My Life is the Price حياتي هي الثمن (Hoda Soltan) - (1961) Egyptian one-sheet

My Life Is the Price (1961) - (Hoda Soltan) Egyptian one-sheet

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

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Wild Woman المتوحشة Soad Hosny 1979 Lebanese film poster

Wild Woman المتوحشة (1979) - (Soad Hosny) Lebanese one-sheet

This is a 27.5" x 39.25" Lebanese one-sheet poster designed by Hewarian for the 1979 Samir Seif film Wild Woman المتوحشة written by Ibrahim El-Mougy and starring Soad Hosny as Baheya. Plot summary: Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz]. She later takes a factory job and is followed there by Ashraf; he eventually asks her to marry him. Baheya agrees to the proposal. When Ashraf presents her as his intended bride to his mother Eqbal [Leila Fawzi] she objects because of their social and class differences.

Cast and crew: Samir Seif, Hewarian, Ibrahim El-Mougy, Soad Hosny, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Leila Fawzi, Tewfik El Dekn, Ragaa Hussein, Soad Nasr, Ahmed Abdel Waress, Naima Wassfi, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra

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Wild Woman المتوحشة Soad Hosny 1979 Lebanese one-sheet

Wild Woman (1979) - (Soad Hosny) Lebanese one-sheet

This is a 27.5" x 39.25" Lebanese one-sheet poster designed by Hewarian for the 1979 Samir Seif film Wild Woman written by Ibrahim El-Mougy and starring Soad Hosny as Baheya. Plot summary: Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz]. She later takes a factory job and is followed there by Ashraf; he eventually asks her to marry him. Baheya agrees to the proposal. When Ashraf presents her as his intended bride to his mother Eqbal [Leila Fawzi] she objects because of their social and class differences.

Cast and crew: Samir Seif, Hewarian, Ibrahim El-Mougy, Soad Hosny, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Leila Fawzi, Tewfik El Dekn, Ragaa Hussein, Soad Nasr, Ahmed Abdel Waress, Naima Wassfi, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra

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The Sparrow [العصفور] (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1972)

The Sparrow [al-asfour] (dir: Youssef Chahine) (1972) Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a 27" x 39" poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1972 Youssef Chahine 102-minute color film The Sparrow [al-asfour] starring Seif El Din, based on a story by Lotfi al-Khawali with screenplay and dialogue by Lotfi al-Khawali and Youssef Chahine and cinematography by Mostafa Imam. According to a critics poll taken at the 2013 Dubayy International Film Festival this is one of the 100 most important Arab films. Plot summary: This film made in Algeria and Egypt is a reaction to the Arab loss of the 1967 war with Israel. It has a spirit of pride and patriotic conviction where director Chahine attempts to show the war was lost from within due to corruption and weakness in the ruling classes. In one of the film's several narrative lines the character Baheyya [Mohsena Tewfik] leads defiant demonstrations, rejects the defeat and demands that Gamal Abdel Nasser return to the government after stepping down. The sparrow motif symbolizes the brave and innocent Arab peoples who have become victims of national and international circumstances.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Ali El Cherif, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Seif El Din, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Habiba, Mohsena Tewfik, Salah Kabil, Salah Mansour, Abdel Waress Assar, Hamdy Ahmed, Ragaa Hussein, Mahmoud Kabil, Hassan el Baroudi, Nazim Shaarawy, Mohamed Khalil, Sayed Shahat, Mustafa Imam, Lotfi al-Khawali

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Return of the Prodigal Son [عودة الابن الضال] (1976) - (dir: Youssef Chahine)

The Return of the Prodigal Son (1976) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet

This an original folded 27" x 39" Egyptian movie poster designed by Raouf for the 1976 Youssef Chahine film Return of the prodigal son freely adapted from the 1907 André Gide novel, produced in Egypt and Algeria with screenplay by Salah Jahine and Youssef Chahine and starring Ali Mahrez as Ali. Plot summary: "Return of the Prodigal Son is another Chahine parable set between the Arab-Israeli wars. An activist who's been jailed for more than a decade, Ali is eagerly awaited by his family. All hope that this just man will stand up against his ruthless brother's tyranny, but nobody even recognizes the prodigal when he shows up during a big party. Prison has so thoroughly crushed Ali's youth and idealism that he now allies himself with the oppressor." From the Cornell University Library web site. The film is a melodrama/musical centering on family strife in the Madbouli family heightened by the release of the family's youngest son from prison after serving ten years for construction fraud, who turns out to be a disappointment when he goes to work at his father's factory. The family lives on a farm headed by an authoritarian father [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. The film has also been seen as an allegorical treatment of Egypt's poliitical disillusion following the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), who had been criticized by some as an authoritarian leader of a police state, too dependent on the power of his personal charisma and unable to create intermediary institutions or adopt practical programs for national development.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Salah Jahine, Farouk Beloufa, Raouf, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Shukry Sarhan, Hoda Soltan, Ayda Reyad, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Souheir El-Mourchidy, Ali El Scherif, Ali Mahrez, Sid Ali Kouiret, Ahmed Abdel Waress, Ragaa Hussein, Ahmed Bedir, Magda El-Roomy, Hesham Selim, André Gide

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Mouths and Rabbits [افواه و ارانب] (Faten Hamama) - (1977)

Mouths and Rabbits [افواه و ارانب] (1977) - (Faten Hamama) Egyptian one-sheet poster

