This is a 23.5" x 35" Egyptian poster designed by Al-Zaria for the
1942 film Leila the Schoolgirl written and directed by Togo
Mizrahi and starring Laila Mourad as Leila. Plot summary: Youssef
[Youssef Wahby] is a famous attorney who welcomes his orphan cousin
Leila into his mansion after she completes her studies. Leila brings
happiness to the mansion. This changes Youssef and makes him happy,
but he falls in love with an unfaithful woman. Leila tries to correct
her, but Youssef believes Leila is the one who has a lover and he
throws her out of his house.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani and Wahib
Fahmy to promote the 1977 Abdel Rahman El Khamesy 92-minute
black-and-white film The Purple Rose [zahret al-banafseg]
starring Zubaida Tharwat based on a story by Ibrahim al-Mawgi with
screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Rahman El Khamesy and Ahmed El
Khamesy and cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot summary: As a
married couple Kamal [Mohamed Lutfy] and Samiha [Moshira Ismail] had
their dreams disrupted after Kamal discovered he had a critical
disease, which he concealed from everyone. One night Kamal met an
actress named Hayat [Zubaida Tharwat], who was working at a night club
to make ends meet after her husband died. She was planning to quit
the night club but its manager Rashed [Ahmad Taufiq] wanted her to
stay, so he kidnapped her daughter to get leverage. Hayat fell in
love with Kamal. Kamal decided to end his relationship with Hayat and
tell her about his illness, but he died in his train seat on the way
to see her in Alexandria and never had a chance to do it. In a
dramatic final scene, standing on the train platform waiting for his
arrival Hayat saw him through the window sitting dead in his seat, but
his body was not removed and she watched as the train continued on its
way with its dead passenger.
Cast and crew: Abdel Rahman El Khamesy, Zubaida Tharwat, Adel Imam, Mohamed Lutfy, Ahmed Taufiq, Youssef Chaban, Mohsen Sarhan, Adel Abdel Azim, Moshira Ismail, Alia Abdel Moneim
Pictured is a 35.5" x 47" oversize Egyptian poster designed by Abdel
Rahman to promote the 1956 Hassan El-Seify 89-minute black-and-white
film Who Is the Killer? [min al-qatel?] starring Samira Ahmed
based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Kamel Hassan with
cinematography by Alevise Orphanelli. Plot summary: A girl was killed
during a wedding celebration. An inspector [Adly Kasseb] arrived
immediately to determine the murderer's identity. He questioned a
number of people and found they all had good motives for killing the
girl, but the real murderer turned out to be someone nobody suspected.
This is a 35" x 47" oversize Egyptian stone litho poster designed by
Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1956 Hassan Al Imam film A Wife's
Confessions [eeterafat zawga] based on a story by Hassan Al Imam,
screenplay by Mohamed Osman and El Sayed Bedeir and starring Hind
Rostom as Dusa. Plot summary: The seamstress Dusa runs a house of
prostitution through her home. Nadia came to see her about sewing her
a dress. Dusa liked her. She told Nadia her husband had a
relationship with someone else. Nadia neglected her home and her
children and fell in love with Ahmed, then asked for a divorce. Her
husband tried to get her back but failed. Then Nadia and Ahmed had a
fight and she killed him. The police arrested her; meanwhile Dusa's
house burned down.
Cast and crew: Hind Rostom, Mohamed Osman, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Zouzou Nabil, Mohsen Sarhan, Hassan Al Imam, Amina Nour Eddine, \
Mostafa Hassan, El Sayed Bedeir
This is a 35" x 23.5" Egyptian stone litho one-sheet designed by
Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1952 Hassan Al Imam 150-minute
black-and-white film Whose Daughter Am I? based on story and
dialogue by Mohamed Mustafa Samy, screenplay by Hassan Al Imam and
starring Leila Fawzi as Nemat. Plot summary: Moharram [Mohsen
Hassanein] is managing his niece Zizi's money; Zizi has killed her
father with the help of Hamed [Farid Shawqi]. Galal [Mohsen Sarhan],
the son of Moharram, has a relationship with Nemat and she becomes
pregnant, but Moharram will not allow his son to marry her. She is
obliged to flee the scandal and live with the blind Sheikh Saleh,
where she has her baby, a girl named Samiha. Hamed burns the home of
Sheikh Saleh when he finds out Nemat is living there. He kidnapped
the girl and adopted her. Galal married Zizi. Samiha grows up a poor
orphan without knowing the identity of her father.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Mohsen Sarhan, Mohsen Hassanein, Hussein Riad, Sanaa Gamil, Hassan el Baroudi, Farid Shawqi, Leila Fawzi, Ahmed Allam, Sherifa Maher, Mohamed Mustafa Samy, Mostafa Hassan, Mansi Fahmi, Wedad Hamdy, Fakher Fakher, Salah Wahbi, Souraya Fakhry, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohammad Idris, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Soheir Fakhry
This is a 33" x 45" Egyptian oversize stone litho poster for the 1954
film Money and Children [المال والبنون al-mal wal-banun] directed by Ibrahim Emara,
starring Aqila Ratib and Mohsen Sarhan. The film tells the story of
two married friends and their children, where the desire for children
and the ability to have them are restrained by financial
considerations. One of the men takes a second wife to make the
addition of children easier. The poster art is a joint project by
Studio Adly and Ahmed Fouad; printing by Dar al-Taba'a of Cairo.
