This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohamed Abdel Aziz
and Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1975 Atef Salem film Youth These
Days based on a story by Mohammad al-Hadidi, screenplay and
dialogue by Abdel Hay Adib and starring Rushdy Abaza as Hosni. Plot
summary: As editor of an important journal, Hosni did not have enough
time to stay at home and look after his wife Eqbal [Mariam Fakhr
Eddine] and children. He wrote about youth affairs and was in a
relationship with his secretary Soheir [Safia El Emari] without
realizing she was secretly married to his son Khaled [Samir Sabri].
Khaled was killed in the October War, but before that he sent his
father a letter telling him about his marriage to Soheir.
Cast and crew: Atef Salem, Rushdy Abaza, Mohamed Awad, Mohamed
Reda, Samir Sabri, Safia El Emari, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Sameer Ghanem,
Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Leila Hamada, Khayria Ahmed, Saed Zayan, Amira,
Abdel Moneim Bahnassy, Mohammad al-Hadidi, Abdel Hay Adib
This is a 27.25" x 39.5" Lebanese poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour for the 1977 Ashraf Fahmy musical Look, See What Sugar Is
Doing! starring Hussein Fahmy based on story and screenplay by
Abdel Hay Adib. Plot summary: The little orphan girl Sugar [Sukkar]
lived with a gang led by Atris and Zakia, who taught children to beg
and pick pockets. Atris and Zakia learned that Sugar was the daughter
of a wealthy man and that her uncle Zaki had told Atris to kidnap and
kill the girl so his brother could get the inheritance. However he
refused and turned her over to Zakia, who taught her to dance and sing
at public celebrations. At the same time one of the investigating
officers wanted to return her to her uncle.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Ramses Marzouk, Abdel Hay Adib, Behgat
Kamar, Hussein Fahmy, Sukkar, Fatma Mazhar, Sameer Ghanem, Lebleba,
Tewfik El Dekn, Salah Nazmi, Wahid Seif, Ibrahim Saafan, Bahiget
Mohammad Ali, Zakaria Mouafi, Ezzat Abdel Gawad, Malek Al-Gamal, Aly
El Cherif
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown designer
for the 1977 Mohamed Abdel Aziz film Some Go to the Justice of the
Peace Twice based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Farouk
Sabry and starring Adel Imam as Masoud. Plot summary: This is a
comedy about marriages in crisis. Dr. Mamdouh's [Nour El-Sherif] wife
Mona [Mervat Amin] was consumed with jealousy despite his love for
her, while his brother Masoud's wife Mahasin [Lebleba] was preoccupied
with house and children. They were referred to their uncle Ezzat
[Sameer Ghanem] and his approach to his wife Sonia [Amal Ramzy]. He
was untrue to her but at the same time he smothered her with love and
attention. There were many complications when Mamdouh and Masoud
adopted Ezzat's idea.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Mervat Amin, Kamal Korayem, Nour
El-Sherif, Lebleba, Sameer Ghanem, Farouk Sabry, Mohamed Abdel Aziz,
George Sidhum, Aqila Ratib, Mimi Gamal, Amal Ramzy, Hana al-Shourbagy,
Galila Mahmoud, Ibrahim Abdel Razzaq, Amima Salim, Salama Elias, Nelly
Wanoura, Raafat Ragi, Abdel Hamid al-Monir
This is a 27" x 39" Lebanese poster designed by Gasour for the 1985
Ahmed El-Sabawy film Ramadan over a Volcano based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Samir Abdelazim and starring Adel Imam as
Ramadan. Plot summary: Under pressure from the mother of his fiancee
[Elham Shaheen] Ramadan embezzled his company's payroll, knowing the
legal consequences. He turned himself in and went to prison, planning
to use the money to marry after his release. He hid the bag
containing the payroll, but it was stolen. When the police inspector
realized there was no money in the stash, he released Ramadan from
prison. Ramadan went after the gang and recovered the lost stash,
then turned himself in again.
Cast and crew: Ahmed El-Sabawy, Adel Imam, Sameer Ghanem, Elham
Shaheen, Naima Al Soghayar, Hassan Hussein, Wahid Seif, Zakaria
Mouafi, Seif Allah Mokhtar, Ezzat Abdul Jawad, Hosny Abdul Jalil, Sami
Sarhan, Naeem Issa, Umran Bahar, Hafez Amin, Sadiq Ameen, Sayed Allam
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1978
Hassan El-Seify film A Type of Woman based on a story by
Mostafa Moharram, screenplay and dialogue by Ali Salem and starring
Nahed Sherif as Samia. Plot summary: The widow Samia saw a strong
resemblance between Hussein [Sameer Ghanem] and her late husband Hosni
and she therefore became attached to him, while Hussein saw her as a
young and wealthy woman. They married. He got to know Kawsar [Safia
El Emari] because they saw each other everywhere and she was the
couple's only friend. A gang kidnapped Hussein thinking he was their
leader Hosni, although Kawsar knew the difference because she had had
a special relationship with Hosni. Hussein found out about Samia's
first husband, his role as the gang leader and his relationship with
her friend Kawsar.
Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Sameer Ghanem, Hassan El-Seify,
Mostafa Moharram, Ali Salem, Safia El Emari, Salah Nazmi, Aly El
Cherif, Ahmed El Haddad, Ahmed Bedir, Mohammad Shawqi, Ahmed Shawqi,
Hossan Iliani, Nadia Shamseddine, Hassan Mostafa Ali
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Hassan
Mazhar Gasour for the 1990 Adel Sadeq film The Swindler and the
Dog [al-nesab wal-kalb] based on story screenplay and dialogue by
Fawzi Ali and Adel Sadeq and starring Sameer Ghanem as Samir. Plot
summary: This is a black comedy in which a gang of gold smugglers with
a pack of attack dogs is finally arrested after being tricked into a
round of internal fighting.
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
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made by an unknown designer to
promote the 1967 93-minute Ahmed Sarwat color film Marriage by
Airmail starring Adel Imam, Farid Shawqi and Nahed Sherif based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Farouk Said with cinematography by
Ramzi Ibrahim; the film was produced by Hussein Yaqut Films and
distributed by Al-Salam Films. Plot summary: Gharib [Adel Imam] and
Fakri [Sameer Ghanem] were exchanging letters about Fekry going to
America. Fakry was working for a cabaret owner [Farid Shawqi] even
though he was harsh in his dealings with the cabaret owner's daughter
Amira, [Nahed Sherif] who had decided to run away from her father's
home. She went to Gharib's house to take refuge with him at a time
when Fakri was writing to Gharib asking him to find him a
bride. Gharib presented the idea to Amira and she agreed to it; Fakri
married her by proxy so she could get away from her father and his
violence. Over time Amira discovered she loved Gharib and that he had
the same feelings for her. Fakri arrived in Cairo to get his bride
and learned the whole story; he divorced Amira so his lifetime friend
Gharib could marry her.
Cast and crew: Sameer Ghanem, Nabila El Sayed, Fifi Abdou, Nahed Sherif, Ahmed Sarwat, Farid Shawqi, Adel Imam, Ramzi Ibrahim, Farouk Said, Fawzia Hashem, Adel Al-Shennawi, Leila Mokhtar, Faten Fouad, Hassan Mostafa, Engil, Farouq Ali, Naim Esa, Qadriah Kamel
Art by Ahmed Fouad, printed in Cairo by Arabic Cinema Printers. This film is on film critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films. It tells the story of Zuzu
(Soad Hosny), a member of a family of entertainers and
dancers who is attending a university. Zuzu encounters
difficult conflicts when she is forced to confront Egyptian
society's stubborn prejudice against those who make a
living in the entertainment business.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Hassan Al Imam, Taheya Cariocca, Hussein Fahmy, Shafik Galal, Salah Jahine, Sameer Ghanem, Nabila El Sayed, Abdelhalim Nasr, Abbas Fares, Zuzu Shakeeb, Ali Gohar, Mustafa Metwalli, Wahid Seif, Mohammad Metwalli, Mohsen Nasr, Nadia Zaghloul, Salah Jahine
This film is based on a novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib
Mahfouz, screenplay Mahmoud El Leithy and Salah Jahine, cinematography by Abelhalim Nasr.
Plot Summary: Amira (Soad Hosny) was devoted to a job in a company while supporting her family. She took up social work and
organized a company Easter trip. She met the important and
influential employee Megdi (Hussein Fahmy). He was also the husband
of the daughter of the chairman of the Board of Directors, named
Nabila (Karima Mokhtar). Love developed between Megdi and Amira and
he married Amira secretly. When he told his wife about the
relationship she demanded a divorce. Then Amira was fired and he felt
complete remorse. He resigned from the company, announced his
marriage to Amira and the two began married life together.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Hussein Fahmy, Hassan Al Imam, Naguib Mahfouz, Soheir El-Bably, Imad Hamdi, Karima Mokhtar, Sameer Ghanem, Hassan Mostafa, Mahmoud Shekuku, Nabil Badr, Abdelhalim Nasr, Mamdouh El Leithy, Salah Jahine
This is the rare original style poster for the 1972 Hassan Al Imam film Take Care of Zuzu starring Soad Hosny. This film is on Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films. It tells the story of Zuzu (Soad Hosny), a member of a family of entertainers and dancers who is studying at a university. Zuzu encounters difficult conflicts when she is forced to confront society's stubborn prejudice against those who make their living in the entertainment business.