This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Seif and Wahid Fahmy
for the 1973 Atef Salem film Les Miserables based on the 1862
Victor Hugo novel of the same title using a screenplay by Rafiq
al-Saban and starring Farid Shawqi as Hamed Hamdan/Hassan al-Kashef.
Plot summary: Hamed Hamdan is a poor man sent to prison for stealing a
loaf of bread. He escapes, becomes rich and changes his name to
Hassan al-Kashef, but though he uses his wealth charitably to help
people in need, he is still subject to public disdain because the
people know his origins.
Cast and crew: Victor Hugo, Atef Salem, Youssef Wahby, Farid
Shawqi, Adel Adham, Laila Eloui, Mohsena Tewfik, Fardous Abdel Hamid,
Abdel Waress Assar, Rafiq al-Saban, Ahmed Bahgat, Abdel Moneim
Bahnassy
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
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
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by
Gasour to promote the 1970 Shafiq Shamia 80-minute black-and-white
film Honor incident [hadsa sharaf] starring Zubaida Tharwat
based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Idriss with
cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: Banat, the prettiest
girl in her village, lived with her brother Farag and his wife. She
worked with him to meet living costs. All the young men in the
village wanted her because of her charm and beauty but none approached
her other than Shaban, who did so despite his mother's objections. He
made a contract to marry her and her brother Farag felt relieved
because his sister had finally settled on somone and was to be
married. A frivolous boy named Gharib appeared and tried to get Banat
by offering to have the local seamstress Zakia make some clothing for
her, but he failed. Shaban noticed Gharib's attention and Banat's
rejection of him; they quarrelled and he had to cancel the marriage
contract. Farag suggested she marry Gharib, but she vehemently
refused. Gharib came across her once in a field and when she saw him
she was horrified and ran away from him screaming. The people in the
village thought he had raped her and they took her to Om George for an
examination to see if she was still a virgin. Her innocence was
proven, but she could no longer live among them so she went to Zakia
the taylor so she could do what the people in the village wanted her
to do so she could submit herself to Gharib.
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
This film is included on Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of Egypt's 100 most important films. In 1979 it won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and was also nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear. Also in 1979 it was nominated at the Chicago International Film Festival for the Gold Hugo Award for best feature.
Plot Summary: The film is an historic and autobiographical tale interpreting the life of director Youssef Chahine, World War II in North Africa and several other interwoven story lines. It is set in 1942 as British and Arab forces are fighting the German army advancing towards Alexandria. In Alexandria, the boy Yehia (the young Chahine) dreams of Hollywood musicals, Shakespeare and studying acting in the USA. A beautiful Jewish socialite is caught between the urge to flee the advancing Germans with her father and remaining in Alexandria with her Egyptian lover, who is secretly collaborating with the Germans. An Egyptian aristocrat is murdering occupying British soldiers one by one, but then becomes attached to a young British soldier.
Cast and Crew: Youssef Chahine, Mohsen Zayed, Ahmed Zaki, Naglaa Fathy, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mohsen Nasr, Ezzat El Alaili, Youssef Wahby, Yehia Chahine, Leila Fawzi, Mohsena Tewfik, Akela Kateb, Zeinab Sedky, Seif El Dine, Ahmad Abdel Waress, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Gerry Sundquist