Cast and crew: Ibrahim Emara, Aqila Ratib, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mohsen Sarhan, Zahrat El-Ola, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Wedad Hamdy, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Bassioni, Masud Isa
Pictured is a 35.5" x 47" oversize Egyptian poster designed by Abdel
Rahman to promote the 1956 Hassan El-Seify 89-minute black-and-white
film Who Is the Killer? [min al-qatel?] starring Samira Ahmed
based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Kamel Hassan with
cinematography by Alevise Orphanelli. Plot summary: A girl was killed
during a wedding celebration. An inspector [Adly Kasseb] arrived
immediately to determine the murderer's identity. He questioned a
number of people and found they all had good motives for killing the
girl, but the real murderer turned out to be someone nobody suspected.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy to promote
the 1950 Henry Barakat 125-minute black-and-white film The Shores
of Love [shati al-gharam] starring Laila Mourad based on story and
screenplay by Henry Barakat with dialogue by Ali Al-Zarkani and
Youssef Isa and cinematography by Abelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: The
Egyptian mediterranean resort of Mersa Matruh provides a picturesque
setting for this romantic drama. Adel [Hussein Sedki] was a young man
who did not know the meaning of love. He spent his time at
racetracks, dance halls and in the arms of prostitutes. While on a
beach vacation at Mersa Matruh, Adel fell in love with a schoolteacher
named Laila [Laila Mourad] and asked her father for permission to
marry her. The father agreed and Adel took Laila with him back to
Cairo. Adel's aunt and her husband were surprised by his sudden
marriage, because the aunt had been planning for him to marry her
daugher Mona so she could use Adel's wealth to lift her family out of
bankruptcy. On the other hand Adel's mistress Soheir [Taheya
Cariocca] had also been hoping to marry him. The aunt devised a
scheme to disrupt the marriage by accusing Laila of being unfaithful
and she succeeded with it because Adel believed her. He sent Laila
back to her father in Mersa Matruh. However Adel then learned his
aunt was just after his money and that the accusation was false, so he
went to Mersa Matruh to correct the mistake and bring his wife back to
Cairo again.
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Taheya Cariocca, Laila Mourad, Mohsen Sarhan, Hussein Sedki, Salah Mansour, Abdelhalim Nasr, Ali Al-Zarkani, Youssef Esa, Samiha Ayyoub, Stephan Rosti, Zaki Ibrahim, Gom'a Idris, Mimi Shakeeb, Mona, Edmond Tuema, Nahed Farid, Shafik Noureddin
Shown here is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease poster designed by an
unknown artist for the 1956 139-minute Hassan El-Seify black-and-white
film Samara starring Taheya Cariocca based on story and
screenplay by Mahmoud Ismail with dialogue by Abdel Moneim El-Sebai
and cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: This is an Egyptian
noir style crime thriller, featuring a classy 1952 Packard
Mayfair convertible as an Egyptian gang's vehicle of choice for its
various criminal errands. Soltan [Mahmoud Ismail] was a big-time
smuggler who loved Samara [Taheya Cariocca]. He married her and drew
her into his criminal affairs; she became influential in the affairs
of his gang. When the police sent an escaped convict named Abu Shefa
[Mohsen Sarhan] into their midst as an informer, Samara fell in love
with him. After Samara flirted with him playfully at a nightclub,
Soltan's boss Wagih [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] also fell in love with
Samara, although she did not feel the same way about him. Wagih,
Samara and Soltan went to Suez together to receive a shipment of
smuggled hashish. The police followed them there and monitored their
activities. When the police were closing in later for a final arrest
in Cairo they shot Samara while she was in Abu Shefa's arms.
