This is a 27" x 39" poster designed by al-Khad for the 1986 Atef
E-Taib film Language File AKA Malaf fil-Adab written
by Wahid Hamed and starring
Farid Shawqi as Rashad. Plot summary: Vice Squad Officer Saeed [Salah
al-Saadany] is upset because his boss stops an investigation of Alia
because of her political connections. This prompts him to attempt to
get convictions based on falsified information.
Cast and crew: Atef E-Taib, Wahid Hamid, Farid Shawqi, Said Shimi,
Madiha Kamel, Salah al-Saadany, Tewfik El Dekn, Ahmed Bedir, Ali Al
Ghandour, Mahmoud Al Iraqi, Youssef Dawood, Taghreid El Beshbishy,
Olfat Imam, Abdul Jawad Metwali, Zakaria Mouafi, Salwa Othman, Rafat
Ragi, Nasser Seif
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Walid Wahig for the
1970 Hassan Al Imam film Dalal, the Egyptian based on a Naguib
Mahfouz adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1899 novel al-ba'th
(Resurrection) [voskrecenye/Воскресение]. This was Tolstoy's last
novel. It was produced in several other film adapations, most notably
the 1934 production by Samuel Goldwyn of Rouben Mamoulian's We Live
Again starring Fredric March and Anna Stein. Plot Summary: The
orphan girl Atiyat [Magda El-Khatib] grew up in an old mansion with
the sons of the current owner (Fouad Bey's aunt) until the owner threw
her out after discovering she had lost her virginity, not knowing that
Fouad Bey himself [Hussein Fahmy] had been responsible. Atiyat tried
to do the honorable thing. She took a job at a dye factory where she
met Mohammad, [Salah Kabil] who loved her and wanted to marry her.
Things did not go well for her there however; she quit working at the
factory and went to work as a dancer for Fatma Al-Falali [Hoda
Soltan]. Years later while she was working there she was accused of
murder. Fouad Ahmad was a judge on the court that sentenced her to 15
years in prison, but something moved inside Fouad Bey causing him to
suffer pangs of remorse. He resigned so he could mount a defense for
Atiyat; after much effort collecting judicial papers he was able to
get her exonerated. He thought he could now make amends for the past
and marry her, but she turned him down and married Mohammad back at
the dye factory.
Cast and crew: Magda El-Khatib, Salah Kabil, Hussein Fahmy, Madiha
Kamel, Hassan Al Imam, Soheir El-Barouni, Souraya Helmy, Leila Fawzi,
Hoda Soltan, Abdelhalim Nasr, Naguib Mahfouz, Leo Tolstoy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1986 Mohamed Khan
film Omar's Journey based on a story by Mohamed Khan and Raouf
Tawfiq and starring Farouk Al-Fichawy. Plot Summary: Omar [Farouk
Al-Fichawy] lives dependent on his father the wealthy Al-Gawahargi
[Mohamed Reda]. His father wants him to deliver a bag of jewels to a
colleague in Tanta. On the way he runs out of gas. A worker also
named Omar [Mamdouh Abd El Aleem] at a rural gas station tries to help
him refuel but uses the wrong type. While they are trying to solve
this problem a driver [Ahmad Abdel Waress] who had agreed to provide
the correct type of fuel arrives in a big yellow dump truck and beats
up Omar. The two Omars later continue the trip after picking up a
local prostitute named Negah [Mediha Kamel] who is on her way to Port
Said. With nothing to deliver in Tanta, they change the itinerary to
take Negah to Port Said. When they stop at a restaurant for food they
see the thieves in the bathroom and get into a brief inconclusive
fight. Then they continue, driving at night. That night the first
Omar and Negah sleep together when they stop at a hotel; then they
continue the trip. On the way they are attacked again by the same
thieves with the big yellow truck, who steal the jewelry and the car
and abandon the truck. The three of them continue to Suez in the
truck. There they find Omar's stolen automobile abandoned and wrecked
by the road on a rocky beach. Negah and the second Omar continue in
the truck, leaving the first Omar with the wrecked automobile. Negah
gets out of the truck and hitches a ride with another truck driver
after the two of them argue. She immediately begins coming on to her
new driver; the film ends with the first Omar sitting sadly in his
useless automobile. A radio is playing.
