This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty and al-Thaghr
Khamis to promote the 1978 Nader Galal film Judge and Executioner
AKA Woman's Revenge (an alternate title shown
on this poster) based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Faisal Nada
and starring Naglaa Fathy as Nahed. Plot summary: Laila [Miriam Fakhr
Eddine] takes revenge against Sherif [Rushdy Abaza] for two-timing her
and Nahed.
Pictured is a 38.5" x 53" two-piece Lebanese poster for the 1973
film Memory of a Night of Love written and directed by Seif
Eddine Shawkat and starring Nelly as Layla. Plot summary: Anwar
[Salah Zulfikar] is living happily with his wife Layla until he runs
into his ex-girlfriend Camilia, [Nabila Ebeid] who is working as a
dancer. She collapses and dies during a visit to his home; Anwar
becomes a murder suspect.
Cast and crew: Seif Eddine Shawkat, Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Nelly,
Salah Zulfikar, Nabila Ebeid, Ziad Mowali, Rafiq Sabi'i, Mariam Fakhr
Eddine, Hala Shawkat, Khaled Taja, Nadia Arslan, Ahmed Abu Saeda, Mona
Wassef
This is a 23.75" x 34.5" Egyptian poster designed by Stamatis
Vassiliou for the 1961 film Wonderful Memories AKA maa
al-zekriat written and directed by Saad Arafa and starring Ahmed
Mazhar as Sherif. Plot summary: While playing a role in a film the
actor Sherif shot his colleague Elham [Mariam Fakhr Eddine] after the
sexually tormented hunchback Madbouli [Salah Mansour] had maliciously
replaced the blanks in Sherif's pistol with live bullets; this was a
profound shock to Sherif. His cousin Amal [Nadia Lutfi] tried in vain
to soothe him, but she looked too much like Elham. Her feelings for
him turned into deep love, made stronger by his determination to
overcome his loneliness and obsession with memories. The facts slowly
emerged about the incident in which Elham had died.
Cast and crew: Saad Arafa, Ahmed Mazhar, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Nadia
Lutfi, Salah Mansour, Bruno Salvi, Ahmed Louxor, Fotouh Neshati, Said
Khalil, Mokhtar El Sayed
Pictured is an undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by an
unknown artist for the 1960 Houssam El-din Mustafa 90-minute color
film Farewell to Love [wedaan ya hob] with story, screenplay
and dialogue by Fathy Abol-Fadl and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel
Azim. Plot summary: Sharif [Muharram Fouad] was a young musician who
did not complete his university studies. One day he found a gold chain
in front of the Opera belonging to Amani [Mariam Fakhr Eddine]. He
went to return it to her after reading a report about the loss of the
chain. He met Amani on a farm and refused the reward. She asked him
to manage the farm, which improved Ramzy's [Khalil Badreddine]
straitened circumstances at a time when he was wanting to seize
Amani's money. Things improved on the farm and it produced a return,
but Ramzi, who was trying to manage Sharif, became more angry. He told
Amani that a woman had come to him on the farm. Amani's cousin Samir
came and told her he would love to marry her in accordance with her
father's command. Feelings of love developed between Sharif and Amani
and she asked her uncle to help Sharif sing at the Opera. She gave him
some money and Sharif made a successful appearance while Ramzi became
more angry; he followed Sharif when he returned to the village after
the ceremony and shot him. The people were able to catch the killer
but they were not able to save the life of the musician.
Notes from inside back of film program cover: "Nahed, a beauitiful
young woman, on the threshold of life, her heart open to love and
looking up to her future, is preparing to leave her family's home to
join her husband Raouf, who is now her betrothed.
"Her life could have continued for the achievement of all her
aspirations and those of her mother and her father, a successful
attorney. But, in the depth of her soul she was suffering from a
bitter struggle, of which neither her family nor her most intimates knew
nothing. Even Nahed was unaware of it, as it took place in her
subconscious mind.
"Nahed had, in childhood, suffered from an unusual experience which
had a great effect on her. She thought, with the passing of years,
that she had forgotten, but actually that complex remained dormant,
ready to reappear. When at last the complex moved to show itself, Nahed
was exposed to the meanest situation she could find herself in,
without being aware of it.
"The danger was not limited to her strange actions and the
consequences, but was apt to threaten her future, her love and even
her life. A solution was imperative before it was too late."
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1969 Kamal El Sheikh
film Insatiable AKA The Well of Deprivation based on a
story by Ihsan Abdul Quddus, adapted for the cinema by Naguib Mahfouz
and starring Soad Hosny as Mervat/Nahed. Plot Summary: Mervat and
Nahed were the same girl. Mervat was an irresponsible person who
tempted the boy Taha at a nightclub, encouraged him, spent the evening
drinking with him, then went home with him before anyone knew they had
left. As for Nahed, she kept the habits of the family. She was
engaged to Raoul who had won a fencing trophy and given it to her.
