Showing posts with label Magda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Magda. Show all posts

Saturday, August 1, 2020

Girls Today بنات اليوم Abdel Halim Hafez 1956 Undated rerelease Egyptian one-sheet

Girls Today (1956) - (Abdel Halim Hafez) Undated rerelease Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1956 musical Girls Today written and directed by Henry Barakat, music by Mohamed Abdel Wahab and starring Abdel Halim Hafez as Khaled. Plot summary: Salwa [Magda] and Laila [Amal Farid] are sisters with vastly different personalities. Salwa is quiet and polite while Laila is extroverted and cheerful. Khaled gets into a romance with Laila, which brings out their differences. Khaled soon turns his attention to Laila's sister Salwa, but his artist friend Fathy [Ahmed Ramzy] is also attracted to her.

Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Youssef Issa, Abdel Halim Hafez, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Magda, Ahmed Ramzy, Amal Farid, Seraj Munir, Soraya Fakhry, Fathiya Shahin, Kariman, Abdel Azim Kamel, Hussain Ismail, Mokhtar El Sayed, Ahmed Khorshid



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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Jamila the Algerian جميلة Magda 1958 Egyptian one-sheet

Jamila the Algerian (1958) - (Magda) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 38" undated rerelease poster for the 1958 Youssuf Chahine film Jamila the Algerian written by Ali Esserkami, Youssef Essiabi, Naguib Mahfouz, Uadjih Nagib and Abder Rahman el Charkani and starring Magda as Jamila. Plot Summary: The youth of Algeria could find no means of liberation other than battle. Jamila Buohired decided she had to be a part of the liberation front, so she joined Yousef Saadi's [Ahmed Mazhar] secret team. The team was smuggling weapons from the Arab nations and killing French officers. The team had to change its hiding place and Jamila volunteered to help. Soldiers arrested her, but the rest of her team escaped. She was savagely tortured and told to reveal Yousef's location, but she endured the utmost torture without betraying her country. In a rigged trial she was sentenced to death but there was an international movement to save her. According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of the top 100 Egyptian films.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Ali Esserkami, Youssef Essiabi, Uadjih Nagib, Abder Rahman el Charkani, Magda, Ahmed Mazhar, Salah Zulfikar, Rushdy Abaza, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Hussein Riad, Abdel Aziz Fahmi, Naguib Mahfouz, Farida Fahmy, Adly Kasseb, Zahrat El-Ola, Tahani Rached, Kariman, Nadia El Guindy, Salah Nazmi, Fakher Fakher, Ahmed Louxor, Shafik Noureddin, Soleyman Al-Guindy, Said Khalil, Sherine, Mohamed Hamdi, Youssef El Sebai



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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

The Mirage السراب Nour El-Sherif 1970 Egyptian one-sheet

The Mirage (1970) - (Nour El-Sherif) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the 1970 Anwar El-Shenawy film black-and-white film The Mirage based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Nour El-Sherif as Kamel. Plot Summary: Kamel (Nour El-Sherif) is a wealthy boy who marries a teacher named Rebab (Magda). A lot of time is consumed early in the film with a series of silent flirtations as they shyly watch each other from a distance in and out of metro cars. They finally break the tension with an awkward conversation in which he proposes in his first complete sentence to her. On the wedding night she discovers he is impotent. Kamel goes to Dr. Amin the psychiatrist (Rushdy Abaza) who assures him his problems are caused by things that happened during his childhood. Dr. Amin knows Rebab. He asks her to help Kamel overcome his problem to get through the marriage crisis and restore him to full health. The dysfunction continues as Kamel is unable to perform with his wife, especially since his mother (Aqila Ratib), who does not like Rebab, dominates his thinking; he is only able to do this in a brothel. However Kamel still loves Rebab very much. During this period a relationship begins between Dr. Amin and Rebab after a furious fight between her and Kamel. This affair results in pregnancy; when Rebab is on her way home Kamel tells her he has been cured, but she is not able to respond to him, and he discovers the truth. Then she dies of a hemhorrage during a miscarriage.

