This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1973 Henry Barakat film A Woman with a Bad Repuation based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Mamdou El Leithy and starring Shams
El-Barudy as Henaa. Plot summary: Henaa and Kamal Shukry [Youssef
Chaban] got married, but then he made her compromise her principles to
help him fulfill his ambitions. He introduced her to his manager
Saafan, [Imad Hamdi] who rewarded Kamal by making him company sales
manager. Henaa soon became a prostitute selling her body to get
promotions. Henaa met her old boyfriend Ahmed Fouad [Mahmoud Yassine]
but she did not tell him about the way she had been behaving with
Saafan. She promised Ahmed she would ask Kamal for a divorce so she
could marry him.
Cast and crew: Shams El-Barudy, Mamdouh El Leithy, Henry Barakat,
Mahmoud Yassine, Imad Hamdi, Hesham Wadid Serri, Mamdouh El Leithy,
George Sidhum, Salah Nazmi, Nagwa Fouad, Youssef Chaban
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1989 Ashraf Fahmy
film The Night and its Treachery based on a story by Naguib
Mahfouz, screenplay by Ahmed Saleh and starring Nour El-Sherif as
Salah. Plot summary: The attorney Mohseb who had sold his conscience
hired a petty thief named Salah to steal critical documents from the
storage of one of the owners of a company to get information about
some of the important persons who were working with the company. The
attorney sensed Salah's power and got rid of him through another thief
named Shaqroun, who carried out the attorney's plan to drop Salah and
get him imprisoned, then to get the better of Shaqroun's wife Senia to
divide the spoils from the betrayal. When Salah got out of prison he
decided to take revenge against the attorney Mohseb, his friend
Shaqaroun and his wife Senia, but he died before he could carry out
the plan.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Ashraf Fahmy, Safia El Emari, Nour
El-Sherif, Mahmoud Yassine, Shahira, Ahmed Rateb, Salah El-Saadany,
Ahmed Saleh, Abdel Moneim Bahnassy, Naima Al Soghayara, Shawqy
Shamekh, Ahmed Ghanem
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour and Morteda
Anise for a 1978 film biography of Taha Husayn. The film was directed by
Atef Salem based on a story by Kamal al-Malakh with screenplay and
dialogue by D. Rafiq al-Saban, Samir Abdel Azeem and Moussa Sabry;
cinematography was by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: Taha Husayn was
born in poverty in upper Egypt in the province of Al-Mina. He became
blind because of the poverty and ignorance that were prevalent in
society, but he learned how to overcome the problems of blindness, how
to compensate for it with hearing, how to succeed with books and even
how to get admitted to Al-Azhar University and succeed with his
studies there. He later became a candidate for literature studies in
the city of Montpelier France while he was on a government mission
there. He went there with his brother who looked after him and helped
him deal with adverse circumstances. He met his lifetime French
friend Susan, who helped him with reading. Love developed between them
while he was studying for his doctorate and they married after he
received his diploma. In Cairo Taha Husayn was appointed professor
and then dean at a university. He then became minister of education
and waged an intellectual struggle with the people in the government
to make education free for all people.
Cast and crew: Atef Salem, Hamdy Ahmed, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Taha
Husayn, Mahmoud Yassine, Yehia El-Fakharany, Abdel Alim Khattab,
Ibrahim Saleh, Yolande Folliot, Kamal al-Malakh, D. Rafiq al-Saban,
Samir Abdel Azeem, Moussa Sabry, Ibrahim Saleh, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim,
Salama Elias, Farouk Youssef, Hussein El-Sherbini, Abdel Ghani
Al-Nagdi, Fakry Azer, Nader Nour, Adib Tarablos, Mohammad
al-Shourbagy, Adawi Gheith, Mahmoud Rashad, Sayed Madbouli, Rafiq
Fahmy, Abdel Moneim al-Nemr, Ahmed Omar
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour and Morteda
Anise for the 1982 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film The Balah Agency
written by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Nadia El Guindy as Nematollah.
Plot summary: Nematollah lived at the Balah Agency. She had married
most of the merchants and used her relationship with the important
employee Amgad, [Ahmed Louxor] who helped her learn the secrets of
bargaining. She did not hesitate to kill her competitors. Abdollah
[Mahmoud Yassine] came to the agency and went to work for Nematollah.
She liked him, married him and made him the boss of the agency in
charge of her affairs. This angered her former husband Abdoun
[Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] who had gone to work for her after his
bankruptcy. Abdollah discovered the truth about Nematollah and her
crimes. He left her, met Amgad's daughter Mervat, [Samia Al-Alfy]
married her and established a special agency with Amgad's help.
Nematollah tried to bring Abdollah back but he refused. She took
revenge against him by arranging to kill Amgad so no one would help
him when she got her assistants to steal Amgad's goods. Abdollah
thought of returning to her and asked her to confess to her crimes.
