Adrift on the Nile [ ثرثرة فوق النيل thartharah fawq al-nil] (1971) - (Adel Adham) Egyptian two-piece film poster

Adrift on the Nile [ثرثرة فوق النيل] (1971) - (Adel Adham) Egyptian two-piece poster

This is a 29" x 54" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz to promote the 1971 Hussein Kamal film Adrift on the Nile [ثرثرة فوق النيل thartharah fawq al-Nil] based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Adel Adham as Ali. Plot Summary: This is the story of a simple Egyptian worker Anis [Imad Hamdi], who dislikes the hypocrisy of the Egyptian government and the illiteracy of the Egyptian public. He tries to escape the problems in Egypt by smoking the drug shisha. Anis meets Ragab [Ahmed Ramzi], a former student, who invites him aboard a small boat on the Nile. There Anis meets other lower- and middle-class Egyptians who are also smoking shisha for the same reasons he does. At the end Anis decides to stop smoking shisha but is soon left alone and deranged in the streets--almost everyone else in Egypt is stoned!

Cast and crew: Hussein Kamal, Naguib Mahfouz, Adel Adham, Magda El-Khatib, Mervat Amin, Imad Hamdi, Mamdouh El Leithy, Mustafa Imam, Salah Nazmi, Ahmed Ramzy, Soheir Ramzy, Ahmed Tewfik, Ahmed Al-Gezeiry, Nimat Mukhtar

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The Curse [اللعنة] (Nour El-Sherif) - (1984) Egyptian one-sheet

The Curse (1984) - (Nour El-Sherif) Egyptian one-sheet

Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian film poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour and Morteda Anise and printed by Arabic Cinema printers to promote the 1984 110-minute Hussein El-Wakeel color film The Curse [al-la'na] starring Nour El-Sherif with screenplay by Hussein El-Wakeel, dialogue by Salah Gabin and cinematography by Mostafa Imam, based on the 1963 film Shock Corridor written and directed by Samuel Fuller. The film was produced by Aflam Eskandaria and distributed by Ihab al-Leisi films. Plot summary: Chief Editor Tantawy [Nabil Dessouky] gave the journalist Hamdy [Nour El-Sherif] the job of investigating the murder of Saluma, an inmate at a mental hospital. Hamdy gained entrance into the hospital claiming to be insane, despite the objections of his wife Madiha [Madiha Kamel]. Based on consultations with a psychiatrist he learned how to imitate the state of a mental patient. At the hospital he found three witnesses who said the patient Khalil was the one who had killed Salmuma because she had seen him assault another patient sexually. Hamdy left the hospital and published his report, but discovered he had gone insane himself.

Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Samuel Fuller, Madiha Kamel, Hussein El-Wakeel, Mustafa Imam, Gamil Ratib, Ahmed Bedir, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra, Aly El Cherif, Mohamed Kamel, Mohamed Morshed, Ahmed Abdel Hadi, Mohamed Nouh, Nabil Dessouky, Kamal Hussein

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Al-Qadesiya القادسية (Soad Hosny) - (1981) Egyptian one-sheet

Al-Qadesiya (1981) - (Soad Hosny) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the 1981 film Al-Qadesiya written and directed by Salah Abouseif and starring Soad Hosny as Shirin. Plot summary: This film is a costume drama produced in Iraq. It depicts the 636 battle of Yarmouk, along what is today the border between Syria and Jordan. Yarmouk is considered one of most decisive battles in human history.

Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Soad Hosny, Ezzat El Alaili, Mustafa Imam, Hassan El-Gendi, Laila Taher, Kanaan Wasfy

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