This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty and al-Thaghr
Khamis to promote the 1978 Nader Galal film Judge and Executioner
AKA Woman's Revenge (an alternate title shown
on this poster) based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Faisal Nada
and starring Naglaa Fathy as Nahed. Plot summary: Laila [Miriam Fakhr
Eddine] takes revenge against Sherif [Rushdy Abaza] for two-timing her
and Nahed.
This isa 27" x39" Egyptian poster designed byGasour and Abdel Aziz
for the 1976 Nader Galal film No Time for Tears based on a
story by Rizq Helmy, screenplay by Rizq Helmy and Abdel Hay Adib and
starring Naglaa Fathy as Azza. Plot summary: Azza is a dancer who
falls in love with an Egyptian army officer named Amr [Hussein Fahmy]
and promises to marry him. When she hears he has been killed, she
immerses herself dancing in Cairo's nightclubs to pay expenses and
cope with her grief; she is shocked and confused when Amr unexpectedly
turns up alive and well. She does not know where to begin.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Rizq Helmy, Abdel Hay Adib, Hussein
Fahmy, Nader Galal, Mahmoud Nasr, Nour El-Sherif, Mahmoud El-Meliguy,
Amina Rizk, Hussein El-Sherbini, Ehsan Sherif, Ahmed Abaza, Mohamed
Shawky, Safia El Emari
This is an Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy and Mohammed Abdel
Aziz for the 1968 Mahmoud Zulfikar film The Beauty of Love
written by Mohamed Abu Youssef and starring Rushdy Abaza as Ahmed
Ragab. Plot summary: A young girl married a writer in whose eyes she
often saw the ideas and views contained in his writing. She married
him even though the opposite of what appeared in his writing quickly
became evident in her husband's behavior. She decided to leave him
without returning and fled the home with him chasing her. While she
was running away she met an attractive boy. They fell in love and
decided to marry as soon as she obtained a divorce from her husband.
The boy went on a mission abroad and he even summoned her after the
divorce. While she was waiting for him at the airport the aircraft
exploded just before landing and all the passengers were killed.
This isa 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Marcel and Mohamed
Abdel Aziz for the 1970 Aly Reda black-and-white musical Ticket
Thief based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Osman and
starring Naglaa Fathy. Plot summary: Zeinab, [Naglaa Fathy] a poor
woman with a factory job, bought a lottery ticket, had it stolen and
then reported the numbers on the stolen ticket to the police. After
the stolen ticket won 5000 pounds, the man the thief sold it to, an
underpaid dancer named Ahmed Shaker, [Mahmoud Reda] was arrested when
he tried to claim his winnings.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Marcel, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Aly Reda,
Farida Fahmy, Mahmoud Reda, Adel Adham, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Tewfik
El Dekn, Hassan Mustafa, Mahmoud Choukou, Naima Al Soghayar, Zizi
Mustafa, Ahmed Khorshed, Mohamed Osman, Mimi Shakeeb, Ahmed Khorshed,
Ali Gohar, Hassan al-Meliguy, Fatma Emara, Faiza Fouad
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty for the 1980
Ashraf Fahmy film The Homeless based on a story by Naguib
Mahfouz, screenplay by Ahmed Saleh and starring Naglaa Fathy as Laila.
Laila was a successful attorney married to a wealthy contractor named
Fathy [Mahmoud Yassine]. They were entirely different culturally. He
was ignorant whereas she was a hard worker in a high social position.
She was constrained in her life with him and withdrew from him after
failing to improve his social worth. Fathy took up with a woman with
a bad reputation named Sausan [Nabila Ebeid]. Laila learned about his
relationship with her and asked him for a divorce, which she got.
Laila defended a woman in a case similar to the one in her own life.
The person she was defending killed her husband after discovering he
had been unfaithful to her, even though he had lifted her out of
poverty and married her, and this is what had happened to Laila.
During a visit to Sausan Fathy suddenly had a severe heart attack.
