This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour and Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1980 Houssam El-Din Mustafa
film Al-Batenia written by Ismail Wali El Deen and Mostafa
Moharram and starring Nadia El Guindy as Wardah. Plot summary: Wardah
and Fathy [Farouk Al-Fishawy] become owners of a coffee shop in the
Batenyyia district. Fathy abandons her under pressure from his father
[Farid Shawqi] who with the Akkad controls the drug trade. When Warda
gives birth to a son Akkad agents kidnap him and one of them tells her
he has died.
Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ismail Wali El Deen, Mostafa
Moharram, Mohamed Abu Hashish, Farouk Al-Fishawy, Nadia El Guindy,
Mohamed Abu Hashish, Farouk Al-Fishawy, Imad Hamdi, Hosny Abdul Jalil,
Qadreya Kamel, Ahmed Maher, Emad Moharam, Ibrahim Qadry, Farid Shawqi,
Mahmoud Yassine, Ahmed Zaki
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani for the
1986 Ali Badrakhan film The Hunger based on characters
developed by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay by Esam Ali and Ali Badrakhan
and starring Soad Hosny as Zubaida. Plot summary: This film is a
remake of the 1986 Houssam El-Din Mustafa epic film The
Racketeers [al-harafish]. In the year 1886 Farag Al-Gebali
[Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] worked as a wagon driver to support his mother.
He was married to Zeinab [Soad Hosny]. His brother Gaber [Abdel Aziz
Makhyoun] worked as a blacksmith and married the poor girl Zubeida
[Sanaa Younes] after the death of the thug who had raped her during a
brawl among the neighborhood gangs. The people of the neighborhood
appointed Farag as their main tough guy but he snubbed them after his
marriage to a wealthy woman, [Youssra] moving into her mansion and
running her agency. The nile subsided, the rains did not come, famine
began, the people became poor and the merchants played their games
because they feared their stocks would be raided when the people
became hungrier and prices went up. Farag exploited the famine in
Cairo by hoarding grain. He broke all his old promises and made a
pact with the rich that the tough guy had to side with the nobility.
Zubaida led the racketeers against Farag who was killed, and appointed
her husband Gaber as the new tough guy, but Gaber refused and advised
them to rely on themselves. The revolution became collective with
Zubaida's help.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Abdel Ghani, Youssra, Mahmoud Abdel
Aziz, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Esam Ali, Aly Badrakhan, Sanaa Younes,
Souraya Helmy, Naguib Mahfouz, Mostafa Moharram, Mahmoud Abdelsamie,
Youssra, Samiha Tawfiq, Sayed Sadek, Hafez Amin, Ahmed Abu Abih, Said
Tarabeek, Hanan Soleyman, Adel Awad, Randa, Naim Esa, Othman Abdul
Menem, Youssef Abid, Ibrahim Hussein, Mohamed Tarabeek, Abdelhay
Ezzat, Abdel Ghany Naser, Fathy Ibrahim, Sayed Salem, Adel Abulgheit,
Madiha Youssri
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1984 Ashraf Fahmy
film The Maid based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay
and dialogue by Mostafa Moharram and starring Nadia El Guindy as
Ferdoos. Plot summary: Ferdoos killed her husband with her lover's
help, without any reservations because of his illness and old age.
She went to work with the widow Hekmat [Mediha Yousri] who owned the
company where her husband Ibrahim [Hafez Amin] used to work. Ferdoos
went to Hekmat's home and lived with her son the university student
Alaa, [Mamdouh Abd El Aleem] who depended on his mother and deferred
to her. Ferdoos made Alaa fall in love with her. He married her and
she became the dominant woman in the affairs of the family, especially
after his mother was stricken with paralysis in an accident. She
dispensed with the father quickly as well without notifying him when
he stole Hekmat Hamen's jewelry. Then she brought Fathy [Mustafa
Fahmy] the company director into her group. Alaa discovered her
betrayal, divorced her and banished her from the house. He regretted
what he had done with his mother. He comforted the father, who killed
Ferdoos.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Nadia El Guindy, Samir Farag, Naguib
Mahfouz, Mamdouh Abd El Aleem, Sa'eed Saleh, Mustafa Fahmy, Madiha
Yousri, Ahmed Ghanem, Naima Al Soghayar, Mostafa Moharram, Hassan
Hussein, Hafez Amin, Ahmed Ghanem, Hussein Ibrahim, Mohsen Sabry,
Sherif Hamdy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour and Morteda
Anise for the 1982 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film The Balah Agency
written by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Nadia El Guindy as Nematollah.
