This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mahar Gasour
for the 1984 Ahmed Al-Sabawy film I killed al-Hanash based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hay Adib and starring Adel
Imam as Hassanein. Plot summary: Al-Hanash [Youssef Chaban] oppresses
both Hassanein and Barhouma [Sa'eed Saleh]. When Hassanein goes to
Greece to work he marries his girlfriend Aziza [Safia El Emari] after
she tells him she is pregnant with their child. Al-Hanash hires men
in Greece to fight Hassanein.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Al-Sabawy, Gasour, Ibrahim Saleh, Abdel Hay
Adib, Youssef Chaban, Adel Imam, Sa'eed Saleh, Safia El Emari, Maali
Zayed, Ahmed Rateb, Ezzat Abdul Jawad, Youssef Fawzi, Hussein
El-Sherbini, Nasr Seif, Shawqi Shamekh
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Aziz and Abdel
Fathy for the 1982 Mohamed Abdel Aziz film At the Minister's Door
based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Samir Abdel Azim
and starring Adel Imam as Kamal. Plot summary: Noora's [Youssra]
father [Salah Nazmi] refuses to allow her to marry Kamal because his family is too
poor. A neighbor woman named Anhar [Safia El Emari] marries Kamal's
father [Tewfik El Dekn] after her fiance Khamis [Sa'eed Saleh] abandons her.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Abdel Fathy, Mohamed Abdel Aziz,
Adel Imam, Youssra, Tewfik El Dekn, Salah Nazmi, Sa'eed Saleh, Safia
El Emari, Ahmed Rateb, Ahmed Bedir, Ahmed Shokry, Lucy, Mokhtar Al
Sayed, Ibrahim Qadry, Essam Farid, Samir Abdelazim"
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1985 Samir Seif
film The Indigent based on story, screenplay and dialogue by
Wahid Hamed and starring Adel Imam as Arafa. Plot summary: Arafa is a
poor uneducated village laborer with no social graces who marries
Warda, [Elham Shaheen] a widow with a bad reputation. The village is
controlled by ruthless gangsters who do whatever they wish with
impunity because of government indifference. Arafa, who has no other
options or prospects, is drawn into their operations.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Elham Shaheen, Sa'eed Saleh, Salah Kabil,
Samir Seif, Wahid Hamed, Ibrahim Al Sharkawi, Hamdi Al Wazir, Umran
Bahar, Hussein El Sherbiny, Wedad Hamdy, Nagwa al-Mawgi, Wafik Fahmy,
Na'im Esa, Zizi Fared, Mustafa Gamaleddin, Wahid Farid
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1978 Ashraf Fahmy
film Until the End of Life based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Youssef El Sebai and starring Nagwa Ibrahim as Mona. Plot
summary: Mona married Ahmed [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] who was later
paralyzed by injuries he suffered fighting in the Yom Kippur War. She
had a conflicting relationship with Mahmoud, [Omar Nagy] a member of
her sports club.
Cast and crew: Youssef El Sebai, Ashraf Fahmy, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz,
Omar Khorshid, Imad Hamdi, Hayat Kandeel, Sa'eed Saleh, Nagwa Ibrahim,
Omar Nagy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1980 Samir Seif
film The Suspect based on story, screenplay and dialogue by
Ibrahim al-Mawgi and starring Soad Hosny as Fatma/Batta. Plot
summary: Maher [Adel Imam] was a thief who met the whore Fatma/Batta
while he was robbing an apartment. They got married and decided to
repent their crimes.
Cast and crew: Samir Seif, Fouad Ahmed, Aly El Cherif, Naima Al
Soghayar, Soad Hosny, Adel Imam, Sa'eed Saleh, Farouk Al-Fichawi,
Ibrahim al-Mawgi
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 is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1984 Ashraf Fahmy
film The Maid based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay
and dialogue by Mostafa Moharram and starring Nadia El Guindy as
Ferdoos. Plot summary: Ferdoos killed her husband with her lover's
help, without any reservations because of his illness and old age.
She went to work with the widow Hekmat [Mediha Yousri] who owned the
company where her husband Ibrahim [Hafez Amin] used to work. Ferdoos
went to Hekmat's home and lived with her son the university student
Alaa, [Mamdouh Abd El Aleem] who depended on his mother and deferred
to her. Ferdoos made Alaa fall in love with her. He married her and
she became the dominant woman in the affairs of the family, especially
after his mother was stricken with paralysis in an accident. She
dispensed with the father quickly as well without notifying him when
he stole Hekmat Hamen's jewelry. Then she brought Fathy [Mustafa
Fahmy] the company director into her group. Alaa discovered her
betrayal, divorced her and banished her from the house. He regretted
what he had done with his mother. He comforted the father, who killed
Ferdoos.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Nadia El Guindy, Samir Farag, Naguib
Mahfouz, Mamdouh Abd El Aleem, Sa'eed Saleh, Mustafa Fahmy, Madiha
Yousri, Ahmed Ghanem, Naima Al Soghayar, Mostafa Moharram, Hassan
Hussein, Hafez Amin, Ahmed Ghanem, Hussein Ibrahim, Mohsen Sabry,
Sherif Hamdy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anise for
the 1984 Hassan Al Imam film God's World AKA The Honey of
Bitter Love based on story by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay and
dialogue by Essam Al-Gomblati and starring Nour El-Sherif as Ibrahim.
