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
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1991 Samir Seif
film Certified Dangerous based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Wahid Hamed and starring Adel Imam as Sayed Kabaka. Plot
summary: In prison Sayed Kabaka met two other prisoners who were later
to become close friends. The three friends formed an alliance to
avenge a broken promise after their release from prison.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Wahid Hamed, Salah Kabil, Samir Seif,
Said Abdel Ghani, Mostafa Metwalli, Hatem Zolfikar
This is a poster designed by Ragheb for a 1964 Hassan Al Imam film
based on the 1956 Naguib Mahfouz novel Between two Palaces
[bayn al-qasrayn] which was published as the first of the three novels
in his famous Cairo Trilogy. Plot Summary: In 1914 Fahmy
[Salah Kabil] joined a secret national society where Ibrahim [Ezzat El
Alaili] welcomed him. His brother Yassine [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] was
in love with one of the dancers and the entire family trembled at
meeting his father Sayed Abdel Gawad, [Yehia Chahine] especially his
wife whom he had married 20 years earlier divorcing the mother of his
oldest son Yassine. Outside the home Yassine was corrupt and weak.
He owned a grocery store and had begun looking for a new lover to
replace the dancer Galia [Mimi Shakeeb] who had gotten old. He liked
Zubaida [Maha Sabry] and gave her everything she wanted. He would go
to her secretly and there Yassine discovered the truth about his
father. Sayed Abdel Gawad was a respected man in his own home. He
would eat alone while his wife and children would wait until he
finished before eating. His wife Amina, [Zouzou Nabil] his daughters
Aisha [Hala Fakher] and Khadija [Soheir El-Bably] and his sons Kamel,
Yassine and Fahmy stood in awe of their father. Yassine was a
secretary at the Benin school and Famy was a student at the Law
College. He wrote political publications, distributed them among
colleagues and hid them in the poultry coops on the roof of his home.
At the same time this was an opportunity to see his neighbor Mariam
[Zizi El-Badrawy]. He loved her but preferred to postpone the
relationship with her until after he completed his studies and the
British left Egypt. Kamal was a student in secondary school and
participated in many demonstrations. When Sayed Abdel Gawad learned
his former wife and Yassine's mother wanted to marry again he sent her
son to her to try to persuade her not to do so but he discovered she
had already married, quarreled with her and left. Yassine wanted a
few days with Zubaida the dancer. He told his family he was going to
Port Said and asked them not to leave the house. However Kamal
persuaded his mother to visit the shrine of Sayedna al-Hussein, but
she was injured on the way and despite the advice of her children not
to tell their father she told him the truth. He banished her and then
made peace with her again. Latifa [Souraya Fakhry] engaged her two
daughters to her sons. Yassine married Zeinab and Fahmy was killed
when the British soldiers shot at the demonstrators.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Yehia Chahine, Maha Sabry, Hassan Al
Imam, Mustafa Hassan, Salah Kabil, Zizi El-Badrawy, Wagdy El-Araby,
Nimat Mukhtar, Hala Fakher, Ezzat El Alaili, Soheir El-Barouni,
Mohamed Reda, Mimi Shakeeb, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim,
Zouzou Nabil, Amal Zayed, Soheir El-Bably, Badr El Den Gamgome, Abbas
El Daly, Adib El Tarabolsy, Mounir El Touni, Ibrahim El-Shamy, Metwaee
Elweiss, Ibrahim Heshmat
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Walid Wahig for the
1970 Hassan Al Imam film Dalal, the Egyptian based on a Naguib
Mahfouz adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1899 novel al-ba'th
(Resurrection) [voskrecenye/Воскресение]. This was Tolstoy's last
novel. It was produced in several other film adapations, most notably
the 1934 production by Samuel Goldwyn of Rouben Mamoulian's We Live
Again starring Fredric March and Anna Stein. Plot Summary: The
orphan girl Atiyat [Magda El-Khatib] grew up in an old mansion with
the sons of the current owner (Fouad Bey's aunt) until the owner threw
her out after discovering she had lost her virginity, not knowing that
Fouad Bey himself [Hussein Fahmy] had been responsible. Atiyat tried
to do the honorable thing. She took a job at a dye factory where she
met Mohammad, [Salah Kabil] who loved her and wanted to marry her.
