This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1984
Samir Seif film Beware of Alkhot based on story screenplay and
dialogue by Sherif Al Menyawi and starring Adel Imam as
Khosusi/Alkhot. Plot summary: Khosusi is a simple man working at a
company where his cousin Nabila [Lebleba] works. He discovers an
embezzlement, then feigns suicide so he can reappear as Alkhot to expose
the facts.
Cast and crew: Samir Seif, Ahmad Essa, Sherif Al Menyawi, Gasour,
Mohsen Nasr, Adel Imam, Samir Sabri, Lebleba, Osama Abbas, Layla
Fahmy, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Fouad Khalil, Othman Abdul Menem, Mohamed
Farid, Abadllah Farghaly, Zakaria Mouafi, Omayma Saleem, Reda Al
Sayed, Fawzy Al Sharkawi, Ahmad Al Adal
Pictured is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Gasour and
Anise for the 1972 110-minute Ashraf Fahmy color film Forbidden
Desires [raghabat mamnu'a] starring Shadia based on a story by
Hanifa Fathy with screenplay and dialogue by Sabry Moussa and
cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: Tafida [Karima Mokhtar]
was a young woman of breathtaking beauty but her brother Ahmed Atia
al-Gablawy [Hussein Fahmy] put strict controls on her; She was forced
to flee those restraints so she could marry the man she loved, whom
her brother had forbidden her to marry. When she arrived at the
shipping yard in Alexandria where she had agreed to meet her beloved
she was surprised to find someone attacking him, and the attacker
killed him as soon as he saw her. She tried in vain to save him but
he died from the stab wounds all over his body. Tafida went back to
her brother's home, her clothes stained with the blood of her beloved;
her brother's daughter Samia [Shadia] was upset at the sight of the
blood and screamed. The days passed and it seemed as if Tafida had
become deranged after seeing her beloved killed before her eyes. Her
brother Atia got her a room far away from his home close to the docks
and he did not allow her to see anyone or anyone to see her. Atia
al-Gablawy was a hard-hearted man whose human emotions were all dead,
but despite that he was quite possessive. For example he refused to
allow his daugher Samia to attend school because he didn't want anyone
to see her. She lived in ignorance and felt very bad because of that.
He sent his son to school to learn the sciences that would qualify him
to help at the factory he had established, but Ahmad continued his
studies and enrolled at the faculty of fine arts to study art,
unbeknownst to his father. Ahmed fell in love with a classmate named
Azza [Mervat Amin] and they decided to marry. Naturally with their
marital plans Azza learned everything about Ahmed and he learned
everything about her. Azza decided to do a graduation project at the
college about the docks area in Alexandria and Ahmad encouraged
her. He even invited her to live with his family so she could complete
her studies. Azza went to the docks area near Alexandria while Ahmad
happened to be with his father at the factory. She was surprised to
see Samia; he had not known she was her brother's classmate and was
even educated, after being sentenced to ignorance by her father. She
made a show of welcoming her and while she was preparing a room for
her Azza walked around the house. She wandered into the room where
Tafida was staying and screamed in fright at the sight of her. Tafida
screamed more loudly and the panic spread. Atia and his son Ahmad
happened to arrive at the same time, and Ahmad welcomed Azza. He
introduced her to his father who also welcomed her; this calmed her
after the shock of seeing Tafida. Despite Atia Al-Jablawy's show of
welcoming his son's classmate, he watched her closely so she would not
discover the truth about him or what drove Tafida crazy, and
especially the fact that the one who had killed Tafida's beloved was
the husband [Ezzat Abdel Gawad] of the maid Shawq [Aida Abd el Aziz].
Because he feared that discovery, he also concealed his feelings from
his children and behaved in an exemplary way in front of them. It was
of the utmost importance to Azza that the father know the nature of
her relationship with Ahmed's daughter, who deeply loved him. She
insisted on revealing to Ahmad's father their agreement to travel to
Europe to complete their studies, but Ahmed was reluctant to do this
because he knew about his father's ethics and tyranny. However
because of Azza's insistence he had to tell the truth to his father,
who erupted in anger and decided to break up their relationship no
matter what the cost. In the meantime the criminal who had killed
Tafida's beloved had finished his sentence and was about to get out of
prison; his wife was afraid because she had been in a sinful
relationship with Atia al-Gablawy [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] throughout the period of her
husband's absence. She decided to ask for a divorce. The father did
not care about that because he was preoccupied with his son's
relationship with his friend Azza. When Azza saw the father's control
over his son she decided to return to Cairo immediately; one day Ahmed
came across the place where his father had been meeting the maid
Shawq, and just then his sister Samia came upon the same scene!
