This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman for the
1986 Said Tantawi film My Daughter and the Jackal based on
screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Abouzayd and Sabry Ezzat and
starring Shams El-Barudy as Azhar. Plot summary: Azhar suffered
because of the actions of her rebellious son. On the other hand
Mostafa [Hassan Youssef] had an unspoken love for her. Youssef [Nour
El-Sherif] also courted her. Azhar did not reveal her secret and
simply observed the situation at a mansion belonging to her aunt
[Naima Wasfy]. She discovered that Mostafa was working there and was
planning to court her. She also rebuffed his attentions.
Cast and crew: Said Tantawi, Kamal Korayem, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim,
Shams El-Barudy, Nour El-Sherif, Hassan Youssef, Mahmoud El-Meliguy,
Said Tantawi, Safia El Emari, Amira, Mohammed Tawfik, Naima Wasfy,
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Kamal Korayem, Abdel Rahim Abu Aouf, Mahmoud
Abouzayd, Sabry Ezzat
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 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
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" 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 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 an Egyptian one-sheet designed by Walid Wahig for the 1971
Atef Salem film Girls in the University based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Abo Zaid and starring Shukry
Sarhan as Morad. Plot summary: The film tells a story about a group
of men and women from different walks of life studying at an Egyptian
university and their romances and friendships.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Mahmoud Fahmy, Shukry Sarhan, Soheir
El-Morshidy, Nour El-Sherif, Nabila El Sayed, Hafez Amin, Zizi
Mustafa, Atef Salem, Mahmoudd Abo Zaid, Momtaz Abaza, Nadia al-Kilani,
Ahmed Abdel Halim, Tewfik El Dekn, Wafiq Fahmy, Alia Ali, Ibrahim
Sakar
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
This film by Aly Badrakhan is on Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of
Egypt's 100 most important films. It is based on a story by Egyptian
Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay and dialogue by Mamdouh
El Leithy. The story is about political persecution under Nasser
after the Egyptian defeat by the Israelis in 1967. It includes
depictions of sexual abuse of a type that had never been attempted in
Egyptian cinema. The poster was designed by Abdel Ghani and Hassan
Mazhar Gasour. Plot Summary: The film begins with a radio news report
of the Egyptian army's 6 October 1973 Suez crossing as Ismail
al-Sheikh [Nour El-Sherif] sits despondent in the Karnak Cafe while
everyone else is rejoicing. He goes to the hospital where Zeinab Diab
[Soad Hosny] is trying to get admitted for surgery. There is a
flashback to Ismail's days as a student in medical college with his
classmates Hamada Helmy [Mohammed Tawfik] and Zeinab. In those days
they were involved with student activities and debates about politics
and ideology. At the same time Ismail was in a romantic relationship
with Aranfala, [Shouweikar] the owner of the coffee shop. However one
night they were arrested and jailed. They were imprisoned for a time,
but after their release he courted Zeinab with the consent of her
parents. Then conditions changed. There were demonstrations and the
authorities began arresting young people. The intelligence service
under the direction of Khaled Safwan [Kamal Al-Shennawi] began using
savage torture methods looking for Muslim Brotherhood elements in the
population; Zeinab was even raped. Zeinab and Ismail were conscripted
for intelligence work and then wrote reports against their comrades.
