This isa 27" x39" Egyptian poster designed byGasour and Abdel Aziz
for the 1976 Nader Galal film No Time for Tears based on a
story by Rizq Helmy, screenplay by Rizq Helmy and Abdel Hay Adib and
starring Naglaa Fathy as Azza. Plot summary: Azza is a dancer who
falls in love with an Egyptian army officer named Amr [Hussein Fahmy]
and promises to marry him. When she hears he has been killed, she
immerses herself dancing in Cairo's nightclubs to pay expenses and
cope with her grief; she is shocked and confused when Amr unexpectedly
turns up alive and well. She does not know where to begin.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Rizq Helmy, Abdel Hay Adib, Hussein
Fahmy, Nader Galal, Mahmoud Nasr, Nour El-Sherif, Mahmoud El-Meliguy,
Amina Rizk, Hussein El-Sherbini, Ehsan Sherif, Ahmed Abaza, Mohamed
Shawky, Safia El Emari
This is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the
1954 110-minute black-and-white Atef Salem musical Deprivation
[al-herman] starring Fayrouz as Mona with screenplay by Atef Salem,
story and dialogue by Nairuz Abdel Malek and cinematography by Mahmoud
Nasr. Plot summary: A married couple lived separately. Wafa' [Zouzou
Mady] worked her private home job and paid Engineer Fadel [Imad Hamdi]
the father to take care of his small daughter Mona. Since he could
not find anyone to look after Mona during his absence, he took her
with him to work. While tampering with machinery at Fadel's plant,
Mona accidentally caused her father to be caught in the moving parts
of a large machine, which broke his arm. Mona ran away feeling
tormented and guilty. She met Baheyya, [Negma Ibrahim] a malicious
woman who took her in and treated her cruelly. Meanwhile Fadel was
looking everywhere for his daughter. He went to Alexandria with his
wife, who felt Mona had violated the rights of her family. Mona ran
away from Baheyya, disguised herself as a boy named Bondoq and went to
Alexandria as a stowaway on a train. There she took refuge with a
kindly fisherman named Aouf [Adly Kasseb] and his mother [Souraya
Fakhry]. Her mother and father found her later and she told them what
had happened.
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
This is an Egyptian 27" x 39" undated rerelease one-sheet poster for
the 1955 Helmy Rafla film My Nights of Love starring Abdel
Halim Hafez as Ahmed Momtaz. Plot summary: Ahmed Momtaz was a
low-level employee who invented a type of fireproof cloth. He offered
his invention to his direct supervisor, who in turn offered it to the
one above him and so on until it reached the executive director. Each
person in the chain took credit for the invention himself. He went
with his colleague to see the executive director at his home where
they were having a costume party. He met the director's daughter
thinking she was the maid, and they liked each other. She thought he
was a millionaire because he had the same name as the millionaire
Ahmed Momtaz. The real millionaire appeared, who was courting the
girl. The director discovered the truth. Ahmed tried to prove to the
director that he was the owner of the invention. There was a
confrontation between the employee and the millionaire, which ended in
Ahmed's favor. He married his love after the director learned the
truth about the invention.
Cast and crew: Abdel Halim Hafez, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Helmy Rafla, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Amal Farid, Mahmoud Nasr, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Ismail Al-Hebrouk, Seraj Munir, Salah Nazmi, Mohammed Abdel Koddous, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Aziza Helmy, Hind Alam, Shafik Noureddin, Wedad Hamdy, Said Khalil, Mohamed al-Dib
Pictured is an original year printing of a 33.5" x 45" Egyptian
poster made to promote the 1953 Abbas Kamel 105-minute black-and-white
film Guard Your Tongue [lisanak hosanak] starring Shadia with
screenplay and dialogue by Abbas Kamel and cinematography by Mahmoud
Nasr. Plot summary: In this 105-minute course of uninterrupted
buffoonery, the village mayor sends his son to Cairo along with
al-Dandrawy to meet with Hamdy [Karem Mahmoud], who is working at the
Tram Company so a school and a hospital can be built in the
village. There is an emotional relationship between Hamdy and his
neighbor Hamida [Shadia]. Hamida's Aunt Wedad [Zeinat Sedki] likes
the musician Ghandour [Farid Shawqi], who has hired Hamida to sing in
his group. Ghandour wants to marry Wedad, but she refuses him. Maria
[Hind Rostom] likes Ghandour. The singing group goes to the mayor's
village and Ghandour and Mandour [Aziz Osman] decide to steal a large
amount of money so they can blame it on Hamdy, but their plan fails.
