Pictured is an original 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet movie poster
designed to promote the 1961 153-minute Henry Barakat black-and-white
film There is a Man in Our House [fi baitina ragol] starring
Omar Sharif based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay by
Youssef Issa and Henry Barakat, dialogue by Youssef Issa and
cinematography by Hesham Wadid Serri. Plot summary: Ibrahim [Omar
Sharif] assassinates the prime minister who has been collaborating
with the imperialists, then asks his friend Mohey [Hassan Youssef] to
hide him. Mohey's father does not welcome the fugitive, but his
sisters are happy to help Ibrahim contact his political friends.
Ibrahim eventually rejoins the rebellion in Egypt and is killed in an
attack on a British base. This film is on film critic Ahmad
Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Zubaida Tharwat, Henry Barakat, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus,
Rushdy Abaza, Omar Sharif, Zahrat El-Ola, Hassan Youssef, Tewfik El
Dekn, Hesham Wadid Serri, Hussein Riad, Nahed Samir, Abdel Khalek
Saleh, Youssef Chaban, Abdel Moneim Bassioni
Notes from inside back of film program cover: "Nahed, a beauitiful
young woman, on the threshold of life, her heart open to love and
looking up to her future, is preparing to leave her family's home to
join her husband Raouf, who is now her betrothed.
"Her life could have continued for the achievement of all her
aspirations and those of her mother and her father, a successful
attorney. But, in the depth of her soul she was suffering from a
bitter struggle, of which neither her family nor her most intimates knew
nothing. Even Nahed was unaware of it, as it took place in her
subconscious mind.
"Nahed had, in childhood, suffered from an unusual experience which
had a great effect on her. She thought, with the passing of years,
that she had forgotten, but actually that complex remained dormant,
ready to reappear. When at last the complex moved to show itself, Nahed
was exposed to the meanest situation she could find herself in,
without being aware of it.
"The danger was not limited to her strange actions and the
consequences, but was apt to threaten her future, her love and even
her life. A solution was imperative before it was too late."
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1969 Kamal El Sheikh
film Insatiable AKA The Well of Deprivation based on a
story by Ihsan Abdul Quddus, adapted for the cinema by Naguib Mahfouz
and starring Soad Hosny as Mervat/Nahed. Plot Summary: Mervat and
Nahed were the same girl. Mervat was an irresponsible person who
tempted the boy Taha at a nightclub, encouraged him, spent the evening
drinking with him, then went home with him before anyone knew they had
left. As for Nahed, she kept the habits of the family. She was
engaged to Raoul who had won a fencing trophy and given it to her.
Nahed lived with her mother who lived with her husband in the same
house but in reality they were separated. Nahed tried to restore the
bond between them without success. Nahed suffered constant headaches
and went to Dr. Talaat for treatment. In numerous appointments Nahed
was transported to Mervat's personality, which led Dr. Talaat there.
The doctor took advantage of this opportunity and tried to eliminate
Nahed's Mervat complex. The doctor saw her childhood, her mother's
relationship with her father, how she felt her father had killed her
mother and how the mother had fallen into a well after the father
caught her one night in a red dress. This complex had settled into
the child's psyche and when Nahed became an adult the complex emerged
unrestricted as Mervat, a substitute for her mother's personality.
Dr. Talaat overcame Mervat's personality to restore Nahed's
personality, but then she discovered her fiancee had left her.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Mahmoud El-Meliguy,
Nour El-Sherif, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Kamal El Sheikh, Essam Farid,
Salah Nazmi, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra, Mohi Ismail, Naguib Mahfouz,
Wahid Farid, nmsp, Soraya Ezeddine, Hamdy Youssef, Hamza al-Shimi,
Aqila Raf'at
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster for the 1971 Henry
Barakat 92-minute color film Love and Position [al-khayt
al-rafi'] based on story and dialogue by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus,
screenplay by Youssef Francis and starring Faten Hamama as Mona. Plot
summary: Mona was a poor girl who had a job as a low-level bank
employee and supported her family. Under pressure from her father's
illness and urging from her mother to increase her income, she formed
a relationship with an elderly wealthy lover. An engineer friend
named Adel [Mahmoud Yassine] who also worked at the company owned by
her lover Abdo [Salah Nazmi] told her he loved her. By this time Mona
was no longer a poor girl. She responded emotionally as a prosperous
woman who was in a position to be her new lover's patron and guide.
