This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1985 film Office Owner Building Doorman
written and directed by Nadia Salem and starring
Nadia El Guindy as Zizi. Plot summary: To hide from the law
Abol-Moaty [Adel Adham] disguises himself as a doorman and works with
a dancer in the prostitution and drug trades. This changes when he
decides to become an election candidate.
Cast and crew: Nadia Salem, Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Nadia El Guindy,
Adel Adham, Safia El Emari, Hussein El-Sherbini, Naga El-Mogui,
Mahmoud Al Iraqi, Mohamed Abol Hassan, Ola Rami, Etedal Shaheen
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 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 an unknown artist to
promote the 1966 97-minute Niazi Mostafa color film Knight of Bani
Hamdan [fares bani hamdan] starring Farid Shawqi and Soad Hosny
based on a story by Ali Al-Garim with screenplay by Abdel Hay Adib and
dialogue by Mohammad Abouseif. Cinematography was by Wahid Farid.
Plot summary: Abu Fares al-Hamdani (Farid Shawqi) was a famous Arab
poet among the lords of the Al-Hamdania. He was also famous for his
chivalry and bravery in the court of Prince Seif ad-Dawla. The people
everywhere loved him. He fell in love with Naglaa al-Khaledia (Soad
Hosny), an attractive performer in the prince's palace. This made the
commander of the army jealous, and he competed with Fares for the love
of Naglaa. The prince decided to appoint Abu Fares as successor to
the governor of the city of Manih, while Farawia, the Hamdani army
commander, began to hate him. Fares was taken prisoner and tortured
by the Hamdani Empress Tifano. He learned Farawiya had made a plot on
Rome's behalf to destroy the al-Hamdania government. In a wild escape
Seif al-Dawlah avoided being murdered. He led the Arabs in the
expulsion of Rome; then he met his love Naglaa and raised banners of
victory.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Farid Shawqi, Soad Hosny, Imad Hamdi,
Leila Fawzi, Mahmoud Moursy, Adel Adham, Nadia El Guindy, Omar
Zolficar, Wahid Farid, Ali al-Garim, Abdel Hay Adib, Mohammad
Abouseif, Shams El-Barudy, Imad Hamdi, Omar Zulfikar, Ahmed Khamees,
Nadia El Guindy
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" Egyptian poster designed by Wael for the 1974
Hassan Al Imam film Bamba Kasher based on a story by Jalil
al-Bandari, screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Mustafa Samy and
starring Nadia El Guidy as Bamba Kasher. Bamba Kasher (1860 - 1928)
was an Egyptian dancer of national prominence and one of the first
women to appear in Egyptian films. This film is a dramatization of her
life. Plot summary: Bamba Kashar is a dancer who owns a famous
nightclub. In a tale full of twists and turns her diplomat husband
Mahmoud [Samir Sabri] divorces her, then marries her a second time.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Nadia El Guindy, Jalil al-Bandari,
Sayyid Darwish, Hassan Mustafa, Safa Abu Al-Saud, Magda Hamada,
Hussein Al Imam, Ahmed Ghanem, Helmy Bakar, Ibrahim Rajab, Sa'eed
Saleh, Samir Sabri, Imad Hamdi, Amina Rizk, Khayria Ahmed, Shafik
Galal, Ramses Marzouk, Mohamed Mustafa Samy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster for the 1969 Kamal El
Sheikh film Miramar ميرامار based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz and
starring Shadia as Zohra. Plot summary: Zohra left her village and
went to the Miramar boarding house in Alexandria, where she worked as
a maid. There were various classes of people in the boarding house
including feudal lords who were resentful of the revolution's
nationalization of their land, a former ministry attorney who had lost
his influence, the old journalist Amer Wagdi [Imad Hamdi] and Mansour
Bahi, [Abdel Rahman Ali] the perplexed man of culture. Sarhan
al-Beheiri [Youssef Chaban] was a member of the Socialist Union and
his opportunistic side appeared in his effort to steal the company
where he worked and in his telling Zohra falsely that he loved her
before abandoning her and marrying someone else. Talaba Marzuq
[Youssef Wahby] stood by Zohra. The boarding house seemed to be
divided into two parts, the first part being the class that had been
harmed by the revolution and did nothing but make jokes and womanize
as Hosni Alam [Abu Bakr Ezzat] did, and the second part being the
young people like Mansour Bahi, the fugitive from the revolution who
was arrested. Talaba Redwan was an old journalist who had chosen to
live in the shadows. Zohra had been hurt by these circumstances and
was planning to leave the boarding house but then the newspaper seller
Mahmoud Abul-Abbas [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] said he wanted to marry her
because he loved her.