Plot summary: Nematollah lived at the Balah Agency. She had married
most of the merchants and used her relationship with the important
employee Amgad, [Ahmed Louxor] who helped her learn the secrets of
bargaining. She did not hesitate to kill her competitors. Abdollah
[Mahmoud Yassine] came to the agency and went to work for Nematollah.
She liked him, married him and made him the boss of the agency in
charge of her affairs. This angered her former husband Abdoun
[Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] who had gone to work for her after his
bankruptcy. Abdollah discovered the truth about Nematollah and her
crimes. He left her, met Amgad's daughter Mervat, [Samia Al-Alfy]
married her and established a special agency with Amgad's help.
Nematollah tried to bring Abdollah back but he refused. She took
revenge against him by arranging to kill Amgad so no one would help
him when she got her assistants to steal Amgad's goods. Abdollah
thought of returning to her and asked her to confess to her crimes.
The police came and arrested Namatollah. Abdoun pick up an axe to
kill Abdollah with it out of revenge but Nematollah sacrificed herself
for him and met her demise.
This is a 27" x 39" Egytian poster designed by Morteda Anise for the
1986 Ashraf Fahmy film Naked Shame based on a story by Naguib
Mahfouz with screenplay and dialogue by Mostafa Moharram and starring
Youssra as Elham. Plot summary: After being sentenced to a prison
term in an indecency case Aziza [Hoda Soltan] of Alexandria admitted
to her son Mokhtar [Nour El-Sherif] that his father was the wealthy
Sayed Al-Gamei; she gave him his picture and her marriage contract
with him. Mokhtar went to Cairo to look for his father. He published
a photo of his father in the newspapers a number of times without
result. He got into relationships with Karima, [Shahira] a clerk at
his hotel and the wife of an old man named Khalil Mokhtar [Mohammed
Tawfik] and also with Elham. Mokhtar killed Khalil for his money to
please Karima. Karima had another lover who killed her for her money,
but Mokhtar, who because of circumstances was thought by the police to
be the one who had murdered her, was wrongly arrested and sentenced to
death.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Naguib Mahfouz, Mostafa Moharram,
Ramses Marzouk, Nour El-Sherif, Youssra, Youssef Chaban, Shahira,
Mohammed Tawfik, Hoda Soltan, Ahmed Ghanem, Naima Al Soghayar, Mariam
Fakhr Eddine, Hassan Hussein
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 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1978
Hassan El-Seify film A Type of Woman based on a story by
Mostafa Moharram, screenplay and dialogue by Ali Salem and starring
Nahed Sherif as Samia. Plot summary: The widow Samia saw a strong
resemblance between Hussein [Sameer Ghanem] and her late husband Hosni
and she therefore became attached to him, while Hussein saw her as a
young and wealthy woman. They married. He got to know Kawsar [Safia
El Emari] because they saw each other everywhere and she was the
couple's only friend. A gang kidnapped Hussein thinking he was their
leader Hosni, although Kawsar knew the difference because she had had
a special relationship with Hosni. Hussein found out about Samia's
first husband, his role as the gang leader and his relationship with
her friend Kawsar.
Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Sameer Ghanem, Hassan El-Seify,
Mostafa Moharram, Ali Salem, Safia El Emari, Salah Nazmi, Aly El
Cherif, Ahmed El Haddad, Ahmed Bedir, Mohammad Shawqi, Ahmed Shawqi,
Hossan Iliani, Nadia Shamseddine, Hassan Mostafa Ali
Pictured is an Egyptian poster designed by Al-Khad to promote the 1982
123-minute Houssam El-Din Mustafa color film The Love District
[darb al-hawa] starring Youssra based on a story by Ismail Wali El
Deen with screenplay by Mostafa Moharram, dialogue by Sherif El
Menbawy and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: Hosnia and
the pimp Saleh [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] ran a house of prostitution called
the Hotel of Princesses in the Darb Tayyab neighborhood. Samiha
[Madiha Kamel] ended up there seeking refuge from the bad treatment of
her mother's husband, while Elham [Youssra] was driven there by
poverty. Men of all social levels frequented the hotel, such as Abdel
Aziz [Ahmed Zaki], the university professor of philosophy and his
friend Morad, Abdel Hafiz Basha, Abdel Aziz's uncle and a candidate
for parliament who attacked prostitution in campaign speeches, even
though it made him happy to hear the prostitutes insult him. It also
made him happy to be able to drop his guard with them. Saleh tried to
dominate Samiha but he was content with Hosnia, who loved him.
Cast and crew: Madiha Kamel, Youssra, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Zaki, Faruq al-Ghayshawi, Hassan Abdeen, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ismail Wali El Deen, Mostafa Moharram, Sherif El Menbawy, Farouk Al-Fichawy, Shouweikar, Farouk Falawkas, Ibrahim Abdel Razaq, Salwa Khattab, Amal Ibrahim, Aziza Helmy
Shown here is a 27.5" x 39.25" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda to
promote the 1993 117-minute Inas Al Degheidy color
film Lace [dentelle] starring Youssra based on a story by Hala
Sarhan, screenplay and dialogue by Rafiq As-Sabban, Inas Al Degheidi
and Mostafa Moharram and cinematography by Maher Rady. Plot summary: A
little rich girl named Maryam (Ilham Shaheen) was about to drown in
the ocean but a poor little girl named Sahar al-Layali (Youssra) saved
her; this became the foundation of a firm friendship which continued
until Maryam grew up and became an attorney. Sahar al-Layali went from
singing popular youth songs at weddings, then at circuses and then in
cabarets. She sang well enough that she became a radio singer, but
when she hit someone with her fast automobile Maryam came to rescue
her at the police station. There they met a police officer named
Hossam (Mahmoud Hemida). They all three fell in love and became a tight threesome.
Then Maryam, seeing that they were in love, left Sahar al-Layali and
Hossam to go their own way. She decided to marry a businessman named
Wagdi and went to live with him in Canada. Hossam was hurt by
Maryam's departure but he married Sahar al-Layali. Maryam's marriage
failed, and after three months she got a divorce and went back to
Cairo. Then Hossam and Maryam got married too after a long
hesitation, with the consent of Sahar al-Layali. He divided his
time between them according to a timetable, but this undermined
Maryam's working life; she lost an important case and her client was
condemned to death. Hossam neglected his job for a month, Sahar
al-Layali was fired from the hotel where she was singing, their
beautiful friendship was lost and problems overtook their lives.
Maryam got pregnant and Sahar discovered she was sterile. She got
into an automobile accident and miraculously escaped death. Hossam
decided to divorce Maryam and Sahar al-Layali so he could go back to
being friends with both of them without any more quarreling, but
Maryam had a baby girl and decided to raise her without any contact
with the father! The soundtrack includes a brief audio clip of Joe Cocker singing Randy Newman's "I Know What Love Is."
Cast and crew: Inas Al Degheidy, Mahmoud Hemida, Ilham Shaheen, Youssra, Mahmoud Kabil, Maher Rady, Hala Sarhan, Rafiq As-Sabban, Mostafa Moharram, Ezzat El-Meshad, Sayed Gabr, Lidia, Amru Youssri
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