Everyone knows Ghandour and Mandour are behind the theft. Hamdy
marries Hamida and her Aunt Wedad marries the village mayor. Hind
Rostom (1931-2011) appears here at the age of 22 in a prominent role
as Maria, a singing and dancing brunette.
Cast and crew: Shadia, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud Nasr, Karem Mahmoud, Zeinat Sedki, Aziz Osman, Hind Rostom, El Sayed Bedeir, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Mahmoud Nasr, Abbas Kamel, Omar Al-Gizawy, Abdel Hamid Zaki, So'ad Mekawy, Kitty, Mohamed al-Tabei, El Sayed Bedeir, Lutfi al-Hakim
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed to promote the 1971
Hassan Ramzi film Emotions and the Body [al-atefa wal-gessad]
starring Naglaa Fathy based on story, screenplay and dialogue by
Hassan Ramzi with cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: A
happy relationship developed between Hoda [Naglaa Fathy] and Ahmed
[Mahmoud Yassine]. Ahmed was planning to meet with her parents to ask
for her hand, then suddenly went abroad to get his doctorate. Hoda's
father [Ibrahim Saafan] got into a severe financial crisis and died,
leaving Hoda in great pain. She felt better when she heard Ahmed was
returning, but his plane crashed while Hoda was waiting to meet him at
the airport. Her friend Dolat [Soheir El-Bably] tried to get her to
accept treatment at a home for women, but she would not stay there;
she went on a partying binge in Lebanon instead. Then Hoda heard
Ahmed had not died, so she wrote him a letter about her situation.
Ahmed came to see her, but she overdosed on sleeping pills and killed
herself the following day.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Soheir El-Bably, Rushdy Abaza, Hassan Ramzi, Mahmoud Nasr, Omar Khorshid, Ibrahim Saafan, Sayed Zayan, Nabila El-Sayed, Ali Ezzedine, Esmat Amer
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour and Mohamed Abdel Aziz to promote the 1975 Hassan Ramzi
94-minute color film The White Gown [al-reda al-abiad] starring
Naglaa Fathy based on screenplay, dialogue and story by Hassan Ramzi
with cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: Omar [Youssef
Wahby] is a man with a good heart who lives in the mentality of the
past. He becomes angry when he learns his only son Kamal [Magdy
Wahba] has married a poor girl named Hoda [Naglaa Fathy] without
telling him about it. Before the marriage, Hoda had been caught
stealing a wallet from a man who was dating her named Ahmed [Ahmed
Mazhar] but then she marries Kamal and they live happily until he dies
in a traffic accident while under stress due to a demand from his
father that he divorce Hoda. Then Hoda is denied custody of her
daughter Sofa [Manal Afifi]. When Sofa gets older she becomes a
beautiful young woman and is later reunited with her mother on her
wedding day. On that same day Hoda is also forgiven in a renewed
contact with Ahmed, the man she had once robbed.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Ahmed Mazhar, Hassan Ramzi, Magdy Wahba, Youssef Wahby, Zahrat El-Ola, Hayat Kandeel, Ibrahim Saafan, Salah Nazmi, Sa'eed Saleh, Leila Fahmi, Huseein Kandil, Hoda Ramzi, Mahmoud Nasr, Fatheya Chahine, Hassan Afifi, Manal Afifi
Pictured is a 27" x 29" Egyptian poster designed by Mohamed Abdel Aziz
and Wahib Fahmy to promote the 1979 Atef Salem 120-minute color
film Torrent of Tears [assefa min al-demou'] starring Farid
Shawqi based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mustafa Samy, with
cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: When the secretary
Aziza [Nahed Gabr] went to Essam [Farid Shawqi] to marry him after
promising herself to him and becoming pregnant by him, Essam refused
the marriage and married his client Enayat [Laila Taher] instead.