Cast and crew: Hassan El-Seify, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Seraj Munir, El Sayed Bedeir, Stephan Rosti, Taheya Cariocca, Mohsen Sarhan, Mahmoud Ismail, Mahmoud Nasr, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Reyad El Kasabgy, Mohammed Tawfik, Mohammed Dib, Shafik Noureddin, Gamalat Zayed, Fouad Gafaar, Hussein Ismail, Awatef Youssef, Mohsen Hassanein, Abdel Moneim El-Sebai
The Purple Rose [zahret al-banafseg] (1977) - (Zubaida Tharwat) Egyptian film poster
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani and Wahib
Fahmy to promote the 1977 Abdel Rahman El Khamesy 92-minute
black-and-white film The Purple Rose [zahret al-banafseg]
starring Zubaida Tharwat based on a story by Ibrahim al-Mawgi with
screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Rahman El Khamesy and Ahmed El
Khamesy and cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot summary: As a
married couple Kamal [Mohamed Lutfy] and Samiha [Moshira Ismail] had
their dreams disrupted after Kamal discovered he had a critical
disease, which he concealed from everyone. One night Kamal met an
actress named Hayat [Zubaida Tharwat], who was working at a night club
to make ends meet after her husband died. She was planning to quit
the night club but its manager Rashed [Ahmad Taufiq] wanted her to
stay, so he kidnapped her daughter to get leverage. Hayat fell in
love with Kamal. Kamal decided to end his relationship with Hayat and
tell her about his illness, but he died in his train seat on the way
to see her in Alexandria and never had a chance to do it. In a dramatic final
scene, standing on the train platform waiting for his arrival Hayat
saw him through the window sitting dead in his seat, but his body was
not removed and she watched as the train continued on its way with its
dead passenger.
Cast and crew: Abdel Rahman El Khamesy, Zubaida Tharwat, Adel Imam, Mohamed Lutfy, Ahmed Taufiq, Youssef Chaban, Mohsen Sarhan, Adel Abdel Azim, Moshira Ismail, Alia Abdel Moneim
This is a picture of an undated Egyptian rerelease poster printed by
the Arab Cinema Printers to promote the 1950 103-minute Hassan Al Imam
black-and-white film Law of the Jungle [hokm al-'awi] starring
Farid Shawqi based on a screenplay by Hassan Al Imam with dialogue by
El Sayed Bedeir. Cinematography was by Francois Farkas; the film was
produced by the Nehas Film Company. Plot summary: Medhat Abel Nabi
was an engineer who owned a factory with his partner Qasem. The two
of them were opposites ethically. Qasem did not know the meaning of
friendship and he preferred the company to Medhat, who had become its
sole owner. Qasem lived for pleasure and lost all his money gambling.
After that he met a rich man and deluded him about a project that
would supposedly make an enormous amount of money after
implementation, but the wealthy man learned the truth about Qasem and
that he was really just a swindler. He refused the project Qasem was
offering. They quarreled and the rich man was killed. Qasem was
accused of the crime but in a deception he pinned the accusation on
Medhat, who was then arrested and condemned to death. However in the
end the truth was discovered, Medhat was found innocent and the real
perpetrator received his punishment.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Mohsen Sarhan, Zuzu Shakeeb, Farid Shawqi, Hoda Soltan, Zouzou Mady, Abbas Fares, Seraj Munir, Abdel Waress Assar, El Sayed Bedeir, Francois Farkas, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Souraya Helmy, Soheir Fakhry, Zaki Ibrahim, Zakia Ibrahim, Abdel Rahim al-Zorqani, Zouzou Nabil, Abdel Alim Khattab, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Sanaa Gamil
Shown here is a first printing of a 23.5" x 35.25" Egyptian poster
designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour and printed by Al-Nasr Printers to
promote the 1954 Henry Barakat film It Happened One Night
[hadasa zata laila] starring Hoda Soltan based on a screenplay by
Henry Barakat with story and dialogue by Fathy Abol-Fadl and
cinematography by Klelio. The film was produced by Kamel Abdullah
Hamuda's Arabic Films Company and distributed by Montekhabat Behna.
