This is a first printing of a 8" x 11" 8-page Egyptian Arabic film
program for the 1954 110-minute Youssef Maalouf black-and-white
comedy The Adventures of Ismail Yasseen starring Ismail Yasseen
based on a screenplay and story by Youssef Isa with cinematography by
Masoud Isa. The film was distributed by Aflam Nahdet al-Sharq (Paul Moradian) 42
Sherif St. Cairo and produced by Nahdet al-Sharq Films.
Plot summary: Two journalist friends were working at a news agency
trying to find effective reports for publication. One of them told a
girl he was in love with her. She tried to trap them for an
international gang that was working to smuggle goods out of the
country. The two friends discovered what the girl was doing and
decided to go after the gang and expose her criminal activities to
international and local authorities. The chase began but the girl
decided to leave the gang and help her lover. The gang was arrested
and the boy married his repentant love.
Cast and crew: Youssef Maalouf, Masoud Isa, Youssef Isa, Farag,
Ismail Yasseen, Shadia, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Fakher Fakher, Abdel Ghani
Qamar, Lutfi al-Hakim, Reyad El Kasabgy, Edmond Tuema, Ahmed
Al-Gazayeri, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Ahmed Abaza, Hana Adel
This is a 6.25" x 9.25" 20-page Egyptian program for the 1950
musical Yasmin written and directed by Anwar Wagdi with screenplay
and dialogue by Abou Seoud El-Ibiary and starring Feyrouz as
Yasmin/Atuta. Plot summary: The head of the family Adel [Mohamamd
al-Dib] did not want another daughter, so when Yasmin was born he left
her at the door of a shelter. Adel later died; the girl grew up and
ran away from the shelter to join a gang of pickpockets as Atuta. She
happened to meet an unemployed trumpet player named Wahid [Anwar
Wagdi] who asked her to help him with his act, stop stealing and
repent. She lived with him for a time but got tired of the
respectable life and went back to the gang. Wahid discovered that
Atuta was a rich man's daughter. When Atuta's gang robbed her
grandfather's [Zaki Rostom] villa the gang was arrested; Atuta became
Yasmin again and went back to her mother, [Madiha Yousri] who married
Wahid.
Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Madiha Yousri, Abdel Rahman, Zaki
Rostom, Abdelhalim Nasr, Feyrouz, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Abu Seoud
El-Ibiary, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Mohammad al-Dib, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdel
Hamid Zaki, Zeinab Sedky, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohammad Kamel, Mohammad Abu
al-Seoud
This is an original year printing of a 9.25" x 6.75" 12-page Egyptian
program for the 1946 Fouad El Jazairly 100-minute black-and-white
film Scheherezade [shahrzad] starring Hussein Sedki based on a
screenplay by Fouad El Jazairly with cinematography by Mohamed Abdel
Aziz. The film was produced by Modern Egypt Films and distributed by
Montakhebat Behna. Plot Summary: The young sultan Shahriar announced
his desire to marry, then chose a bride who betrayed him. This
transformed his attitude towards women. He declared women were only
good for enjoyment and did not deserve wealth. He then declared he
would marry a virgin every night, then kill her at dawn after he had
enjoyed her. After his swordsman had killed many of them he chose a
minister's daughter named Scheherezade who had decided to save other
girls from this oppressive sultan. She told him a story that did not
end by dawn so he did not kill her, hoping the story would end the
next night. However when she finished the story the next night he let
her start another. This continued for 1001 nights. She was able to
win Shahriar's heart and save herself as well as all the other women
in the kingdom. This made her an immortal legend.
Cast and crew: s,
Soad Ahmed, Istar Shatta, Nelly Mazlum, Yahya Negati, Saleheh Qasin,
Amina Sedki, Safia Helmy
This is a 12" x 15" Egyptian lobby card for the 1950
film Yasmin written and directed by Anwar Wagdi with screenplay
and dialogue by Abou Seoud El-Ibiary and starring Feyrouz as
Yasmin/Atuta. Plot summary: The head of the family Adel [Mohamamd
al-Dib] did not want another daughter, so when Yasmin was born he left
her at the door of a shelter. Adel later died; the girl grew up and
ran away from the shelter to join a gang of pickpockets as Atuta. She
happened to meet an unemployed trumpet player named Wahid [Anwar
Wagdi] who asked her to help him with his act, stop stealing and
repent. She lived with him for a time but got tired of the
respectable life and went back to the gang. Wahid discovered that
Atuta was a rich man's daughter. When Atuta's gang robbed her
grandfather's [Zaki Rostom] villa the gang was arrested; Atuta became
Yasmin again and went back to her mother, [Madiha Yousri] who married
Wahid.
Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Madiha Yousri, Abdel Rahman, Zaki
Rostom, Abdelhalim Nasr, Feyrouz, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Abu Seoud
El-Ibiary, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Mohammad al-Dib, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdel
Hamid Zaki, Zeinab Sedky, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohammad Kamel, Mohammad Abu
al-Seoud
This is an original year printing of a 12" x 15" Egyptian production
still of Hussein Sedki as Sultan Shahriar and Elham Hussein as
Scheherezade from the 1946 Fouad El Jazairly 100-minute
black-and-white film Scheherezade [shahrzad] starring Hussein
Sedki based on a screenplay by Fouad El Jazairly with cinematography
by Mohamed Abdel Aziz. The film was produced by Modern Egypt Films
and distributed by Montakhebat Behna. Plot Summary: The young sultan
Shahriar announced his desire to marry, then chose a bride who
betrayed him. This transformed his attitude towards women. He
declared women were only good for enjoyment and did not deserve
wealth. He then declared he would marry a virgin every night, then
kill her at dawn after he had enjoyed her. After his swordsman had
killed many of them he chose a minister's daughter named Scheherezade
who had decided to save other girls from this oppressive sultan. She
told him a story that did not end by dawn so he did not kill her,
hoping the story would end the next night. However when she finished
the story the next night he let her start another. This continued for
1001 nights. She was able to win Shahriar's heart and save herself as
well as all the other women in the kingdom. This made her an immortal
legend.
Cast and crew: Fouad El Jazairly, Hussein Sedki, Elham Hussein,
Samia Gamal, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Monsi Fahmy, Abdel Aziz Khalil,
Mohammed Youssef, Mohammad al-Dib, Lutfy al-Hakim, Reyad El Kasabgy,
Soad Ahmed, Istar Shatta, Nelly Mazlum, Yahya Negati, Saleheh Qasin,
Amina Sedki, Safia Helmy
This is a 47" x 35" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Ragheb
for the 1948 Niazi Mostafa musical Princess Leila AKA layla
al-amiriya AKA Leila and Magnun written by Abol-Farag
al-Isfahani and starring Kouka as Leila. Plot summary: In a desert
village in 7th Century Arabia Qays ibn al-Mulawah [Yehia Chahine] fell
madly in love with his cousin Leila and incessantly recited poems
about her. His story spread through the village, but it was a
violation of tradition. Moreover, although Leila was happily spending
her days with Qays, Qays had a rival for her hand in a man named Ward
[Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. When the rival proposed her father [Ibrahim
Emara] agreed and married Leila to him without her consent. The
distraught poet took to wandering aimlessly, reciting poems and
hallucinating about his lost love, while Leila got sick and died.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Yehia Chahine, Kouka, Mahmoud
El-Meilguy, Reyad El Kasabgy, Ibrahim Emara, Abol-Farag al-Isfahani,
Rafia al-Shal, Abdullah al-Husseini, Ali Rushdy, Mohamed Nehad, Shafiq
Noureddine, Husny Claude, Awham George
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist
to promote an undated rerelease of the 1947 Anwar Wagdi
musical Leila the Rich Girl, a remake of Frank Capra's
1934 It Happened One Night, with story by Anwar Wagdi,
screenplay and dialogue by Badei Khayri and starring Laila Mourad as
Leila. Plot summary: Leila was a pretty girl from a rich family who
had lost her mother. Her father Hassan Rostam Basha [Bechara Wakim]
was dominated by his bossy new wife Monira [Olwiyya Gamil]. Monira had
imposed the bridegroom Gamil [Said Abu Bakr] on Leila because he was
her nephew and she was planning to use him to get the money Leila
would be receiving from her father. However when Gamil approached
Leila during the wedding ceremony she pushed him away and ran out of
the proceedings immediately. The press was full of reports about the
search for the missing bride's car, which was damaged on a bridge and
fell into the water; one of Leila's shoes she had been wearing at the
wedding was found in the car. The journalist Wahid [Anwar Wagdi] went
to the village where the accident had taken place and found Leila's
other shoe. He was surprised by the sound of the enchanting voice of
a young girl sitting on the bank singing in a tortured tone of voice.
