asked Engineer Ahmed to help her manage her late husband's
factory because she was having many problems doing it herself. By
chance she learned about the relationship between Ahmed and Nahed;
this got her to thinking about firing Nahed from her job at the
factory. Ahmed went to see Kawsar at her home and asked her not to do
this. After he left her home Shamis's son stabbed Kawsar with a knife
and she was taken to a hospital. Ahmed emphasized to Nahed that his
relationship with Kawsar had been just a work relationship and what
had happened earlier was just a memory; so the two of them began their
life together.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Henry Barakat, Ihsan Sherif, Soheir Ramzy, Hoda Ramzi, Aly El Cherif, Wahid Seif, Mohammed Tawfik, Zein El-Ashmawy, Salah Nazmi, Enaam Salousa, Soheir Zaky, Ibrahim Saleh, Samir Abdelazim, Samy Fahmy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian promotional film poster designed by
Al-Khad and Wahib Fahmy for the 1972 90-minute Ahmed Diaeddin color
film From Home to School starring Naglaa Fathy as Soheir based
on story, screenplay and dialogue by Adly El-Mowalid, cinematography
by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: In the years of adolescence a middle
class girl in love is still going back and forth between home and
school. At that age the emotions and the search for another person
define one's adolescence and a girl will inevitably be subject to some
sort of guidance and control. The control effort is not aimed at
suppressing feelings; its purpose is to prevent a bad experience. It
was in this context that Suhair (Naglaa Fathy) killed Essam (Ashraf
Abdel Ghafour), a boy who had been approaching and enticing her
frequently but refusing to marry her. She then went to the police and
confessed to the crime.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Nour El-Sherif, Rushdy Abaza, Ahmed Diaeddin, Mohamed Reda, Samira Mohsen, Fatheya Chahine, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Ibrahim Saleh, Adly El-Mowalid, Ashraf Abdel Ghafour, Mohamed Reda