Plot summary: A poor girl married a rich boy despite opposition from
the boy's father. She lived happily with her husband until she fell
into the clutches of a young hustler who told her her husband had
injured him in an accident. Her husband found out about him holding
her and divorced her without understanding that his wife was innocent,
then went abroad. The wife took revenge against the hustler who had
ruined her life by killing him. Then when she tried to commit suicide
her young attorney saved her and defended her in court, where he
successfully reduced her sentence. He promised to marry her after her
release from prison.
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Hoda Soltan, Mohsen Sarhan, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Shafik Noureddin, Abdel Rahim El Zarkani, Klelio, Aida Kamel, Hind Rostom, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Nimat Mukhtar, Shafik Noureddin, Soraya Salem, Rafia al-Shal, Zaki Ibrahim, Mary Ezzedine
Pictured is a promotional poster designed by Morteda Anise for the
1991 120-minute color film Woman Marked for Destruction [emraa
ayla lel soqut] written and directed by Medhat El-Sebaiy and starring
Youssra as Ahlam based on a story taken from court cases, with
cinematography by Tarek El-Telmisany. Plot summary: Poverty drove
Ahlam to the commission of illegal acts for which she was never
arrested such as swindling, theft and prostitution; she formed a
professional gang with two clever thieves named Mohsen [Mohamed Kamel]
and Sharif [Ramzi Gheith]. Ahlam fell in love with Shukry, [Mahmoud
Hemida] a novice journalist and they dreamed together about wealth and
freedom. Then she dumped him for a wealthy man who refused to marry
her after seducing her. She was passed from one man to another and
became a whore. She was imprisoned on false testimony; after her
release she married a waiter named Hamdy [Abdel Aziz Makhyoun] at a
nightclub where she worked, but then she discovered he was addicted to
heroin. The owner of the house raped her in front of her husband, but
he made no move to save her. The thieves Mohsen and Sharif broke into
a wealthy woman's villa, stole her jewels and killed her and her son.
Her young daughter Abir [Amira Ibrahim] saw them and ran away. The
thieves hid the stolen jewels in Ahlam's apartment but the police
arrested the three of them. Ahlam was sentenced to death because the
evidence of the crime was found in her apartment. Ahlam's former
fiancee Shukry came to her defense and went looking for Abir, the only
witness who could save Ahlam from the noose.
Cast and crew: Medhat El-Sebaiy, Farid Shawqi, Youssra, Hoda Soltan, Mohsen Sarhan, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Mahmoud Hemida, Salah Kabil, Ragaa Hussein, Seif Abdel Rahman, Seif El Dine, Mohamed Kamel, Mohamed Wafik, Tarek El-Telmisany, Mohammad Rafiq, Mohsen Sarhan, Mahmood Massood, Zeinab Wahbi, Shadia Abdel Hamid, Sayed Sadek, Mufid Ashour, Ibrahim Mabruk, Anwar Abdel Aziz, Mervat Hafez, Amira Ibrahim, Mostafa Ibrahim
This poster was designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1960 115
minute Hassan Al Imam black-and-white film I Accuse [inni
ataham], which according to Egyptian film encyclopedist Mahmoud Qasem
is based on an unknown French novel called Jacques the Small
(jak al-saghir] (apparently nothing to do with Emile Zola's famous
1898 letter titled j'accuse published in the French
newspaper L'Aurore exposing the Dreyfus affair). The
screenplay is by Mohamed Moustapha Sami, Mohamed Osman and Hassan Imam
and cinematography is by Alevise Orfanelli. Plot summary: Plot summary: Naima's
(Zubaida Tharwat) cousin Salah (Salah Zulfikar) loved her. He worked
at the newspaper Akhbar al-Yom. A motorcycle ran over Naima
when she was crossing the street. She recovered quickly but lost her
eyesight. Her father Saber (Mohsen Sarhan) suffered a long time and
provided the best education for her after he lost his job. He went to
the hospital to see about his daughter but he forgot her briefcase
with important items in it. There was a spat over this incident
between him and the contractor Hamed (Imad Hamdi). Hamed persuaded all
his colleagues not to hire Saber; he accumulated wealth while Saber
lived in poverty. Hamed swindled the wealthy including Soad, whom he
tried to marry by putting pressure on her brother Abbas, who was shot
during their encounter. Saber came to Hamed's house at that moment
and found the corpse. Saber was then arrested and accused of killing
Abbas. At the trial there was a coroner's report on the shooting.
Salah tried to shed light on the case in the newspaper while Naima
tried to work a cure and recover her sight. Salah discovered Hamed's
role and asked the court to interrogate him. In the end the truth was
discovered.