Cast and crew: Magda, Nour El-Sherif, Naguib Mahfouz, Anwar El-Shenawy, Aqila Ratib, Taheya Cariocca, Abbas Fares, Rushdy Abaza, Mahmoud Nasr, Ali El Zorkani, Aziza Helmy, Zeinat Sedki, Mimi Gamal, Mohammed Abaza, Zeinat Alawy



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Friday, October 21, 2016

I Am Alone انا وحدي Magda 1952 Egyptian oversize film poster

I Am Alone (1952) - (Soad Mohamed) Egyptian oversize film poster

This is a 47" x 36" Egyptian stone litho poster designed by Ahmed Abdel Aziz for the 1952 Henry Barakat film I am Alone AKA Ana Wahdi based on a story by Youssef Esa and starring Magda as Nawal. Plot summary: Nawal and Afaf [Mona] were seamstresses at a tailor shop making women's dresses. At a fancy formal occasion a weathy man named Ehsan [Omar El-Hariri] fell in love with Nawal and his friend Atef [Salah Nazmi] fell in love with Afaf. When they found out who the girls really were they abandoned them, after which Nawal tried to commit suicide.

Cast and crew: Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Youssef Esa, Magda, Mona, Soad Mohamed, Ahmed Abdel Aziz, Abdel Rahim El Zarkani, Mimi Gamal, Omar El-Hariri, Souraya Fakhri, Nour El-Demerdash, Salah Nazmi, Henry Barakat, Mimi Shakeeb, Yousef Eisa, Giulio De Luca



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Saturday, May 21, 2016

God Is on Our Side الله معنا (Faten Hamama) - (1955) Egyptian one-sheet poster

God Is on Our Side (1955) - (Faten Hamama) Egyptian one-sheet poster

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





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Sunday, October 18, 2015

The Rule of Time [حكم الزمان] (Nour Al Hoda) Egyptian one-sheet 1953

The Rule of Time (1953) - (Nour Al Hoda) Egyptian one-sheet film poster

This is a 35" x 25.5" Egyptian stone litho one-sheet designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1953 Henry Barakat film The Rule of Time [hukm al-zaman] based on a screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Esa and starring Imad Hamdi as Adel. Plot summary: Engineer Adel returns to Cairo from Europe looking for Wedad [Nour Al Hoda], the woman he wants to marry.

Cast and crew: Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Giulio De Luca, Imad Hamdi, Henry Barakat, Magda, Nour Al Hoda, Zuzu Shakeeb, Seraj Munir, Mohammed Al-Bakkar, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Rahim al-Zerkani, Omar al-Hariri, Samiha Tawfik





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Thursday, June 26, 2014

I'm on My Own [ماليش حد] (Shadia) - (1953) Egyptian Oversize Film Poster

I'm on My Own [malish had] (1953) - (Shadia) original Egyptian 33x45 film poster

Pictured is an original year Egyptian 35"x45" poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1953 Ibrahim Emara 106-minute black-and-white film I'm on My Own [malish had] starring Shadia based ond story and dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa Sami with screenplay by Ebrahim Emara with cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A man [Abbas Fares] was living happily in Alexandria with his wife and daughters [Shadia and Magda], but after his wife died he found a love letter among her papers giving him the idea she might have betrayed him. As his doubts grew he began to think his two daughters might be from another man. He began to treat them harshly and took up drinking and gambling to forget. This caused him to lose all his money and his factories. His daughters ran away from home. He then realized his wife was innocent when he found a letter that had been written to his wife's sister. He regretted his behavior and tried to repair the damage he had done to his daughters and recover his lost fortune. He succeeded in doing this and the family's wounds were healed.

Cast and crew: Ibrahim Emara, Magda, Choukoukou, Shukry Sarhan, Shadia, Abbas Fares, Bruno Salvi, Mary Queenie, Mohamed Mustafa Sami, Ferdoos Mohammed, Samiha Tawfiq, Zeinat Sedki, Mahmoud El-Sebai, Zaki al-Fayoumi, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohamed al-Dib, Shafik Noureddin, Mohsen Hassanein, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Lutfi al-Hakim, Mohamed Soleiman



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Thursday, April 3, 2014

The Three Faces of Love [انف وثلاث عيون] (Magda) - (1972) Egyptian one-sheet

The Three Faces of Love [انف وثلاث عيون anf wa thalath oyoun] (1972) - (Magda) Egyptian one-sheet

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



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Saturday, March 8, 2014

The Much-Loved One [حبايبى كتير] (Ragaa Abdou) - (1951)

