This is an original 12-page 8" x 11" Egyptian program designed by
Solly for the 1954 Salah Abouseif film The Beast AKA The
Monster AKA Al-Wahsh based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz
with screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz and Salah Abouseif, dialogue by El
Sayed Bedeir and starring Anwar Wagdi as Officer Raouf Saleh. Plot
summary: Abdel Sabour [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] was a thief and a smuggler
known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper
Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including the police. He enjoyed
the protection of Redwan Pasha, [Abbas Fares] who in turn used him
during elections to eliminate his rivals. Officer Raouf Saleh was sent
to the village with his wife and son with the assignment of arresting
The Beast. However The Beast and his gang worked together from the
beginning trying to dispose of the officer and his family in any way
possible.
Cast and crew: Samia Gamal, Anwar Wagdi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Abbas
Fares, Salah Abouseif, Naguib Mahfouz, Abdelhalim Nasr, Abbas Fares,
Samiha Ayyoub, Mohammad Tawfik, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Nazim Shaarawy,
Mahmoud Hamdy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1975 Said Marzouk film The Culprits based on a story by Naguib
Mahfouz, screenplay by Mahdouh El Leithy and Naguib Mahfouz and
starring Hussein Fahmy as Ahmad Saber. The film is included in Ahmad
Al-Hadari's list of Egypt's 100 most important films. Plot Summary:
The actress Sanaa Kamal [Soheir Ramzy] was murdered in her bed. The
investigator summoned all those who were in her home on the night of
her death including her fiancee Ahmad Saber, the director of the
company that published the papers the actress used to help build the
building, his friend who betrayed his wife and the strong young man
who sold his body to the actress while at the same time making plans
to steal the treasury at an institution. Then everyone who was at the
party at her home that night was arrested after the investigator
discovered the crime took place during the party. Her fiance the film
director admitted he had killed her out of jealousy.
Cast and crew: Hussein Fahmy, Soheir Ramzy, Zubaida Tharwat, Said
Marzouk, Salah Zulfikar, Adel Adham, Youssef Chaban, Imad Hamdi,
Tewfik El Dekn, Naguib Mahfouz, Samir Sabri, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim,
Kamal Al-Shennawi, Mustafa Imam, Abdel Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel,
Sameer Ghanem, Wahid Seif, Osama Abbas, Leila Fahmi, Naima Al
Soghayar, Said Abdel Ghani
This is a rare original 13" x 13.5" Egyptian lobby card with key
art designed by Solly for the 1954 Salah Abouseif film The
Beast AKA The Monster AKA Al-Wahsh based on a story
by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay by Naguib
Mahfouz and Salah Abouseif, dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir and starring
Anwar Wagdi as Officer Raouf Saleh. Plot summary: Abdel Sabour
[Mahmoud El-Meliguy] was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to
the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid
of him, including the police. He enjoyed the protection of Redwan
Pasha, [Abbas Fares] who in turn used him during elections to
eliminate his rivals. Officer Raouf Saleh was sent to the village with
his wife and son with the assignment of arresting The Beast. However
The Beast and his gang worked together from the beginning trying to
dispose of the officer and his family in any way possible. The photo
shows Officer Raouf giving a cigarette to the Beast.
Cast and crew: Samia Gamal, Solly, El Sayed Bedeir, Anwar Wagdi,
Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Abbas Fares, Salah Abouseif, Naguib Mahfouz,
Abdelhalim Nasr, Abbas Fares, Samiha Ayyoub, Mohammad Tawfik, Abdel
Ghani Kamar, Nazim Shaarawy, Mahmoud Hamdy
This is an original year 24" x 35" Egyptian one-sheet designed by
Solly for the 1954 Salah Abouseif film The Beast AKA The
Monster AKA Al-Wahsh based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz
with screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz and Salah Abouseif, dialogue by El
Sayed Bedeir and starring Anwar Wagdi as Officer Raouf Saleh. Plot
summary: Abdel Sabour [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] was a thief and a smuggler
known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper
Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including the police. He enjoyed
the protection of Redwan Pasha, [Abbas Fares] who in turn used him
during elections to eliminate his rivals. Officer Raouf Saleh was sent
to the village with his wife and son with the assignment of arresting
The Beast. However The Beast and his gang worked together from the
beginning trying to dispose of the officer and his family in any way
possible.