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Morteda Anise,
Hanifa Fathy, Shadia, Mervat Amin, Hussein Fahmy, Youssef Sha'ban,
Tewfik El Dekn, Mohsen Nasr, Sabry Moussa, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Aida
Abdel Aziz, Karima Mokhtar, Mokhtar Al Sayed, Abdel Azim Sa'ad, Ezzat
Abdel Gawad, Anwar Al-Askari, Aly El Cherif, Mohamed Khalil
This an Egyptian 27" x 39" one-sheet poster designed by Amal and
Gasour for the 1981 Mohamed Khan film Dinner Date based on a
story by Mohammed Khan with screenplay and dialogue by Bachir El Dik
and Starring Soad Hosny as Nawal. The film is set in Alexandria
Egypt; Ahmed Zaki plays the part of hairdresser Shokri, who falls in
love with Nawal. Plot summary: Nawal is oppressed by her husband
Ezzat Abul-Rous [Hussein Fahmy]. She catches him with another woman
and demands a divorce on the spot, but he refuses. Nawal despairs and
eventually divorces Ezzat anyway, then Marries Shokri. Ezzat has
Shokri killed to get revenge. Nawal learns of Shokri's death when she
is called to a morgue to identify his corpse. In the final "dinner
date" scene Nawal pretends to be resigned to resuming life with Ezzat,
but she serves poisoned food. Both of them eat it and presumably die,
but the film only shows a sad conversation in which the two seem to
know this is their last meal. Dinner Date was remade in the UK
in 1985 as Claudia (aka Claudia's Story) by Anwar
Kawadri, starring Deborah Raffin.
Cast and crew: Zuzu Madi, Ragaa Al-Gidawy, Mohsen Nasr, Soad Hosny,
Hussein Fahmy, Ahmed Zaki, Mohamed Khan, Bachir El Dik, Mohsen Nasr,
Eglal Zaki, Hamdy Gheith, Zuzu Madi, Claudia, Anwar Kawadri
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty and Nabil for
the 1971 Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Ashraf Fahmy and Madkour Sabet
film Forbidden Pictures [suwwar mamnu'a] starring Magda
El-Khatib as Hanna. The film tells three stories. The first story
is Forbidden [mamnu'] directed by Mohamed Abdel Aziz and
starring Magda El-Khatib as Hanna. Plot summary: A young man [Nour
El-Sherif] worked as a waiter in a restaurant with aspirations to
marry into a higher social class so he would be able to invite his
friends to dinner at that restaurant. The second story is Used to
Be [kan] directed by Ashraf Fahmy and starring Nabila Ebeid, Hamdy
Ahmed, El Sayed Radi, and Ali al-Sherif. Hasuna [Hamdy Ahmed], a
carpenter in a poor neighborhood, longs to meet Sania [Nabila Ebeid],
a film actress from his area who is making a film on his street.
Naguib Mahfouz wrote the third story, titled Sura [photo]
directed by Madkour Sabet, cinematography by Hassan Abdel Fattah and
starring Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mahmoud Yassine, Wahid Ezzat, Fatheia
Shahin and Mohi Ismail. Plot summary for sura: The police were
looking for the body of a woman at the foot of the pyramids. Her
picture was published in a newspaper. A number of people thought the
woman in the photo looked familiar. A mother thought she was her
daughter who had left her village to work in Cairo; one gentleman
thought she was the maid he used to flirt with. For a director she
was the mistress who had attacked him and fled. She was a different
woman with a different name in each home and for each man. The
investigator tried in vain to find the truth.
