This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1981 Zaki Saleh
film Beware We Are the Crazy Ones based on story, screenplay
and dialogue by Anwar Abdel Malek and starring Nahed Sherif as Ashjan.
Plot summary: Hoda [Safa Abu Al-Saud] loved Wahid [Mustafa Fahmy] who
lived in an apartment in the building her mother owned. Wahid got
mixed up in narcotics smuggling and got involved with Ashjan, one of
the smugglers. He was arrested, after which he and Hoda were reunited.
Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Mustafa Fahmy, Sa'eed Saleh, Younes
Shalaby, Zaki Saleh, Safa Abu Al-Saud, Salah El-Saadany, Mohamed Reda,
Aqila Ratib, Seif Allah Mokhtar, Magda Hamada, Samir Wali Eddine,
Mohamed Hamdi, Anwar Abdel Malek
This poster was designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1975 Tayseer
Aboud film The Shipyard of Violence with screenplay and dialogue
by Faisal Nada and Gamal Amar and based on a story by Faisal
Nada. Cinematography was by Aly Kheirollah. Plot summary: Rostam Bey
[Farid Shawqi] managed the affairs of a shipping company owned by him
and his late brother. His nephew Hassan [Samir Sabry] demanded his
share of the company, but the uncle refused to give it to him to keep
the fleet from being divided. However Hassan insisted on recovering
his father's rights and his share in the company. While he was trying
to get what was rightfully his he discovered Tawfiq [Tewfik El Dekn]
was manipulating the company's affairs. He tried to change his uncle's
mind but his uncle did not trust him, while Tawfiq was making the
distance between uncle and nephew even greater. When Hassan proposed
to his cousin Dalia [Nahed Sherif] because they were in love, Rostam
refused to allow the marriage and Tawfiq was making plans to kill
Hassan. They had a vicious fight. By the time Rostam Bey and his
daughter Dalia arrived Hassan had been unable to do any harm to his
detested rival; Tawfiq shot Dalia in the chest and she died in the
arms of her father and fiance. Only then did Rostam realize how wrong
he had been about his nephew.
Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Farid Shawqi,
Samir Sabry, Amina Rizk, Tewfik El Dekn, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Tayseer
Aboud, Faisal Nada, Gamal Amar, Aly Kheirollah, Ibrahim Qadry, Mohamed
Hamdi, Hamdi Sherif, Amira, Hala Sedki, Dina Abdullah, Ezza Kamal,
Luwais Youssef
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty and Wael for the
1970 Kamal Salaheddin musical Rose and Thorn starring Nahed
Sherif as Basima based on a novel by Fathy Abdel Hady and screenplay
and dialogue by Ramona. Plot summary: Hassan Darwish Osman [Mohamed
Rushdy] was a young man from Tanta who had loved his neighbor's
daughter Basima for a long time. It was a love that would inevitably
end in marriage; he had agreed to this the night of his sister's
wedding. At the time he did not realize Basima was pregnant. When
Hassan went to Cairo his wallet, cash and credit cards were stolen.
The thief [Farouq Ali] was killed in a traffic accident and at first
everyone thought Hassan had been killed too. The police even said
that to his family. When Basima heard Hassan had been killed she
tried to hide her pregnancy, but had trouble finding a way to get out
of her house. She later confessed to a taxi driver named Mishmish
[Saeed Saleh] what had happened; he agreed to marry her after hearing
her story. Then Hassan turned up unexpectedly on the wedding night and
Basima married him instead.
Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Mohamed Rushdy, Nagwa Fouad, Nawal
Abul Foutouh, Amal Ramzy, Kamal Salaheddin, Saeed Saleh, Sayed Zayan,
Ibrahim Saafan, Gamel Ebada, Ramona, Fathy Abdel Hady, Mohammad
al-Dafrawy, Saeeda Galal, Farouq Ali, Malek al-Gamal
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Mohammed
Abdel Aziz and Aziz for the 1974 Henry Barakat film The Clock
Strikes 10 based on a story by Amin Yousseff Ghurab, screenplay
and dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa Sami and starring Mahmoud Yassine as
Mohammad al-Sherbini. Plot summary: Mohammad al-Sherbini was a
university student working as a driver for the wealthy Abdel Maguid
[Imad Hamdi]. Mohammad discovered that Abdel Maguid's wife Noura
[Nahed Sherif] was cheating on him with Morad, [Mohamed Khairi] who
asked him to keep it secret. Noura's brother Salah [Mohamed Nagm]
wanted to marry Abdel al-Maguid's daughter Nevine [Mervat Amin] but
she refused becaused she loved Mohammad. After Mohammad had a
difficult and unwanted dalliance with Noura, he and Nevine decided to
marry, the father blessed the relationship and the two lovers began
life together.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Kamal Al-Shennawi (1918-2011) for
the 1973 Helmy Rafla film Women of the Night AKA nesa'
al-layl based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ahmed Abdel
Wahab and Faisal Nada and starring Kamal Al-Shennawy as Ahmed
Hamdy. Plot summary: Ahmed Hamdy chose a nightclub singer and dancer
named Zeinab [Nahed Sherif] to model for one of his paintings. He was
trying to convey a sense of loss in the portrait, which he was
planning to enter in a contest at a government festival. In frequent
visits to Ahmed's studio Zeinab came to understand his various
feelings, the most important of which was his love for her. Ahmed's
painting won a big prize at the government festival and he became
famous. When he went back to Cairo, Yousria [Nelly] tried to see him
because she wanted him to marry her, but even though she needed him
desperately he could not stand her.
Cast and crew: Hassan Youssef, Nelly, Nahed Sherif, Helmy
Rafla, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Wedad Hamdy, Ghassan Mattar, Aziza Helmy,
Ibrahim Saafan, Ahmed Abdel Wahab, Faisal Nada, Kawsar Ramzi, Mokhtar
El Sayed, Seif Allah Mokhtar, Hamdy Youssef
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1978
Hassan El-Seify film A Type of Woman based on a story by
Mostafa Moharram, screenplay and dialogue by Ali Salem and starring
Nahed Sherif as Samia. Plot summary: The widow Samia saw a strong
resemblance between Hussein [Sameer Ghanem] and her late husband Hosni
and she therefore became attached to him, while Hussein saw her as a
young and wealthy woman. They married. He got to know Kawsar [Safia
El Emari] because they saw each other everywhere and she was the
couple's only friend. A gang kidnapped Hussein thinking he was their
leader Hosni, although Kawsar knew the difference because she had had
a special relationship with Hosni. Hussein found out about Samia's
first husband, his role as the gang leader and his relationship with
her friend Kawsar.
Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Sameer Ghanem, Hassan El-Seify,
Mostafa Moharram, Ali Salem, Safia El Emari, Salah Nazmi, Aly El
Cherif, Ahmed El Haddad, Ahmed Bedir, Mohammad Shawqi, Ahmed Shawqi,
Hossan Iliani, Nadia Shamseddine, Hassan Mostafa Ali
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made by an unknown designer to
promote the 1974 Mohamed Tayseer Aboud film Nights that Will Never
Return [layali lan ta'oud] starring Nour El-Sherif as Hussein with
screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Osman and Ahmed Abdel Wahab and
cinematography Mohamed Emara. Plot summary: Mona [Nahed Sherif] tried
to rescue Laila [Bussy] from the wealthy Redwan, [Salah Nazmi] who was
also her husband. She also tried to free her from the clutches of
Hussein, a man of low moral principles. However Hussein threatened to
reveal Mona's secrets to her wealthy husband. Hussein took Laila to
his home and tried to assault her, putting her in a state of
psychological torment. After her husband was killed in a traffic
accident Mona went to Alexandria and fell in love with Adel [Mohammad
Al-Araby].
Cast and crew: Mohamed Tayseer Aboud, Salah Nazmi, Nahed Sherif,
Nour El-Sherif, Bussy, Mohammad Al-Araby, Mohamed Emara, Mohamed Osman
This is a 39" x 53" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy
and Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1970 Houssam El-Din Mustafa
film Duel at Alamein AKA Al-Ashrar written by Houssam
El-Din Mustafa and Faisal Nada and starring Rushdy Abaza as Khaled.