Cast and crew: El Sayed Bedeir, Solly, Samia Gamal, Anwar Wagdi, Mahmoud
El-Meliguy, Abbas Fares, Salah Abouseif, Naguib Mahfouz, Abdelhalim
Nasr, Abbas Fares, Samiha Ayyoub, Mohammad Tawfik, Abdel Ghani Kamar,
Nazim Shaarawy, Mahmoud Hamdy
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 poster designed by Ragheb for a 1964 Hassan Al Imam film
based on the 1956 Naguib Mahfouz novel Between two Palaces
[bayn al-qasrayn] which was published as the first of the three novels
in his famous Cairo Trilogy. Plot Summary: In 1914 Fahmy
[Salah Kabil] joined a secret national society where Ibrahim [Ezzat El
Alaili] welcomed him. His brother Yassine [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] was
in love with one of the dancers and the entire family trembled at
meeting his father Sayed Abdel Gawad, [Yehia Chahine] especially his
wife whom he had married 20 years earlier divorcing the mother of his
oldest son Yassine. Outside the home Yassine was corrupt and weak.
He owned a grocery store and had begun looking for a new lover to
replace the dancer Galia [Mimi Shakeeb] who had gotten old. He liked
Zubaida [Maha Sabry] and gave her everything she wanted. He would go
to her secretly and there Yassine discovered the truth about his
father. Sayed Abdel Gawad was a respected man in his own home. He
would eat alone while his wife and children would wait until he
finished before eating. His wife Amina, [Zouzou Nabil] his daughters
Aisha [Hala Fakher] and Khadija [Soheir El-Bably] and his sons Kamel,
Yassine and Fahmy stood in awe of their father. Yassine was a
secretary at the Benin school and Famy was a student at the Law
College. He wrote political publications, distributed them among
colleagues and hid them in the poultry coops on the roof of his home.
At the same time this was an opportunity to see his neighbor Mariam
[Zizi El-Badrawy]. He loved her but preferred to postpone the
relationship with her until after he completed his studies and the
British left Egypt. Kamal was a student in secondary school and
participated in many demonstrations. When Sayed Abdel Gawad learned
his former wife and Yassine's mother wanted to marry again he sent her
son to her to try to persuade her not to do so but he discovered she
had already married, quarreled with her and left. Yassine wanted a
few days with Zubaida the dancer. He told his family he was going to
Port Said and asked them not to leave the house. However Kamal
persuaded his mother to visit the shrine of Sayedna al-Hussein, but
she was injured on the way and despite the advice of her children not
to tell their father she told him the truth. He banished her and then
made peace with her again. Latifa [Souraya Fakhry] engaged her two
daughters to her sons. Yassine married Zeinab and Fahmy was killed
when the British soldiers shot at the demonstrators.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Yehia Chahine, Maha Sabry, Hassan Al
Imam, Mustafa Hassan, Salah Kabil, Zizi El-Badrawy, Wagdy El-Araby,
Nimat Mukhtar, Hala Fakher, Ezzat El Alaili, Soheir El-Barouni,
Mohamed Reda, Mimi Shakeeb, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim,
Zouzou Nabil, Amal Zayed, Soheir El-Bably, Badr El Den Gamgome, Abbas
El Daly, Adib El Tarabolsy, Mounir El Touni, Ibrahim El-Shamy, Metwaee
Elweiss, Ibrahim Heshmat
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 Walid Wahig for the
1970 Hassan Al Imam film Dalal, the Egyptian based on a Naguib
Mahfouz adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1899 novel al-ba'th
(Resurrection) [voskrecenye/Воскресение]. This was Tolstoy's last
novel. It was produced in several other film adapations, most notably
the 1934 production by Samuel Goldwyn of Rouben Mamoulian's We Live
Again starring Fredric March and Anna Stein. Plot Summary: The
orphan girl Atiyat [Magda El-Khatib] grew up in an old mansion with
the sons of the current owner (Fouad Bey's aunt) until the owner threw
her out after discovering she had lost her virginity, not knowing that
Fouad Bey himself [Hussein Fahmy] had been responsible. Atiyat tried
to do the honorable thing. She took a job at a dye factory where she
met Mohammad, [Salah Kabil] who loved her and wanted to marry her.
