This is a 19" x 28" Yugoslavian poster for the 1968 Mario Bava
film Danger: Diabolik based a story by Angela Giussani, Luciana
Giussani, Arduino Maiuri and Arduino Baracco, screenplay by Arduino
Maiuri, Brian Degas, Tudor Gates and Mario Bava and starring John
Phillip Law as Diabolik. Plot summary: Diabolik is a stylish thief
and murderer who plunders a European country while fending off
incompetent cops and gangsters. He is a malevolent creep in a zentai
suit who races his black Jaguar on narrow mountain roads against a
spiffy soundtrack. Such thrills! His slinky girlfriend Eva Zant
[Marisa Mell] provides the requisite titillation.
Cast and crew: John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Terry
Thomas, Mario Bava, Angela Giussani, Luciana Giussani, Arduino Maiuri,
Arduino Baracco, Brian Degas, Tudor Gates, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo
Celi, Claudio Gora, Mario Donen, Renzo Palmer, Caterina Boratto, Lucia
Modugno, Annie Gorassini, Carlo Croccolo, Lidia Biondi, Andrea Bosic,
Federico Boido, Tiberio Mitri
This is an Egyptian rerelease poster by an unknown artist for the 1967
Luis Bunuel film Belle de Jour based on the 1928 novel of the
same title by Joseph Kessel and starring Catherine Deneuve as Severine
Serizy. Plot summary: Severine is married to a doctor whom she loves
dearly, but she cannot be intimate with him. She becomes a prostitute
while remaining chaste in her marriage.
Cast and crew: Catherine Deneuve, Luis Bunuel, Jean Sorel, Michel
Piccoli, Genevieve Page, Pierre Clementi, Francoise Fabian, Macha
Meril, Muni, Maria Latour, Claude Cerval, Michel Charrel, Iska Khan,
Bernard Musson, Marcel Charvey, Francoise Maistre
This is a 46.5" x 60.5" Egyptian poster for the 1985 Youssef Chahine
film Adieu Bonaparte [الوداع يا بونابرت] based on a screenplay by Youssef Chahine
and Yousry Nasrallah and starring Michel Piccoli as Cafarelli. "The
film relates the experiences of an Egyptian family during the
occupation of Alexandria by Napoleon and his army, and the uneasy
friendship between a young Egyptian poet and one of Bonaparte's
advisers. The exigencies of a big budget co-production might have
accounted for a diminution in the great Chahine's poetry and power,
but there are some spectacular scenes and excellent performances,
notably from [Patrice] Chereau as a fanatical Bonaparte." - The
Faber Companion to Foreign Films.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Michel Piccoli, Mohsen Mohieddin, Patrice Chereau, Mohsena Tewfik, Taheya Cariocca, Hoda Soltan, Gamil Ratib, Salah Zulfikar, Tewfik El Dekn, Seif El Dine, Mohamed Atef, Farid Mahmoud, Hassan Husseiny, Hassan El Adl, Mohamad Dardiri, Claude Cernay, Christian Patey, Mohsen Nasr, Abla Kamel
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1963 Rene Clement
film The Day and the Hour based on a screenplay by Rene Clement
and Roger Vailland and starring Simone Signoret as Therese Dutheil.
Plot summary: In the Spring of 1944 Therese is in a rush to get back
to Paris after visiting her father's grave in a rual area and
collecting some food. The Germans in the area are looking for the
pilots of some British and American aircraft that have been shot
down. When Therese hitches a ride on a truck carrying some goats, she
discovers the pilots are hiding in the back with the goats. She
decides to help them board a train for Paris where they can find
refuge in a safehouse, but the safehouse is unable to accommodate the
American.
Cast and crew: Rene Clement, Roger Vailland, Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Genevieve Page, Michel Piccoli, Reggie Nalder, Billy Kearn
This is a 14" x 21.25" Belgian poster designed to promote the 1961 Carlo Ludvico
Bragagia and Vittorio Cottafavi film Amazons of Rome [Le
vergini di Roma] based on story and screenplay by Luigi Emmanuele
starring Louis Jourdan. Plot summary: A city under seige is being
defended by an army of women warriors.