Plot summary: In Egypt's northern Sahara at Alamein, the site of a
major World War II battle between the allied and axis powers, a small
gang of smugglers is transporting a large sum in stolen US dollars to
an American client. As they do this, tourists looking at graves and
broken war machinery are woven into the narrative while romance, greed
and betrayal appear among the smugglers to keep the story on edge.
Cast and crew: Faisal Nada, Aly Kheiralla, Abdel Khalek Saleh,
Nahed Sherif, Rushdy Abaza, Adel Adham, Ibrahim Khan, Houssam El-Din
Mustafa, Salah Nazmi, Aly Kheiralla, Amira
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Raga for the 1972 Rida
Myassar Syrian film Journey of Pain based on a story by Naguib
Myassar, screenplay by Amin Ayouti and Naguib Myassar and starring
Nahed Sherif as Soheir. Plot summary: Soheir was a singer who was
married to a man [Adib Qadura] who had another wife. The other
woman had a son and a daughter named Hani and Hala; Soheir became
addicted to morphine. The other woman died in a traffic accident so
Soheir assumed the costs of caring for the children in a hospital.
Then she recovered from her addiction and went back to singing.
Cast and crew: Rida Myassar, Tewfik El Dekn, Nahed Sherif, Nadia
Arsalan, Zyad Mawlaoui, Hala Fawzi, Hani Fawzi, Adib Qadura, Negah
Hafiz, Gigi Omar, Fouad Hegazi, Youssef Antar
This film was an important milestone in the career of Adel Imam, best known in the West for his starring role in the 2006 Marwan Hamed film The Yacoubian Building [emaret ya'qubian]. This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian film poster designed by
Moaty to promote the 1979 128-minute Ahmed Fouad color film Ragab
on a Hot Tin Roof [ragab fou' safeeh sakhen] starring Adel Imam
based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ebrahim Maher with
cinematography by Essam Farid. Plot summary: The people in Ragab's
[Adel Imam] village pooled their money to buy a plow and sent him to
Cairo to buy it. As soon as he got there he met Bolbol, [Sa'eed
Saleh] a professional thief, who stole the money the people of Ragab's
village had given him, then disappeared in the Cairo crowds. Ragab
went looking for him. He ended up in a nightclub, where he met
Bobbol's friend Eglal [Nahed Sherif], the owner of a nighclub. Bolbol
had seen Ragab and fled with the money. When Ragab found him he
claimed to have lost all the money gambling. Ragab tried to find
work. When that failed he asked Bolbol to teach him how to gamble.
After he learned how to do this he won a lot of money, but one of the
ones who lost money to him went after him with the intent of killing
him; Bolbol tried to defend Ragab and suffered a few stab wounds. The
police intervened and arrested all of them. Ragab did not return to
his village. After his release he took a job in Cairo looking for
newcomers from rural areas and upper Egypt so he could swindle them.
In Egypt Today September 2004 Sherif Awad said of this film:
"Comedian Adel Imam made cinema history with Ragab Fouk Safeeh Sakhen
([Ragab on a Hot Tin Roof], 1979). The film broke all previous
box-office records and spent 37 weeks in theaters. Throughout the past
two decades, he has been the uncontested king of the box office,
churning out roles in every conceivable genre. Now in his fifties,
Imam is still going strong."