Nahed lived with her mother who lived with her husband in the same
house but in reality they were separated. Nahed tried to restore the
bond between them without success. Nahed suffered constant headaches
and went to Dr. Talaat for treatment. In numerous appointments Nahed
was transported to Mervat's personality, which led Dr. Talaat there.
The doctor took advantage of this opportunity and tried to eliminate
Nahed's Mervat complex. The doctor saw her childhood, her mother's
relationship with her father, how she felt her father had killed her
mother and how the mother had fallen into a well after the father
caught her one night in a red dress. This complex had settled into
the child's psyche and when Nahed became an adult the complex emerged
unrestricted as Mervat, a substitute for her mother's personality.
Dr. Talaat overcame Mervat's personality to restore Nahed's
personality, but then she discovered her fiancee had left her.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Mahmoud El-Meliguy,
Nour El-Sherif, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Kamal El Sheikh, Essam Farid,
Salah Nazmi, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra, Mohi Ismail, Naguib Mahfouz,
Wahid Farid, nmsp, Soraya Ezeddine, Hamdy Youssef, Hamza al-Shimi,
Aqila Raf'at
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anise for the
1992 Ahmed Yehia film Samara the Prince based on a story by
Naguib Mahfouz and starring Nabila Ebeid as Shalabia/Samara. Plot
Summary: Shalabia, a beautiful country girl, moved from her village to
work as a maid in a pasha's palace in Alexandria. However she fell in
love with the pasha's opportunist driver Ali [Mahmoud Hemida] and made
the other maids jealous. One of them told the pasha about their
relationship so he would fire them both. He took advantage of the
opportunity to exploit his lover Shalabia in the acquisition of much
wealth for his illegitimate purposes. He swept her out with the trash
after using her as a dancer at the Al-Faramawy Nightclub and promising
to marry her while he was improving his financial situation. Shalabia
learned the art of dancing and changed her name to Samara the Prince
to increase her fame among the wealthy people who frequented the
nightclub. Her fans who showered her with wealth multiplied. They
included Marwan Amin the nationalist journalist, Mr. Faw the English
stockbroker and Mehdi Pasha, a prominent politician. When Samara the
Prince met the tax agent Omar Abdel Awi she found in him a life
partner and married him hoping to begin an honorable life without
depravity. She tried to quit the night life but her first lover Ali
refused to allow this because he wanted to keep stealing her money.
Ali decided she had to return to her work as a dancer. Her husband
Omar negotiated for a divorce in return for a sum of money but when
Ali failed to win the argument with Omar he killed him to punish
Samara.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Ahmed Yehia, Wahid Seif, Youseff
Daoud, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Hamdy Ghayth, Nabila
Ebeid, Mahmoud Hemida, Ramses Marzouk, Mostafa Moharram, Mohammad
Tawfik, Sanaa Shafei, Ahmad Mostafa, Umran Bahar, Howeida Omran, Ahmed
Abu Abih, Osman Al-Hamamsi
This is a 35" x 46" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Mohammed
Abdel Aziz for the 1962 Mario Costa film Kerim Son of the
Sheik based on story and screenplay by Mario Stresa and starring
Gordon Scott as Kerim. Plot summary: In the middle of the 19th
Century in Egypt the evil Omar [Alberto Farnese] seeks to kill all his
adversaries, marry the Khedive's neice Fawzia [Cristina Gaioni] and
then overthrow and replace the Khedive. When his violence results in
the death of Laila [Maria Grazia Spina] her brother Kerim becomes his
mortal enemy and starts leading various desert tribes in revolt
against Omar.
Cast and crew: Gordon Scott, Mario Costa, Cristina Gaioni, Moira
Orfei, Alberto Farnese, Farid Shawqi, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Ahmed
Louxor, Lola Sedki, Nazim Shaarawy, Mohamed Soltan
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohamed Abdel Aziz
and Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1975 Atef Salem film Youth These
Days based on a story by Mohammad al-Hadidi, screenplay and
dialogue by Abdel Hay Adib and starring Rushdy Abaza as Hosni. Plot
summary: As editor of an important journal, Hosni did not have enough
time to stay at home and look after his wife Eqbal [Mariam Fakhr
Eddine] and children. He wrote about youth affairs and was in a
relationship with his secretary Soheir [Safia El Emari] without
realizing she was secretly married to his son Khaled [Samir Sabri].
Khaled was killed in the October War, but before that he sent his
father a letter telling him about his marriage to Soheir.