Things did not go well for her there however; she quit working at the
factory and went to work as a dancer for Fatma Al-Falali [Hoda
Soltan]. Years later while she was working there she was accused of
murder. Fouad Ahmad was a judge on the court that sentenced her to 15
years in prison, but something moved inside Fouad Bey causing him to
suffer pangs of remorse. He resigned so he could mount a defense for
Atiyat; after much effort collecting judicial papers he was able to
get her exonerated. He thought he could now make amends for the past
and marry her, but she turned him down and married Mohammad back at
the dye factory.
Cast and crew: Magda El-Khatib, Salah Kabil, Hussein Fahmy, Madiha
Kamel, Hassan Al Imam, Soheir El-Barouni, Souraya Helmy, Leila Fawzi,
Hoda Soltan, Abdelhalim Nasr, Naguib Mahfouz, Leo Tolstoy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Walid Wahig for the
1975 Ismail al-Qadi film Divorcees based on story, screenplay
and dialogue by Kamel al-Hefnawi and starring Shams El-Barudy as
Samia. Plot summary: Samia loved her husband Wahid, but there were
many indications he was having relations with other women. Samia asked
for a separation and formed a new relationship with Adel, [Shukry
Sarhan] the manager at the company where she worked. Adel knew Samia
well and tried to get her father [Imad Hamdi] to let him marry her
after her divorce. Samia's mother Zeinab [Mimi Shakeeb] objected
strenuously; Samia became confused about her relationship with Adel,
but Adel pressed the case until Samia's mother agreed to the marriage.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly for the
1964 Hassan Reda film The River of Life based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Sobhi and starring Salah Kabil as
Ahmed. Plot summary: Poverty caused an ailing father [Abu Bakr Ezzat]
to force his daughter Amina [Mona Morad] to marry her stingy old rich
uncle Abbas, [Abdel Ghani Kamar] which made her life hell. Then
she had a new encounter with her first love Ahmed and demanded a
divorce.
Cast and crew: Salah Kabil, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Mona Morad, Hassan
Reda, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Mostafa Hassan, Amal Ramzy, Leila Fahmi,
Samir Sabri, Alim Abdel Monem, Soheir Zaky
The poster pictured is a 27" x 39" stone lithograph showing the title
of the film as the name of the protagonist Hamida (played by Shadia).
The film is based on the 1947 novel zoqaq al-midaq by Naguib
Mahfouz. Plot Summary: People of various nationalities and trades
lived in Midaq Alley. This story is about Hamida and Hassan when he
was treating her like a sister, but had no influence with her. Hamida
was trying to leave poor Midaq and rise to a better life . Hamida was
able to leave Midaq and work at the English prison in Abbasia where
she met some of the English soldiers and supplied them with narcotics
obtained in Midaq. Her mother could not control her. Abbas the
barber was able to attract Hamida's attention for he loved her and
wanted to marry her. She neither accepted nor refused but she was
hoping for better. Abbas decided to go to the prison to get money. He
went with Uncle Kamel the pastry seller to ask for Hamida's hand. She
agreed to marry him after he returned. However Sayed Atwan the big
merchant in Midaq wanted to marry Hamida too, even though he was
already married. Hamida's mother refused to allow this even though
Hamida was agreeable. However Sayed Atwan took a fall on the street
and died of a heart attack a few days later. Ibrahim Farahat, who was
running for Parliament, appeared in the neighborhood with Farag.
Farag had succeeded in getting Hamida to go with him to the cinema.