Zeinab started the May movement for the release of Ismail and everyone
else who was in detention. Ismail returned to his commitment, put his
past behind him and returned to Zeinab.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Nour El-Sherif, Farid
Shawqi, Aly Badrakhan, Naguib Mahfouz, Younes Shalaby, Shouweikar,
Mohamed Sobhi, Taheya Cariocca, Imad Hamdi, Salah Zulfikar, Fayez
Halawa, Mohsen Nasr, Mamdouh El Leithy, Mohammed Tawfik, Naima Al
Soghayar, Aly El Cherif, Wahid Seif, Osama Abbas, Adly Kasseb
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by al-Khad and Morteda
Anise for the 1978 Ashraf Fahmy film The Other Woman based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Hassan Ramzy and Ahmed Abdel Wahab
and starring Mervat Amin as Hoda. Plot summary: After Mahmoud [Nour
El-Sherif] got his doctorate in America he was struck by the poverty
in which his family was living; he decided to open a special office
for his niece Hoda, a girl who secretly loved him. He met Soad,
[Nabila Ebeid] the daughter of a businessman named Mokhtar [Imad
Hamdi]. Mokhtar encouraged him and arranged a match between him and
Soad. Mahmoud wanted to be wealthy but his marriage became unstable
after he became bored with his wife. Hoda discovered there was a
relationship between Soad and Adel [Magdy Wahba] and tried to separate
them. Mahmoud found Hoda had stolen the details of an auction to a
competitor's clients and confronted her with it. Mokhtar got involved
after Hoda confirmed the relationship between Soad and Adel.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Hassan Ramzy, Ahmed Abdel Wahab, Magdy
Wahba, Leila Gamal, Imad Hamdi, Aqila Ratib, Rashuan Tewfik, Mervat
Amin, Nour El-Sherif, Nabila Ebeid, Medhat Ghali, Badria Abd El Gawad,
Mohamed Abu Hashish, Farouk Fathalla, Kamal Korayem
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown designer
for the 1977 Mohamed Abdel Aziz film Some Go to the Justice of the
Peace Twice based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Farouk
Sabry and starring Adel Imam as Masoud. Plot summary: This is a
comedy about marriages in crisis. Dr. Mamdouh's [Nour El-Sherif] wife
Mona [Mervat Amin] was consumed with jealousy despite his love for
her, while his brother Masoud's wife Mahasin [Lebleba] was preoccupied
with house and children. They were referred to their uncle Ezzat
[Sameer Ghanem] and his approach to his wife Sonia [Amal Ramzy]. He
was untrue to her but at the same time he smothered her with love and
attention. There were many complications when Mamdouh and Masoud
adopted Ezzat's idea.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Mervat Amin, Kamal Korayem, Nour
El-Sherif, Lebleba, Sameer Ghanem, Farouk Sabry, Mohamed Abdel Aziz,
George Sidhum, Aqila Ratib, Mimi Gamal, Amal Ramzy, Hana al-Shourbagy,
Galila Mahmoud, Ibrahim Abdel Razzaq, Amima Salim, Salama Elias, Nelly
Wanoura, Raafat Ragi, Abdel Hamid al-Monir
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy to promote
the 1978 Ashraf Fahmy 110-minute black-and-white film Journey
inside the Woman [rahlet dakhel emra'a] starring Nadia Lutfi based
on a story with dialogue by Moussa Sabry, screenplay by Rafiq
As-Sabban and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot Summary: Kamal was
willing to set aside his principles for the sake of his greed and his
ambition to get into high positions. His wife Amal was left to
languish in boredom because her husband was too busy for her. She had
no problem letting her innocent friendship with Mahmoud develop into a
love affair, but she didn't rush into it because she wanted to hang on
to her social position as a wife, so she asked Mahmoud to keep his
distance. Mahmoud's fortunes improved and he acquired a lot of money
and property, so he quit his studies and research, but Amal no longer
knew him as the person he used to be, and their relationship changed.
She was not close to her husband either but she carried on with her
life and stuck to her principles.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Nabila Ebeid, Tewfk El Dekn, Mahmoud
Rashad, Hussein El Sherbni, Nour El-Sherif, Shukry Sarhan, Nadia
Lutfi, Moussa Sabry, Wahid Farid, Malek El Gamal, Rafiq As-Sabban,
Nadia Arsalan, Wedad Hamdy, Aida Abdel Aziz, Nahed Samir, Omar Nagy,
Ashraf Al-Salahdar, Farouk Felouks, Nadia Shukry
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" 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
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour and Anise to promote the 1989 105-minute Mohamed Abdel Aziz color
film Bad Guy [al-fata al-sherrir] starring Nour El-Sherif
based on the 1983 Brian De Palma film Scarface with screenplay
and dialogue by Basyouni Othman and cinematography by Kamal Korayem.
Plot summary: This film is not as realistic as Scarface, the
sets and production values are cheaper, Cairo bears very little
resemblance to Miami and Nour El-Sherif, great as he is, is no Al
Pacino. However it roughly follows the original story
line, consisting of a series of loosely connected bitter
disputes and violent clashes culminating in a mass armed assault on
a sumptuous mansion. In this narrative Salah [Nour El-Sherif] is
given a seven-year prison sentence for manslaughter. In prison he
meets Said [Ali al-Hagar] and a strong friendship grows between them.