Cast and crew: Kamal El Sheikh, Shadia, Naguib Mahfouz, Youssef Wahby, Youssef Chaban, Imad Hamdi, Nadia El Guindy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Ahmed Taufiq, Ismat Rafat, Abdelhalim Nasr, Abdel Rahman Ali
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wael for the 1968
Fatin Abel Wahab film Happiness Hotel [فندق السعادة] with story, screenplay
and dialogue by Faruq Sabri and starring Nadia El Guindy as Nagwa.
The film was made in Syria. Plot summary: Ahmed Bey [Ahmed Ramzy]
went to the airport to catch a plane to England, but the flight was
delayed. When he went back home to his mansion he found his domestic
help had converted it to a hotel and were renting it to tourists. The
servants changed everything back the way it was but when Ahmed came
back later the same night he found Mona [Shams El-Baroudy] and Magda
[Nadia El Guindy] sleeping there. They attacked him because they
thought he was a thief, but later it became clear that he was the
owner of the house and that Nagwa was in love with his servant Saeed
[Shoushou].
Cast and crew: Nadia EL Guindy, Shams El-Barudy, Abdel Monein Ibrahim, Ahmed Ramzy, Fatin Abdel Wahab, Shoushou, Hassan Alaeddin, Shafiq Hassan, Ibrahim Marashli
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
to promote the 1990 Nader Galal 122-minute color film Network of
Death [shabaket al-mawt] starring Nadia El Guindy based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Bachir El Dik with cinematography by Samir
Farag. Plot summary: Nadia El Guindy plays the part of Nour Abdel
Rahman, a widow whose daughter is addicted to drugs. In an effort to
save her daughter, Nour gets involved with a gang smuggling drugs into
Egypt from Greece. This is another film with many astonishing
displays of expert marksmanship with pistols, showing scene after
scene where victims are instantly killed by pistols fired by shooters
who barely take the time to aim. These master gunmen appear on both
the criminal and law enforcement sides.
Cast and crew: Nadia El Guindy, Farouk Al-Fichawi, Nader Galal, Yousef Fawzy, Samir Farag, Bachir El Dik, Nabil al-Helfawy, Osman Mohammad Ali, Ahmed Abdel Hadi
Billboard advertising this film near Gomhuria Street, Cairo 1990
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz
and Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1976 Ashraf Fahmy
film Shawq starring Nadia El Guindy as Shawq based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hay Adib taken from the 1946 King
Vidor film Duel in the Sun, with cinematography by Mahmoud
Nasr. The film was produced by Nadia El Guindy Films. Plot summary:
A teacher named Adam [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] lived in the al-Malahat
district of Alexandria with his spoiled son Mokhtar [Mohammed El
Arabi] and his third wife, a gypsy named Shawq. He had a second son
named Ahmad, [Hussein Fahmy] who returned after completing his studies
abroad. Shawq tried to ensnare Ahmad but he resisted her; the father
also treated Ahmad differently than he treated his brother because he
loved Mokhtar best. Mokhtar blinded his father unintentionally in a
welding accident. Mokhtar suspected there was a relationship between
his brother and his wife, which caused a struggle between the two
brothers; Shawq declared she did not love Ahmad; she declared her love
for Hanafi the drummer [Saeed Saleh] and left town with him. Then
friendship was restored between the two brothers.