Sausan contacted Laila to tell her about his illness. Laila felt
regret about the way she had treated him and asked him to forgive her,
but he died in Sausan's home as a result of the heart attack.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Naglaa Fathy, Mikhtar Al Sayed,
Mahmoud Yassine, Naguib Mahfouz, Nabila Ebeid, Salah Nazmi, Essam
Farid, Imane, Aly El Cherif, Nawal Fahmy, Hassan Hussein, Ahmad Khamees,
Aleya Abdel Moneim, Salah Nazmi, Badr Nofal, Qadreya Qadry, Enaam
Salousa, Ahmed Saleh
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Hassan
Mazhar Gasour and Dar Hani for the 1974 Henry Barakat film The Most
Beautiful Days of My Life AKA Agmal Ayam Hayati based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hay Adib and starring Naglaa
Fathy as Hoda. Plot summary: Hoda hid one night on a ship bound for
Beirut, where she met Samir [Hussein Fahmy]. She did not tell him she
was running away from her father Gamal [Imad Hamdi] so she could marry
her Lebanese lover Rafiq who was waiting for her in Beirut, that her
father was offering a reward to whoever could find her or that the
people looking for her were waiting at the port. Samir helped her
hide in a chest above the hold and then helped her get away. They then
explored Lebanon and Samir learned the truth about her. He got her to
confess and they fell in love. He decided to take her to her father
so they could marry. When they got there the father realized his
daughter loved Samir and encouraged her to marry whomever she loved,
especially since Samir was refusing the reward he had been offering.
On the night of the marriage to Rafiq the father helped and encouraged
his daughter to go away and marry Samir. Then the two boarded a ship
to Canada so they could marry there and begin a new life.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Hossein Fahmy, Imad Hamdi, Henry
Barakat, Wadid Serri, Abdel Hay Adib, Mohammad Shawqi, Hayat Kandeel,
Saeed Saleh, Aia Abdel Moneim, Samir Shamas, Maged Afyouni, Ibrahim
Mar'ashli, Shafiq Hassan, Zein Shahin
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Mohammad
Abdel Aziz for the 1978 film Love Over a Volcano written and
directed by Hassan Al Imam and starring Naglaa Fathy as Ne'ma. Plot
summary: Hussein [Hussein Al Imam] stole all the money belonging to
his half brother Ahmed [Hussein Fahmy] so he could spend it on a dance
hall girl; then Ahmed married his blind neighbor Ne'ma.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Naglaa Fathy, Hussein Fahmy, Fardous
Abdel Hamid, Lebleba, Sa'eed Saleh, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Hassan Al
Imam, Mohamed Shawky, Shafik Galal, Ibrahim Saleh, Hussein Al Imam,
Mohamed El Dafrawy, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Badreia Abdel Gawad, Mokhtar
El Sayed, Mohammad Shawqi, Amir Kedwani, Abdel Wahab Khalil, El Sayed
Bedir
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1977
Houssam El-Din Mustafa film Sonya and the Madman based on the
1866 Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel Crime and Punishment with
screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Diab, cinematography by Ibrahim
Saleh and starring Naglaa Fathy as Sonya. Plot summary: In 1940s
Cairo, law student Mokhtar [Mahmoud Yassine] found a poor girl
sleeping in the street named Sonya whose circumstances were driving
her to vice and crime. He fell in love with her and asked her to stop
being a girl of the night in exchange for his financial help. In this
adaptation Mokhtar is the madman who has Raskalnikov's part in the
Dostoyevsky story. Naglaa Fathy's Sonya is also Dostoyevsky's Sonya.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Imad Hamdi, Sa'eed Saleh, Abdel
Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam
El-Din Mustafa, Ibrahim Saleh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ruhia Khaled, Nazim
Shaarawy, Naima Al Soghayar, Mahmoud Diab, Soheir Reda
This is a 27" x 39" Lebanese poster designed by Dar Hani and Gasour
for the 1976 Hassan Al Imam film Amar al-Zaman starring Naglaa
Fathy as Amar al-Zaman. Plot summary: Amar al-Zaman was an innocent,
naive girl who left her home town of al-Mansoura to look for work in
Cairo. Someone tried to rape her when she arrived in Cairo but she was
rescued by an acquaintance named Soltan [Sa'eed Saleh] who worked as a
magician in a cabaret. He got her a job in the cabaret but she failed
as a waitress because she was clumsy. A carnival puppeteer and former
ballet dancer named Mohsen [Mustafa Fahmy] fell in love with her.