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty to promote the 1977 105-minute Henry Barakat color film Mouths and Rabbits [afwah wa araneb] based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Samir Abdelazim with cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: Ne'ma [Faten Hamama] fled her town after her sister [Ragaa Hussein] had arranged a marriage for her to an illiterate man named al-Bastawi [Aly El Cherif]. She found work on the land of the weathy Mahmoud Bey [Mahmoud Yassine]. She became assiduously careful about Mahmoud's wealth and clashed with the estate's overseer over how to sell the crops for the best price. Mahmoud liked this so much he put her in charge of his personal affairs at his home. He was preparing to marry Nahi [Inas Al Degheidy] who became jealous of Ne'ma. Abdel Magid [Farid Shawqi] prepared a contract for Ne'ma to marry al-Bastawi while Nahi told Mahmoud he had to choose between her and Ne'ma. Mahmoud refused to fire Ne'ma, prompting Nahi to cancel their engagement. Mahmoud's liking for Ne'mat became love and he asked her to marry him, which she eventually did after cancelling the arrangements Abdel Magid had made with al-Bastawi. In contrasting Ne'ma's poverty-stricken heavily populated rural family life with Mahmoud's more solitary wealthy urban life, the film and its title seem to be suggesting large families are partly responsible for Egypt's poverty.

Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Inas Al Degheidy, Samir Abdelazim, Mohsen Mohieddin, Mahmoud Yassine, Faten Hamama, Ragaa Hussein, Farid Shawqi, Wahid Farid, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Hassan Mustafa, Salah Nazmi, Wedad Hamdy, Hussein Assar, Magda El-Khatib, Aly El Cherif, Hussein El-Sherbini, Nahi Barakat, Mazhar Abolnega, Mohammad al-Saqa, Seifeddin Mokhtar

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Woman Marked for Destruction امراة آيلة للسقوط (Youssra) - (1991) Egyptian one-sheet

Woman Marked for Destruction (1991) - (Youssra) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a promotional poster designed by Morteda Anise for the 1991 120-minute color film Woman Marked for Destruction [emraa ayla lel soqut] written and directed by Medhat El-Sebaiy and starring Youssra as Ahlam based on a story taken from court cases, with cinematography by Tarek El-Telmisany. Plot summary: Poverty drove Ahlam to the commission of illegal acts for which she was never arrested such as swindling, theft and prostitution; she formed a professional gang with two clever thieves named Mohsen [Mohamed Kamel] and Sharif [Ramzi Gheith]. Ahlam fell in love with Shukry, [Mahmoud Hemida] a novice journalist and they dreamed together about wealth and freedom. Then she dumped him for a wealthy man who refused to marry her after seducing her. She was passed from one man to another and became a whore. She was imprisoned on false testimony; after her release she married a waiter named Hamdy [Abdel Aziz Makhyoun] at a nightclub where she worked, but then she discovered he was addicted to heroin. The owner of the house raped her in front of her husband, but he made no move to save her. The thieves Mohsen and Sharif broke into a wealthy woman's villa, stole her jewels and killed her and her son. Her young daughter Abir [Amira Ibrahim] saw them and ran away. The thieves hid the stolen jewels in Ahlam's apartment but the police arrested the three of them. Ahlam was sentenced to death because the evidence of the crime was found in her apartment. Ahlam's former fiancee Shukry came to her defense and went looking for Abir, the only witness who could save Ahlam from the noose.

Cast and crew: Medhat El-Sebaiy, Farid Shawqi, Youssra, Hoda Soltan, Mohsen Sarhan, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Mahmoud Hemida, Salah Kabil, Ragaa Hussein, Seif Abdel Rahman, Seif El Dine, Mohamed Kamel, Mohamed Wafik, Tarek El-Telmisany, Mohammad Rafiq, Mohsen Sarhan, Mahmood Massood, Zeinab Wahbi, Shadia Abdel Hamid, Sayed Sadek, Mufid Ashour, Ibrahim Mabruk, Anwar Abdel Aziz, Mervat Hafez, Amira Ibrahim, Mostafa Ibrahim

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An Egyptian Story حدوتة مصرية (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1982) Egyptian one-sheet

An Egyptian Story (1982) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a promotional poster designed by Gasour for the 1982 120-minute Youssef Chahine color film An Egyptian Story [haduta masria] based on a story idea by Yousef Idriss, screenplay by Youssef Chahine and cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: In this autobiographical meditation director Yehia (Chahine) has a heart attack while directing one of his films. He is obliged to go to England and submit to the care of coronary specialist Magdy Ya'qoub. During the operation he sees scenes from the past, critiques of the way he directs his films, how he met his wife the daughter of a film producer, how he dreamed of exhibiting his film Nile Boy at the Cannes Film Festival, and his direction of films like Cairo Station and Jamila. These scenes are shown in the framework of a trial where there is a confrontation between the successful director and the small child within. The dream trial also brings out the director's relationship with the Egyptian revolution, his craving for success and his encounter with the American dream. The heart operation is a success.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Youssef Idriss, Oussama Nadir, Mohsen Mohieddin, Nour El-Sherif, Ahmed Mehrez, Abdullah Mahmoud, Mahmoud Elgendi, Mohamed Mounir, Ragaa Hussein, Seif El Dine, Youssra, Hanan, Leila Hamada, Magda El-Khatib, Raga El Geddaoui, Ahmed Salama, Soheir El Monsaterli, Andrew Dinwoodie, Abdel Hadi Anwar, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Said Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Abdel Hadi, Nabila El Sayed, Soad Nasr, Aly El Cherif, Hassan Hussein, Mohsen Nasr, Tewfik El Dekn, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Soheir El-Bably, Mimi Shakeeb, Leila Sheir, Aly Ezeddin, Lotfala Hanan

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