The police came and arrested Namatollah. Abdoun pick up an axe to
kill Abdollah with it out of revenge but Nematollah sacrificed herself
for him and met her demise.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy and
al-Khad for the 1983 Ahmed Fouad film The Cart Driver
AKA al-arbagy based on story, screeenplay and dialogue by Wahid
Hamed. Cinematography was by Ibrahim Saleh and the poster art was by
Wahib Fahmy and al-Khad. Plot Summary: The cart driver Sayed [Mahmoud
Yassine] lived with his wife Fakiha [Shouweikar] and his children. He
convinced the lottery ticket seller Shalabia [Maali Zayed] to sell him
one so he could try his luck. He won 1000 pounds and decided to spend
the money on an adventure. The people in the neighborhood were happy
for him with the exception of Sheikh Nazir who said he was just going
to waste the money in nightclubs. However this was too much money to
gamble, so he used it to make a deal with a corrupt manipulator, whose
betrayal he soon discovered when he lost the money. He told the
police, they caught the criminal; then the cart driver went back home
and continued living as before.
Cast and crew: Mahmoud Yassine, Younes Shalaby, Shouweikar, Maali
Zayed, Ahmed Fouad, Bahgat Kamar, Nabil Badr, Zizi Mustafa, Ibrahim
Saleh, Wahid Hamed, Samir Wahid, Farouk Youssef, Shawqy Shamekh,
Mohammad Abo Hashih, Abdel Aziz Esa, Zizi Mustafa
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Aziz and Ahmed
Fouad for the 1975 Helmy Rafla film The Tears Dried based on
story and screenplay by Youssef El Sebai and starring Mahmoud Yassine
as Sami. Plot summary: A famous singer nemed Hoda [Negat] and a
prominent political writer and magazine editor named Sami fell in
love, but their relationship faced professional and personal
opposition among their associates.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chaban, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Abdel Moneim
Ibrahim, Wahid Farid, Helmy Rafla, Naima Wasfy, Mahmoud Yassine, Negat, Youssef El
Sebai, Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Fouad
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty for the 1980
Ashraf Fahmy film The Homeless based on a story by Naguib
Mahfouz, screenplay by Ahmed Saleh and starring Naglaa Fathy as Laila.
Laila was a successful attorney married to a wealthy contractor named
Fathy [Mahmoud Yassine]. They were entirely different culturally. He
was ignorant whereas she was a hard worker in a high social position.
She was constrained in her life with him and withdrew from him after
failing to improve his social worth. Fathy took up with a woman with
a bad reputation named Sausan [Nabila Ebeid]. Laila learned about his
relationship with her and asked him for a divorce, which she got.
Laila defended a woman in a case similar to the one in her own life.
The person she was defending killed her husband after discovering he
had been unfaithful to her, even though he had lifted her out of
poverty and married her, and this is what had happened to Laila.
During a visit to Sausan Fathy suddenly had a severe heart attack.
Sausan contacted Laila to tell her about his illness. Laila felt
regret about the way she had treated him and asked him to forgive her,
but he died in Sausan's home as a result of the heart attack.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Naglaa Fathy, Mikhtar Al Sayed,
Mahmoud Yassine, Naguib Mahfouz, Nabila Ebeid, Salah Nazmi, Essam
Farid, Imane, Aly El Cherif, Nawal Fahmy, Hassan Hussein, Ahmad Khamees,
Aleya Abdel Moneim, Salah Nazmi, Badr Nofal, Qadreya Qadry, Enaam
Salousa, Ahmed Saleh
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Mohammed
Abdel Aziz and Aziz for the 1974 Henry Barakat film The Clock
Strikes 10 based on a story by Amin Yousseff Ghurab, screenplay
and dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa Sami and starring Mahmoud Yassine as
Mohammad al-Sherbini. Plot summary: Mohammad al-Sherbini was a
university student working as a driver for the wealthy Abdel Maguid
[Imad Hamdi]. Mohammad discovered that Abdel Maguid's wife Noura
[Nahed Sherif] was cheating on him with Morad, [Mohamed Khairi] who
asked him to keep it secret. Noura's brother Salah [Mohamed Nagm]
wanted to marry Abdel al-Maguid's daughter Nevine [Mervat Amin] but
she refused becaused she loved Mohammad. After Mohammad had a
difficult and unwanted dalliance with Noura, he and Nevine decided to
marry, the father blessed the relationship and the two lovers began
life together.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Mohammad
Abdel Aziz and Wahib Fahmy for the 1972 Henry Barakat film The
Visitor based on a story by Henry Barakat, screenplay and dialogue
by Mohammad Mostafa Sami and starring Nadia Lutfi as Leila/Nadia.