Cast and crew: Ahmad Abdel Waress, Mohamed Reda, Mamdouh Abd El
Aleem, Ahmed Bedir, Zahrat El-Ola, Madiha Kamel, Farouk Al-Fichawy,
Mohamed Khan, Tarek El-Telmessani, Raouf Tawfiq, Youcef Rajai, Samia
Al-Alfy, Ismail Mahmoud, Osman Abdel Moneim, Hanem Mohamed, Zakaria
Mouafi, Hosny Abdul Jalil, Ahdey Sadek, Ahmed Abu Abih, Mohamed
Al-Dardiri, Magdy Ahmed Aly, Hanan Youssef
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Fawzi and Studio Adly for the
1965 El-Sayed Ziada film In the Name of Love based on a story
by Hassan Hamed, screenplay and dialogue by Fayek Ismail and starring
Lobna Abdel Aziz as Laila. Plot summary: Laila went with her sick
mother to live in a building owned by Abdel Ghaffar [Yehia Chahine]
and his son Ahmed [Hassan Youssef]. Ahmed fell in love with Laila but
the father refused to allow the relationship because he thought Laila
loved him. Abdel Ghaffar accordingly proposed to Laila through her
brother; the brother agreed to let her marry him because he wanted the
old man's money.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour and Morteda Anise for the 1980 Ali Abdel-Khalek
film Torments of Love based on story, screenplay and dialogue
by Mostafa Moharram and starring Madiha Kamel as Madiha. Plot
summary: Ismail [Salah Nazmi] discovered a relationship between his
wife and his friend Salem. He notified the police so they could prove
the relationship between them. The police arrived and arrested Salem,
but the wife killed herself with an overdose of pills. The years
passed and Ismail's son Ahmed [Imad Abdel Halim] met Salem's daughter
Madiha [Madiha Kamel] at a university where they were both students.
Ahmed told his father about his relationship with Madiha and how he
sincerely loved her and wanted his father's approval to marry her.
Ahmed's father discovered that Madiha was his friend Salem's daughter
so he opposed the marriage. Ahmed had to run away with Madiha to
marry her. He was obliged to work in a nightclub, but his father
Ismail still tried to end the relationship. He notified Madiha's
fiance Rifaat [Ahmad Khamees] (Madiha's father had agreed to their
engagement). He gave Rifaat the address of the nightclub where Ahmed
was working; Rifaat tried to kill Ahmed just after the wedding, but
Madiha stepped into the line of fire and was killed herself.
Cast and crew: Madiha Kamel, Said Shimi, Ahmad Khamees, Imad Abdel
Halim, Farouk Al-Fichawy, Salah Nazmi, Mohamed Khalil, Ali
Abdel-Khalek, Aida Riad, Amal Ibrahim, Marwah El Khatib, Wasila
Hussein, Mokhtar Al Sayed, Ahmed Farid, Sami Nawar, Mostafa
Moharram
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz
and Morteda Anise for the 1979 Tayseer Aboud film Father of the
Girls AKA abu al-banat based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Tayseer Aboud and Bachir El Dik and starring Farid Shawqi
as Sayed Ahmed al-Nesa'. Plot summary: Sayed was working a low-level
government job and living with his four daughters Samira [Aida Riad],
Mona [Madiha Kamel], Safa [Rawa El-Kateb] and Laila [May Abdel
Nabi]. Mona was interested in a wealthy young man named Medhat
[Mahmoud Kabil] at about the time her father was being pushed out of
his government job despite years of faithful service. A man named
Hussein [Mohammad Hamdi] working at the government's district office
was arrested for smuggling. Sayed killed him, was arrested and
sentenced to three years in prison. Mona and Medhat married and had a
monotonous life together. She moved in with one of her friends, who
led her into deviant behavior. Sayed got out of prison after serving
his time, very upset about what had happened to Mona. When she saw
him, Mona jumped out of a window and killed herself.