He then took her to his sumptious apartment where he tried to kiss
her, but she ran away. The next day Hamida went to Farag without
returning to Midaq, Farad turned his apartment into a dance school and
nicknamed Hamida Titi. Abbas returned from vacation and did not find
Hamida. Hussein quarreled with his father the old teacher who owned a
coffee shop in Midaq and was planning to leave the neighborhood. The
end of the war was announced, which embittered Farag. A drunken
English soldier shot at Titi. She grabbed the gun, shot at Farag and
he died. Abbas happened to be at the bar and he carried Hamida when
she died at Midaq.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chaban, Naguib Mahfouz, Hassan Al Imam, Salah Kabil, Hassan Youssef, Abdel Waress Assar, Aly Hassan, Adly Kasseb, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Hassan el Baroudi, Aqila Ratib, Tewfik El Dekn, Souraya Helmy, Mohamed Reda, Choukoukou, Shadia, Samia Gamal, Hussein Riad
Pictured is an undated Egyptian rerelease poster designed by Wahib
Fahmy and Mohammad Abdel Aziz to promote the 1970 Hussein Kamal
109-minute black-and-white film We Don't Plant Thorns [nehnu la
nezra al-shuk] starring Shadia and Mahmoud Yassine based on story and
dialogue by Yousssef El Sebai with screenplay by Ahmed Saleh and
cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Sayeda [Shadia]
suffered from torment and cruelty after her mother died as a result of
the way she was treated by her father's wife. She took a job as a
maid for the family of Abbas [Salah Kabil], who was interested in her
and pursued her. She fled his home and took a job with the family of
Hamdi al-Samaduni [Mahmoud Yassine]. This family treated her with
love and kindness. Sayeda fell in love with Hamdi, but she soon
learned he was planning to marry another girl. She therefore decided
to marry Alam Marghama [Adly Kasseb], a thug and a seller of soft
drinks, but later got into conflict with him. She bore his child, but
ran away from him because of his violence. In this midst of this
suffering she came under the influence of a pimp who got her into a
brothel. There she saw Abbas, who had come to a whorehouse for the
first time in his life. They reconciled and married, and she bore his
son. Then Hamdi arrived and declared his love for her, there were
more conflicts with Abbas and she was forced by court order to move
into a marital obedience dwelling with him. When their child died she
demanded and received a divorce from Abbas. After a short time Sayeda
herself became ill and died with Hamdi at her bedside.
Cast and crew: Hussein Kamal, Salah Kabil, Shadia, Mahmoud Yassine, Abdelhalim Nasr, Karima Mokhtar, Adly Kasseb, Ahmed Al-Gezeiry, Naima Al Soghayar, Ahmed Saleh, Youssef El Sebai, Wafik Fahmy, Rawhiyya Khaled, Ahmed Al Jaziri, Mahmoud Al Iraqi, Mohamed Othman, Hamdy Youssef, Samiha Tawfik, Fatheyya Ali, Mohamed Abu Hashish, Thorayya Ezzeddine, Etedal Shaheen, Soher Tawfik, Mimi Gamal, Samir Tewfik, Amira, Kawsar al-Assal
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
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist
to promote the 1966 103-minute Atef Salem color film Revolution in
Yemen [thawret al-yaman] starring Hassan Youssef and Magda based
on a story by Saleh Morsy, screenplay and dialogue by Aly Esa and Aly
Al-Zarkani and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: When
Mansour [Hassan Youssef] returns to his native Yemen after 12 years
absence completing his studies in Cairo he sees public evidence of
official brutality such as public beheadings and severed heads hanging
from bridges, and he learns that the imam [Salah Mansour] is a tyrant
who does not trust anyone who has studied abroad. He falls in love
with Amna [Magda] a Yemeni girl and evades the imam's efforts to kill
him. He joins a secret army organization plotting to overthrow the
government which includes his Cairo friend Haris [Salah Kabil] and the
plot succeeds.
Cast and crew: Atef Salem, Imad Hamdi, Magda, Hassan Youssef, Salah Mansour, Salah Kabil, Abdelhalim Nasr, Saleh Morsy, Aly Esa, Aly Al-Zarkani, Hassan el Baroudi, Omar Zolficar, Rashuan Tewfik, Abdel Azim Abdel Haq, Mohammed Hamdi, Ibrahim Al-Shami, Fayez Hegab, Ali Rushdy, Mohsen Hassanein, Mohamed Sabih, Ali Al-Dali
We have here a 27" x 29" Egyptian poster designed by Al-Khad to
promote the 1986 Hossam El-Din Mostafa 118-minute color film The
Racketeers [al-harafish] starring Mahmoud Yassine based on a story
by Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay and dialogue by Ahmed Saleh and
cinematography by Mamoun Ata. Plot Summary: In this film generations
of urban poor and their families come and go; this repetitive flow is
the story. Soleiman al-Nagy [Mahmoud Yassine] defeats Atris [Salah
Kabil] in a stick fight, establishes himself as the local tough guy
and distributes justly to the district racketeers the assets he has
collected from the rich. The rich people try to get rid of him.