Mohsen was obliged to work in cabarets because of a war injury and
doubted Amar al-Zaman cared for him, but in fact she loved him too.
Cast and crew: Abu Bakr Ezzat, Hassan Al Imam, Mustafa Fahmy,
Sa'eed Saleh, Younes Shalaby, Hala Fakher, Naglaa Fathy, Hala Sedki,
Ramses Marzouk, Saleh Iskandarani, Mohamed Shawky, Mohammad Nagam,
Ibrahim Nasr, Eza Kamal, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Mona Abdulla
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour and Mohamed Abdel Aziz to promote the 1975 Hassan Ramzi
94-minute color film The White Gown [al-reda al-abiad] starring
Naglaa Fathy based on screenplay, dialogue and story by Hassan Ramzi
with cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: Omar [Youssef
Wahby] is a man with a good heart who lives in the mentality of the
past. He becomes angry when he learns his only son Kamal [Magdy
Wahba] has married a poor girl named Hoda [Naglaa Fathy] without
telling him about it. Before the marriage, Hoda had been caught
stealing a wallet from a man who was dating her named Ahmed [Ahmed
Mazhar] but then she marries Kamal and they live happily until he dies
in a traffic accident while under stress due to a demand from his
father that he divorce Hoda. Then Hoda is denied custody of her
daughter Sofa [Manal Afifi]. When Sofa gets older she becomes a
beautiful young woman and is later reunited with her mother on her
wedding day. On that same day Hoda is also forgiven in a renewed
contact with Ahmed, the man she had once robbed.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Ahmed Mazhar, Hassan Ramzi, Magdy Wahba, Youssef Wahby, Zahrat El-Ola, Hayat Kandeel, Ibrahim Saafan, Salah Nazmi, Sa'eed Saleh, Leila Fahmi, Huseein Kandil, Hoda Ramzi, Mahmoud Nasr, Fatheya Chahine, Hassan Afifi, Manal Afifi
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Anise to promote
the 1972 129-minute Hussein Kamal color film The Three Faces of
Love [انف وثلاث عيون anf wa thalath oyoun] starring Magda based on a story by
Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay and dialogue by Assem Tawfiq and
Mostafa Kamel and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary:
This film is epic soap opera featuring a long convoy of unhappy
relationships, distraught relatives and manipulative spouses backed
with a maudlin soundtrack. Dr. Hashem [Mahmoud Yassine] is a
successful physician who meets many women because of his profession,
among them Amina [Magda], who has recently divorced. Amina has loved
Dr. Hashem since before her marriage and has been unable to forget him even
though he has always told her he was not created for marriage, so she
goes to see him at his apartment. Dr. Hashem asks Amina to leave
because he is afraid her presence in his apartment will hurt his
reputation. This is devastating to Amina, but she does as requested.