Mona persuaded Adel to quit his job with Abdo and start an independent
company with support from his mentor Hosny [Imad Hamdi]. Although
Love and Position is the film's official English title, the
Arabic title literally means The Slender Thread; the tag line
at the top of the poster, quoting the original story by Ihsan Abdel
Qudus, translates as "There is a slender thread between love and the
instinct to acquire."
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Mohammad Abdel Aziz, Wahib Fahmy,
Wahid Farid, Youssef Francis, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Faten Hamama,
Mahmoud Yassine, Imad hamdi, Salah Nazmi, Bussy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster for the 1955 Ahmed
Badrakhan film God Is on Our Side based on a story by Ihsan Abd
al-Qudus and starring Faten Hamama as Nadia. Plot summary: Officer
Ahmed [Imad Hamdi] went to fight in the Palestine war after promising
to write to his fiancee Nadia, [Faten Hamama] his cousin and the
daughter of his rich uncle [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. Ahmed was wounded
and lost his arm. He returned with the other maimed and injured
soldiers as the men in the Army were complaining about the corrupt
people who were importing weapons, including his fiancee's
father. While the free officers had resolved to liberate the country
and avenge it, at Ahmed's behest Nadia searched her father's papers
for incriminating evidence. The father was surrounded by soldiers who
had come to arrest him; he was killed accidentally by his own hand
grenade when he was about to throw it at them. The film ends with the
overthrow of the monarchy and the country's liberation.
Cast and crew: Faten Hamama, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Imad Hamdi, Magda, Ahmed Badrakhan, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Abdelhalim Nasr, Olwiyya Gamil, Amira Amir, Shukry Sarhan, Said Abu Bakr, Stephan Rosti, Wedad Hamdy, Mahmoud Ismail, Samiha Ayyoub, Mona Fouad, Adly Kasseb, Zaki Ibrahim, Amina Cherif, Hussein Riad, Aly Reda
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Anise to promote
the 1972 129-minute Hussein Kamal color film The Three Faces of
Love [انف وثلاث عيون anf wa thalath oyoun] starring Magda based on a story by
Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay and dialogue by Assem Tawfiq and
Mostafa Kamel and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary:
This film is epic soap opera featuring a long convoy of unhappy
relationships, distraught relatives and manipulative spouses backed
with a maudlin soundtrack. Dr. Hashem [Mahmoud Yassine] is a
successful physician who meets many women because of his profession,
among them Amina [Magda], who has recently divorced. Amina has loved
Dr. Hashem since before her marriage and has been unable to forget him even
though he has always told her he was not created for marriage, so she
goes to see him at his apartment. Dr. Hashem asks Amina to leave
because he is afraid her presence in his apartment will hurt his
reputation. This is devastating to Amina, but she does as requested.
Hesham proposes marriage to a patient named Nagwa [Naglaa Fathy] but
she refuses because she is already in a common law relationship with
another man [Salah Nazmi], which is not going well. Amina marries
someone else [Hamdy Ahmed] but that marriage fails because her heart
is not in it, and she goes back to Hesham. Hesham does not reject her
but remains involved with Nagwa without telling her about it. There
is a scene in a public place when she sees them together, etcetera
etcetera.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Mervat Amin, Mahmoud Yassine, Hussein Kamal, Magda, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Abdelhalim Nasr, Assem Tawfiq, Mustafa Kamel, Salah Mansour, Hamdy Ahmed, Aziza Helmy, Ehsan Sherif, Fatheya
Chahine, Salah Nazmi, Galal Issa, Etedal Shaheen, Kawsar al-Assal, Naima Al Soghayar, Mohammed Abaza, Mostafa Kamel
Pictured is a 32" x 42" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly to
promote the 1961 153-minute Henry Barakat black-and-white
film There is a Man in Our House [fi baitina ragol] starring
Omar Sharif based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay by
Youssef Issa and Henry Barakat, dialogue by Youssef Issa and
cinematography by Hesham Wadid Serri. Plot summary: Ibrahim [Omar
Sharif] assassinates the prime minister who has been collaborating
with the imperialists, then asks his friend Mohey [Hassan Youssef] to
hide him. Mohey's father does not welcome the fugitive, but his
sisters are happy to help Ibrahim contact his political friends.