Wahid approached the girl because of her beauty and the sweetness of
her voice. One of the people in the village told him she was the
daughter of the village mayor [Abdel Hamid Zaki]. She was sick and
everyone at her house was waiting for a physician who was on the way
from Cairo. Wahid knocked on the door and claimed he was the doctor
from Cairo looking for the girl. Once he saw her he realized she was
not the one he had seen on the bridge. Wahid and the girl, who said
her name was Farhana, left the mayor's house. Then Wahid learned the
girl with him was really Leila, the runaway bride everyone thought had
been killed because her loose shoes had been found. Back in Cairo
Wahid convinced Leila's father she was still alive by taking him to
the farmer's home where she was hiding. At first Leila thought Wahid
did not love her and was planning to take her back to the misery she
had been fleeing in exchange for reward money; instead Wahid was
finally able to awaken the conscience of Leila's father and make him
aware of the conspiratorial plans of his bossy wife and her nephew.
The basha divorced Monira publicly and Leila immediately went back to
Wahid, who was waiting nearby.
Cast and crew: Frank Capra, Badei Khayri, Abdelhalim Nasr, Olwiyya
Gamil, Bechara Wakim, Hassan Fayek, Said Abu Bakr, Abdel Hamid Zaki,
Abdel Nabi Mohammed, Reyad El Kasabgy, Laila Mourad, Anwar Wagdi
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Abdel Rahman
for the 1950 film Yasmin written and directed by Anwar Wagdi
with screenplay and dialogue by Abou Seoud El-Ibiary and starring
Feyrouz as Yasmin/Atuta. Plot summary: The head of the family Adel
[Mohamamd al-Dib] did not want another daughter, so when Yasmin was
born he left her at the door of a shelter. Adel later died; the girl
grew up and ran away from the shelter to join a gang of pickpockets as
Atuta. She happened to meet an unemployed trumpet player named Wahid
[Anwar Wagdi] who asked her to help him with his act, stop stealing
and repent. She lived with him for a time but got tired of the
respectable life and went back to the gang. Wahid discovered that
Atuta was a rich man's daughter. When Atuta's gang robbed her
grandfather's [Zaki Rostom] villa the gang was arrested; Atuta became
Yasmin again and went back to her mother, [Madiha Yousri] who married
Wahid.
Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Madiha Yousri, Zaki Rostom, Abdelhalim
Nasr, Feyrouz, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Abdel Aziz
Khalil, Mohammad al-Dib, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Zeinab
Sedky, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohammad Kamel, Mohammad Abu al-Seoud, Abdelhalim
Nasr
This is a 35" x 46" two-piece poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the
1951 Anwar Wagdi film Eve of the Wedding [lailet al-henna]
starring Shadia as Hurria and Kamal Al-Shennawi as Hassan. Plot
summary: The film recounts the troubled circumstances of an impending
marriage between a singer and her lover. The story is complicated by
a pregnancy, social objections to the woman's occupation as a singer,
parental disapproval and threats and manipulations from a cabaret
owner struggling to control a popular singer about to quit her job.
Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Shadia, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Marie Munib,
Seraj Munir, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Mahmoud Reda, Reyad El Kasabgy,
Wahid Farid, Ferdoos Mohammed, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Abu Seoud
El-Ibiary, Stephan Rosti, Wedad Hamdy, Kitty, Hussein Ibrahim, Abdel
Hamid Bodaoha, Mohamed Abu al-Seoud, Hassan Qatla, Taga Zaki, Abdel
Aziz Said
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1959 Fatin Abdel Wahab
film The Big Brother based on story, screenplay and dialogue by
Ali El Zorkani and starring Farid Shawqi as Awad. Plot summary: Big
brother Awad took care of his family including his mother, [Ferdoos
Mohammed] his brother Ahmed [Ahmed Ramzi] and his niece Dawlat [Farida
Fahmy]. The family thought he was working as a respectable tradesman
but he was actually the head of a narcotics gang. He was loved by
Ruhia, [Hend Rostom] a dancer who also worked with him in the
narcotics trade. Ruhia had a great desire to marry Awad but he
refused. She then became interested in Awad's brother Ahmed who was
in his final year of law school.
