The Racketeers الحرافيش (Mahmoud Yassine) - (1986) Egyptian one-sheet

The Racketeers (1986) - (Mahmoud Yassine) Egyptian one-sheet

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

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The High الكيف (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz) - (1985) Egyptian one-sheet

The High [al-keif] (1985) - (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz) Egyptian film poster

This Egyptian film poster was designed by Al-Khad to promote the 1985 115-minute Ali Abdel Khalek color film The High [al-keif] starring Mahmoud Abdel Aziz with story, screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Abou Zeid and cinematography by Mamoun Ata. Plot summary: After Gamal (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz) failed with his studies he worked as a musician in a wedding band. His brother Salah (Yehia El-Fakharany) tried to get him to stop using narcotics and gave him a harmless substitute made in a lab. He advised him to use it and give it to his friends for the protection of their health. Gamal gave the synthetic material to a drug dealer. The drug dealer gave it to the gang leader (Fouad Khalil), who liked it and added some of the narcotic material to it. He sold the compound on the market, which reduced the demand for narcotics; then he asked Gamal to supply the quantities needed to meet the market need. He convinced him of the need to exploit the situation, especially since the compound just provided drug abusers with the illusion of a high. Gamal decided to record a vocal music tape. Salah discoverd the gang was mixing his compound with the narcotic material and decided to stop supplying them, but the gang kidnapped him and injected him with morphine until he became an addict and had to prepare the goods for them. The music cassette Gamal recorded was a hit.

Cast and crew: Ali Abdel-Khalek, Ahdey Sadek, Abdulah Mosharraf, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Noura, Yehia al-Fakharani, Gamil Ratib, Mamoun Ata, Fouad Khalil, Youssef Eid, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Mohieddin Abdel Mohsen, Aly El Cherif, Hoda Kamal, Karim Abuzeid, Lama Al-Amir, Ashraf Nassar, Salem Mostafa, Salah Khalifa, Amal Helmy, Mahmoud Abou Zeid

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Fish Market شادر السمك (Ahmed Zaki) - (1985) Egyptian one-sheet

Fish Market (1986) - (Ahmed Zaki) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian promotional poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1986 Ali Abdel-Khalek 120-minute color film Fish Market starring Nabila Ebeid as Jamalat and Ahmed Zaki as Ahmad based on a story by Nabil Nassar with screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Gawad Youssef and cinematography by Mamoun Ata. Plot summary: Jamalat was a widow dealing with big operators in the Alexandria fish market like Atris, Safwan and Selim. After her husband died she became a fishmonger there. The market big shots challenged her and forcibly prevented her from working, citing a law that prevents sales outside the market. Ahmad, [Ahmed Zaki] a simple worker from upper Egypt, stood by Jamalat, married her and started marketing her goods himself. Ahmad succeeded in his struggle and became a respected merchant at the market after buying his own stall. Then he denied his principles and his wife, practiced monopoly methods and moved to an upscale neighborhood. He divorced Jamalat and married Susie, [Khaloud] a woman from a wealthy family. The market leaders formed an alliance against Ahmad and assassinated him. After his death life in the market went on as usual.

Cast and crew: Ali Abdel-Khalek, Ahmed Zaki, Nebila Ebeid, Mohamed Reda, Sabby Abdelmonim, Aly El Cherif, Shawqy Shamekh, Nabil Nassar, Mohamed Hamdi, Abdel Gawad Youssef, Nabil Nassar, Abdel Mohsen Saleem, Mohamed Hamdy, Mutawe Owais, Mamoun Ata, Khaloud

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