Pictured is an original 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet movie poster
designed to promote the 1961 153-minute Henry Barakat black-and-white
film There is a Man in Our House [fi baitina ragol] starring
Omar Sharif based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay by
Youssef Issa and Henry Barakat, dialogue by Youssef Issa and
cinematography by Hesham Wadid Serri. Plot summary: Ibrahim [Omar
Sharif] assassinates the prime minister who has been collaborating
with the imperialists, then asks his friend Mohey [Hassan Youssef] to
hide him. Mohey's father does not welcome the fugitive, but his
sisters are happy to help Ibrahim contact his political friends.
Ibrahim eventually rejoins the rebellion in Egypt and is killed in an
attack on a British base. This film is on film critic Ahmad
Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Zubaida Tharwat, Henry Barakat, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus,
Rushdy Abaza, Omar Sharif, Zahrat El-Ola, Hassan Youssef, Tewfik El
Dekn, Hesham Wadid Serri, Hussein Riad, Nahed Samir, Abdel Khalek
Saleh, Youssef Chaban, Abdel Moneim Bassioni
This is a 26" x 38.5" Egyptian poster designed by Samir Abdel Moneim
for the 1987 Mohammed Khan film Wife of an Important Man based
on story, screenplay and dialogue by Raouf Tawfik and starring Ahmed
Zaki as Hesham. Plot summary: The film tells the story of the rise
and fall of Colonel Hesham Abol-Wafa, an Egyptian police officer
during the Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat years (1962 - 1980). It
received the Silver Award at the Damascus Film Festival in 1987 and
was also shown in competition at the Moscow Film Festival in 1987. It
was shown as well at the Montreal, Valencia, Tetouan, Digne, Istanbul
and Nantes Film Festivals in 1987 and 1988.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Ahmed Zaki, Mervat Amin, Hassan Hosny,
Zizi Mustafa, Nahed Samir, Mohsen Ahmed, Ali Al Ghandour, Khairy
Beshara, Hafez Amin, Hassan Hosny, Abdel Halim Hafez, Nazim Shaarawy,
Mohsen Ahmed, Othman Abdelmonem, Abdel Ghany Naser, Mahmoud
al-Dardiri, Ahmed Moukhtar, Raouf Tawfik
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1961 Hassan Al Imam
film My Life is the Price AKA Life is Like That based
on a story by Hassan Al Imam, screenplay and dialogue by Mohammad
Osman and starring Hoda Soltan. Plot summary: A rich man named Gaber
[Hussein Riad] met a young woman named Soad [Hoda Soltan] towards whom
he could not express his feelings because her husband Dr. Hussein
[Ahmed Mazhar] kept getting in the way. The woman did not seem as if
she would be easy to seduce so Gaber sent her husband abroad on a
mission to distract him. He then tried to get close to her but she
would not allow it; he sent the couple a will leaving a large sum of
money to a son from another woman. When Dr. Hussein heard about this
he separated from his wife. Soad decided to avenge the damage that
had been done to her reputation. She went to court and presented
medical evidence her husband was impotent.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Hoda Soltan, Ahmad Mazhar, Hussein
Riad, Tewfik El Dekn, Zouzou Nabil, Nagwa Fouad, Abdel Aziz Fahmy,
Nahed Samir, Hamed Morsi, Ragaa Hussein
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown artist for the 1963
El-Sayed Ziada film Forgive My Mistake based on a story by Aziz
Armani, screenplay and dialogue by El-Sayed Ziada, cinematography by
Zakaria Mansour and starring Samira Ahmed as Leila. Plot summary:
Hussein Mokhtar [Kamal Al-Shennawi] did not care about marriage until
he fell in love with a poor girl named Leila. Before marrying her he
discovered she was a prostitute. This broke his heart but because of
his love for her he forgave her, even though his mother tried to get
him to end his relationship with her. According to Egyptian film
encyclopedist Mahmoud Qasem this poster is for a rerelease with scenes
deleted and a title change of the 1962 film Take Me and My
Shame [khozni bi 'ari] directed by El Sayed Ziada. In both
versions of the film Samira Ahmed's character is a prostitute.
Cast and crew: Kamal Al-Shennawi, Zuzu Madi, Hassan Hamed, Wedad
Hamdy, Khayria Ahmed, Nahed Samir, Said Khalil, Ahmed Ghanem, Samira
Ahmed, El-Sayed Ziada, Zakaria Mansour, Aziz Armani
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1989
Mohammed Shebl film Nightmare written by Sami Rafe and Mohammed
Shebl and starring Youssra as Mervat. Plot summary: Mervat, a
journalist, was having daily nightmares. The nightmares all had a
common theme where a gang of criminals kidnapped her and put her in a
bedroom in an abandoned mansion. When she woke up she would find
signs of the nightmare struggle on her body. Her fiancee Yehia [Ahmed
Abdel Aziz] was eager to help her. He told Mervat about a real
mansion similar to one he had seen in a dream; he tried to work
through the problem with her by taking her to the real mansion so she
would be able to escape that night if she had the same nightmare
again, especially if she learned that the prominent figure in the
nightmare and the owner of the abandoned mansion was one of her uncles
who were getting rich by smuggling weapons. Yehia and one of his
brothers took her to the mansion and let her in.