Cast and crew: Atef Salem, Rushdy Abaza, Mohamed Awad, Mohamed
Reda, Samir Sabri, Safia El Emari, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Sameer Ghanem,
Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Leila Hamada, Khayria Ahmed, Saed Zayan, Amira,
Abdel Moneim Bahnassy, Mohammad al-Hadidi, Abdel Hay Adib
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist
to promote the 1959 90-minute black-and-white Mohammed Karim
film Heart of Gold ['alb min dahab] starring Mariam Fakhr
Eddine based on a screenplay by Mohammed Karim with dialogue by Abdel
Waress Assar and cinematography by Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary:
This film tells the story of a strange turn of events where a woman
believes she has killed a pedestrian woman while driving, then ends up
marrying the dead woman's husband, who already knew her and happened
to be in love with her.
Cast and crew: Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Abdel Waress Assar, Imad Hamdi,
Ferdoos Mohammed, Muhammed Karim, Sanaa Gamil, Aziza Helmy, Abdel Aziz
Fahmy, Sabry Abdel Aziz, Kamel Anwar, Kamel Al-Zini, Salah al-Masri
This is a 35.5" x 47" oversize stone litho Egyptian poster designed by
an unknown artist to promote the 1954 Mahmoud Zulfikar 130-minute
black-and-white film The Good Earth الارض الطيبة based on a story by Mahmoud
Zulfikar with screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Gohar, cinematography
by Victor Antoun and starring Mariam Fakhr Eddine as Saadia. Plot
summary: A simple country girl named Saadia lived on a farm with her
wealthy uncle Ali [Hussein Riad] without realizing she was the
daughter of a wealthy man from a secret marriage. The wealthy man left
his great wealth to his daughter and died. She went to Cairo to
receive her inheritance. Her uncle's wife Bahiga [Zuzu Madi] plotted
with her lover Zaki [Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy] to confiscate the girl's
money with the help of her mother's brother, a poor photographer named
Hussein [Kamal Al-Shennawy]. However the heiress gradually fell in
love with her uncle Hussein, who revealed the details about a
fraudulent court case they were trying to build against her, causing
it to fail. The girl went back to the farm and distributed her
inheritance among the peasants working there, then married her uncle
after realizing he was a good man even if he was poor.
Cast and crew: Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Youssef Gohar, Victor Antoun, Omar al Gizawy, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Hussein Riad, Mahmoud Zulfkar, Zuzu Madi, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Fouad El-Mohandes, Souraya Fakhry, Saad Makawy, Abdel Hamid Badawy, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Kitty, Mohamed al-Toukhi, Farag al-Nahas, Amal Wahid, Soad Fawzi, Mohamed Sabih, Khayria Kheiri
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 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
Pictured is a 27" x 39" poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to
promote the 1972 Youssef Chahine 102-minute color film The
Sparrow [al-asfour] starring Seif El Din, based on a story by
Lotfi al-Khawali with screenplay and dialogue by Lotfi al-Khawali and
Youssef Chahine and cinematography by Mostafa Imam. According to a
critics poll taken at the 2013 Dubayy International Film Festival this
is one of the 100 most important Arab films. Plot summary: This film
made in Algeria and Egypt is a reaction to the Arab loss of the 1967
war with Israel. It has a spirit of pride and patriotic conviction
where director Chahine attempts to show the war was lost from within
due to corruption and weakness in the ruling classes. In one of the
film's several narrative lines the character Baheyya [Mohsena Tewfik]
leads defiant demonstrations, rejects the defeat and demands that
Gamal Abdel Nasser return to the government after stepping down. The
sparrow motif symbolizes the brave and innocent Arab peoples who have
become victims of national and international circumstances.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Ali El Cherif, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Seif El Din, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Habiba, Mohsena Tewfik, Salah Kabil, Salah Mansour, Abdel Waress Assar, Hamdy Ahmed, Ragaa Hussein, Mahmoud Kabil, Hassan el Baroudi, Nazim Shaarawy, Mohamed Khalil, Sayed Shahat, Mustafa Imam, Lotfi al-Khawali
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
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by an
unknown artist to promote the 1962 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 119-minute
black-and-white film The Remains of a Virgin [baqaya azraa]
starring Mariam Fakhr Eddine based on a story by Ismail al-Habruk with
screenplay and dialogue by Youssef El Sebai and cinematography by
Mostafa Hassan. Plot summary: Nabila [Mariam Fakhr Eddine] went to
Cairo to teach and on her first job she quarreled with Hoda Abdel
Fattah [Magda El-Khatib], the daughter of a former minster and head
of one of the nationalist political parties. Hoda had lost her mother
when she was a child and this had made her stubborn and spoiled. Her
father [Zaki Rostom] sent for Nabila to tell her this and a strong
relationship developed between them which resulted in their marriage,
even though she had been in love with the journalist Mahmoud Kamal
[Shukry Sarhan] since they were children. However Mahmoud had not
wanted to marry her because he was afraid a marriage with a village
girl would hurt his career; he was in Algeria covering the
revolution when Nabila married Abdel Fattah. He returned to Cairo
with the intention of marrying her, only to find that he had missed
his opportunity. Nabila was also still in love with Mahmoud and they
remained friends. Mahmoud was later falsely accused of a political
murder and sentenced to death, but Nabila testified at the trial that
he had been with her, so he was acquitted. However they were never
able to marry.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz to
promote the 1974 87-minute Saad Arafa color film Journey of
Life [rahlet al-omr] starring Shams El-Barudy and Ahmed Mazhar
based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Saad Arafa with
cinematography by Ahmed Dia Al-Mahdi. Plot summary: Salwa was a girl
of foreign extraction who lived with her aunt in Cairo. She was a
girl with a liberal perspective who loved a boy her age named Essam.