Cast and crew: Bachir El Dik, Saeed Shimi, Said Shimi, Mahmoud
Kabil, Farid Shawqi, Madiha Kamel, Tayseer Aboud, Aida Riad, Rawa
El-Kateb, May Abdel Nabi, Emad Rashad, Mohammad Shawqi, Mohammad
Hamdi, Mahmoud Abo Zaid, Samiha Mohammad, Madiha Kamel, Gamal Ismail
This is an Egyptian poster designed to promote the 1974 Mohamed Abdel
Aziz 106-minute color film We Must Love in the Summer [fil-seyf
lazem neheb] starring Salah Zulfikar based on a story by Mohamed
Hassan and Mohamed Salem with screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Salem
and cinematography by Mostafa Imam. Plot summary: Dr. Nabil [Salah
Zulfikar] took four of his patients from a hospital for nervous
disorders to Alexandria believing they would be cured by mixing with
the people. One of them was Ahmed [Nour El-Sherif, who lived with
numbers and had a breakdown while working at a bank. The second was
an amateur musician named Medhat Youssef [Samir Sabri], who competed
for a prize at a song festival but failed. The third was Mohamed
Youssef the mathematician who went to the hospital because of a
personal crisis, and the fourth was Geneidy [Sameer Ghanem] the soccer
player who had failed as his team's goalee and who believed there were
conspiracies all around him. On the way to Alexandria they met a man
named Fadel Abdel Hafiz [Abdel Moneim Madbouly] and his daughters on
the al-Agami beach. Maggie [Magda El-Khatib] became friends with
Ahmed, Mohamed became friends with Zainab [Amira], Medhat became
friends with Madiha [Madiha Kamel] and Geneidy became friends with
Rawia [Lebleba]. In the midst of comedic, musical and dance scenes at
the beach and in the hotel Dr. Nabil restored his patients to health,
and they even demonstrated they were all normal when the police came
to investigate a complaint about the presence of deranged people at
the hotel. Of course they all fell in love and lived happily ever
after.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Magda El-Khatib, Nour El-Sherif, Madiha Kamel, Lebleba, Samir Sabri, Sameer Ghanem, Sa'eed Saleh, Amira, Wedad Hamdy, Mohamed Lutfy, Imad Hamdi, Tewfik El Dekn, Ibrahim Saafan, Salah Zulfikar, Mohamed Hassan, Salama Hassan, Mohamed Salem, Mostafa Imam, Mohammed Latif, Osama Abbas
Pictured is an Egyptian poster designed by Al-Khad to promote the 1982
123-minute Houssam El-Din Mustafa color film The Love District
[darb al-hawa] starring Youssra based on a story by Ismail Wali El
Deen with screenplay by Mostafa Moharram, dialogue by Sherif El
Menbawy and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: Hosnia and
the pimp Saleh [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] ran a house of prostitution called
the Hotel of Princesses in the Darb Tayyab neighborhood. Samiha
[Madiha Kamel] ended up there seeking refuge from the bad treatment of
her mother's husband, while Elham [Youssra] was driven there by
poverty. Men of all social levels frequented the hotel, such as Abdel
Aziz [Ahmed Zaki], the university professor of philosophy and his
friend Morad, Abdel Hafiz Basha, Abdel Aziz's uncle and a candidate
for parliament who attacked prostitution in campaign speeches, even
though it made him happy to hear the prostitutes insult him. It also
made him happy to be able to drop his guard with them. Saleh tried to
dominate Samiha but he was content with Hosnia, who loved him.
Cast and crew: Madiha Kamel, Youssra, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Zaki, Faruq al-Ghayshawi, Hassan Abdeen, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ismail Wali El Deen, Mostafa Moharram, Sherif El Menbawy, Farouk Al-Fichawy, Shouweikar, Farouk Falawkas, Ibrahim Abdel Razaq, Salwa Khattab, Amal Ibrahim, Aziza Helmy
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
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Marcel to promote the
1965 Abbas Kamel 109-minute color and black-and-white film Wisdom and Money [al-aql wal-mal]
starring Ismail Yasseen based on a story by Ezzedin Aref with
screenplay and dialogue by Abbas Kamel and cinematography by Mahmoud
Nasr. Plot summary: Fakhreddine [Ismail Yasseen] believed love was
the foundation for everything and he bet his friend [Tewfik El Dekn] he could live
happily with his beloved Shamsolasil, but his friend told him money
was the basis for everything because with money one could buy other
people and the needs of the people. When Fakhreddine saw his beloved
he told her he was going to marry her and told her about the bet he
had made with his friend about whether wisdom was better than money.
Shams gave him a novel and asked him to read it. The story was about
a man who wasted his money because he was unwise. After reading the
novel Fakhreddine concluded that wisdom is attractive in life but one
must also hang on to one's money.
Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Mahmoud Nasr, Abbas Kamel, Hassan Fayek, Tewfik El Dekn, Madiha Kamel, Abdel Alim Khattab, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Ibrahim Khan, Tarub, Mohammad Shawky, Kamel Anwar, Zaki Ibrahim, Anwar Mohamed, Hussein Ismail, Aly Kamel, Zeinab Alawy, Qatquta, Kitty, Kawsar al-Asal, Abdel Nabi Mohamed, Khaled Agabani, Soheir Magdi
Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian film poster designed by Hassan
Mazhar Gasour and Morteda Anise and printed by Arabic Cinema printers
to promote the 1984 110-minute Hussein El-Wakeel color film The
Curse [al-la'na] starring Nour El-Sherif with screenplay by
Hussein El-Wakeel, dialogue by Salah Gabin and cinematography by
Mostafa Imam, based on the 1963 film Shock Corridor written and
directed by Samuel Fuller. The film was produced by Aflam Eskandaria
and distributed by Ihab al-Leisi films. Plot summary: Chief Editor
Tantawy [Nabil Dessouky] gave the journalist Hamdy [Nour El-Sherif]
the job of investigating the murder of Saluma, an inmate at a mental
hospital. Hamdy gained entrance into the hospital claiming to be
insane, despite the objections of his wife Madiha [Madiha Kamel].