Cast and crew: Youssra, Mohammed Shebl, Ahmed Abdelaziz, Khairy
Beshara, Sami Rafe, Nahed Samir, Tarek El-Telmessani, Tamim Abdo,
Kheiry Beshara, Hossam Fayyad, Salah Hamdi, Ali Farid, Mahmoud Alwan,
Rafat Ragi, Hussein El-Sherif, Nabila Karam, Marwah El Khatib, Amira
Khaled Haroun
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Fawzi and Studio Adly for the
1965 El-Sayed Ziada film In the Name of Love based on a story
by Hassan Hamed, screenplay and dialogue by Fayek Ismail and starring
Lobna Abdel Aziz as Laila. Plot summary: Laila went with her sick
mother to live in a building owned by Abdel Ghaffar [Yehia Chahine]
and his son Ahmed [Hassan Youssef]. Ahmed fell in love with Laila but
the father refused to allow the relationship because he thought Laila
loved him. Abdel Ghaffar accordingly proposed to Laila through her
brother; the brother agreed to let her marry him because he wanted the
old man's money.
Pictured is a 32" x 42" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly to
promote the 1961 153-minute Henry Barakat black-and-white
film There is a Man in Our House [fi baitina ragol] starring
Omar Sharif based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay by
Youssef Issa and Henry Barakat, dialogue by Youssef Issa and
cinematography by Hesham Wadid Serri. Plot summary: Ibrahim [Omar
Sharif] assassinates the prime minister who has been collaborating
with the imperialists, then asks his friend Mohey [Hassan Youssef] to
hide him. Mohey's father does not welcome the fugitive, but his
sisters are happy to help Ibrahim contact his political friends.
Ibrahim eventually escapes, rejoins the rebellion in Egypt and is
killed in an attack on a British base.
This film is on film critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Zubaida Tharwat, Henry Barakat, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Youssef Issa, Rushdy Abaza, Omar Sharif, Zahrat El-Ola, Hassan Youssef, Tewfik El Dekn, Hesham Wadid Serri, Hussein Riad, Nahed Samir, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Youssef Chaban, Abdel Moneim Bassioni, Khalil Badreddine, Zaki Abel Magid, Sherif Hamdya
This is a picture of a 27" x 39" Egyptian stone litho poster designed
by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1966 112-minute Ahmed Badrakhan
black-and-white film Sayed Darwish starring Hind Rostom and
Karam Metaweh based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mostafa Sami
with cinematography by Aly Hassan. Plot summary: This is a
documentary film about the life of composer Sayed Darwish (1892 - 1923) [Karam Metaweh], who wrote the Egyptian national anthem and was also said
by many to have been the father of Egyptian popular music. Hind
Rostom has the part of a woman he loved named Jalila.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Badrakhan, Hind Rostom, Karam Metaweh, Aly Hassan, Amin El-Heinedy, Zizi Mustafa, Nahed Samir, Mostafa Sami, Adel Imam, Ashraf Al-Salahdar, Adib al-Tarablosi, Hani Shaker, Hussein Omar, Fatma Emara, Sherif Yehia
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly and Abdel
Rahman to promote the 1964 81-minute Nour El-Demerdash black-and-white
film The Price of Freedom starring Mahmoud Moursy adapted for
cinema by Naguib Mahfouz from the 1948 play Montserrat by
Emmanuel Robles based on an Arabic translation done in Lebanon by
Sohail Idris. The screenplay was done by Lutfy El-Kholy and Tulba
Radwan and cinematography was by Masud Isa. The components of the
story are taken directly from the original play with changes of name
and locale to suit the Egyptian environment. Plot summary: During the
British occupation of Egypt (1882-1956) there was a secret
organization led by a young fighter named Ahmed Abdel Hafiz. The
organization was opposed to the occupying forces. The British
governor ordered an Egyptian officer to find the chief of the
organization quickly. If this could not be done it would be necessary
to arrest the first six people to pass on the street in front of the
office and kill them by firing squad. The officer was not able to
find the fighter so six people were arrested, including a cart driver,
a merchant who had left a dinner party for his wedding, a student
whose brother had died as a martyr during his resistance to the
occupation, a mother who was returning to her small children who had
no one but her and were waiting for her return at the time, and a
pretty girl who was singing a Sayed Darwish patriotic tune. The
randomly arrested bystanders were left alone with the Egyptian officer
and told they had one hour to persuade him to divulge the location of
Ahmed Abdel Hafiz. When this did not produce the desired results, the