Plot summary: Ibrahim worked as a company employee. He met an
itinerant vendor named Yasmine [Maali Zayed] and liked her. He told
her he knew a delivery boy who looked just like the one who had the
job of delivering employee salaries. Yasmine's friend Hamuda [Saeed
Saleh] told her she should go with Ibrahim, whom he knew to be the
delivery agent planning to embezzle the salaries and make a getaway to
Alexandria. Ibrahim stole the salaries and went to the port with
Yasmine. In Alexandria Yasmine quarreled with him, broke a chair over
his head and ran away with the cash. She went to her friend Hamuda
and found he had married his old friend Aziza [Essad Youniss]. Hamuda
emphasized to Yasmine that the police were looking for her because she
had killed Ibrahim. He pretended he would try to hide her and told
her she had to leave the cash with him. Yasmine recognized the
deception and told the police about her crime, but then she discovered
Ibrahim had not died and they had all been arrested after a chase.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Ibrahim Saleh, Sa'eed Saleh, Maali
Zayed, Naguib Mahfouz, Essad Youniss, Sanaa Younes, Leila Gamal,
Shafik Galal, Ibrahim Saleh, Essam Al-Gomblati, Al-Montaser Billah,
Abdel Wahab Galil, Magda Hamada, Mahmoud Al Zohairy, Mohamed Abdel
Magid, Mohamed Al-Oraby, Mostafa Karim, Qadria Kamel, Samir Rostam,
Said Tarabeek, Souraya Ezzedine
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani for the
1990 Ismail Hassan film Tea Seller based on story, screenplay
and dialogue by Atef Rizq and starring Dina as Afaf. Plot summary:
Afaf worked in a coffee shop after retiring from dancing and she
married Morsi [Hussein El-Sherbini]. Mansour wanted her and falsely
accused Morsi of drug dealing. He succeeded in splitting up Morsi and
Afaf. Morsi divorced her and she went back to dancing. She got
involved bringing in drugs from abroad without realizing it and proved
Morsi's innocence. Afaf learned the truth about Mansour and he and his
assistants were arrested. Afaf went back to Morsi.
Cast and crew: Gamal El-Tabei, Hussein El-Sherbini, Sa'eed Saleh,
Saeed Saleh, Dina, Abdel Ghani, Ahmed Halawa, Naim Esa, Atef Rizq,
Mohammad Mandour, Matawe Awis, Ahmed Saleh, Ahmed Al-Azl, Abdel Moneim
Al-Nemr
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the 1982 Ahmed
Sarwat film Five in Hell based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Sami Ghoneim, cinematography by Said Chimi and starring
Sa'eed Saleh as Fahmy. Plot summary: Fahmy makes an agreement
with his friends Nasr [Younes Shalaby] and Kamal [Ahmed Adawiyya] to
steal a company's treasury to pay for the medical expenses of Fahmy's
son. After stealing the money they hide it before they are arrested.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Tharwat, Sa'eed Saleh, Sami Ghoneim, Younes
Shalaby, Ahmed Adawiyya, Wahid Seif, Aly El Cherif, Essad Youniss,
Aida Riad, Ahmed Abdel Waress, Zizi Mustafa, Said Chimi, Othman Abdul
Menem, Mohamed Abo Hashish, Salah Yehia, Nasr Hammad
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Mohammad
Abdel Aziz for the 1978 film Love Over a Volcano written and
directed by Hassan Al Imam and starring Naglaa Fathy as Ne'ma. Plot
summary: Hussein [Hussein Al Imam] stole all the money belonging to
his half brother Ahmed [Hussein Fahmy] so he could spend it on a dance
hall girl; then Ahmed married his blind neighbor Ne'ma.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Naglaa Fathy, Hussein Fahmy, Fardous
Abdel Hamid, Lebleba, Sa'eed Saleh, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Hassan Al
Imam, Mohamed Shawky, Shafik Galal, Ibrahim Saleh, Hussein Al Imam,
Mohamed El Dafrawy, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Badreia Abdel Gawad, Mokhtar
El Sayed, Mohammad Shawqi, Amir Kedwani, Abdel Wahab Khalil, El Sayed
Bedir
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" Lebanese poster designed by Dar Hani and Gasour
for the 1976 Hassan Al Imam film Amar al-Zaman starring Naglaa
Fathy as Amar al-Zaman. Plot summary: Amar al-Zaman was an innocent,
naive girl who left her home town of al-Mansoura to look for work in
Cairo. Someone tried to rape her when she arrived in Cairo but she was
rescued by an acquaintance named Soltan [Sa'eed Saleh] who worked as a
magician in a cabaret. He got her a job in the cabaret but she failed
as a waitress because she was clumsy. A carnival puppeteer and former
ballet dancer named Mohsen [Mustafa Fahmy] fell in love with her.
Mohsen was obliged to work in cabarets because of a war injury and
doubted Amar al-Zaman cared for him, but in fact she loved him too.