Ibrahim eventually escapes, rejoins the rebellion in Egypt and is
killed in an attack on a British base.
This film is on film critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Zubaida Tharwat, Henry Barakat, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Youssef Issa, Rushdy Abaza, Omar Sharif, Zahrat El-Ola, Hassan Youssef, Tewfik El Dekn, Hesham Wadid Serri, Hussein Riad, Nahed Samir, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Youssef Chaban, Abdel Moneim Bassioni, Khalil Badreddine, Zaki Abel Magid, Sherif Hamdya
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mahmoud Atef to
promote the 1961 137-minute Salah Abouseif black-and-white
film Hope against Hope [la tutfi al-shams] starring Faten
Hamama based on story and dialogue by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, screenplay
by Lucien Lambert and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary:
This film is set in the time of the Tripartite Aggression; it tells
the story of an aristocratic family that has lost its breadwinner.
The oldest son Ahmed [Shukry Sarhan] enlists in the Egyptian army and
is shown in desert military action, but in his civilian life he slowly
develops a relationship with the a woman named Shahira [Nadia Lutfi],
which ends in marriage after a few relatively minor complications.
The daughter Layla [Faten Hamama] falls in love with her piano teacher
[Imad Hamdi], who is married. This relationship is fraught with
difficult moral and social problems that are never resolved. The
younger son Mamdouh [Ahmed Ramzy] is more concerned with the practical
matter of earning a livelihood; he serves a vehicle for showing how
class and social issues in Egypt can disrupt productive economic activity.
Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Faten Hamama, Imad Hamdi, Nadia Lutfi, Ahmed Ramzy, Shukry Sarhan, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Lucien Lambert, Helmy Halim, Abdelhalim Nasr, Aqila Ratib, Laila Taher, Samiha Ayyoub, Shirin, Mohammed Alwan, Omar Zolficar, Mohamed Hamdi, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Ya'qub Michail, Amru Targoman, Adel Al-Mahilmi, Abdel Aziz Mikawi, Nesim Shehab, Alaa Badredin, Salah Musa, Laila Sadeq
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty, Ihsan and
Mohammad Abdel Aziz to promote the 1971 Kamal El Sheikh 102-minute
color film Something Within [shay'on fi sadri] starring Rushdy
Abaza based on a story by Ihsan Abdel Qudus with screenplay and
dialogue by Raafat El Meihy and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr.
Plot Summary: Hussein Basha Shaker [Rushdy Abaza] was climbing one of
the peaks of power in a violent struggle with the government. This
was in cooperation with the English imperialists and included an
effort to impose political influence on his peers. He tried to bring
Seyyed Mohamed Effendi under his influence but this was not possible
because of Mohamed Effendi's strong patriotism, and in any case the
effort ended when Mohamed Effendi died. However the lust for power
made Hussein Basha extend his effort to achieve influence and
domination to his family; his wife, his daughter and his neighbors
became the focus of his life and his chronic domineering drives.
Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Magda El-Khatib, Shukry Sarhan, Salah Mansour, Hassan Mustafa, Abdelhalim Nasr, Hoda Soltan, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Kamal El Sheikh, Yasmeen, Khaled Fahmy, Aziza Rached, Naima Al Soghayar, Mahmoud Rashad, Ali Ezzedine, Elhami Fayed, Ezzat Sherif
This is an undated Egyptian rerelease poster made to promote the 1958
Salah Abouseif 121-minute color film Sleepless [la anam]
starring Faten Hamama and Omar Sharif based on a story by Ihsan Abd
al-Qudus with screenplay by El Sayed Bedeir and Salah Ezzedine,
dialogue by Saleh Gawdat and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot
summary: Nadia's [Faten Hamama] father [Yehia Chahine] divorced her
mother and she grew up in her father's care. He did not remarry and
dedicated his life to educating and caring for his daughter. When
Nadia was 16 her father married Safia [Mariam Fakhr Eddine] who was a
lady of nobility, but Nadia was alienated from the woman who came to
take her mother's place in her father's castle. Nadia met Mostafa
[Imad Hamdi] at a party and began dating him and frequenting his
apartment without the knowledge of her family. Then Mostafa met her
father's wife at a party and showed an interest in her. Nadia became
more jealous of her, which led to her banishment from the house.