This an Egyptian 27" x 39" one-sheet poster designed by Amal and
Gasour for the 1981 Mohamed Khan film Dinner Date based on a
story by Mohammed Khan with screenplay and dialogue by Bachir El Dik
and Starring Soad Hosny (1943 - 2001) as Nawal. The film is set in
Alexandria Egypt; the late Ahmed Zaki (1949-2005) plays the part of
hairdresser Shokri, who falls in love with Nawal. Nawal is oppressed
by her husband Ezzat Abul-Rous [Hussein Fahmy]. She catches him with
another woman and demands a divorce on the spot, but he refuses.
Nawal despairs and eventually divorces Ezzat anyway, then Marries
Shokri. Ezzat has Shokri killed to get revenge. Nawal first learns
of Shokri's death when she is called to a morgue to identify his
corpse. In the final "dinner date" scene Nawal pretends to be
resigned to resuming life with Ezzat, but she serves poisoned food.
Both of them eat it and presumably die, but the film only shows a sad
conversation in which the two seem to know this is their last
meal. Dinner Date was remade in the UK in 1985
as Claudia (aka Claudia's Story) by Anwar Kawadri,
starring Deborah Raffin.
Cast and crew: Zuzu Madi, Ragaa Al-Gidawy, Mohsen Nasr, Soad Hosny, Hussein Fahmy, Ahmed Zaki, Mohamed Khan, Bachir El Dik, Mohsen Nasr, Eglal Zaki, Hamdy Gheith, Zuzu Madi, Claudia, Anwar Kawadri
This is a 27" x 19.5" Egyptian poster made to promote the 1986 Youssef
Chahine film The Sixth Day [al-yom al-sades] starring the
Franco-Italian singer Dalida (Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti 1933-1987)
based on a novel by Andree Chedid with screenplay by Youssef Chahine
and cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: This film tells a
story set during the 1947 cholera epidemic in Cairo, when it was
believed that anyone infected with the disease would die within six
days. Sadiqa [Dalida] is a woman who leaves Cairo on a Nile vessel to
bury relatives. She has lost everyone in her family and her only
remaining hope is her grandson, but he is also afflicted with the
disease; when he dies she kills herself, even though she has a
young companion on her Nile voyage named Okka [Mohsen Mohieddin] who
has fallen in love with her despite the difference in their ages.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Hamdy Ahmed, Mohamed Mounir, Shouweikar, Dalida, Ahmed Handy, Ibrahim Maher, Mohsen Mohieddin, Mohsen Nasr, Salah El-Saadany, Zaki Abdel Wahab, Hamdy Ahmed, Ibrahim Maher, Andree Chedid, Hesham Abdel Hamid, Hassan El Adl, Youssef al-Ani, Mehget Abdel Rahman, Seif Eddine, Maher Salim, Khaled Al-Haggar, Ezzat Badreddine, Ihab Salem, Maher Essam, Mohamed Dardiri
Watch clip with English and French subtitles on YouTube
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anis to
promote the 1985 Ashraf Fahmy film Saad the Orphan [saad
al-yatim] starring Ahmed Zaki based on a story by Yousry Al-Gendy with
screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hai Adib and cinematography by Mohsen
Nasr. Plot summary: Saad the Orphan [Ahmed Zaki] was in love with
Sabah [Naglaa Fathy], the daughter of a gang leader named Badran
[Mahmoud Moursy]. Another gang leader named al-Halbawy [Farid Shawqi]
also wanted to marry Sabah. This created a conflict for Sabah's
father Badran and a rivaly between al-Halbawy and Saad the Orphan,
although arrangements had been made for Saad the Orphan to marry
Sabah, since this was what Sabah wanted and her father Badran had
agreed to it. There was a fight on the wedding night between
al-Halbawy and Saad the Orphan where Saad the Orphan prevailed. Then
there was another fight the same night where Badran was killed after
Saad the Orphan learned that Badran, his father-in-law, had been the
killer of his father and mother.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Naglaa Fathy, Ahmed Zaki, Mahmoud Moursy, Tewfik El Dekn, Shouweikar, Karima Mokhtar, Ashraf Fahmy, Ahmed Bedir, Mohamed Wafik, Ahmed Ghanem, Zizi Mustafa, Mohsen Nasr, Ibrahim Abdel Razaq, Yousry Al-Gendy, Abdel Hai Adib
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
to promote the 1981 118-minute Aly Badrakhan color film People at
the Top [ahl al-qimma] starring Soad Hosny based on a story by
Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay by Aly Badrakhan and Mostafa Moharram
and cinematograpy by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: Mohammad Fawzi [Ezzat El
Alaily] was an officer investigating the hiring of the thief Zaatar
al-Nouri [Nour El-Sherif] by Zaghloul [Omar El Hariri], the owner of
an import export company. Zaghloul used Zaatar's resources and gave
him suspicious assignments that involved the smuggling of Customs
goods. Zaatar fell in love with the employee Saham [Soad Hosny], the
daughter of Mohammad's sister. When Mohammad discovered the
relationship between his niece and Zaatar, he told her he hoped she
would drop him. When Zaatar's power increased he tried to compete
with and challenge Zaghloul. He also tried to learn the truth about
Zaghloul's relationship with Mohammad but Mohammad refused to tell
him. Zaatar set out to deceive Zaghloul and to confiscate for himself
a big shipment of smuggled import goods. Saham married Zaatar
despite Mohammad's objections. Zaghloul's attorney was caught smuggling; he
told Mohammad the truth about Zaghloul, but the results of the
investigation were not revealed in a television interview and Mohammad
was transferred to Assyout.