Cast and crew: Doria Ahmed, Zizi El-Badrawy, Nagwa Fouad, Tewfik El Dekn, Salah Nazmi, Mohsen Sarhan, Hassan Al Imam, Zubaida Tharwat, Imad Hamdi, Salah Zulfikar, Alevise Orfanelli, Mohamed Moustapha Sami, Mohamed Osman, Amin Wahba, Amin Wahba, Mohamed Sabih, Hussein Ismail, Abdel Moneim Ismail
Shown here is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Walid Wahig
and Gasour for the 1970 79-minute Mamduh Shukry color
film Delusions of Love [awham al-hob] starring Naglaa Fathy as
Nadia with story, screenplay and dialogue by Mamduh Shukry and
cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: After saying goodbye
to her brother at the Cairo Airport Nadia met the artist Samir, [Yusuf
Chaban] who felt something the first time he saw her. They
established a relationship before they were officially married and
lived as man and wife at a beach in Alexandria. They married later,
but Nadia felt there was some change in her relatonship with Samir
which showed itself as his desire to read and a preoccupation with
books; it also included bordeom and tension in their
relationship. Nadia was injured in an automobile accident, which
caused her to have a miscarriage and lose some blood. Samir took her
to a doctor to get her a blood transfusion, but a test of his own
blood showed he had leukemia. He hid the test results from his wife
with whom he was having so many problems, but he did not get a
divorce. She left their home and returned to the gang of friends she
had been with before the marriage. One of them named Farouk [Fathy
Abul Sattar] took her to his apartment and they slept together. She
went to her husband to tell him about the incident and gave him a lot
of trouble. He had a nervous breakdown and could not find any
solution other than divorce. His life had become a hellish fantasy
and he could no longer control himself. His world was a confusing maze
of contradictions. He died, accepting death with no regrets.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Asia, Mohsen Sarhan, Zouzou Madi, Mamduh Shukry, Youssef Fakhreddine, Yusuf Chaban, Safa Abu Al-Saud, Abdelhalim Nasr, Fathy Abdul Sattar
This is an original Egyptian stone lithograph film poster by an
unknown designer for the 1948 El-Sayed Ziada 140-minute
black-and-white film Forbidden Happiness [al-sa'ada al-mahrama]
starring Amina Rizk (1910-2003) based on a story by Aly Al-Zarkany
with screenplay and dialogue by El-Sayed Ziada and cinematography by
Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary: Amina and Fouad loved each other and
enjoyed their lives. They were watched enviously by the wealthy old
Tawfiq Bey, who wanted the girl for his own wife, hated the boy Amina
loved and was made miserable by their happiness together. The man
ordered one of his assistants to dispense with with the boy, brought
the girl to his home by force and married her. She submitted because
her beloved had disappeared and she did not know anything about what
had happened to him. The months went by and Amina gave birth to a son
by Fouad named Raouf, whom Tawfiq treated cruelly. Tawfiq died and
left a will providing that his wife would be not be allowed to inherit
his vast fortune if she married anyone after he was gone. The
miserable wife discovered that her beloved Fouad had been in hiding
and had escaped the attempt to kill him. She went back to him, they
became committed to their marriage and she turned her back on the
oppressive man's wealth.
As You Like [ala kayfak] (1952) - (Taheya Cariocca) oversize Egyptian film poster (36" x 47")
This film was directed by Helmy Raflah with story and dialogue by Abu
Seoud El-Ibiary. Cinematography was by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A
young man celebrated his wedding day but it was discovered that night
that a child was attributed to him. The child's grandfather learned
about this and appeared to demand that the bridegroom marry his
daughter after going back to her. The young man was innocent of this
accusation, but the only solution
was to find the boy who had gotten the girl pregnant and have him
marry her. Otherwise he would have to refuse to complete the marriage
after being accused about the child. The only way out for the boy
they were looking for was to claim insanity and commit himself. The
bridegroom learned he had done and went to visit him. The boy
emphasized his innocence and then the bride agreed to the completion
of the marriage.
Cast and crew: Taheya Cariocca, Leila Fawzi, Ismail Yasseen, Mohsen Sarhan, Aziz Osman, Wedad Hamdy, Aida Kamel, Nour El-Demerdash, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Helmy Rafla, Bruno Salvi, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Gamalat Zayed, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Kamal Hussein, Negah Salam, Zaki Ibrahim