Plot summary: When Leila's rich uncle is about to die, Leila is no
longer around to collect the inheritance. Leila's lookalike Nadia
impersonates her so she can get the money, but is not prepared for a
surprise encounter with one of Leila's former lovers.
Cast and crew: Mohammad Abdel Aziz, Wahib Fahmy, Henry Barakat,
Adel Adham, En'aam Al Garbatly, Mohammed Al Mokh, Wahid Ezat, Imad
hamdi, Adel Imam, Mohjee Ismail, Nadia Lutfi, Mahmoud Yassine,
Mohammad Mostafa Sami
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by al-Khad for
the 1994 film Three on a Chopping Block AKA thalatha ala
maedet al-dam written and directed by Medhat El Sebaie and
starring Mahmoud Yassine as Chief Prosecutor Omar Adly. Plot summary:
In Port Said at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal, a wealthy
businessman named No'man al-Brins [Saeed Saleh] struck a small fishing
boat while sailing his yacht with his wife Susu [Elham Shaheen],
killing the two occupants of the fishing boat. His lawyer proved his
innocence despite testimony against him by some of the local
fishermen, but Chief Prosecutor Omar, who also happened to be a drug
smuggler, was undeterrred and resolved to get No'man dead or alive.
Cast and crew: Saeed Saleh, Mohamed Bakr, Mahmoud El Khouly, Medhat
El Sebaie, Elham Shaheen, Mahmoud Yassine, Mofeed Ashour, Tarek El
Nahry, Seif Abdelrahman, Othman Abdelmonem, Sayed Sadek, Mohamed Abdou
Hashesh, Zeyad Makok, George Saad, Ramses
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1977
Houssam El-Din Mustafa film Sonya and the Madman based on the
1866 Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel Crime and Punishment with
screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Diab, cinematography by Ibrahim
Saleh and starring Naglaa Fathy as Sonya. Plot summary: In 1940s
Cairo, law student Mokhtar [Mahmoud Yassine] found a poor girl
sleeping in the street named Sonya whose circumstances were driving
her to vice and crime. He fell in love with her and asked her to stop
being a girl of the night in exchange for his financial help. In this
adaptation Mokhtar is the madman who has Raskalnikov's part in the
Dostoyevsky story. Naglaa Fathy's Sonya is also Dostoyevsky's Sonya.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Imad Hamdi, Sa'eed Saleh, Abdel
Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam
El-Din Mustafa, Ibrahim Saleh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ruhia Khaled, Nazim
Shaarawy, Naima Al Soghayar, Mahmoud Diab, Soheir Reda
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster for the 1971 Henry
Barakat 92-minute color film Love and Position [al-khayt
al-rafi'] based on story and dialogue by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus,
screenplay by Youssef Francis and starring Faten Hamama as Mona. Plot
summary: Mona was a poor girl who had a job as a low-level bank
employee and supported her family. Under pressure from her father's
illness and urging from her mother to increase her income, she formed
a relationship with an elderly wealthy lover. An engineer friend
named Adel [Mahmoud Yassine] who also worked at the company owned by
her lover Abdo [Salah Nazmi] told her he loved her. By this time Mona
was no longer a poor girl. She responded emotionally as a prosperous
woman who was in a position to be her new lover's patron and guide.
Mona persuaded Adel to quit his job with Abdo and start an independent
company with support from his mentor Hosny [Imad Hamdi]. Although
Love and Position is the film's official English title, the
Arabic title literally means The Slender Thread; the tag line
at the top of the poster, quoting the original story by Ihsan Abdel
Qudus, translates as "There is a slender thread between love and the
instinct to acquire."
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Mohammad Abdel Aziz, Wahib Fahmy,
Wahid Farid, Youssef Francis, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Faten Hamama,
Mahmoud Yassine, Imad hamdi, Salah Nazmi, Bussy
This is a 27" x 41" Lebanese one-sheet poster designed by Egyptian
artist Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1975 Henry Barakat film My
Love [hababiti] based on screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hai Adib
and starring Faten Hamama as Samia. Plot summary: Magdi [Mahmoud
Yassine] was a fine arts painter who went to Lebanon suffering acutely
because his paintings were not selling. He fell in love with fellow
Egyptian Samia after seeing her sitting on a public park bench and
then following her. After a tenuous, artificial and emotional
relationship with Magdi, Samia died of injuries suffered when she was
struck by an automobile while crossing the street.