Cast and crew: Hussein Fahmy, Nadia El Guindy, Ashraf Fahmy, Sa'eed Saleh, Tewfik El Dekn, Imad Hamdi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mohammed El Arabi, Mahmoud Nasr, Fouad Al-Zaheri, Mahmoud Nasr, Abdel Hay Adib
Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy to
promote 1970 94-minute Houssam El-Din Mustafa film The Fox and the
Chameleon [al-tha'lab wal-herba] starring Farid Shawqi as Zarif
based on a screenplay by Houssam El-Din Mustafa, story by Mona
al-Amir, dialogue by Magdi Farid and cinematography by Ali Khair
Allah. Plot summary: Nagi, [Kanaan Wasfy] Camilia [Nahed Sherif] and
Aziz [Ibrahim Khan] made a plan together to rob Egypt's biggest
jewelry store; after they successfully did this Nagi got rid of Aziz
by accusing him of theft and getting him thrown into prison. In prison
Aziz confessed his crime to Zarif and told him the story of what had
happened and how he had been betrayed and paid the price of the theft.
Zarif promised he would help and return to him his share of the
jewels. Nagi had received a ticket from a unknown source and was
trying to learn the name of the sender. Soheir [Rawia Ashour] denied
she had anything to do with it and threatened to kill to avenge her
honor. When Zarif got out of prison he approached Nagi, said he had
been the sender and that he had come to get Aziz's share. Shortly
thereafter Soheir killed Nagi and Zarif received the briefcase filled
with stolen goods. Zarif said he had been a police officer disguised
as a prisoner so he could follow the case and arrest the gang.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Nahid Sherif, Nadia El-Guindy, Adel Adham, Tewfik El-Dekn, Habibah, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ibrahim Khan, Nadia El Guindy, Saham Fathy, Ali Khair Allah, Magdi Farid, Mona al-Amir, Ibrahim Khan, Kanaan Wasfy, Rawia Ashour
Pictured is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Gasour and
Anise for the 1983 125-minute Nader Galal color musical Five Doors Bar
[khamsa bab] based on the 1963 Billy Wilder film Irma La Douce,
with screenplay and dialogue by Sharif Al-Minbawy and cinematography
by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: In the 1940s Kollu Mashi (Fouad El
Mohandes) owned a bar in the Ezbekia neighborhood where prostitution
was allowed. The singer Taragy (Nadia El Guindy) worked with the pimp
Abbas (Youssef Eid), with whom she divided her daily take. He
protected her and a number of other girls of the night in an area
where the police would take bribes in exchange for ignoring what was
going on. The policeman Mansour (Adel Imam) was transferred to the
neighborhood and all attempts to bribe him, as had been done with his
predecessors, failed. One night he took everyone to the police
station, but Abbas planted drugs in his room and he was fired.
Mansour went back to working as a tough guy and took over the
neighborhood. He fell in love with Tragy, tried to convince her to
repent and tried to get money for her so she could live in better
conditions. He impersonated a wealthy man, then married her after she
repented; Abbas was arrested. This film was initially banned in Egypt.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Nadia El Guindy, Nader Galal, Fouad
El-Mohandes, Fouad Ahmed, Ibrahim Saleh, Billy Wilder, Youssef Eid,
Sharif Al-Minbawy, Rashad Othman, Hosny Abdel Galil, Samiha Mohamed,
Youssef El-Assal, Saeed Rostom, Wasil a Hussein, Hindam Mohammad,
Ibrahim Qadry, Sami Khattab, Shukry Mansour, Mutawe Owais, Sayed
Al-Hanawy, Imran Ali, Salah Alam, Mohamed Abo Hashish, Moemen Hassan,
Sami Atia, Gamil Ghali, Aziz Hafez, Luwais Youssef, Mostafa Nohal
Plot Summary: Almaz was a simple building worker who became one of the brightest singing stars during the time of the Khedive Ismail (1863-1879). She was encouraged by the great singer Abdul Hamuli, who raised her to the top levels. Meanwhile her childhood friend Salem went to Sudan with the Egyptian army. The khedive liked her and wanted her to be his alone, so he ordered that she be maintained in his palace. Almaz agreed to grant him her voice but not her body, despite his promises and threats. Then he accepted the advice of one of the men around him that he should allow her to marry Abdul Hamuli, thinking the great singer would not refuse to allow his master the khedive to try out his young wife when he asked for her. However after the marriage Abdul Hamuli did not allow her to sing anything but verses from the Koran, so the khedive ordered that there be no cooperation with the two singers. Then the revolutionary movement spread among the the young people led by Salem. Abdul Hamuli and Almaz joined them; this ended with the fall of the khedive and his ouster from the country.