British officer prepared to shoot the innocents, but before doing that
he shot and killed the Egyptian officer. The multiple venues where
this play has appeared in film and on stage were traced by Nehad
Selaiha for Al-Ahram Weekly on 20 February 2013.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Nour El-Demerdash, Masud Isa, Mahmoud Moursy, Abdallah Gheith, Karima Mokhtar, Salah Mansour, Ahmed Al-Gezeiry, Nahed Samir, Ahmed Abaza, Hamed Morsi, Masud Isa, Faiza Fouad, Kamal Yasseen, Mohammed Tawfik, Hamed Moursy, Mahmoud al-Hadini, Sabri Abdel Aziz, Mohammed Abaza, Sayed al-Rais, Gamil Ezzedine, Mohamed Yahya Soleyman, Emmanuel Robles, Lutfy El-Kholy, Tulba Radwan, Sohail Idris, Ahmed al-Hamaqi
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian one-sheet poster made to promote
the 1969 142-minute Hussein Kamal color film My Father is up the
Tree [abi fawq al-shagarah] based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus
with screenplay by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Sa'deddine Wahba and Youssef
Francis, dialogue by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus and Sa'eddine Wahba and
cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: A group of university
students went to Alexandria for summer vacation.Two of the students, a
couple named Adel [Abdel Halim Hafez] and Amal [Mervat Amin], had a
disagreement; then Adel fell in love with a much older worldly-wise
nightclub dancer in town named Ferdoos [Nadia Lutfi]. Ferdoos invites
Adel to live with her, gives him money and says she loves him, but he
soon learns she has other men. Amal notices Adel's disappearance but
does not know what has happened until one of Adel's friends finds him
and tells her. Adel and Ferdoos fly to Lebanon together for a few
dancing and singing scenes in various touristic settings. After Adel
and Ferdoos return from Lebanon, Ferdoos is obliged to go back to
hustling men to meet her expenses, for which Adel is not prepared.
When he tries to go back to the gang at the beach, they all reject him
and he is unable to restart his relationship with Amal. Adel's father
[Imad Hamdi], having no word from his son, goes to Alexandria looking
for him. There he meets one of the bar women and becomes involved
with her, as Adel had done. One of Adel's friends from the beach gang
finds him and tells him what his father is doing, and that his friends
at the beach are willing to make amends. When he finds his father he
tells him of his experiences and that he has learned from them. With
sympathetic intervention from Ferdoos, father and son are reconciled
and Adel reestablishes his relationship with Amal.
Cast and crew: Abdel Halim Hafez, Nadia Lutfi, Mervat Amin, Imad Hamdi, Amer al-Askari, Yusef Shahuri, Hussein Kamal, Wahid Farid, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Samir Sabri, Salah Nazmi, Nabila El-Sayed, Fathy Abdul Sattar, Nahed Samir, Hamed Morsi, Youssef Francis
Life and Hope [hayat wa amal] (1961) - (Imane) Egyptian film poster
This is a picture of a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad
Aziz to promote the 1961 95-minute Zoheir Bakir black-and-white
film Life and Hope [hayat wa amal] starring Imane based on
story and screenplay by Zoheir Bakir with dialogue by Adly Nour and
cinematography by Ali Hassan. Plot summary: The famous soccer player
Kamal married Salwa, the daughter of an industrialist, while at the
same time her cousin was wanting to marry her. The two lived happily,
then Kamal went abroad to play in a tournament. The plane crashed and
everyone was killed except Kamal, who landed on the coast of Lebanon.
A Lebanese girl picked him up, took him to her family and discovered
he had lost his memory. She took care of him, and in his new identity
he fell in love with her. Then they married. Back in Egypt after
Salwa learned he had died she agreed to a paper marriage to her
cousin. The years passed and Kamal became a success. He went to
Egypt with his second wife to to sign a contract for a special deal in
the textile business. Salwa saw him there and tried to tell him the
truth, but his Lebanese wife kept a watch on this. Kamal didn't
return to his original identity until he had been injured in an
automobile accident. Then the Lebanese wife went back to her country after
deciding to sacrifice her husband, and Kamal went back to Salwa.
Cast and crew: Imane, Ahmed Ramzy, Nagwa Fouad, Zoheir Bakir, Mahmoud Azmy, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Ahmed Mazhar, Ali Hassan, Julia Daw, Adly Kasseb, Nahed Samir, Mohamed Reda, Mohamed Al-Tayeb, Adly Nour, Yasmin, Ahmed Abu'ebia, Ebtesam Helmy, Abu Lam'a, Dr. Shadid, Kamal Al-Zeyni