Cast and crew: Ezzat El Alaili, Soad Hosny, Nour El-Sherif, Naguib Mahfouz, Aly Badrakhan, Omar El-Hariri, Aida Riad, Nadia Ezzat, Hassan Hussein, Sabri Abdel Monem, Mahmoud Al Qalaawi, Mohsen Nasr, Mostafa Moharram, Nadia Rafiq, Nabil Noureddine, Salah Reshwan, Ibrahim Qadri, Helmy Abdel Wahab
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz
and Moaty to promote the 1978 Hisham Abu El-Nasr 90-minute color
Film Al-Aqmar starring Nadia Lutfi based on screenplay and
dialogue by Ahmed Abdel Salam, Hisham Abu El-Nasr and Fayez Ghaly with
cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: The story revolves around
the lives of Cairo's lower classes living in the al-Gamalia
neighborhood near the Al-Aqmar mosque, which was the second mosque
built in Egypt (1125 A.D.). As the film begins the people of the
neighborhood have been told the mosque is to be destroyed and replaced
by a school. They all object to this and there is something of a
local uprising. Against this backdrop a few unrelated romances and
killings are shown along with some popular religious rituals, then the
happy ending comes when the people are told a decision has been made
not to destroy the mosque after all.
Cast and crew: Soheir El-Barouni, Aziza Helmy, Nadia Zaghloul, Nour El-Sherif, Nadia Lutfi, Hisham Abu El-Nasr, Salah Mansour, Sa'eed Saleh, Mohi Ismail, Mohsen Nasr, Ahmed Abdel Salam, Fayez Ghaly, Ibrahim Abdel Razaq, Tareq Hashem, Naima Al Soghayar, Wala Farid, Mohammad Agami, Ahmed Hussein, Hoda Zaki, Ezzat Abdel Gawad, Said Madbouli
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anise to
promote the 1983 Mohamed Fadel 124-minute color film Love in
Prison [hob fil-zinzana] starring Adel Imam and Soad Hosny based
on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ibrahim El-Mougy with
cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: Abol Fotouh, [Abdel
Moneim Madbouli] the secretary of the greedy merchant al-Sherbouni,
[Gamil Rateb] persuaded Salah [Adel Imam] to go to prison in exchange
for a promise of an apartment and a lathe workshop. In prison Salah
met the imprisoned artist Farouq [Yehia El-Fakharani] and Ali
Shamsoun, [Aly El Cherif] who was condemned to death but had been
given a reprieve. With the help of hand signals, Salah fell in love
with Faiza, [Soad Hosny] a prisoner in the adjacent women's prison.