Aziza died giving birth to her daughter Hedia [Hala Fouad]. An
elderly neighbor named Abdullah [Abdel Waress Assar] took over the
care of her daughter. Aziza had told him the girl's father was a big
attorney, but refused to mention his name. The years went by and at a
party Salwa [Shirin] the daughter of the attorney Essam became engaged
to Tareq [Emad Rashad] who did not feel any love towards her, only the
common interests between the two parents. Tareq actually loved Hedia,
who had gotten involved in a relationship with him after he had
pledged to marry her, but his father refused to allow the marriage.
Hedia discovered she was pregnant. Kindly old Abdullah learned this
and sued Tareq; he engaged the biggest attorney in the country, Essam,
to defend Hedia. While Essam was preparing the case Abdullah told him
about Hedia's life, her mother and how she had left her with
Abdullah. Essam advised Tareq to marry Hedia so she would not suffer
any longer and to relieve his conscience, which had been bothering him
these many years while he had been looking for his daughter.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Laila Taher, Omar El-Hariri, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Atef Salem, Emad Rashad, Shereen, Abdel Waress Assar, Mahmoud Nasr, Mustafa Samy, Nahed Gabr, Shirin, Hala Fouad
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian rerelease poster designed by Ahmed
Fouad to promote the 1955 Ibrahim Emara 133-minute black-and-white
film Song of Truth [lahn al-wafa] starring Abdel Halim Hafez
with story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohammed Mustafa Sami and
cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: A musician named Alam
[Hussein Riad] is wounded in love by an unfaithful wife, then develops
hatred for women; later he falls in love with his foster son Galal's
[Abdel Halim Hafez] intended bride Saham [Shadia], a Cairo chorus
girl. When this does not succeed either he abandons his feelings for
the girl, she marries the foster son and life returns to normal.
Cast and crew: Mahmoud Nasr, Ibrahim Emara, Shadia, Abdel Halim Hafez, Hussein Riad, Zouzou Nabil, Abdel Waress Assar, Mustafa Samy, Wedad Hamdy, Hassan el Baroudi, Mohamed Shawky, Ragaa Youssef, Mary Ezzedine, Zaki Ibrahim, Alia Fawzi, Hassan Hamed, Abdel Moneim Bassioni
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
Shown here is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease poster designed by an
unknown artist for the 1956 139-minute Hassan El-Seify black-and-white
film Samara starring Taheya Cariocca based on story and
screenplay by Mahmoud Ismail with dialogue by Abdel Moneim El-Sebai
and cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: This is an Egyptian
noir style crime thriller, featuring a classy 1952 Packard
Mayfair convertible as an Egyptian gang's vehicle of choice for its
various criminal errands. Soltan [Mahmoud Ismail] was a big-time
smuggler who loved Samara [Taheya Cariocca]. He married her and drew
her into his criminal affairs; she became influential in the affairs
of his gang. When the police sent an escaped convict named Abu Shefa
[Mohsen Sarhan] into their midst as an informer, Samara fell in love
with him. After Samara flirted with him playfully at a nightclub,
Soltan's boss Wagih [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] also fell in love with
Samara, although she did not feel the same way about him. Wagih,
Samara and Soltan went to Suez together to receive a shipment of
smuggled hashish. The police followed them there and monitored their
activities. When the police were closing in later for a final arrest
in Cairo they shot Samara while she was in Abu Shefa's arms.