They agreed to spend a few days at Sidi Abdel Rahman. Salwa went
ahead and reserved an adjoining room for him. However Essam went early
too because of a soccer match. Mahmoud, a bank manager, also arrived
at the hotel and the booking agent asked Salwa to let Mahmoud use the
room she had reserved for Essam, because he was used to using it every
day. Mahmoud was married to Madiha, who had gone to the country to
spend a few days with her family. Mahmoud and Madiha had a boring life
together. Salwa tried to get Mahmoud interested in her and they were
soon involved in a torrid affair. When Essam arrived at the hotel
Salwa rejected him, and he went back to Cairo to finish his vacation
there. Salwa and Mahmoud also went back to Cairo. Mahmoud tried to
resume his life with his wife, but could not do so, because when he
went back home he discovered she had left when she found out about the
relationship with Salwa. Then he tried to go back to Salwa, but she
rejected him.
Cast and crew: Shams El-Barudy, Ahmed Mazhar, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Ahmed Louxor, Saad Arafa, Ahmed Dia Al-Mahdi, Ali Kemal, Naima Wasfy, Salama Elias, Samia Rushdy, Hamdy Youssef, Mokhtar Al Sayed
Shown here is an Egyptian 27" x 39" poster designed by Mohammad Abdel
Aziz to promote the 1978 109-minute Yehia El Alami color
film Hearts in a Sea of Tears [qolub fi bahr al-domu'] starring
Soheir Ramzy as Samah based on a story by Ibrahim Al-Wardani with
screenplay and dialogue by Yehia El Alami and Abdel Aziz Salam and
cinematography by Ali Khair Allah. Plot summary: Samah was working at
a hotel to provide for her family. Love developed between her and
Mamdhouh, [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] a young man from a wealthy family.
Mamdouh's mother [Zuzu Madi] would not allow them to marry because of
their class differences, but Mamdouh defied her and remained loyal to
Samah. Samah's brother Adel [Salah El-Saadani] died of a severe
illness. Mamdouh was confronting enormous debts and could not marry
Samah even though he loved her; she gave up on him and went abroad to
look for work.
Cast and crew: Soheir Ramzy, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Safia El Emari, Yehia El Alami, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Salah El-Saadany, Zuzu Madi, Aziza Helmy, Salah Nazmi, Abdel Rehiem El Zorkani, Gamal Ismail, Badr Nofal, Zakaria Mouafi, Ali Khair Allah, Ibrahim Al-Wardani, Abdel Aziz Salam
This is a promotional poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz and Moaty
for the 105-minute Helmy Rafla 1974 color war film The Great
Loyalty [al-wafa' al-'azim] starring Naglaa Fathy and Mahmoud
Yassine with story, screenplay and dialogue by Faisal Nada and
cinematography by Wahid Farid and Essam Farid. Plot summary: When
Rauf [Kamal Al-Shennawi] got married to Soha [Hala Al-Shawarby] there
was someone present at the wedding who opposed the marriage and wanted
to prevent it. When the lights went out during an air raid this person
took advantage of the sirens and shot and killed Soha while she was
dancing with Raouf. Raouf's friend Ibrahim [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim]
advised him to adopt a little orphan girl named Wala' [Naglaa Fathy]
who had lost her parents in the war and later became a music student.
Raouf became her father and she grew up with Adel, [Samir Sabri] the
son of his friend Ibrahim, who became an army officer. Ibrahim wanted
her to marry his son but Raouf objected. They planned to marry anyway;
then Wala' met her neighbor Officer Safwat [Mahmoud Yassine] and they
fell in love. Safwat went to ask Raouf for Wala's hand in marriage,
but Raouf knew Safwat was the son of the killer of his bride, so he
refused and drove him away. The October 1973 war was declared and
Safwat went to the front. He met Adel and a friendship developed
between them. Safwat learned Adel was engaged to his beloved; then he
was hit during an operation and lost a leg. Adel learned the truth
about the love between Safwat and Wala' and decided to withdraw from
her life.