Things did not go well for her there however; she quit working at the
factory and went to work as a dancer for Fatma Al-Falali [Hoda
Soltan]. Years later while she was working there she was accused of
murder. Fouad Ahmad was a judge on the court that sentenced her to 15
years in prison, but something moved inside Fouad Bey causing him to
suffer pangs of remorse. He resigned so he could mount a defense for
Atiyat; after much effort collecting judicial papers he was able to
get her exonerated. He thought he could now make amends for the past
and marry her, but she turned him down and married Mohammad back at
the dye factory.
Cast and crew: Magda El-Khatib, Salah Kabil, Hussein Fahmy, Madiha
Kamel, Hassan Al Imam, Soheir El-Barouni, Souraya Helmy, Leila Fawzi,
Hoda Soltan, Abdelhalim Nasr, Naguib Mahfouz, Leo Tolstoy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1989 Ashraf Fahmy
film The Night and its Treachery based on a story by Naguib
Mahfouz, screenplay by Ahmed Saleh and starring Nour El-Sherif as
Salah. Plot summary: The attorney Mohseb who had sold his conscience
hired a petty thief named Salah to steal critical documents from the
storage of one of the owners of a company to get information about
some of the important persons who were working with the company. The
attorney sensed Salah's power and got rid of him through another thief
named Shaqroun, who carried out the attorney's plan to drop Salah and
get him imprisoned, then to get the better of Shaqroun's wife Senia to
divide the spoils from the betrayal. When Salah got out of prison he
decided to take revenge against the attorney Mohseb, his friend
Shaqaroun and his wife Senia, but he died before he could carry out
the plan.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Ashraf Fahmy, Safia El Emari, Nour
El-Sherif, Mahmoud Yassine, Shahira, Ahmed Rateb, Salah El-Saadany,
Ahmed Saleh, Abdel Moneim Bahnassy, Naima Al Soghayara, Shawqy
Shamekh, Ahmed Ghanem
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Aziz and Wahib
Fahmy for the 1975 Hussein Kamal film Love in the Rain based on
a story by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay and dialogue by Mamdouh El
Leithy and starring Mervat Amin. Plot summary: Hassan the
cinematographer opened his home to many different segments of society.
It served both as a nightclub and a place of debauchery; he kept
both functions going in earnest. He therefore needed to find a home
for this purpose, and this is what Aliat and Senia did for him because
they needed money. There was a close relationship between Aliat and
Senia. Senia's brother Marzouq courted Aliat and the officer Ibrahim
courted Senia. The film director Mohamed Reshwan met Marzouq and
offered him work opposite the film star Fetna, who found Marzouq to be
the right man for her and began flirting with him. Meanwhile the
director Adel thought he deserved the artist Fetna, but she quickly
married Marzouq after his courtship of Aliat fell apart, who had gone
back to Hassan's house to engage in lewd behavior. Adel decided to
take revenge against Marzouq and Fetna and he disfigured Marzouq's
face. Life became impossible between Marzouq and Fetna. He divorced
her and went back to Aliat, whom he married after forgiving her for
her past.
