This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Seif and Wahid Fahmy
for the 1973 Atef Salem film Les Miserables based on the 1862
Victor Hugo novel of the same title using a screenplay by Rafiq
al-Saban and starring Farid Shawqi as Hamed Hamdan/Hassan al-Kashef.
Plot summary: Hamed Hamdan is a poor man sent to prison for stealing a
loaf of bread. He escapes, becomes rich and changes his name to
Hassan al-Kashef, but though he uses his wealth charitably to help
people in need, he is still subject to public disdain because the
people know his origins.
Cast and crew: Victor Hugo, Atef Salem, Youssef Wahby, Farid
Shawqi, Adel Adham, Laila Eloui, Mohsena Tewfik, Fardous Abdel Hamid,
Abdel Waress Assar, Rafiq al-Saban, Ahmed Bahgat, Abdel Moneim
Bahnassy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian movie poster designed by Samira for the
1984 Mohamed Khan film Missing Person written by Assem Tawfiq,
starring Yehia El-Fakharany as Atia Abdel Khaleq and inspired by the
1958 H. E. Bates novel The Darling Buds of May. Mohamed
El-Assyouti wrote this plot summary on IMDB: "A culinary piece of
cinema. This humourous critique of dehumanisation in big-city life
depicts a depressed urban dweller who leaves for the countryside,
where he tries to sell a piece of land he has inherited. He is charmed
by the idyllic life, but has to keep up with the voracious appetites
of his hosts, who literally never stop eating, even waking up to
snack. He soon adapts to their eating habits but only after he is
taken to a hospital with severe indigestion due to his hosts'
generosity."
Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Assem Tawfiq, Tewfik El Dekn, Yehia
El-Fakharany, Laila Eloui, Farid Shawqi, Tarek El-Telmessani, Aida
Abdel Aziz, H.E. Bates
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
for the 1985 Adel Sadiq film Husband on Call AKA [zawg taht
al-talab based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Helmy Salem
and starring Adel Imam as Mamdouh. Plot summary: Mamdouh is recruited
by a broker [Fouad El-Mohandes] to act as a temporary husband. He is
not comfortable doing this at first, but he plays the part for three
different women. In the final episode the wealthy Naeem [Mohamed
Reda] decides to remarry his divorced wife Nahed [Laila Eloui]. Nahed
decides to teach Naeem a lesson; she makes a secret arrangement with
Mamdouh, who is as usual being paid handsomely to make the remarriage
possible by acting as an interim husband. Nahed thinks her arrangement
with Mamdouh will make Naeem worry about losing her.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Laila Eloui, Samir Farag, Helmy Salem,
Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Hala Sedki, Sally, Adel Sadiq, Fouad
El-Mohandes, Mohamed Reda, Said Abdel Ghani, Angel Aaram, Youseff
Daoud, Othman Abdul Menem, Mahmoud Rashad, Angel, Mona Darwish,
Mokhtar Al Sayed, Wahid Hamdi, Ali al-Sharif al-Saghir, Mohammad
Sanad, Awatef Ramadan, Nabawia Said, Ahmed Shoukry
This film is based on Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce with a story
that begins in 1942 beside the Suez Canal in the city of Ismailia
Egypt. The poster measures 25.5" x 37" and was designed for a 1994
rerelease of Samir Seif's 1984 108-minute color film Streets of
Fire starring Nour El-Sherif based on screenplay and dialogue by
Ibrahim al-Mawgi and Ahmed Saleh with cinematography by Essam Farid.