Sania marries him after he divorces his first wife. She is able to
separate him from the racketeers and draw him into wealthy
circles. He opens a big agency. Khedr works with his father Soleiman
at the agency. He marries Bakr Redwana, [Laila Eloui] who loves him;
then he runs away from home after Bakr accuses him of disloyalty.
Soleiman's father becomes ill and moves to the home of his old wife
after she returns to his protection. When it becomes known that he
is bankrupt Atris becomes the neighborhood tough guy again. Khedr
returns and buys the agency at auction to bring dignity back to the
family after overcoming Atris. He discredits Bakr Redwana, who
acknowledges his brother's innocence before she dies.
Cast and crew: Mahmoud Yassine, Laila Eloui, Salah Kabil, Sawsan Badr, Naguib Mahfouz, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Safia El Emari, Mamdouh Abd El Aleem, Ibrahim Al Sharkawi, Mamoun Ata, Ahmed Saleh, Leila El Emari, Ezzat Abdul Jawad, Abdel Gawad Metwally, Nadia Shamseddine, Ahmed Abou Abih, Shirin Omar, Fifi Mady, Mohamed Abou Hashish
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
Pictured are two promotional posters for the
110-minute 1985 Ashraf Fahmy color film Divorced Woman [emra'a
motlaqa] starring Naglaa Fathy as Salwa based on a story by Hassan
Shah with screenplay and dialogue by Mostafa Moharram and
cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: Zeinab [Samira Ahmed] was
a nurse married to Fathy, [Mahmoud Yassine] an ambitious bank employee
who worked his way into a big bank center then married the secretary
Salwa. He threw Zeinab out of his apartment after divorcing her
because her social standing was not high enough. Zeinab went to a
judge and got an order allowing her to stay in the apartment with
Fathy and Salwa because she was pregnant. She tried to keep the baby
so she could remain alone in the apartment after the child was born,
but she finally gave up and left. Salwa sympathized with Zeinab
because of her financial situation. Zeinab finally gave in to the
teacher Fahim [Aly El Cherif] who wanted to marry her, even though she
was not happy about it and had refused him repeatedly, because
marrying him would provide her with a secure home.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Farid Shawqi, Salah Kabil, Khayria Ahmed, Samira Ahmed, Karima Mokhtar, Aly El Cherif, Farida Seif El Nasr, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Ashraf Fahmy, Nagah El-Mogui, Naima Al-Soghayar, Mohsen Nasr, Mostafa Moharram, Hassan Shah, Fouad Khalil
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
to promote the 1965 Mohamed Abdel Gawad 88-minute black-and-white
film The Unknown Man [al-ragol al-maghul] starring Mahmoud
El-Meliguy based on a story by Shaaban Mansour Amer with screenplay by
Kamel Abdel Salam and Mohamed Abdel Gawad, dialogue by Kamel Abdel
Salam and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Safia
[Zizi El-Badrawy] was an attractive country girl. Two of the young men
in the village had their hearts set on her. One was Reshwan the
mayor's son and the other was Hamed, [Salah Kabil] an ambitious poor
man. Hamed asked Safia's father if he could court her but the father
wanted an appropriate husband for his daughter. He agreed to allow his
daughter to associate with the son of the mayor and promise to marry
him, but Reshwan suddenly changed his mind and tried to get close to
Saadia, Hamed's sister. He attacked her but to save her the thief
Ahmed, [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] who happened to be in the house at that
very moment, intervened to save her and killed Reshwan in a fight. He
fled and Hamed was accused of the murder and sentenced to death in
court. Saadia learned the story from her brother. She looked for the
thief, wooed him to save her brother, then extracted a confession from
him. Ahmed was released and then married Safia.
Cast and Crew: Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Zizi El-Badrawy, Salah Kabil, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Ezzat El Alaili, Hussein Ismail, Nazim Shaarawy, Mousen Hassanein