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Nahed Sherif, Sa'eed Saleh, Wahid Seif, Zuzu Shakeeb, Ahmed Fouad, Essam Farid, Mimi Gamal, Aly El Cherif, Soad Hussein, Nahed Gabr, George Sidhum, Madhar Abol Naga, Seif Allah Mokhtar, Hafez Amin, Essam Farid, Maher Ibrahim, Farouk Falawkas, Samie Al-Adel, Amima Salim, Ahmed Amer, Sha'ban Taha, Mahmoud al-Eraqi, Mona Abdullah, Fawzi Ibrahim
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anise to promote
the 1981 Ahshraf Fahmy 90-minute color film The Beast Within
[al-wahsh dakhel al-insan] based on the 1867 Emile Zola
novel Therese Raquin with screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hay
Adib and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: Sodfa suffered
because of her husband Sayed, who was her idiotic cousin. They lived
together in his mother's house in Abu Qir. After returning from the
completion of his studies, Mahmoud began supervising a brick factory
owned by Sayed's mother. This upset Sodfa, who had been in a
relationship with Mahmoud. Mahmoud confirmed his love and she asked
him to marry her after she asked for a divorce from Sayed, who
admitted he had overheard them talking. Mahmoud got into a fight with
Sayed and Sodfa encouraged him to kill him. Mahmoud met the dancer
Lawahez, which made Sodfa jealous and they quarreled. The mother
learned the truth about her son's murderer after she overheard a
conversation between the lovers and she became paralyzed. Lawahez was
murdered and the police called Sodfa as a witness. Mahmoud thought
the police had discovered their crime. He wrote a letter of
confession to exonerate Sodfa and gave it to one of the people in
town; when Mahmoud learned the truth he went with Sodfa to try to
recover the letter before it was given to the police, but they were
both killed when when a wheel flew off their horse-drawn wagon
and it crashed into the Nile.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Sa'eed Saleh, Salah El-Saadany, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Nahed Sherif, Mahmoud Yassine, Emile Zola, Hayatem, Wahid Farid, Abdel Hay Adib
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made by an unknown designer to
promote the 1967 93-minute Ahmed Sarwat color film Marriage by
Airmail starring Adel Imam, Farid Shawqi and Nahed Sherif based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Farouk Said with cinematography by
Ramzi Ibrahim; the film was produced by Hussein Yaqut Films and
distributed by Al-Salam Films. Plot summary: Gharib [Adel Imam] and
Fakri [Sameer Ghanem] were exchanging letters about Fekry going to
America. Fakry was working for a cabaret owner [Farid Shawqi] even
though he was harsh in his dealings with the cabaret owner's daughter
Amira, [Nahed Sherif] who had decided to run away from her father's
home. She went to Gharib's house to take refuge with him at a time
when Fakri was writing to Gharib asking him to find him a
bride. Gharib presented the idea to Amira and she agreed to it; Fakri
married her by proxy so she could get away from her father and his
violence. Over time Amira discovered she loved Gharib and that he had
the same feelings for her. Fakri arrived in Cairo to get his bride
and learned the whole story; he divorced Amira so his lifetime friend
Gharib could marry her.
Cast and crew: Sameer Ghanem, Nabila El Sayed, Fifi Abdou, Nahed Sherif, Ahmed Sarwat, Farid Shawqi, Adel Imam, Ramzi Ibrahim, Farouk Said, Fawzia Hashem, Adel Al-Shennawi, Leila Mokhtar, Faten Fouad, Hassan Mostafa, Engil, Farouq Ali, Naim Esa, Qadriah Kamel
This is a poster designed by Abdel Alim to promote the 1968 100-minute
black-and-white Abdel Moneim Shoukry film Honeymoon without
Disturbances starring Hassan Youssef and Nahed Sherif based on a
story by Ahmed Abdel Wahab with screenplay also by Ahmed Abdel Wahab,
dialogue by Esmat Khalil and cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot
summary: Monir (Hassan Youssef) was a young doctor who lived in
Alexandria. He married the girl he loved (Nahed Sherif) against the
wishes of his father, who was from Upper Egypt. The father read about
the marriage in the newspapers, had a fit of rage and decided to kill
his son. He was then surprised to learn that Madbouli, with whom he
had an old quarrel, had been released from prison. The father knew
Madbouli wanted to kill Monir to get revenge. During a chase Madbouli
thought Monir was the nurse he had met at a clinic, then learned the
truth and tried to kill Monir, but failed again. He fell in the water
and almost drowned, but Monir saved him. This had a great effect on
Madbouli and he stopped trying to kill Monir. The father married a
woman he had met at a hotel in Alamein and the couple finished
enjoying their honeymoon.
Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Mohamed Awad, Amin El-Heinedy, Hassan Hamed, Hassan Youssef, Abdel Moneim Shoukry, Abdel Moneim Shoukry, Adel Abdel Azim, Ahmed Abdel Wahab, Linda Badawy