The Much-Loved One [habaebi ketir] (Ragaa Abdou) (1951) Original Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a 23.5" x 35.5" first printing of an Egyptian poster designed by Dimitri, Studio Adly and Meftah to promote the 1951 111-minute Kamal Attia black-and-white film The Much-Loved One [habaebi ketir] starring Ragaa Abdou with story and dialogue by Abdel Aziz Salam and cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: The musician Nabila [Ragaa Abdou] paid no attention to the admirers who gathered around her every day. Nabila lived only for her art and did not care for anything but her art and singing. Then a young man named Raouf who managed an advertising company [Kamal Al-Shennawi] appeared in her life and tried to tear down the walls Nabila had built around herself. He succeeded and she fell in love with him, but her wicked brother Farid [Farid Shawqi] did not like this because he had been planning for her to marry a wealthy man named Ghandur Bey [Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi]. The two of them fought over this; Nabila finally prevailed and married the one she loved.

Cast and crew: Ragaa Abdou, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Magda, Farid Shawqi, Ismail Yasseen, Kamal Attia, Bruno Salvi, Abdel Aziz Salam, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Hassan Kamel, Fathia Chahine, Soad Ahmed, Gamalat Zayed, Abdel Alim Khattab, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Samir Ezzat, Souraya Fakhry, Ibrahim Fawzi, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Gihane

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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Revolution in Yemen [ثورة اليمن] (Hassan Youssef) - (1966) Egyptian one-sheet

Revolution in Yemen (1966) - (Hassan Youssef) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1966 103-minute Atef Salem color film Revolution in Yemen [thawret al-yaman] starring Hassan Youssef and Magda based on a story by Saleh Morsy, screenplay and dialogue by Aly Esa and Aly Al-Zarkani and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: When Mansour [Hassan Youssef] returns to his native Yemen after 12 years absence completing his studies in Cairo he sees public evidence of official brutality such as public beheadings and severed heads hanging from bridges, and he learns that the imam [Salah Mansour] is a tyrant who does not trust anyone who has studied abroad. He falls in love with Amna [Magda] a Yemeni girl and evades the imam's efforts to kill him. He joins a secret army organization plotting to overthrow the government which includes his Cairo friend Haris [Salah Kabil] and the plot succeeds.

Cast and crew: Atef Salem, Imad Hamdi, Magda, Hassan Youssef, Salah Mansour, Salah Kabil, Abdelhalim Nasr, Saleh Morsy, Aly Esa, Aly Al-Zarkani, Hassan el Baroudi, Omar Zolficar, Rashuan Tewfik, Abdel Azim Abdel Haq, Mohammed Hamdi, Ibrahim Al-Shami, Fayez Hegab, Ali Rushdy, Mohsen Hassanein, Mohamed Sabih, Ali Al-Dali



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Monday, October 28, 2013

Eve on the Road حواء على الطريق (Magda) - (1968) Egyptian one-sheet

Eve on the Road (1968) - (Magda) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz and Ahmed Fouad and printed by Dar al-Kateb al-Arabi of Cairo to promote the 1968 Hussein Helmy 100-minute black-and-white film Eve on the Road [hawa ala al-tariq] starring Magda based on screenplay and dialogue by Hussein Helmy with cinematography by Dia El-Mahdy. The film was produced and distributed by the General Egyptian Cinema Institute. Plot summary: Three young women were alternating between the call of the heart and loyalty to the woman's cause of achieving full equality with men. Mona [Magda] was fully committed to the woman's cause and would not settle for anything less. Nashwa [Madiha Salem] thought it was better for women to accept reality. Hekmat [Soheir Samy] was committed to the cause and raised her voice with resounding slogans, but she inevitably sacrificed herself for her cause after everyone denied her. At the beginning her husband said he was a believer in full equality but in fact he just a follower who felt a sense of superiority. Nashwa rushed into a marriage with Galal, a happy pilot [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim]. Hekmat abandoned her principles in her marriage to her lawyer neighbor. Mona's husband Khaled [Rushdy Abaza] backed down when she insisted and decided to meet her halfway, which saved her at the last minute. Mona had a daughter to whom she passed the torch.

Cast and crew: Hussein Helmy, Hussein El-Mohandess, Dia El-Mahdy, Rushdy Abaza, Abdelazim Abdelhack, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Magda, Madiha Salem, Soheir Samy, Rashuan Tewfik, Aziza Helmy, Amal Ramzy, Ahmed al-Haddad, Malek Al-Gamal, Soheir Reda, Kawsar Ramzy, Hassan Mostafa, Mohammad al-Bashari



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