War in the Land of Egypt [المواطن: مصري] (Omar Sharif) - (1991) Egyptian one-sheet

War in the Land of Egypt (1991) - (Omar Sharif) Egyptian one-sheet

This is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1991 120-minute Salah Abouseif color film War in the Land of Egypt [al-mowaten: masri] starring Omar Sharif, based on the novel al-harb fi bar misr by Youssef El-Kaeed with screenplay by Mohsen Zayed and cinematography by Tarek El-Telmisany. Plot summary: In 1973 in an Egyptian village Abdel Zeraq al-Shershabi (Omar Sharif), a shrewd feudal mayor, recovered his farmland by court order after the lifting of a receivership. His young second wife threatened to tell people he had become sexually impotent if he did not prevent their only son Tawfiq from being drafted into the army along with his other children from his first wife. The mayor pressured an oppressed farm laborer named Abel Mawgud to have his son Masri, who was exempt from the draft, take the place of his son Tawfiq in the induction in exchange for the Mayor giving him the five feddans he was farming, assigning him a special work crew and giving him a cash reward. Abdel Mawgud and his son agreed to this. Then Masri was killed in the October War, but he had already confessed the truth about what had happened to a recruiter named Hassan [Ashraf Abdel Baqi]. The police were investigating the incident, but Abdel Mawgud denied being Masri's father out of fear of the Mayor's anger, who had only paid him 261 pounds and refused to give him the land he had promised.

Cast and crew: Omar Sharif, Achraf Abdel Baqi, Ezzat El Alaili, Safia El Emari, Salah Abouseif, Abdullah Mahmoud, Khaled Nabawy, Youssef El-Kaeed, Enaam Salousa, Hassan Hosny, Hanan Shawki, Ashraf Abdel Baqi, Rushdi El Mahdi, Lola Mohamed, Mohsen Zayed, Tarek El-Telmisany, Yousef al-Qa'eed, Al-Montaser Billah, Magdi Sobhi, Mohamed Al-Seba, Rushdi El Mahdi, Abol Fotouh Omara, Naim Esa, Lola Mohamed

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War in the Land of Egypt [المواطن: مصري] (Omar Sharif) - (1991)

War in the Land of Egypt [المواطن: مصري] (1991) - (Omar Sharif) Egyptian one-sheet

This is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1991 120-minute Salah Abouseif color film War in the Land of Egypt [al-mowaten: masri] starring Omar Sharif, based on the novel al-harb fi bar misr by Youssef El-Kaeed with screenplay by Mohsen Zayed and cinematography by Tarek El-Telmisany. Plot summary: In 1972 in an Egyptian village Abdel Zeraq al-Shershabi, a shrewd feudal mayor, recovered his farmland by court order after the lifting of a receivership. His young second wife threatened to tell people he had become sexually impotent if he did not prevent their only son Tawfiq from being drafted into the army along with his other children from his first wife. The mayor pressured an oppressed farm laborer named Abel Mawgud to have his son Masri, who was exempt from the draft, take the place of his son Tawfiq in the induction in exchange for the Mayor giving him the five feddans of he was farming, assigning him a special work crew and giving him a cash reward. Abdel Mawgud and his son agreed to this. Then Masri was killed in the October War, but he had already confessed the truth about what had happened to a recruiter named Hassan. The police were investigating the incident, but Abdel Mawgud denied being Masri's father out of fear of the Mayor's anger, who had only paid him 261 pounds and refused to give him the land he had promised.

Cast and crew: Omar Sharif, Achraf Abdel Baqi, Ezzat El Alaili, Safia El Emari, Salah Abouseif, Abdullah Mahmoud, Khaled Nabawy, Youssef El-Kaeed, Enaam Salousa, Hassan Hosny, Hanan Shawki, Ashraf Abdel Baqi, Rushdi El Mahdi, Lola Mohamed, Mohsen Zayed, Tarek El-Telmisany, Yousef al-Qa'eed, Al-Montaser Billah, Magdi Sobhi, Mohamed Al-Seba, Rushdi El Mahdi, Abol Fotouh Omara, Naim Esa, Lola Mohamed

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The Emigrant المهاجر (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1994) Egyptian one-sheet

The Emigrant (1994) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a somewhat worn 27" x 39" promotional poster for the 1994 Youssef Chahine 120-minute color film The Emigrant [al-mohager] with screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Chahine, poster art by Jan and cinematography by Ramses Marzouk. Plot summary: Ram [Khaled Nabawy] lived with his old father [Michel Piccoli] in a poor tribe outside Egypt. Ram suffered from an unhappy dislike of his position as the favorite of his father's seven sons; he refused to accept that situation or to live in fear of drought, famine and flood. He dreamed of being in control of his own life and of his tribe being prosperous. He decided to go to Egypt to learn agriculture and to make use of other areas of knowledge found in Egyptian civilization. His brothers tied him up and threw him into the hold of a ship bound for Egypt, believing they had gotten rid of him forever, but Ram made it to Egypt and began learning agriculture. There he discovered the Egyptians were more interested in the arts and embalming. Ram met Amihar, [Mahmoud Hemida] the leader of the Egyptian armies. Amihar was impotent despite his physical strength and was unable to satisfy his wife Simihit [Youssra] after she fell in love with him. Amihar gave Ram a plot of land to farm. Ram fell in love with a pretty Egyptian girl named Haty [Hanan Turk] who said she would marry him. The two of them joined with an Egyptian minister farming the new land; they successfully cultivated the plot from Amihar. They divided the crop to help alleviate the famine that was threatening Egypt and Ram became a minister in the Pharaoh's government. Nonetheless he longed to return to his country after disclosing his identity to his seven brothers; he returned to his tribe with his wife, where he met with his father after long years of absence. He found his father had gone blind crying so much in the belief he had died, as his lying brothers had claimed. This film was banned by religious authorities in Egypt in 1994 and 1995, both times for violating Islamic strictures against depicting religious prophets--in this case the Prophet Joseph. After the ban was lifted The Emigrant became Chahine's most popular film.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Khaled el Nabaoui, Ahmed Bedir, Safia El Emari, Mahmoud Hemida, Yousef Ismail, Khaled Nabawy, Michel Piccoli, Ahmad Salama, Hanan Turk, Youssra, Ramses Marzouk, Menaha al-Batrawy, Sayed Abdel Karim, Amru Abdel Khalil, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Pierre Sioufi

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