Nadia deceived her father into believing there was a sinful
relationship between his wife and his brother Aziz [Omar Sharif] who
was living in the house with him. The father divorced his wife and she
departed from the home, leaving Nadia lady of the house once more.
Nadia felt remorse of conscience and arranged for her father to marry
Kawsar [Hind Rostom], an old associate of hers they encountered while
on a beach in Alexandria. However she quickly discovered that her
father's new wife Kawsar had a lover named Samir [Rushdy Abaza] to
whom she intended to give the wealth of Nadia's father. Nadia
recorded a telephone conversation between them demonstrating this.
She refrained from telling the truth to her father to keep from
ruining his marriage a second time. Her suffering increased when she
realized Mostafa did not love her after all and that he had gone to
Safia after the divorce and courted her for himself. Her father came
upon Mostafa's new wife with her lover and Nadia had to convince her
father that he was her own lover who had come to court her. However
Nadia could not continue the deception and finally told her father the
truth on the wedding night. Fate intervened another time when a
candle set fire to Nadia's wedding gown right after she had refused to
marry Samir during a forced ceremony and was taken to a hospital,
where they saved her life leaving her body disfigured with burns.
This film is included on critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of Egypt's
100 most important films.
Cast and crew: Imad Hamdi, Hind Rostom, Salah Abouseif, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Faten Hamama, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Omar Sharif, Rushdy Abaza, Yehia Chahine, Abdelhalim Nasr, Mahmoud Nasr, Rafia al-Shal, Salah Ezzedine, El Sayed Bedeir, Saleh Gawdat
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian one-sheet poster made to promote
the 1969 142-minute Hussein Kamal color film My Father is up the
Tree [abi fawq al-shagarah] based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus
with screenplay by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Sa'deddine Wahba and Youssef
Francis, dialogue by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus and Sa'eddine Wahba and
cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: A group of university
students went to Alexandria for summer vacation.Two of the students, a
couple named Adel [Abdel Halim Hafez] and Amal [Mervat Amin], had a
disagreement; then Adel fell in love with a much older worldly-wise
nightclub dancer in town named Ferdoos [Nadia Lutfi]. Ferdoos invites
Adel to live with her, gives him money and says she loves him, but he
soon learns she has other men. Amal notices Adel's disappearance but
does not know what has happened until one of Adel's friends finds him
and tells her. Adel and Ferdoos fly to Lebanon together for a few
dancing and singing scenes in various touristic settings. After Adel
and Ferdoos return from Lebanon, Ferdoos is obliged to go back to
hustling men to meet her expenses, for which Adel is not prepared.
When he tries to go back to the gang at the beach, they all reject him
and he is unable to restart his relationship with Amal. Adel's father
[Imad Hamdi], having no word from his son, goes to Alexandria looking
for him. There he meets one of the bar women and becomes involved
with her, as Adel had done. One of Adel's friends from the beach gang
finds him and tells him what his father is doing, and that his friends
at the beach are willing to make amends. When he finds his father he
tells him of his experiences and that he has learned from them. With
sympathetic intervention from Ferdoos, father and son are reconciled
and Adel reestablishes his relationship with Amal.