When Salah gets out of prison he cannot find a job so he takes up
dealing in currency for a trader. He gains the trader's confidence
and becomes wealthy while working for him. Salah discovers that his
girlfriend Elham [Noura], for whom he has been searching since his
release from prison, has married Zohdi [Mohamed El Dafrawy], an
important crime boss. He fights with Zohdi over Elham. Said tries to
convince Salah to give up the life of crime and stops working with
him. Zohdi's gang fails in its attempt to kill Salah and its members
are all arrested. Salah marries Elham after her divorce from the
arrested Zohdi. She also tries unsuccessfully to convince Salah to
give up his life of crime. Members of Zohdi's gang raid the home of
Salah and Said; Salah defeats them, Said is injured and Salah
continues his criminal activity.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Noura, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Basyouni Othman, Aziza Helmy, Said Tarabeek, Kamal Korayem, Mohamed El Defrawy, Ali al-Hagar, Sayed Sadeq, Ahmed Abou Ebia, Salwa Othman, Kawsar Ramzy, Nasr Seif, Hamdi Morsy, Ahmed Redwan, Mohamed Abu Hashish, Ahmed Sami Abdullah, Metawei Awis, Hafez al-Ebiari, Othman al-Hamamsi, Hosni Abdel Galil, Sami Attaya, Fouad Ferghali, Sayed Hassan, Shukry Mansour, Salah Sadeq, Hosni Saqr, Nabawia Said, Mohamed Halali, Sayed Alam, Samir Abdel Hamid, Hussein Abdel Wahab, Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed
This is an Egyptian poster designed to promote the 1974 Mohamed Abdel
Aziz 106-minute color film We Must Love in the Summer [fil-seyf
lazem neheb] starring Salah Zulfikar based on a story by Mohamed
Hassan and Mohamed Salem with screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Salem
and cinematography by Mostafa Imam. Plot summary: Dr. Nabil [Salah
Zulfikar] took four of his patients from a hospital for nervous
disorders to Alexandria believing they would be cured by mixing with
the people. One of them was Ahmed [Nour El-Sherif, who lived with
numbers and had a breakdown while working at a bank. The second was
an amateur musician named Medhat Youssef [Samir Sabri], who competed
for a prize at a song festival but failed. The third was Mohamed
Youssef the mathematician who went to the hospital because of a
personal crisis, and the fourth was Geneidy [Sameer Ghanem] the soccer
player who had failed as his team's goalee and who believed there were
conspiracies all around him. On the way to Alexandria they met a man
named Fadel Abdel Hafiz [Abdel Moneim Madbouly] and his daughters on
the al-Agami beach. Maggie [Magda El-Khatib] became friends with
Ahmed, Mohamed became friends with Zainab [Amira], Medhat became
friends with Madiha [Madiha Kamel] and Geneidy became friends with
Rawia [Lebleba]. In the midst of comedic, musical and dance scenes at
the beach and in the hotel Dr. Nabil restored his patients to health,
and they even demonstrated they were all normal when the police came
to investigate a complaint about the presence of deranged people at
the hotel. Of course they all fell in love and lived happily ever
after.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Magda El-Khatib, Nour El-Sherif, Madiha Kamel, Lebleba, Samir Sabri, Sameer Ghanem, Sa'eed Saleh, Amira, Wedad Hamdy, Mohamed Lutfy, Imad Hamdi, Tewfik El Dekn, Ibrahim Saafan, Salah Zulfikar, Mohamed Hassan, Salama Hassan, Mohamed Salem, Mostafa Imam, Mohammed Latif, Osama Abbas
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mostafa El-Seyyed
and Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1976 Houssam El-Din Mustafa
94-minute color film Tawhida starring the late Magda El-Khatib (1943-2006) as Tawhida based on
the play Fanny by Marcel Pagnol with screenplay by Naguib
Mahfouz, dialogue by Sabry Ezza and cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh.
Plot Summary: Tawhida and Hussein [Nour El-Sherfi]
were passionately in love in Alexandria and she became pregnant.
Hussein left her and the unborn child because he did not have enough
income to provide for them. Tawhida could not find anyone to save her
and her child from this predicament other than an older man named Said
Bey [Rushdy Abaza] who married her; she had the child after marrying
him. Hussein returned to learn that his love had married. He tried
to restore their relationship but she turned away from him; he also
discovered she had had a son by him and they quarreled over this. Then
he withdrew from their lives. Then Said also withdrew, realizing that
it was the best thing for everyone, and Tawhida and her son finally
went back to Hussein. At 41:58 one sees the ill-fated Italian cruise ship
Achille Lauro docked at
the Port of Alexandria about ten years before it was hijacked off the
coast of Egypt by four men representing the Palestine Liberation
Front.
Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Sanaa Gamil, Farid Shawqi, Achille Lauro, Magda El-Khatib, Amira, Nour El-Sherif, Naguib Mahfouz, Ibrahim Saleh, Marcel Pagnol, Sabry Ezzat