Cast and crew: Hassan El-Seify, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Seraj Munir, El Sayed Bedeir, Stephan Rosti, Taheya Cariocca, Mohsen Sarhan, Mahmoud Ismail, Mahmoud Nasr, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Reyad El Kasabgy, Mohammed Tawfik, Mohammed Dib, Shafik Noureddin, Gamalat Zayed, Fouad Gafaar, Hussein Ismail, Awatef Youssef, Mohsen Hassanein, Abdel Moneim El-Sebai
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Khalil and Hassan
Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1967 Kamal El Sheikh film The
Saboteurs [al-mokharibun] starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Ahmed
Mazhar based on a story by Ibrahim El-Bady with screenplay by Hassan
Ramzy and Fathy Zaky, dialogue by Moussa Sabry and cinematography by
Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: This film is authentic Egyptian
urban noir. Engineer Adel [Ahmed Mazhar] was framed in a
construction fraud case, convicted of the crime and imporisoned. Adel
escaped from prison, found the ones who had framed him, turned them
over to the police and got himself acquitted.
Cast and crew: Kamal El Sheikh, Lobna Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Mazhar, Omar El-Hariri, Leila Fawzi, Hassan Ramzy, Mahmoud Nasr, Ibrahim El-Bady, Fathy Zaky, Moussa Sabry, Adel Adham, Abdel Alim Khattab, Rashuan Tewfik, Hussein El-Sherbini, Wagih Eskandar, Hussein Assar, Samir Walieddine, Nabil al-Ashari, Abbas Rahmy, Lutfy Ahmed al-Sirafi
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
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel
Aziz to promote the 1971 Nour El-Demerdash 91-minute black-and-white
film Music Espionage and Love [musiqi wa gasusia wa hob]
starring Shams El-Barudy with story. screenplay and dialogue by Ihab
Al-Azhari and cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: This is a
black-and-white musical with low production values using pharaonic
dance themes with a bit of Latin American music thrown in. Against
this backdrop a foreign spy, who is also one of the performers, has a
change of heart about his espionage mission and exposes himself for
the sake of Egypt, which he believes is betrayed by his mission. He
is rewarded for this with the privilege of remaining with his family
in his beloved Egypt.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Demerdash, Mahmoud Nasr, Shams El-Barudy, Adel Adham, Galal Issa, Abbas Fares, Ibrahim Khan, Ihab al-Azhari, Mahmoud Nasr
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz
and Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1976 Ashraf Fahmy
film Shawq starring Nadia El Guindy as Shawq based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hay Adib taken from the 1946 King
Vidor film Duel in the Sun, with cinematography by Mahmoud
Nasr. The film was produced by Nadia El Guindy Films. Plot summary:
A teacher named Adam [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] lived in the al-Malahat
district of Alexandria with his spoiled son Mokhtar [Mohammed El
Arabi] and his third wife, a gypsy named Shawq. He had a second son
named Ahmad, [Hussein Fahmy] who returned after completing his studies
abroad. Shawq tried to ensnare Ahmad but he resisted her; the father
also treated Ahmad differently than he treated his brother because he
loved Mokhtar best. Mokhtar blinded his father unintentionally in a
welding accident. Mokhtar suspected there was a relationship between
his brother and his wife, which caused a struggle between the two
brothers; Shawq declared she did not love Ahmad; she declared her love
for Hanafi the drummer [Saeed Saleh] and left town with him. Then
friendship was restored between the two brothers.
Cast and crew: Hussein Fahmy, Nadia El Guindy, Ashraf Fahmy, Sa'eed Saleh, Tewfik El Dekn, Imad Hamdi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mohammed El Arabi, Mahmoud Nasr, Fouad Al-Zaheri, Mahmoud Nasr, Abdel Hay Adib
This a picture of a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan
Mazhar Gasour and Ahmed Fouad to promote the 1951 Abbas Kamel
120-minute black-and-white film Lady Feyrouz [firuz hanem]
starring Fayrouz based on story and screenplay by Abbas Kamel with
cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. The poster was printed by Dar
al-Tabaa printers and distributed by Anwar Wagdi and Company. Plot
summary: The little girl Feyrouz received a large inheritance from her
father. She was friends with a poor boy and a guardian managed her
property. The guardian made a deal with his secretary to steal the
little girl's money and accuse the little boy of the theft. Feyrouz
did not like the accusation against the boy and she realized the
guardian had a mistress helping him. She confronted her and demanded
the truth about what the guardian had done. When she learned the
guardian had been planning to take her money she had him arrested.
