Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made to promote the 1959
104-minute El Sayed Bedeir black-and-white film She Lived for
Love ['ashat lil-hob] starring Zubaida Tharwat based on the
novel The Ivy Vine [shagaret al-lablab] by Mohamed Abdel Halim
Abdullah with dialogue by Salah Gowdet and cinematography by
Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Hosny [Kamal Al-Shennawi] was troubled
while he was growing up by his observations of marital infidelity among
his relatives. When he grew up and went to medical school he lived in
an apartment above the one inhabited by a woman named Zainab [Zubaida
Tharwat], fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. Then when
she showed an interest in other men he decided not to marry her after
all, thinking she was like the other women he had known in his youth.
Following advice from Zainab's sister Rashida [Laila Taher] and his
friend Khairat [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] he eventually changed his mind
and decided to marry her after all.
Cast and crew: El Sayed Bedeir, Zubaida Tharwat, Kamal Al-Shennawi,
Laila Taher, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Abdelhalim Nasr, Hermine, Mohamed
Abdel Halim Abdullah, Saleh Gowdet, Mary Ezzedine, Salwa Mahmoud,
Aziza Helmy, Abdallah Gheith, Wedad Hamdy, Kamal Hussein, Mohamed
Shawqi, Hussein Assar, Abdel Aziz Hamdy
Pictured is a 27" x 39" promotional poster designed by Mohammad Abdel
Aziz and Ahmed Fouad for the 1962 100-minute Ahmed Diaeddin
black-and-white film Faithful Forever AKA wafa lil-abad
starring Imad Hamdi as Hamdy Hamed and Madiha Yousri as Wafa Kheir
with story and dialogue by Mahmoud Sobhi and cinematography by Victor
Antoun. Plot summary: Nabil Kheir [Ahmad Khamees] was a young
engineer living happily in Alexandria with his daughter Mona [Alawiya
Mostafa] and his wife Wafa. He was a partner in the same office with
his friend Safwat Fahmy [Omar El-Hariri]. One day Nabil saw a young
man trying to kill himself by jumping off a bridge and was able to
save him, but he drowned in so doing and left a bereaved family. The
man Hamdy Hamed Nabil had saved was stricken with remorse and wanted
to atone for his guilt at any price. He tried to get close to the
widow by renting a room in her house without telling her he had been
the cause of her husband's death. She rented him a room because she
needed the money. Hamdy began to have deep feelings for Wafa and
became close to the daughter. Hamdy acquired some money, paid it to
the widow and told her it came from a philanthropist. The widow
accused him of stealing the money from her husband. He tried to
confess to her the truth but Wafa left the country. When she returned
she found Hamdy waiting for her asking her to forgive his mistake.
She forgave him and they married.
Cast and crew: Omar El-Hariri, Ahmad Khamees, Alawyia Mostafa, Imad
Hamdi, Madiha Yousri, Ahmed Diaeddin, Mahmoud Sobhi, Victor Antoun,
Zeinab Sedky, Soheir El-Bably, Salwa Mahmoud, Mohammed Abaza, Mohamed
Reda, Mahmoud Reda, Hussein Ismail, Alawiya Qadri, Noura
Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made to promote the 1959
104-minute El Sayed Bedeir black-and-white film She Lived for
Love ['ashat lil-hob] starring Zubaida Tharwat based on the
novel The Ivy Vine [shagaret al-lablab] by Mohamed Abdel Halim
Abdullah with dialogue by Salah Gowdet and cinematography by
Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Hosny [Kamal Al-Shennawi] was troubled
while he was growing by his observations of marital infidelity among
his relatives. When he grew up and went to medical school he lived in
an apartment above the apartment inhabited by a woman named Zainab
[Zubaida Tharwat], fell in love with her and asked her to marry him.
Then when she showed an interest in other men he decided not to marry
her after all, thinking she was like the other women he had known in
his youth. Under the influence of advice from Zainab's sister Rashida
[Laila Taher] and his friend Khairat [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] he
eventually changed his mind and decided to marry her after all.