Cast and crew: Fatin Abdel Wahab, Ali El Zorkani, arid Shawqi, Hend
Rostom, Ahmed Ramzy, Ferdoos Mohammed, Mohammed Tawfik, Farida Fahmy,
Ali El Zorkani, Saeed Abu Bakr, Reyad El Kasabgy, Mahmoud al-Seba,
Mahmoud Azmi, Said Khalil, Mohammad al-Tukhi
This is a 35" x 45" two-piece Egyptian poster made to promote the 1953
Ezzel Dine Zulficar 92-minute black-and-white film Night Train
[qattar al-leil] starring Samia Gamal based on a story by Stephan
Rosti with screenplay by Zaki Saleh, Stephan Rostam and Ezzel Dine
Zulficar with cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: The father
of Samia [Samia Gamal] was in a severe financial crisis and decided to
sell his house to get out of it. Samia's boyfried Adel [Imad Hamdi]
tried to prevent this by paying off her father's debt, but was unable
to do so before the house was sold, and to make matters more
complicated, Samia also told him she no longer wanted to be in a
relationship with him.
Cast and crew: Ezzel Dine Zulficar, Stephan Rosti, Wahid Farid, Zaki Saleh, Samia Gamal, Imad Hamdi, Seraj Munir, Suleiman Naguib, Fakher Fakher, Salah Nazmi, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Hussein Isa, Hussein Eisa, Zaki Ibrahim, Aida Kamal, Abdel Alim Khattab
This is an undated rerelease Egyptian poster made to promote the 1948
Anwar Wagdi 123-minute black-and-white film Amber [anbar]
starring Laila Mourad as Amber based on a story by Mohamed Kamel
Hassan with screenplay and dialogue by Anwar Wagdi and cinematography
by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Reshwan Basha [Abdel Waress Assar]
is on a sickbed surrounded by family members. They are treating him
quite harshly and refusing to give him water. They have his only
daughter Amber [Laila Mourad] locked in the mansion bedroom. They are
doing these things to force the Basha to tell them where he has hidden
his wealth, which they desire. Anwar [Anwar Wagdi], owner of the Gold
Star Casino, arrives with his attorney Hassan [Hassan Fayek]. While
they are waiting to see the Basha, Anwar suddenly hears a sweet
melodious voice coming from the bedroom. He looks through a panel in
the door and sees Amber singing. After a short conversation with her,
he finds himself surrounded by the members of the gang that wants
Reshwan Basha's wealth. He tells them that he and his attorney Hassan
have come to buy the clothing of Reshwan Basha's late wife. The gang
agrees to sell him the clothing. These garments include a dress Amber
once wore. After Anwar and Hassan leave the gang members take Amber
and her sick old nanny to the bedside of Reshwan Basha, who is about
to die. They leave Amber with her father according to his wishes.
The Basha tells his secret to his daughter while the men in the gang
are eavesdropping outside. The Basha tells his daughter Amber he
married her mother against the wishes of his family, who fought him
throughout the years of the marriage; he was sure they were going to
fight his daughter after he died. This unhappy situation had led him
to sell all of his property and use the money to buy jewelry. He put
the jewels in a chest and hid it. He drew a map to its location and
sewed the map into the collar of a black silk evening dress, the same
dress Amber used to wear when she sang, and the same one Anwar has
purchased. Amber collapses in tears as the members of the gang rush
to the Gold Star Casino, which is a westernized nightclub where the
orchestra, led by Anwar as its trumpet player, plays jazz standards
such as Benny Goodman's I Found a New Baby. These melodies are
mixed with performances by Laila Mourad and others of show tunes
composed by Mohamed Abdel Wahab, some in the style of Western jazz,
others with Egyptian scales and rhythms. Anwar tries to persuade
Horia [Zeinat Sedki], a woman singer in his troupe, to wear the dress
he has purchased, but she vehemently refuses. During the argument the
hidden map comes out of the collar of the dress; Anwar gives it to
Hassan, not knowing its value. After he learns what it is, he and
Amber evade the gang, eventually make their way back to the mansion
and find the hidden chest of jewels. This discovery is followed by a
fight with the covetous gang, then a gala celebratory marriage between
Anwar and Amber.