Cast and crew: Warda al-Gazaeria, Adel Ma'mun, Shukry Sarhan, Helmy Rafla, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Farid Al Atrache, Ibrahim Adel, Hussein Riad, Hassan Fayek, Fouad El-Mohandes, Nadia El Guindy, Wedad Hamdy, Ibrahim Emara, Tewfik El Dekn, Said Khalil, Edmond Tuema, Hussein Ismail, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Mohamed Shawky
Love in August (1966) - (Fouad El-Mohandes) three-piece Egyptian poster
This 65x39" poster for a 1966 Hassan El-Seify film was designed by Wahib Fahmy and Abdel Aziz, printed by Al-Nasr printers of Cairo and distributed by the General Company for the Distribution and Marketing of Cinematic Films [sherket al-'am li-tawdi' wa-ard al-aflam al-sinemaia]. The actors in the painting are Fouad El-Mohandes holding the undersized umbrella, and Shouweikar whom he is attempting to shelter. The umbrella seems much too small for blocking either sun or rain, and seems also to symbolize the suitor's hopeless situation. I haven't seen the film but have read that the character Farid (El-Mohandes) is trying to fill the shoes of the late husband of Salwa (Shouweikar), who was killed in a traffic accident on their wedding night. Apparently he manages to do this because they eventually marry (the required happy ending for this type of Egyptian film).
Fouad El-Mohandes, Adel Imam and Nadia El Guindy shown in an 11x14 still from Nader Galal's Five Doors Bar.
Plot Summary
This film is an Egyptian adaptation of Billy Wilder's 1963 film Irma La Douce starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. In the 40s Kollu Mashi (Fouad El-Mohandes) owned the Five Doors Bar in Cairo's Ezbekiyyah quarter, where illicit relationships were allowed. The prostitute Taragi (Nadia El Guindy) worked with the pimp Abbas (Fouad Ahmed) who took a share of her daily take and protected her and number of the other girls of the night in the neighborhood. The police officer on duty was in the habit of taking a fee in exchange for not disclosing what was happening.
An upright officer named Mansur (Adel Imam) was transferred to the neighborhood; all the efforts to bribe him, as had been done with his predecessor, failed. One night he even took everybody to the police station. The pimp Abbas contrived a retaliatory scheme, with help from Taragi, to stash some narcotics in Mansur's room, then reported him to the police. Mansur was then fired from the police force.
Mansur began working as a ruffian laborer, dominating the neighborhood. He fell in love with Taragi. He tried to save money for her so she could live a better life and disguised himself as a rich foreigner who appeared occasionally as one of Taragi's customers. This is the plot's weakest element, for the viewer is asked to believe that Taragi is sleeping alternately with Mansur and his foreigner alter ego without realizing they are the same man!
Mansur knew Taragi was supporting an invalid son at a nearby rehabilitation facility and paid the boy's expenses. He married Taragi after she repented and gave up prostitution, and the pimp Abbas was arrested after a dramatic fight scene in which Mansur gave him a good clubbing with some sticks he found in an alley.
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This film was skillfully acted with the three lead characters played by some of the real giants of Egyptian cinema, Fouad El-Mohandes, Adel Imam and Nadia El Guindy. It had beautiful sets and high production values from Nader Galal, one of Egypt's great directors. The work provided the most wholesome sort of entertainment: a dramatic love story and a tale of moral restoration and evil vanquished.
Yet the film was banned, in all probability due at least in part to the presence among the bar patrons of a male cross-dresser and dancer. This man, though prominently featured, was just an incidental character in the plot; but in 1983 Egyptian authorities might not have been ready for a public exhibition of gay behavior.
Since Egypt relies heavily on its police to maintain order and state control, it is also possible the film's portrayal of a criminal who outwits a policeman might have been deemed inappropriate as public entertainment.
Egyptian film poster for Nader Galal's The Five Doors Bar [khamsa bab] (1983)