Cast and crew: Abu Bakr Ezzat, Hassan Al Imam, Mustafa Fahmy,
Sa'eed Saleh, Younes Shalaby, Hala Fakher, Naglaa Fathy, Hala Sedki,
Ramses Marzouk, Saleh Iskandarani, Mohamed Shawky, Mohammad Nagam,
Ibrahim Nasr, Eza Kamal, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Mona Abdulla
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour and Mohamed Abdel Aziz to promote the 1975 Hassan Ramzi
94-minute color film The White Gown [al-reda al-abiad] starring
Naglaa Fathy based on screenplay, dialogue and story by Hassan Ramzi
with cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: Omar [Youssef
Wahby] is a man with a good heart who lives in the mentality of the
past. He becomes angry when he learns his only son Kamal [Magdy
Wahba] has married a poor girl named Hoda [Naglaa Fathy] without
telling him about it. Before the marriage, Hoda had been caught
stealing a wallet from a man who was dating her named Ahmed [Ahmed
Mazhar] but then she marries Kamal and they live happily until he dies
in a traffic accident while under stress due to a demand from his
father that he divorce Hoda. Then Hoda is denied custody of her
daughter Sofa [Manal Afifi]. When Sofa gets older she becomes a
beautiful young woman and is later reunited with her mother on her
wedding day. On that same day Hoda is also forgiven in a renewed
contact with Ahmed, the man she had once robbed.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Ahmed Mazhar, Hassan Ramzi, Magdy Wahba, Youssef Wahby, Zahrat El-Ola, Hayat Kandeel, Ibrahim Saafan, Salah Nazmi, Sa'eed Saleh, Leila Fahmi, Huseein Kandil, Hoda Ramzi, Mahmoud Nasr, Fatheya Chahine, Hassan Afifi, Manal Afifi
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour and Sabry to promote the 1976 Muhammed Salman film Where Do
We Begin the Story [nebtedi meneen al-hekaya] starring Soheir
Ramzy with story, screenplay and dialogue by Muhammed Salman and
cinematography by Mahmoud Sabu. Plot summary: Hanan [Soheir Ramzy]
was a spoiled pretty girl, the only daughter of a wealthy merchant
[Omar El-Hariri]. She claimed she had been blinded to avoid marriage.
Her father was confused and the doctors were unable to cure her. The
father contacted a phychologist named Dr. Ali [Sa'eed Saleh], who
brought with him a friend named Hassan [Mostafa Fahmy], who was
claiming to be a special physician. They made an agreement that the
psychologist would be paid 5000 pounds for curing Hanan. They began
treating Her, and Hassan discovered she was not really blind. A
relationship began to form between them but Hanan had realized he was
not really a doctor and was afraid to marry Hassan, fearing she might
hate him. He discovered she had a deep complex because an old
incident she had witnessed between her parents when she was a child.
When the complex suddenly disappeared due to an unexpected shock at
the end of the film, the two were free to marry. The film includes a
singing performance along the Nile by Ahmed Awadiyya.
Cast and crew: Muhammed Salman, Omar El-Hariri, Mimi Gamal, Amira, Nagwa Fouad, Ahmed Adawiyya, Soheir Ramzy, Mostafa Fahmy, Sa'eed Saleh, Leila Gamal, Hassan Mostafa, Sameer Ghanem, George Sidhum, Mahmoud Sabu, Morsi Al-Khattab, Medhat Gamal, Mohammad Shawqi, Ahmed Rateb, Zizi Farid, Sayed Mohammad, Fatma Wagdi, Ezzet Sherif, Samira Wagdi, Fatma Mahmoud, Sayed Ibrahim, Nagwa Fouad
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 Abdel Aziz and
Abdel Fathy to promote the 1973 101-minute Helmy Rafla color film The
Sound of Love starring Warda al-Gezaeriyah based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Adly El-Mowaled and with cinematography by
Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: This is a simple romantic musical. It
begins with idylic scenes of the betrothed couple strolling in a
luxury hotel setting and takes an ominous tone when the bride-to-be
reads a note to her fiancee from his father, instructing him to stay
away from her. Dr. Mohsen [Hassan Youssef] loves his nurse Mona [Warda
al-Gezaeriya] and wants to marry her but his father Dr. Shakur [Imad
Hamdy] objects because he does not want his son to marry a nurse.
Mona goes to Dr. Shakur's palatial estate to work as his private nurse
and begins working with him as much as possible; he soon finds he is
unable to do without her and depends on her. This convinces him she
is a worthy wife for his son. While working for Dr. Shakur, Mona
channels Warda and sings a few heavily orchestrated songs while
strolling about the grounds, which also seems to impress the good
Dr. Shakur along with the other members of his impressionable
household.
Cast and crew: Hassan Youssef, Warda al-Gazaeriya, Helmy Rafla, Imad Hamdi, Mohammed El Arabi, Sa'eed Saleh, Hassan Mustafa, Ashraf Abdel Ghafour, Hayat Kandeel, Aziza Rashed, Hussein Assar, Ragaa Sadeq, Nawal Fahmy, Adly El-Mowaled