Cast and crew: Abdel Halim Hafez, Nadia Lutfi, Mervat Amin, Imad Hamdi, Amer al-Askari, Yusef Shahuri, Hussein Kamal, Wahid Farid, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Samir Sabri, Salah Nazmi, Nabila El-Sayed, Fathy Abdul Sattar, Nahed Samir, Hamed Morsi, Youssef Francis
Pictured here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad
Abdel Aziz and Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 109-minute 1973
Hussein Kamal color Film My Blood and My Tears and My Smile
[dami wa damu'i wa ebtesameti] starring Naglaa Fathy based on a story
by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay and dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa
Sami and Kawsar Heikal and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot
summary: Nahed was an attractive young woman living an unstable life
of financial difficulties with her mother, her father and her brother
Mohammad, and she had an innocent romantic relationship with a fellow
student named Essam. When a wealthy man named Salim asked her father
for her hand in marriage, after much pressure from family and after
finding that Essam was not willing to commit himself to a marriage,
she agreed to go along, because Salim was willing to pay a bride price
to her family large enough to save them from financial hardship. This
meant she had to leave Egypt and her boyfriend to go to Lebanon to be
with Salim in his opulent manion. Salim turned to be a corrupt and
abusive liar, so she divorced him and managed with great difficulty to
get herself back to Egypt, to the great distress of her family. She
then married an attorney named Mamdouh, who wanted her as a trophy
wife so he could get into a higher social position. She soon divorced
Mamdouh and then became the mistress of a millionaire named Abbas,
with whom she became an international traveler. After a few years she
ran into Essam again, who was the only real love of her life and with
whom she had experienced the only moments of purity she had ever
known. By the time she saw Essam again she had changed so much she
knew she was was no longer the person he had once known and asked him
to stay away. The memories of the happy relationship she had
once known with Essam were enough for her.
Cast and crew: Hussein Kamal, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Salah Nazmi, Ahmed Al-Gezeiry, Wahid Farid, Naglaa Fathy, Nour El-Sherif, Hussein Fahmy, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Kawsar Heikal, Mohammad Mostafa Sami, Fathia Chahine, Mohamed Yahya, Kawsar Safiq, Nabila Nabolsy, Soheil Ne'mani, Idris bin Kiran
Pictured here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Khad to
promote the 1986 115-minute Ahmed Yehia color film Apartment Owner
Suicide [entehar saheb al-sha'ah] Starring Nabila Ebeid based on a
story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay and dialogue by Mostafa
Moharram and cinematography by Abdel Moneim Bahnassy. Plot summary:
Farida lived with her husband Hamdi in Hamdi's family apartment; they
both worked at the same company. His mother was always trying to turn
him against her, and she finally separated from him. The company
director Abdel Aziz liked her. After she became fed up with her
mother-in-law's behavior she went to live with her coworker Mervat.
Hamdi divorced her and then Farida married Abdel Aziz. He had a
luxury apartment but he was also a drunk who liked to play with the
maids while his wife was was sleeping. She found about it and left
him, then went back to him. She exploited his weakness until she
became the owner of the apartment and caused his death when he fell
off the balcony while flirting with her; upon investigation this was
found to be a suicide. She went back to her first husband Hamdi and
gave him the apartment becuase she was afraid of Abdel Aziz's heirs.
Then Hamdi's family took over the apartment. At first they merely
lived there with her but they ended up driving her out.
Cast and crew: Nabila Ebeid, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Hatem Zulfikar, Taheya Cariocca, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Ahmed Yehia, Abdel Moneim Bahnassy, Mimi Gamal, Amal Ibrahim, Wael Nour, Liza, Samia Mohsen, Hosny Abdel Galil, Hayam Abdel Latif
This is an Egyptian 27" x 39" one-sheet poster designed by Wahib Fahmy
and Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1974 Houssam El-Din Mustafa
film The Bullet Is Still in My Pocket based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus and starring Mahmoud
Yassine as Mohammad. In his 1998 Al-Ahram article "Victory at the Box
Office" Hani Mustafa lists it as one of several dealing with the 1973
war that depict Egyptian society in crisis. This one follows the
soldier Mohammad (Mahmoud Yassine) as he returns to his village in
defeat after the 1967 war, where he is met with contempt and derision.
His cousin Fatima, (Nagwa Ibrahim) the girl he loves, has been raped
by high official Abbas (Youssef Chaban); Mohammad decides to avenge
her by killing Abbas, but fortunately he finds an outlet for his
frustration when the 1973 war breaks out. The film has glorified
reenactments of various facets of the Egyptian Suez crossing but it
completely omits the Israeli counterattack on the other side of the
canal. This time when Mohammad returns to his village he is welcomed
as a hero by his fellow citizens and Abbas is exposed as a rapist.
Mohammad marries Fatima with the bullet still in his pocket.
Cast and crew: Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Mahmoud Yassine, Nagwa Ibrahim, Hussein Fahmy, Sa'eed Saleh, Youssef Chaban, Houssam El-Din Mustafa