Based on consultations with a psychiatrist he learned how to imitate
the state of a mental patient. At the hospital he found three
witnesses who said the patient Khalil was the one who had killed
Salmuma because she had seen him assault another patient
sexually. Hamdy left the hospital and published his report, but
discovered he had gone insane himself.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Samuel Fuller, Madiha Kamel, Hussein El-Wakeel, Mustafa Imam, Gamil Ratib, Ahmed Bedir, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra, Aly El Cherif, Mohamed Kamel, Mohamed Morshed, Ahmed Abdel Hadi, Mohamed Nouh, Nabil Dessouky, Kamal Hussein
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian promotional poster designed by Hassan
Mazhar Gasour and Morteda Anise for the 120-minute Mohamed Khan color
film Desire [al-raghbah], with screenplay and dialogue by Bachir El
Dik and cinematography by Said Al-Shiemy; it is based on F. Scott
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Plot summary: Jaber [Nour
El-Sherif] was a rich businessman who lived alone in his villa after
leaving his wife, a long time after he had been injured in the 1967
war. Hala [Madiha Kamel] was now living in a villa with her husband
Hussein [Hussein El-Sherbini]. Jaber learned her address and bought
the villa next door to her so he could be close to her with his dreams
and old memories. He invited her to visit him but she refused because
she wanted him out of her life, which had become stable. A secret
relationship developed between Hussein and the wife of Hosan, [Nabil
al-Dessouki] who was living at the villa. Hosan watched his wife and
confirmed her relationship with Hussein, then he killed her. Hussein
had to run away with his wife Hala. Jaber heard about this and that
Hussein and Hala had left the villa, so he killed himself with Hosan's
rifle.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Madiha Kamel, Nour El-Sherif, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Imaqne, Hayatem, Hussein El-Sherbini, Essad Younes, Bachir El Dik, Said Al-Shiemy, Mahmoud Al Zohairy, Sabri Abdel Aziz, Nabil al-Dessouki
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
for the 1971 Youssef Chahine (1926-2008) film The Choice based
on a story by Naguib Mahfouz and Youssef Chahine. It won the Tanit
d'Or prize at the 1971 Carthage Film Festival. Cinematography was by
Ahmed Khorshed. Plot Summary: Sayed [Ezzat El Alaili] was a famous
writer and researcher living in Alexandria who had climbed to the top
of the social and political pyramid. He was married to Sharifa [Soad
Hosny]. He and his wife were preparing for a trip abroad to work in a
UN delegation. He read a report in a newspaper about the murder of
his twin brother Mahmoud [Ezzat El Alaili] and postponed his trip. He
contacted the police and asked them to investigate. Mahmoud was a
sailor who lived his life far and wide as he wished to do, without any
responsibilities. He had absolutely no interest in social or
political centers; in this he was the opposite of his brother who
tried to be at the top of social affairs. However he was often
defeated by his own reworked ideas, which contained nothing new.
Mahmoud stayed away from the social life Sayed loved; he preferred
instead to live his life free of tedious problems. He moved as he
wished according to whim, across Mahmoud's magical world and
frequenting all its places from the homes of artists to magificent
mansions. The police officer was skeptical about what was happening
around him and began to develop a plan for tracking this writer Sayed,
who was living a double life: The cultured man was caught between the
true roots of culture and the effort to rise socially. Sayed fled but
the police caught him and put him in a mental hospital. "When a
free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother--a famous
novelist--is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible
liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn
that Sayed's successful fictions owe much to the inspiration of his
brother Mahmoud's adventurous life. Just as the evidence against the
novelist seems overwhelming, Mahmoud turns up alive. But why are the
twins never seen together...? In this very personal film, one can see
the symbolic outlines of the uneasy relationship between Egyptian
intellectuals and the problems of the proletariat". From
the Cornell University Library web site.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Saad Ardash, Abdel Kader Hussein, Mahmoud Sobhi, Rashad Hamed, Kemal Morsy, Ashraf al-Solhdar, Hoda Soltan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Naguib Mahfouz, Ezzat El Alaili, Seif El Dine, Soad Hosny, Seif Eddine Shawkat, Ahmed Khorshed, Mimi Shakeeb, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra, Madiha Kamel, Youssef Wahby, Aly El Cherif