Hesham proposes marriage to a patient named Nagwa [Naglaa Fathy] but
she refuses because she is already in a common law relationship with
another man [Salah Nazmi], which is not going well. Amina marries
someone else [Hamdy Ahmed] but that marriage fails because her heart
is not in it, and she goes back to Hesham. Hesham does not reject her
but remains involved with Nagwa without telling her about it. There
is a scene in a public place when she sees them together, etcetera
etcetera.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Mervat Amin, Mahmoud Yassine, Hussein Kamal, Magda, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Abdelhalim Nasr, Assem Tawfiq, Mustafa Kamel, Salah Mansour, Hamdy Ahmed, Aziza Helmy, Ehsan Sherif, Fatheya
Chahine, Salah Nazmi, Galal Issa, Etedal Shaheen, Kawsar al-Assal, Naima Al Soghayar, Mohammed Abaza, Mostafa Kamel
This is a picture of a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib
Fahmy to promote the 1969 102-minute Hassan El-Seify black-and-white
film Struggle of the Professionals [sera' al-mohtarefin]
starring Rushdy Abaza and Naglaa Fathy based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Fayek Ismail with cinematography by Mohamed Emara. Plot
summary: Gharabawy Bey [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] is the owner of a fishing
fleet in the Abu Qir district of the Governorate of Alexandria. He is
actually a smuggler being sought by an officer named Wahid [Rushdy
Abaza], working undercover disguised as a Dr. Fathy, who is trying to
get close to the smuggler's daughter Leila [Naglaa Fathy]. There is a
temporary love triangle when Garabawy Bey's wife Ashgan [Nagwa Fouad]
also tries to rekindle an old romance with Officer Wahid, but after
Wahid has a one-man fist fight against the entire gang and is
temporarily a captive on one of their boats, the police arrest the
smugglers and Leila and Wahid end up getting together.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Emara, Rushdy Abaza, Naglaa Fathy, Nagwa Fouad, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Tewfik El Dekn, Hassan El-Seify, Nazim Shaarawy, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Fayek Ismail, Mohamed Emara, Ibrahim Saafan, Kawsar Shafik, Samir Shadid, Iskandar Mansi, Seif Allah Mokhtar, Abbas Rahmy
This is an Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the
1977 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 122-minute color film
Sonya and the Madman [sonya wal-magnun], with cinematography by
Ibrahim Saleh, printed by Arabic Cinema Printers. The film is based on
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, but the central
character is switched and in this Egyptian film adaptation becomes
Dostoevsky's Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov (Sonya) who in the novel
falls in love with the criminal protagonist, Rodio Romanovitch
Raskalnikov (Rodya); Raskalnikof (the madman) is played in this
Egyptian film by Mahmoud Yassine.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Imad Hamdi, Sa'eed Saleh, Abdel Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Naima Al Soghayar, Nazim Shaarawy, Ruhia Khalid, Ibrahim Saleh, Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
to promote the 1969 89-minute Houssam El-Din Mustafa black-and-white
film Son of Satan [ibn al-shaytan] starring Farid Shawqi based
on story, screenplay and dialogue by Adly El-Mowalid with
cinematography by Victor Antoun. Plot summary: The son of Satan was a
disguised criminal whose primary aim in life was to kill all the men
who had married again after leaving their wives and children. This
was his way of getting revenge against his own father for remarrying.
There was a local lunatic who called himself the son of Satan [Tewfiq
El Dekn], but there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing against
him. The owner of a public place named Atris [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]
refused to hold any weddings in the village fearing the son of Satan
would take revenge. The police sergeant Morsi [Farid Shawqi], who
tried to keep the peace, gave him assurances. Morsi's brother
[Ibrahim Khan] came to the village and was kidnapped by the son of
Satan. He was saved by Saidia [Naglaa Fathy] who lived with her
mother at the home of the son of Satan; she then fled for her life.
The Son of Satan chased her everywhere. After a long bloody struggle
between the son of Satan, Sergeant Morsi and his brother Ibrahim, they
discovered that the real son of Satan was actually Atris, the owner of
the public place. He was killed in the struggle and then life
continued calmly in the village.
Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Tewfik El Dekn, Naglaa Fathy, Ibrahim Khan, Neemet Moukhatar, Nimat Mukhtar, Adly El-Mowalid, Victor Antoun, Al-Tukhi Tewfiq, Ahmed Morsi, Alia Abdel Moneim, Ahmed Abuebia, Samir Walieddin, Qadria Kamel, Kamal al-Zeini, Hussein Ismail
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour and Moaty to promote the 1969 Mahmoud Zulfikar 104-minute
black-and-white film The Secrets of Girls [asrar al-banat]
starring Naglaa Fathy based on a story by Adly El-Mowalid with
screenplay and dialogue by Adly El-Mowalid, Abdel Fatah Al-Sayed and
Farouk Said and cinematography by Kamal Korayem. Plot summary: This
film is about lives of four schoolgirls, their family problems, their
troubles at school and their relations with men. The end comes when
three of them receive marriage proposals.