Cast and crew: El Sayed Bedeir, Zubaida Tharwat, Kamal Al-Shennawi,
Laila Taher, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Abdelhalim Nasr, Hermine, Mohamed
Abdel Halim Abdullah, Saleh Gowdet, Mary Ezzedine, Salwa Mahmoud,
Aziza Helmy, Abdallah Gheith, Wedad Hamdy, Kamal Hussein, Mohamed
Shawqi, Hussein Assar, Abdel Aziz Hamdy
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian one-sheet poster
designed by Magdi William for the 1961 Niazi Mostafa film Blood on
the Nile [dema ala al-nil] based on a story by Ahmed Shoukry,
screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hay Adib and starring Farid Shawqi as
Baghram Awad. Plot summary: Ghalia [Hend Rostom] fell in love with
Baghram Awad after she learned he had taken revenge against the
brother of her husband, who had tried to kill her and her son. She
moved far from her village and began a new life with Awad.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Abdel Hay Adib, Ahmed Shoukry, Farid
Shawqi, Hend Rostom, Amina Rizk, Fakher Fakher, Mahmoud Faraq, Hassan
Youssef, Klelio, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Khaled Al-Agabani, Salwa
Mahmoud, Hassan el Baroudi, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Hassan Atala
Pictured is a 32" x 44.75" Egyptian poster designed by Marcel to
promote the 1958 Abbas Kamel 126-minute black-and-white film A Gift
from Heaven [rahma min al-sama'] starring Hind Rostom based on
screenplay and dialogue by Abbas Kamel with cinematography by Alvisy
Orphanily. Plot summary: Nabila, the wife of a wealthy man named Megdi
[Imad Hamdi (1909-1984)], died, leaving him alone with his young
daughter. While he was shopping one day he met a woman named Nawal
[Hind Rostom (1931-2011)] who looked and acted like his late
wife. Nawal was a nightclub dancer. His daughter and Nawal became
like mother and daughter, and Magdi's relationship with Nawal helped
him forget his sorrow because of the loss of his wife. As the story
develops Megdi's friend Dr. Monir [Mahmoud El-Meliguy (1910-1933)]
also forms a close relationship with Nawal, who is in fact the
film's "gift from heaven."
Cast and crew: Abbas Kamel, Alvisy Orphanily, Hind Rostom, Imad Hamdi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Ferdoos Mohammad, Nelly, Mohammad al-Tabei, Hussein Ismail, Mohammad Soleyman, Salwa Mahmoud, Ahmed Abouzeid
Pictured is a 35" x 41" three-piece Egyptian poster designed by Abdel
Aziz to promote the 1962 124-minute Kamal El Sheikh black-and-white
film Chased by the Dogs [al-liss wal-kelab] starring Shadia and
Shukry Sarhan based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay by
Sabry Ezzat, dialogue by Ali El Zorkani and cinematography by Kamal
Korayem. Plot summary: Said Mahran [Shukry Sarhan] worked as a house
servant in a student's home. Because of his mother's illness he had
to steal a watch from a student. Raouf Alwan [Kamal al-Shennawi] got
involved, tried to save him and took him as a protege in crime.
Said became a big thief. His assistant Alish [Zein El-Ashmawy] informed
on him so he would be free to marry his wife Nabawiya [Salwa Mahmoud]. When Said
Mahran got out of prison his goal was to take revenge against Alish
and Nabawiya, but he killed some innocent people instead by blindly
shooting at window silhouettes, because Alish and Nabawiya had fled
their home. Said ran away and became a fugitive. Raouf, who had
become a famous journalist, denounced Said in newspaper articles,
turning public opinion against him. Said confessed what he had done
to his former lover Nour [Shadia] and lived in her house. He also
sought solace with a Sufi sheikh but found no relief. Although Nour
tried help him, the police found his hiding place and killed him on
the Mokattam Mountain during a chase.
According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of the top
100 Egyptian films. The title is literally translated as The Thief
and the Dogs.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Shadia, Shukry Sarhan, Kamal El Sheikh, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Fakher Fakher, Samir Sabri, Salah Mansour, Kamal Korayem, Ali El Zorkani, Sabry Ezzat, Salwa Mahmoud, Salah Jahine, Adly Kasseb, Zein El-Ashmawy, Nazim Shaarawy
Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made to promote the 1959
104-minute El Sayed Bedeir black-and-white film She Lived for
Love ['ashat lil-hob] starring Zubaida Tharwat based on the
novel The Ivy Vine [shagaret al-lablab] by Mohamed Abdel Halim
Abdullah with dialogue by Salah Gowdet and cinematography by
Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Hosny [Kamal Al-Shennawi] was troubled
while he was growing by his observations of marital infidelity by his
relatives. When he grew up and went to medical school he lived in an
apartment above the apartment inhabited by a woman Zainab [Zubaida
Tharwat], fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. Then when
she showed an interest in other men he decided not to marry her after
all, thinking she was like the other women he had known in his youth.
Under that influence of advice from Zainab's sister Rashida [Laila
Taher] and his friend Khairat [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] he eventually
changed his mind and decided to marry her after all.