She realized her money was making the people around her greedy so she
donated it for the construction of a home for orphans and the
disabled.
Cast and crew: Abbas Kamel, Taheya Cariocca, Hassan Fayek, Anwar Wagdi, Fayrouz, Stephan Rosti, Ferdoos Mohammed, Mohammed Al-Bakkar, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Mahmoud Nasr, Lola Abdou, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Hassan Attalah, Abdel Moneim Ismail
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by
Ahmed Fouad for the 1949 Hussein Fawzi film Bread and Salt
written and directed by Hussein Fawzi with dialogue by Badei Khayri
and starring Naima Akef as Botheina. Plot summary: A boy lived in the
Bread and Salt neighborhood and worked for one of the rich people. He
loved the girl next door, who reciprocated, but she suddenly changed,
turned away from his love and behaved in a disagreeable way that was
unlike the warm nature of the Bread and Salt neighborhood. The boy
criticized her behavior but it became clear that she was turning away
because of her special family circumstances; here the people in the
neighborhood were working together to overcome the problems she was
facing. However they were unable to help her and she ran away from the
neighborhood to work in a nightclub. The boy was having problems at
his job with the rich man, who had blind faith in him. People were
trying to create a division between the two of them. The people in
another neighborhood were trying to prove that the boy was upright and
honest, and the girl came back to stand by her neighbor. Conditions
improved and the boy went back to his job with reputation restored.
Conditions also improved with the girl's family so they ended up
getting married.
Cast and crew: Hussein Fawzi, Saad Abdel Wahab, Naima Akef, Mahmoud Nasr, Abbas Fares, Lola Sedki, Hassan Fayek, Said Khalil, Mokhtar Hussein, Hassan Kamel, Wedad Hamdy, Soad Ahmed, Badel Khayri, Abdel Moniem Ismail
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Azem for the 1985
Niazi Mostafa color film The Berry and the Cane based on a
story by Naguib Mahfouz (the sequel to his Racketeers),
screenplay by Essam Gomblati and starring Ezzat El Alaili as Ashour.
Plot summary: After the death of Al-Nagy the old neighborhood boss,
the oppression and humiliation of his family by Hasouna [Hamdy Gheith]
the new neighborhood boss increased. The mother Halima [Amina Rizk]
and her sons Ashour, Fayez [Samir Sabri] and Zia [Mahmoud El Guindi]
were subjected to this oppression. Fayez ran away after stealing a
vehicle and selling it. Fayez met Laila the owner of a night club and
took charge of the management of her work. After a time he returned
to the neighborhood a wealthy man and restored dignity to the family.
He bought them a home and they moved into it. He opened an office in
the Al-Nagy name and increased his wealth. Then the dancer took
revenge against him. He lost all his wealth and committed suicide
before they could arrest him. Ashour the oldest son married Aziza
Redwan, [Taysir Fahmy] the woman he loved. Hasouna capitalized on the
collapse of Fayez's financial power to torment the family again. He
forced Ashour to divorce his wife so he could marry her. On the
wedding night Ashour crept in with a gang of thugs behind him to seize
Hasouna and drive him away. He became the new neighborhood boss and
got his woman back.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud El Guindi, Amal Ramzy, Salah Nazmi, Mona Al-Said, Niazi Mostafa, Ezzat El Alaili, Samir Sabry, Ibrahim Saleh, Mahmoud Nasr, Amina Rizk, Hamdy Gheith, Mona Said, Taysar Fahmy, Amal Ramzy, Adel Badreddine, Fakry Sadeq, Ali Al Ghandour, Samira Sedki, Amal Diab, Hafez Amin, Mohieddine Abdel Mohsen, Ahmed Aql, Mohamed Moursy, Nariman, Mehget Abdel Rahman, Kamal Al-Desouky, Hosn El-Dib, Magdi Said, Ahmed Abu Abih, Mohamed Khalil, Mostafa Akasha, Fawzy Al Sharkawi, Atef Barakat, Mahmoud Abu Zeid, Sayed Hatam, Motawe Oweysi, Abdel Moniem Al-Nemr, Sami Ali, Essam al-Gomblati