After Faiza was released she went to get the apartment but
Al-Sherbouni hid it from her and did not keep his promise. Salah broke
out of prison so he could take revenge against Al-Sherbouni. He
married Faiza and remained in hiding until he could travel abroad with
Farouq's fake passport. Seduced by money, Farouq had to declare the
date of Al-Sharbouni's trip. The police went to the airport but Salah
evaded them and fled. He went to Al-Sherbouni's home and killed him;
then he was put back in prison.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Soad Hosny, Mohamed Fadel, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Yehia El-Fakharany, Gamil Ratib, Aly El Cherif, Mohamed Kamel, Naima El Saghier, Magda Zaki, Ibrahim El-Mougy, Mohsen Nasr, Badr Nofal, Mohamed Shawky, Hamdy Youssef, Abou Lam'a, Sami Moghawari, Awatef Tekla, Ahmed Al-Badri, Mahmoud Massoud, Mohammad Farid, Said Tarabik, Osman Salim
The Drowned Woman [al-gharqana] Egyptian film poster
This is a 26.75" x 38.75" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda to
promote the 92-minute Mohamed Khan color film The Drowned Woman
[al-gharqana] starring Nabila Ebeid as Warda based on screenplay and
dialogue by Mostafa Moharram and a story by Hassan Shah, with
cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: In a village on the
southern coast of the Sinai the pretty Bedouin woman Wafa was in
heartbreak and pain because she had become a widow to three husbands.
People were accusing her of being bad luck for men! Warda went to see
the village sorcerer, a swindler and a quack, to ask him how to break
the spell. He persuaded her to marry him and told her this would
purge the curse. She agreed to the marriage and gave birth to a
deformed midget, whom the father named Mabruk. The father attributed
miracles to him and accumulated much wealth by using simple devices to
promote superstition and quackery. Warda started supprting herself as
a dancer in a tourist village. Then Mabruk drowned while playing in
the sea in his parents' absence; the local women told the sorcerer his
wife had caused it, so he drowned her too. The sorcerer then went
back to swindling the villagers with the help of a local assistant,
who claimed Mabruk's soul had dissolved into the body of his father!
Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Mostafa Moharram, Nabila Ebeid, Mahmoud Hemida, Ahmad Tawfiq, Hassan Shah, Mostafa Moharram, Mohsen Nasr, Nahla Salama, Hamdi Al Wazir, Abir Al-Saghir, Ayman Ahmad, Ali Hassanein, Mohamed Sabri, Ahlam Khaled, Nahla Salama
This poster was designed and printed by the award-winning Egyptian
poster designer Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1989 Mohamed Khan
film Dreams of Hind and Camilia based on story and screenplay
by Mohamed Khan and starring Ahmed Zaki as Aid. As with many films by
great directors, the magic of this film is in the visual detail that
gives life to the story. The combination of director Mohamed Khan and
the work of the late Ahmed Zaki and his two co-stars Naglaa Fathy and
Aida Reyad are potent and engaging in this film, in ways not conveyed
by the outline of the story. Plot Summary: Hind [Aida Reyad] was a
pretty and honorable young widow who worked in homes as a maid. Her
dreams were taken up with the search for the right man who would
rescue her from her miserable life. She met Aid [Ahmed Zaki], a
charming swindler who loved her for the moment and got her involved in
many problems and difficulties because of his deviant character. He
was put in prison and left a foetus in her belly without marrying her.
Camilia [Naglaa Fathy] was a divorced beauty who also worked as a
maid. She helped her unemployed brother, his wife and their children
in return for them allowing her to live in their apartment. Camilia
constantly resented her miserable situation and kept hoping to improve
her life. She married a greedy old man who forced her to steal.
Camilia mediated between Hind and Aid so they would marry. Hind had a
beautiful child that she named Ahlam [dreams]. Aid stole some money
but was arrested and imprisoned. Hind and Camilia stumbled upon the
money Aid had stolen and hidden. They took Ahlam on a taxi trip to
Alexandria to fulfill some of their small dreams. The taxi driver and
his assistant drugged them and robbed them. When they woke up where
the driver had left them beside the ocean they had lost everything,
but Ahlam was still standing nearby on the beach.
Cast: Ahmed Zaki, Naglaa Fathy, Aida Reyad, Mohsen Nasr, Hassan El Adl, Mohamed Kamel and Mohga Abdel Rahman.
Bronze Award at the Valencia Film Fest in 1988. Best Direction from Egyptian Film Society Festival in 1989. Best Film from the Catholic Film Centre in Cairo in 1989.
Screened at the Tashkent, Carthage, Bahrain, Nantes and Tetouan Film Festivals, between 1989 and 1995, named one of the 100 landmarks of Egyptian film in 2007 by the Bibliothecha Alexandarina.