Cast and crew: Mahmoud Zulfikar, Naglaa Fathy, Hassan Youssef, Nelly, Youssef Fakhreddine, Nelly, Fatma Mazhar, Hala Fakher, Adly El-Mowalid, Abdel Fatah Al-Sayed, Farouk Said, Kamal Korayem, Badreddine Gamgoum, Adly Kasseb, Mimi Shakeeb, Tewfik El Dekn, Mohamed Reda, Nazim Shaarawy, Ibrahim Saafan, Fifi Youssef, Zizi Mustafa, Safinazi Qadri, Aleyah Abdel Monem, Qadria Kamel, Sayed Abdullah, Ahmed Abo Abeya, Abdel Moneim Bassioni
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anis to
promote the 1985 Ashraf Fahmy film Saad the Orphan [saad
al-yatim] starring Ahmed Zaki based on a story by Yousry Al-Gendy with
screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hai Adib and cinematography by Mohsen
Nasr. Plot summary: Saad the Orphan [Ahmed Zaki] was in love with
Sabah [Naglaa Fathy], the daughter of a gang leader named Badran
[Mahmoud Moursy]. Another gang leader named al-Halbawy [Farid Shawqi]
also wanted to marry Sabah. This created a conflict for Sabah's
father Badran and a rivaly between al-Halbawy and Saad the Orphan,
although arrangements had been made for Saad the Orphan to marry
Sabah, since this was what Sabah wanted and her father Badran had
agreed to it. There was a fight on the wedding night between
al-Halbawy and Saad the Orphan where Saad the Orphan prevailed. Then
there was another fight the same night where Badran was killed after
Saad the Orphan learned that Badran, his father-in-law, had been the
killer of his father and mother.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Naglaa Fathy, Ahmed Zaki, Mahmoud Moursy, Tewfik El Dekn, Shouweikar, Karima Mokhtar, Ashraf Fahmy, Ahmed Bedir, Mohamed Wafik, Ahmed Ghanem, Zizi Mustafa, Mohsen Nasr, Ibrahim Abdel Razaq, Yousry Al-Gendy, Abdel Hai Adib
Pictured here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad
Abdel Aziz and Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 109-minute 1973
Hussein Kamal color Film My Blood and My Tears and My Smile
[dami wa damu'i wa ebtesameti] starring Naglaa Fathy based on a story
by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay and dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa
Sami and Kawsar Heikal and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot
summary: Nahed was an attractive young woman living an unstable life
of financial difficulties with her mother, her father and her brother
Mohammad, and she had an innocent romantic relationship with a fellow
student named Essam. When a wealthy man named Salim asked her father
for her hand in marriage, after much pressure from family and after
finding that Essam was not willing to commit himself to a marriage,
she agreed to go along, because Salim was willing to pay a bride price
to her family large enough to save them from financial hardship. This
meant she had to leave Egypt and her boyfriend to go to Lebanon to be
with Salim in his opulent manion. Salim turned to be a corrupt and
abusive liar, so she divorced him and managed with great difficulty to
get herself back to Egypt, to the great distress of her family. She
then married an attorney named Mamdouh, who wanted her as a trophy
wife so he could get into a higher social position. She soon divorced
Mamdouh and then became the mistress of a millionaire named Abbas,
with whom she became an international traveler. After a few years she
ran into Essam again, who was the only real love of her life and with
whom she had experienced the only moments of purity she had ever
known. By the time she saw Essam again she had changed so much she
knew she was was no longer the person he had once known and asked him
to stay away. The memories of the happy relationship she had
once known with Essam were enough for her.
Cast and crew: Hussein Kamal, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Salah Nazmi, Ahmed Al-Gezeiry, Wahid Farid, Naglaa Fathy, Nour El-Sherif, Hussein Fahmy, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Kawsar Heikal, Mohammad Mostafa Sami, Fathia Chahine, Mohamed Yahya, Kawsar Safiq, Nabila Nabolsy, Soheil Ne'mani, Idris bin Kiran