Cast and crew: Laila Mourad, Anwar Wagdi, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Abdelhalim Nasr, Mohamed Kamel Hassan, Bechara Wakim, Hassan Fayek, Said Abu Bakr, Ismail Yasseen, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Elias Moadab, Stephan Rosti, Farid Shawqi, Reyad El Kasabgy, Zeinat Sedki, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Aziz Osman, Abdel Waress Assar
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly to
promote the 1957 Fatin Abdel Wahab 87-minute black-and-white
film Ismail Yassine in the Navy [اسماعيل يس في الاسطول]
starring Ismail Yasseen based on story, screenplay and dialogue by
Hassan Tewfik with cinematography by Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary:
Ismail [Ismail Yasseen] was a simple boy who fell in love with his
cousin Nadia [Zahrat El-Ola] in the Al-Anfushi neighborhood. He asked
her to marry him, but the aunt [Zeinat Sedki] opposed the marriage
because she had promised the girl in marriage to an older teacher,
Abbas Afash [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. The girl asked Ismail to join the
Navy because she had friends there. Ismail did this and formed good
friendships with two them [Abdel Moneim Ismail and Ahmed Ramzy] while
maintaining regular correspondence with Nadia. His comrades in the
Navy were sad when they heard Nadia had became engaged to Abbas
Afash, and they gave Ismail some money so he could go marry her
himself. Then they all descended on the Al-Anfushi neighborhood and
began fighting with the Afash's friends. This spoiled the wedding and
Ismail married his sweetheart after the military police arrested the
troublemakers.
Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Fatin Abdel Wahab, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Zahrat El-Ola, Ahmed Ramzy, Zeinat Sedki, Hassan Tewfik, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Abdel Waress Assar, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Reyad El Kasabgy, Malek Al-Gamal, Leila Karim, Zeinat Alawy
Shown here is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease poster designed by an
unknown artist for the 1956 139-minute Hassan El-Seify black-and-white
film Samara starring Taheya Cariocca based on story and
screenplay by Mahmoud Ismail with dialogue by Abdel Moneim El-Sebai
and cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: This is an Egyptian
noir style crime thriller, featuring a classy 1952 Packard
Mayfair convertible as an Egyptian gang's vehicle of choice for its
various criminal errands. Soltan [Mahmoud Ismail] was a big-time
smuggler who loved Samara [Taheya Cariocca]. He married her and drew
her into his criminal affairs; she became influential in the affairs
of his gang. When the police sent an escaped convict named Abu Shefa
[Mohsen Sarhan] into their midst as an informer, Samara fell in love
with him. After Samara flirted with him playfully at a nightclub,
Soltan's boss Wagih [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] also fell in love with
Samara, although she did not feel the same way about him. Wagih,
Samara and Soltan went to Suez together to receive a shipment of
smuggled hashish. The police followed them there and monitored their
activities. When the police were closing in later for a final arrest
in Cairo they shot Samara while she was in Abu Shefa's arms.
Cast and crew: Hassan El-Seify, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Seraj Munir, El Sayed Bedeir, Stephan Rosti, Taheya Cariocca, Mohsen Sarhan, Mahmoud Ismail, Mahmoud Nasr, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Reyad El Kasabgy, Mohammed Tawfik, Mohammed Dib, Shafik Noureddin, Gamalat Zayed, Fouad Gafaar, Hussein Ismail, Awatef Youssef, Mohsen Hassanein, Abdel Moneim El-Sebai
Shown here is a 39" x 54" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour to promote the 1953 Salah Abouseif 98-minute black-and-white
film Raya and Sekina starring Anwar Wagdi based on a screenplay
by Naguib Mahfouz and Salah Abouseif after an account by journalist
Lotfi Osman of actual events in 1920, with dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir
and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: This film is a
dramatization of the investigation and arrest of Raya and Sekina, two
serial killers in Alexandria Egypt who were the leaders of a gang
responsible for the abduction and murder of 26 women. Anwar Wagdi has
the role of the investigating officer Ahmed, who operates as an
undercover agent, works his way into the midst of the criminal gang
and eventually brings them to justice.
Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Negma Ibrahim, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Farid Shawqi, Shukry Sarhan, Samira Ahmed, Berlanty Abdel Hamid, Reyad El Kasabgy, Shafik Galal, Said Khalil, Seraj Munir, Wahid Farid, Naguib Mahfouz, Salah Abouseif, El Sayed Bedeir, Lotfi Osman, Malek Al-Gamal, Abdel Alim Khattab, Soleyman Al-Guindy, Shafik Noureddin, Kamel Anwar, Mohammed Alwan, Loutfi El Hakim
Ismail Yasseen Meets Raya and Sekina [ismail yasseen yuqabel raya wa sekina] (1955) - (Ismail Yasseen) Egyptian photo poster
This is a 13.5" x 19.5" Egyptian poster made by an unknown designer to
promote the 123-minute 1955 Hamada Abdel Wahab black-and-white
film Ismail Yasseen Meets Raya and Sekina [ismail yasseen
yuqabel raya wa sekina] starring Ismail Yasseen based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary with cinematography by
Robert Tamba. Plot summary: Ismail Yasseen was with his fiance when
she crashed an automobile into a house occupied by the gang of Ria and
Sekina. This gang had been kidnapping girls, killing them, stealing
their jewelry and burying their bodies under their house. Ismail
Yasseen was afraid they would do this to him, so he decided to flee
the place with his fiance. After running away Ismail Yasseen decided
to tell the police where the gang was located, but they did not
believe him and put him in jail. There he met a thief who did believe
him and later helped him get into the home of Ria and Sekina. After
attempts and chases Ismail Yasseen tried to attract the attention of
the police to what had happened at the home of Ria and Sekina, so they
could find and arrest the gang. Ismail Yasseen, his fiance and the
repentant thief left the home of Ria and Sekina after they had been
rescued from being murder victims.
Cast and crew: Hamada Abdel Wahab, Ismail Yasseen, Reyad El Kasabgy, Zouzu Hamdy el-Hakim, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Negma Ibrahim, Souraya Helmy, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Souraya Fakhry, Said Khalil, Neemat Moukhtar, Nazim Shaarawy, Abdel Rahim al-Qalaawy, Ahmad al-Gaziri, Abdel Hafiz al-Tatawy, Mohamed Shawqi, Kamel Anwar, Ibrahim Mohamed
Scheherezade [shahrzad] (1946) - (Hussein Sedki) Egyptian film poster
This is a first printing of a 21.5" x 32" Egyptian poster designed by Dimitri and Abdel Rahman to promote the 1946 Fouad El Jazairly film Scheherezade.
Scheherezade [shahrzad] (1946) - (Hussein Sedki) Egyptian film poster
These are first printing Egyptian posters by an
unknown designer printed by Raghaeb printers to promote the 1946 Fouad
El Jazairly 100-minute black-and-white film Scheherezade
[shahrzad] starring Hussein Sedki based on a screenplay by Fouad El
Jazairly with cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Aziz. The film was
produced by Modern Egypt Films and distributed by Montakhebat Behna.
Plot Summary: The young sultan Shahriar announced his desire to marry,
then chose a bride who betrayed him. This transformed his attitude
towards women. He declared women were only good for enjoyment and did
not deserve wealth. He then declared he would marry a virgin every
night, then kill her at dawn after he had enjoyed her. After his
swordsman had killed many of them he chose a minister's daughter named
Scheherezade who had decided to save other girls from this oppressive
sultan. She told him a story that did not end by dawn so he did not
kill her, hoping the story would end the next night. However when she
finished the story the next night he let her start another. This
continued for 1001 nights. She was able to conquer Shahriar's heart
and save herself as well as all the other women in the kingdom. This
made her an immortal legend.
Cast and crew: Fouad El Jazairly, Hussein Sedki, Elham Hussein, Samia Gamal, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Monsi Fahmy, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Mohammed Youssef, Mohammad al-Dib, Lutfy al-Hakim, Reyad El Kasabgy, Soad Ahmed, Istar Shatta, Nelly Mazlum, Yahya Negati, Saleheh Qasin, Amina Sedki, Safia Helmy