Cast and crew: El Sayed Bedeir, Zubaida Tharwat, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Laila Taher, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Abdelhalim Nasr, Hermine, Mohamed Abdel Halim Abdullah, Saleh Gowdet, Mary Ezzedine, Salwa Mahmoud, Aziza Helmy, Abdallah Gheith, Wedad Hamdy, Kamal Hussein, Mohamed Shawqi, Hussein Assar, Abdel Aziz Hamdy
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by an
unknown artist to promote the 1962 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 119-minute
black-and-white film The Remains of a Virgin [baqaya azraa]
starring Mariam Fakhr Eddine based on a story by Ismail al-Habruk with
screenplay and dialogue by Youssef El Sebai and cinematography by
Mostafa Hassan. Plot summary: Nabila [Mariam Fakhr Eddine] went to
Cairo to teach and on her first job she quarreled with Hoda Abdel
Fattah [Magda El-Khatib], the daughter of a former minster and head
of one of the nationalist political parties. Hoda had lost her mother
when she was a child and this had made her stubborn and spoiled. Her
father [Zaki Rostom] sent for Nabila to tell her this and a strong
relationship developed between them which resulted in their marriage,
even though she had been in love with the journalist Mahmoud Kamal
[Shukry Sarhan] since they were children. However Mahmoud had not
wanted to marry her because he was afraid a marriage with a village
girl would hurt his career; he was in Algeria covering the
revolution when Nabila married Abdel Fattah. He returned to Cairo
with the intention of marrying her, only to find that he had missed
his opportunity. Nabila was also still in love with Mahmoud and they
remained friends. Mahmoud was later falsely accused of a political
murder and sentenced to death, but Nabila testified at the trial that
he had been with her, so he was acquitted. However they were never
able to marry.
This is an original Egyptian stone litho poster designed by Marcel to
promote the 1964 Hassan Al Imam 125-minute color film A Thousand and
One Nights [الف ليلة وليلة] starring Shadia as Shahira with screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed
Moustapha Sami and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary:
Hassan [Farid Shawqi] the beggar and his son Shahtut frequented fairs, where Hassan
did tricks. They were often away from home. His wife Shahira worked
in his absence and entertained her paramour, a genie. However Shahtut
discovered the genie's presence once when he come home unexpectedly.
He warned his mother he would say somthing to his father. The lover
seized him and threatened him, and the boy died in his hands. Shahira
fled with the paramour to the desert and he began attacking caravans.
He was able to get away from the caliph's men. Shahira had a baby but
lost the way with him in the desert. She left him alone in the desert
with half an amulet, the other half of which was with the paramour.
The caliph's soldiers took him and named him Kazem. Meanwhile Hassan
married Ka'ba al-Ghazal and had a baby named Hayat. The soldiers
declared a curfew and were beating the people to drive them into their
homes. Hayat was knocked to the ground, but she was saved by Fotouh.
She thought he was a beggar but discovered he was a gardener in the
sultan's palace and fell in love with him. However, Nourhan, a lady
from the palace, was eavesdropping on the conversations between Fotouh
and Hayat. Kazem grew up and because of his intrigues he bacame a
minister who took lovers, among them Zubayda and Nourhan, who brought
him news from the palace. The caliph made a plan for his son
Noureddin to masquerade as one of the people and present himself to
Hayat as the gardener named Fotouh if he was not in agreement with the
behavior of his minister Kazem. A caravan came into Baghdad owned by
Sheikh Gawal. Hassan the beggar knew him as the old genie enemy who
had killed his son, and decided to take revenge against him. The
paramour accused him of theft and asked the sultan to cut off his
hand, but the caliph died and his son Noureddin took the throne. Hayat
was surprised when she learned the new caliph was the palace gardener.
The new caliph revoked all the orders Kazem had issued. Zubayda
offered to kill the caliph by means of Hassan. Kazem released Hassan
and asked him for the hand of his daughter Hayat and to kill the
caliph during the dance that would take place at the celebration.
However Nourhan intervened at the last minute and intercepted the
knife thrust Hassan had directed at the caliph. When Hassan was
caught he said it was the genie who had incited him to commit this
crime; he had taken advantage of the fact that he was in the same
prison, killed him and fled. Kazem fell in love with Hayat. This
angered Zubayda, who decided to take revenge. She allowed Hassan into
the palace, who dicovered that Kazem was carrying the other part of
the amulet, learned he was the son of the genie and attacked him.
However Kazem did not die and he ordered that Hassan and his son be
burned in the public square. The caliph returned from his journey at
that time, revoked Kazem's order and asked Hayat to marry him.
Cast and crew: Shadia, Farid Shawqi, Leila Fawzi, Hassan Al Imam, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Youssef Chaban, Fakher Fakher, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Nahed Sabri, Mohammad Awad, Aleyah Abdel Monem, Gawaher, Salwa Mahmoud, Zein El-Ashmawy, Mohammad Sabih