Cast and crew: Faten Hamama, Salah Nazmi, Mahmoud Yassine, Henry
Barakat, Abdelhalim Nasr, Hani Al-Rumani, Lina Batei, Abdel Hai Adib,
Amal Afish, Samir Abu Said
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 an undated Egyptian rerelease poster designed by Wahib
Fahmy and Mohammad Abdel Aziz to promote the 1970 Hussein Kamal
109-minute black-and-white film We Don't Plant Thorns [nehnu la
nezra al-shuk] starring Shadia and Mahmoud Yassine based on story and
dialogue by Yousssef El Sebai with screenplay by Ahmed Saleh and
cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Sayeda [Shadia]
suffered from torment and cruelty after her mother died as a result of
the way she was treated by her father's wife. She took a job as a
maid for the family of Abbas [Salah Kabil], who was interested in her
and pursued her. She fled his home and took a job with the family of
Hamdi al-Samaduni [Mahmoud Yassine]. This family treated her with
love and kindness. Sayeda fell in love with Hamdi, but she soon
learned he was planning to marry another girl. She therefore decided
to marry Alam Marghama [Adly Kasseb], a thug and a seller of soft
drinks, but later got into conflict with him. She bore his child, but
ran away from him because of his violence. In this midst of this
suffering she came under the influence of a pimp who got her into a
brothel. There she saw Abbas, who had come to a whorehouse for the
first time in his life. They reconciled and married, and she bore his
son. Then Hamdi arrived and declared his love for her, there were
more conflicts with Abbas and she was forced by court order to move
into a marital obedience dwelling with him. When their child died she
demanded and received a divorce from Abbas. After a short time Sayeda
herself became ill and died with Hamdi at her bedside.
Cast and crew: Hussein Kamal, Salah Kabil, Shadia, Mahmoud Yassine, Abdelhalim Nasr, Karima Mokhtar, Adly Kasseb, Ahmed Al-Gezeiry, Naima Al Soghayar, Ahmed Saleh, Youssef El Sebai, Wafik Fahmy, Rawhiyya Khaled, Ahmed Al Jaziri, Mahmoud Al Iraqi, Mohamed Othman, Hamdy Youssef, Samiha Tawfik, Fatheyya Ali, Mohamed Abu Hashish, Thorayya Ezzeddine, Etedal Shaheen, Soher Tawfik, Mimi Gamal, Samir Tewfik, Amira, Kawsar al-Assal
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
and Morteda Anis to promote the 1984 88-minute Mohamed Khan color
film Vengeance [al-thar] adapted from the 1958 Henry King
film The Bravados based on the 1958 Frank O'Rourke novel of the
same title, starring Gregory Peck as Jim Douglass. This Mohamed Khan
adaptation is based on screenplay and dialogue by Fayez Ghaly with
cinematography by Said Sheimy. Plot Summary: When Engineer Ahmed
[Mahmoud Yassin] exited a cinema with his pregnant wife Neda,
[Youssra] four youths accosted them. They attacked Ahmed and
kidnapped his wife. Ahmed notified the police but he could not
remember the make of the automobile or its plate number. Neda went to
the hospital after having a miscarriage. Ahmed decided to take his
own revenge. He killed three people but was arrested before he could
commit a fourth crime. He discovered he had killed innocent people
and that the police had arrested the real criminals.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Gebril, Reda Hamed, Hamdi El-Wazir, Mahmoud Yassine, Farouk Youssef, Badriya Adbel Gawad, Youssra, Mohamed Khan, Fayez Ghaly, Adel Borham, Ibrahim Qadry, Mokhtar al-Sayed, Moheb Kaser, Sayed al-Hanawi, Samia Mokaram, Mostafa Kemal, Hamdy Youssef, Said Sheimy, Shaaban Hussein, Frank O'Rourke, Henry King
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Aly Al-Sayed and
Moaty to promote the 118-minute Hassan Al Imam color film Time of
Love [asr al-hob] starring Mahmoud Yassine based on a story by
Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay and dialogue by Essam al-Gomblati and
cinematography by Ramses Marzouk. Plot summary: Two friends, the
theater actor Hamdy [Mahmoud Yassine] and the merchant Ezzat [Magdy
Wahba], competed to win the heart of their neighbor Badria [Soheir
Ramzy]. She married Hamdy and they worked together in political
theater. The police were chasing Hamdy and he sought refuge with his
friend Hussein. He came upon his wife Badria at Hussein's apartment
as he was trying to rape her. Hamdy thought she was being disloyal to
him. He killed Hussein and was sentenced to life in prison. He
learned from fellow detainee Ahmad that Ezzat had informed on him. He
broke with him and told Badria he regretted the way he had treated
her. Ezzat arrived and they fought. When Ezzat got the upper hand
with Hamdy Badria rushed in and killed him, and she was imprisoned.
The years passed. They met and neither recognized the other. Hamdy
had lost his sight.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Ramses Marzouk, Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Yassine, Soheir Ramzy, Magdy Wahba, Taheya Cariocca, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Mohamed Khairi, Salah Nazmi, Ahmed Diab, Essam al-Gomblati, Shahira, Aziza Rashed, Samiha Tawfiq, Mostafa Karim, Ahmed Diab, Hayam Halal, Fawzy Al Sharkawi