Cast and crew: Magda El-Khatib, Hayat Kandeel, Hamdy Ahmed, Samira
Mohsen, Ahmed Al-Gezeiry, Mervat Amin, Adel Adham, Ahmed Ramzy, Imad
Hamdi, Hussein Kamal, Naguib Mahfouz, Kamal Karim, Mahmoud Kabil,
Mohamed Wafik, Kamal Korayem, Mamdouh El Leithy, Salah Nazmi, Hamdy
Ahmed
Notes from inside back of film program cover: "Nahed, a beauitiful
young woman, on the threshold of life, her heart open to love and
looking up to her future, is preparing to leave her family's home to
join her husband Raouf, who is now her betrothed.
"Her life could have continued for the achievement of all her
aspirations and those of her mother and her father, a successful
attorney. But, in the depth of her soul she was suffering from a
bitter struggle, of which neither her family nor her most intimates knew
nothing. Even Nahed was unaware of it, as it took place in her
subconscious mind.
"Nahed had, in childhood, suffered from an unusual experience which
had a great effect on her. She thought, with the passing of years,
that she had forgotten, but actually that complex remained dormant,
ready to reappear. When at last the complex moved to show itself, Nahed
was exposed to the meanest situation she could find herself in,
without being aware of it.
"The danger was not limited to her strange actions and the
consequences, but was apt to threaten her future, her love and even
her life. A solution was imperative before it was too late."
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1969 Kamal El Sheikh
film Insatiable AKA The Well of Deprivation based on a
story by Ihsan Abdul Quddus, adapted for the cinema by Naguib Mahfouz
and starring Soad Hosny as Mervat/Nahed. Plot Summary: Mervat and
Nahed were the same girl. Mervat was an irresponsible person who
tempted the boy Taha at a nightclub, encouraged him, spent the evening
drinking with him, then went home with him before anyone knew they had
left. As for Nahed, she kept the habits of the family. She was
engaged to Raoul who had won a fencing trophy and given it to her.
Nahed lived with her mother who lived with her husband in the same
house but in reality they were separated. Nahed tried to restore the
bond between them without success. Nahed suffered constant headaches
and went to Dr. Talaat for treatment. In numerous appointments Nahed
was transported to Mervat's personality, which led Dr. Talaat there.
The doctor took advantage of this opportunity and tried to eliminate
Nahed's Mervat complex. The doctor saw her childhood, her mother's
relationship with her father, how she felt her father had killed her
mother and how the mother had fallen into a well after the father
caught her one night in a red dress. This complex had settled into
the child's psyche and when Nahed became an adult the complex emerged
unrestricted as Mervat, a substitute for her mother's personality.
Dr. Talaat overcame Mervat's personality to restore Nahed's
personality, but then she discovered her fiancee had left her.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Mahmoud El-Meliguy,
Nour El-Sherif, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Kamal El Sheikh, Essam Farid,
Salah Nazmi, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra, Mohi Ismail, Naguib Mahfouz,
Wahid Farid, nmsp, Soraya Ezeddine, Hamdy Youssef, Hamza al-Shimi,
Aqila Raf'at
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anise for
the 1984 Hassan Al Imam film God's World AKA The Honey of
Bitter Love based on story by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay and
dialogue by Essam Al-Gomblati and starring Nour El-Sherif as Ibrahim.