Plot summary: A policeman named Imam [Nour El-Sherif] was transferred
from Ismailia to Cairo to work in a red light district. He fell in
love with a whore named Nousa [Madiha Kamel] who worked with a local
thug named Galal [Sayed Zayan], but Imam did not know Nousa was a
whore. In an incident defending Nousa, Imam beat up a British soldier
and then lost his job. He returned to the neighborhood looking for
work, became a pimp and got into a fight with Galal. Imam won the
fight, became the district's dominant tough guy and married
Nousa. Later when prostitution was outlawed, Imam took to nightclub
life and then joined revolutionaries fighting the British. A year
earlier the 1983 Nader Galal film Five Doors Bar [khamsa bab]
had also been based on Irma La Douce, set at about the same
time in Cairo's Ezbekia district.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Madiha Kamel, Laila Eloui, Sayed Zayan, Mohamed Reda, Samir Seif, Naima Al Soghayar, Negah El-Mogui, Atef Barakat, Zakaria Mouafi, Billy Wilder, Essam Farid, Karima El-Sherif, Hanem Mohamed, Sharifa Zaitoun, Amima Selim, Mohammad Shawky, Zakaria Mouafi, Ahmed Abu Abia, Kassim Al Daly, Fouad Khalil, Reda Al Sayed, Souraya Ezzeddine, Fouad Abdel Aziz, Youssef Fawzi, Wasila Hussein, Hosni Abdel Galil, Hayatem, Youssef Assal, Ahmed Abdel Hadi, Ahmed Farid
We have here a 27" x 29" Egyptian poster designed by Al-Khad to
promote the 1986 Hossam El-Din Mostafa 118-minute color film The
Racketeers [al-harafish] starring Mahmoud Yassine based on a story
by Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay and dialogue by Ahmed Saleh and
cinematography by Mamoun Ata. Plot Summary: In this film generations
of urban poor and their families come and go; this repetitive flow is
the story. Soleiman al-Nagy [Mahmoud Yassine] defeats Atris [Salah
Kabil] in a stick fight, establishes himself as the local tough guy
and distributes justly to the district racketeers the assets he has
collected from the rich. The rich people try to get rid of him.
Sania marries him after he divorces his first wife. She is able to
separate him from the racketeers and draw him into wealthy
circles. He opens a big agency. Khedr works with his father Soleiman
at the agency. He marries Bakr Redwana, [Laila Eloui] who loves him;
then he runs away from home after Bakr accuses him of disloyalty.
Soleiman's father becomes ill and moves to the home of his old wife
after she returns to his protection. When it becomes known that he
is bankrupt Atris becomes the neighborhood tough guy again. Khedr
returns and buys the agency at auction to bring dignity back to the
family after overcoming Atris. He discredits Bakr Redwana, who
acknowledges his brother's innocence before she dies.
Cast and crew: Mahmoud Yassine, Laila Eloui, Salah Kabil, Sawsan Badr, Naguib Mahfouz, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Safia El Emari, Mamdouh Abd El Aleem, Ibrahim Al Sharkawi, Mamoun Ata, Ahmed Saleh, Leila El Emari, Ezzat Abdul Jawad, Abdel Gawad Metwally, Nadia Shamseddine, Ahmed Abou Abih, Shirin Omar, Fifi Mady, Mohamed Abou Hashish
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
This is a 26.5" x 38.5" Egyptian poster designed by Focus to
promote the 2004 Ooussama Fawzi film I Love the Cinema [baheb
al-sima بحب السيما] starring Youssef Osman as Na'eem based on a story by Hani Fawzi with
cinematography by Tarek El-Telmisany. This is a controversial film
narrated by Sherif Mounir as the voice of 40-year-old Na'eem
as he recalls his childhood years. The story is about a Coptic family in
1960s Shubra in the time of Gamal Abdel Nasser's presidency; it pushes
a number of religious, sexual and ethical boundaries as Na'eem remembers conflicts with a father
who assured him his love of film would surely lead to his eternal
damnation. Some Copts in Egypt were offended by what they saw as a
tendency to ridicule Christianity and they tried through legal action
to prevent it being shown.
Summons to Obey [anzar bil-ta'a] (1993) - (Laila Eloui) Egyptian movie poster
Amina, a pretty university student, was from a poor family in a lower-class neighborhood; while studying she had to work as a sales girl in a commercial shop. She loved her neighbor Ibrahim the attorney. They were too poor to marry so they had sexual liaisons. Amina lost her virginity. Ibrahim declared a desire to marry, but Amina's mother refused to allow this, especially since the rich boy Salah wanted to marry Amina to get the family out of the cycle of poverty in which they had lived for many years. Although Amina hated Salah and loved Ibrahim, she had to agree to marry Salah to please her powerful mother, who also dominated the father. Ibrahim had to reconcile himself to his beloved Amina's acceptance of the idea of marrying another, just as he also had to accept the imprisonment of his two friends of Ashraf and Tareq. He decided to leave Egypt with his friend Aziz. However he dissevered he could not do this because his love for Amina was too deep, as was the intensity of his attachment to his country. He started legal action to demand obedience from Amina even though he was not officially married to her. Ibrahim tried to prove the depth of his sexual relationship with Amina to emphasize his right to marry her, even though he created a scandal in front of the family and the people of the neighborhood. The case failed, but Amina confessed to her father the truth about her relationship with Ibrahim so he would agree to her marriage with him; this prevented a scandal and brought the lovers back together.
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Cast and crew: Laila Eloui, Mahmoud Hemida, Atef E-Taieb, Mamdouh Wafi, Achraf Abdel Baqi, Lamia El Amir