Cast and crew: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Vittorio Cottafavi, Luigi Emmanuele, Louis Jourdan, Sylvia Syms, Jean Chevrier, Nicole Courcel, Ettore Manni, Paola Faichi, Renaud Mary, Michel Piccoli, Corrado Pani, Nicolas Vogel, Maria Luisa Rolando, Carlo giustini, Jacques Dufiho, Andrej Gardenin
This is an Egyptian poster for the classic 1985 Youssef Chahine film Adieu Bonaparte, featuring Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. From the Faber Companion to Foreign Films: "The film relates the experiences of an Egyptian family during the occupation of Alexandria by Napoleon and his army, and the uneasy friendship between a young Egyptian poet and one of Bonaparte's
advisers. The exigencies of a big budget co-production might have
accounted for a diminution in the great Chahine's poetry and power,
but there are some spectacular scenes and excellent performances,
notably from [Patrice] Chereau as a fanatical Bonaparte."
Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Michel Piccoli, Mohsen Mohieddin, Patrice Chereau, Mohsena Tewfik, Taheya Cariocca, Hoda Soltan, Gamil Ratib, Salah Zulfikar, Tewfik El Dekn, Seif El Dine, Mohamed Atef, Farid Mahmoud, Hassan Husseiny, Hassan El Adl, Mohamad Dardiri, Claude Cernay, Christian Patey, Mohsen Nasr, Abla Kamel
Pictured is a somewhat worn 27" x 39" promotional poster for the 1994
Youssef Chahine 120-minute color film The Emigrant [al-mohager] with
screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Chahine, poster art by Jan and
cinematography by Ramses Marzouk. Plot summary: Ram [Khaled Nabawy]
lived with his old father [Michel Piccoli] in a poor tribe outside
Egypt. Ram suffered from an unhappy dislike of his position as the
favorite of his father's seven sons; he refused to accept that
situation or to live in fear of drought, famine and flood. He dreamed
of being in control of his own life and of his tribe being prosperous.
He decided to go to Egypt to learn agriculture and to make use of
other areas of knowledge found in Egyptian civilization. His brothers
tied him up and threw him into the hold of a ship bound for Egypt,
believing they had gotten rid of him forever, but Ram made it to Egypt
and began learning agriculture. There he discovered the Egyptians were
more interested in the arts and embalming. Ram met Amihar, [Mahmoud
Hemida] the leader of the Egyptian armies. Amihar was impotent
despite his physical strength and was unable to satisfy his wife
Simihit [Youssra] after she fell in love with him. Amihar gave Ram a
plot of land to farm. Ram fell in love with a pretty Egyptian girl
named Haty [Hanan Turk] who said she would marry him. The two of them
joined with an Egyptian minister farming the new land; they
successfully cultivated the plot from Amihar. They divided the crop
to help alleviate the famine that was threatening Egypt and Ram became
a minister in the Pharaoh's government. Nonetheless he longed to
return to his country after disclosing his identity to his seven
brothers; he returned to his tribe with his wife, where he met with
his father after long years of absence. He found his father had gone
blind crying so much in the belief he had died, as his lying brothers
had claimed. This film was banned by religious authorities in Egypt in
1994 and 1995, both times for violating Islamic strictures against
depicting religious prophets--in this case the Prophet Joseph. After
the ban was lifted The Emigrant became Chahine's most popular
film.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Khaled el Nabaoui, Ahmed Bedir, Safia El Emari, Mahmoud Hemida, Yousef Ismail, Khaled Nabawy, Michel Piccoli, Ahmad Salama, Hanan Turk, Youssra, Ramses Marzouk, Menaha al-Batrawy, Sayed Abdel Karim, Amru Abdel Khalil, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Pierre Sioufi