Plot summary: Ibrahim worked as a company employee. He met an
itinerant vendor named Yasmine [Maali Zayed] and liked her. He told
her he knew a delivery boy who looked just like the one who had the
job of delivering employee salaries. Yasmine's friend Hamuda [Saeed
Saleh] told her she should go with Ibrahim, whom he knew to be the
delivery agent planning to embezzle the salaries and make a getaway to
Alexandria. Ibrahim stole the salaries and went to the port with
Yasmine. In Alexandria Yasmine quarreled with him, broke a chair over
his head and ran away with the cash. She went to her friend Hamuda
and found he had married his old friend Aziza [Essad Youniss]. Hamuda
emphasized to Yasmine that the police were looking for her because she
had killed Ibrahim. He pretended he would try to hide her and told
her she had to leave the cash with him. Yasmine recognized the
deception and told the police about her crime, but then she discovered
Ibrahim had not died and they had all been arrested after a chase.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Ibrahim Saleh, Sa'eed Saleh, Maali
Zayed, Naguib Mahfouz, Essad Youniss, Sanaa Younes, Leila Gamal,
Shafik Galal, Ibrahim Saleh, Essam Al-Gomblati, Al-Montaser Billah,
Abdel Wahab Galil, Magda Hamada, Mahmoud Al Zohairy, Mohamed Abdel
Magid, Mohamed Al-Oraby, Mostafa Karim, Qadria Kamel, Samir Rostam,
Said Tarabeek, Souraya Ezzedine
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 Ahmed Fouad for the
1981 Ashraf Fahmy film The Devil Preaches based on a story by
Naguib Mahfouz and starring Farid Shawqi as Al-Dinari. Plot summary:
The dominant district thug Al-Dinari hired laundry worker Shata
al-Hagari [Nour El-Sherif] to conduct surveillance on his fiancee
Wedad [Nabila Ebeid]. Shata did not like this job but he liked Wedad
and they decided to marry. After they were married Shata and Wedad
lived under the protection of Al-Shebli, [Adel Adham] the dominant
thug in the Al-Atouf district, who was hostile to Al-Dinari.
Al-Shebli wanted Wedad and he raped her in front of Shata. He said
his primary motivation for doing this was to get revenge against
Al-Dinari. Shata returned with Wedad to his family, who knew what had
happened to him. He asked Al-Dinari to set a time for him to meet
Al-Shebli in a fight. Shata had advised staying away from his wife
because she was about to have a baby but Al-Shebli had refused. Shata
resolved to take revenge; when the fight took place Shata killed
Al-Shebli, but he was then killed almost immediately by one of
Al-Shebli's henchmen. Wedad had her baby the same day and decided to
move to another place with her son. Al-Dinari was sad about what had
happened despite the district celebration of his victory over his
enemy.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Nour El-Sherif, Nabila Ebeid, Adel
Adham, Naguib Mahfouz, Ashraf Fahmy, Karima Mokhtar, Hafez Amin,
Tewfik El Dekn, Farouk Fathalla, Said Sheimy, Said Al-Shiemy, Ahmed
Saleh
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1970 Anwar El-Shenawy film black-and-white film The Mirage
based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Nour El-Sherif as
Kamel. Plot Summary: Kamel (Nour El-Sherif) is a wealthy boy who
marries a teacher named Rebab (Magda). A lot of time is consumed
early in the film with a series of silent flirtations as they shyly
watch each other from a distance in and out of metro cars. They
finally break the tension with an awkward conversation in which he
proposes in his first complete sentence to her. On the wedding night
she discovers he is impotent. Kamel goes to Dr. Amin the psychiatrist
(Rushdy Abaza) who assures him his problems are caused by things that
happened during his childhood. Dr. Amin knows Rebab. He asks her to
help Kamel overcome his problem to get through the marriage crisis and
restore him to full health. The dysfunction continues as Kamel is
unable to perform with his wife, especially since his mother (Aqila
Ratib), who does not like Rebab, dominates his thinking; he is only
able to do this in a brothel. However Kamel still loves Rebab very
much. During this period a relationship begins between Dr. Amin and
Rebab after a furious fight between her and Kamel. This affair
results in pregnancy; when Rebab is on her way home Kamel tells her he
has been cured, but she is not able to respond to him, and he
discovers the truth. Then she dies of a hemhorrage during a
miscarriage.
Cast and crew: Magda, Nour El-Sherif, Naguib Mahfouz, Anwar
El-Shenawy, Aqila Ratib, Taheya Cariocca, Abbas Fares, Rushdy Abaza,
Mahmoud Nasr, Ali El Zorkani, Aziza Helmy, Zeinat Sedki, Mimi Gamal,
Mohammed Abaza, Zeinat Alawy
