This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1984
Samir Seif film Beware of Alkhot based on story screenplay and
dialogue by Sherif Al Menyawi and starring Adel Imam as
Khosusi/Alkhot. Plot summary: Khosusi is a simple man working at a
company where his cousin Nabila [Lebleba] works. He discovers an
embezzlement, then feigns suicide so he can reappear as Alkhot to expose
the facts.
Cast and crew: Samir Seif, Ahmad Essa, Sherif Al Menyawi, Gasour,
Mohsen Nasr, Adel Imam, Samir Sabri, Lebleba, Osama Abbas, Layla
Fahmy, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Fouad Khalil, Othman Abdul Menem, Mohamed
Farid, Abadllah Farghaly, Zakaria Mouafi, Omayma Saleem, Reda Al
Sayed, Fawzy Al Sharkawi, Ahmad Al Adal
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1975 Said Marzouk film The Culprits based on a story by Naguib
Mahfouz, screenplay by Mahdouh El Leithy and Naguib Mahfouz and
starring Hussein Fahmy as Ahmad Saber. The film is included in Ahmad
Al-Hadari's list of Egypt's 100 most important films. Plot Summary:
The actress Sanaa Kamal [Soheir Ramzy] was murdered in her bed. The
investigator summoned all those who were in her home on the night of
her death including her fiancee Ahmad Saber, the director of the
company that published the papers the actress used to help build the
building, his friend who betrayed his wife and the strong young man
who sold his body to the actress while at the same time making plans
to steal the treasury at an institution. Then everyone who was at the
party at her home that night was arrested after the investigator
discovered the crime took place during the party. Her fiance the film
director admitted he had killed her out of jealousy.
Cast and crew: Hussein Fahmy, Soheir Ramzy, Zubaida Tharwat, Said
Marzouk, Salah Zulfikar, Adel Adham, Youssef Chaban, Imad Hamdi,
Tewfik El Dekn, Naguib Mahfouz, Samir Sabri, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim,
Kamal Al-Shennawi, Mustafa Imam, Abdel Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel,
Sameer Ghanem, Wahid Seif, Osama Abbas, Leila Fahmi, Naima Al
Soghayar, Said Abdel Ghani
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour to promote the 1976 109-minute Hassan Al Imam color
film The Nightingale Has Lips [al-kerwan luh shafayef] starring Soheir
Ramzy based on a story by Roget Lahont, screenplay and dialogue by
Hassan Al Imam and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary:
Hussein [Samir Sabri] and Qasem [Youssef Chaban] worked with Kerwan,
[Soheir Ramzy] the female star of a dance troupe. The troupe fell
heavily into debt and there was a breakup. Afterwards there was a
false murder accusation and an incident of marital infidelity,
followed by a resumption of what had gone before.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Roget Lahont, Imad Hamdi, Soheir
Ramzy, Nabila Ebeid, Naima Al Soghayar, Youssef Chaban, Abu Bakr
Ezzat, Hayat Kandeel, Samir Sabri, Enaam Salousa, Wahid Farid, Robab,
Farouq Naguib, Walid Tewfiq, Enaam Salousa
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani for the
1972 Niazi Mostafa film The Return of the Most Dangerous Man in the
World based on a screenplay by Mohamed Anwar Abdullah and starring
Fouad El-Mohandes as Meftah/Mr. X. Plot summary: Mr. X, the world's
most dangerous gangster, returned so he could snatch a precious gem
owned by an Indian maharaja staying at a Cairo hotel. At the same time
an insurance company employee named Meftah was trying to convince the
maharaja of the need to insure the gem. There were many incidents
because of the strong resemblance between Meftah and Mr. X.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Abdel Ghani, Mohammad Anwar Abdullah,
Fouad El-Mohandes, Mervat Amin, Samir Sabri, Mahmoud Farid, Salah
Nazmi, Afaf Wagdi, Ali Gohar, Wafiq Fahmy, Kanaan Wasfy, Salama Elias
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" 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
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy and
Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1973 Mohamed Basyouni 87-minute
black-and-white film The Other Man based on story, screenplay
and dialogue by Mostafa Barakat and Mohamed Basyouni and starring
Salah Zulfikar as Adel. Plot summary: The journalist Adel and his
wife Salwa [Shams El-Barudy] lived a quiet life, each looking for ways
to make the other happy. One day a plumber [Samir Sabri] came to
repair some pipes and while he was there he raped Salwa. After that
there was a rift in the relationship between Salwa and Adel. Adel was
unable to get close to his wife after the other man had raped her.
Tag line: There is something inside us that is stronger than we are; its name is honor.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Basyouni, Mostafa Barakat, Kamal
Al-Shennawi, Salah Zulfikar, Shams El-Baroudy, Zubaida Tharwat, Samir
Sabri, Imad Hamdi, Mohamed Lutfy, Ali Kheirallah
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Mohammad
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 Mohran [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. When Said Mohran 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 a mountain during a chase.
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
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 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
Pictured is an undated Egptian rerelease poster designed by Abdel
Rahman to promote the 1967 148-minute Essa Karama black-and-white
film That Man Is Driving Me Crazy [al-ragol da haganini]
starring Fouad El-Mohandes based on story, screenplay and dialogue by
Abdel Fatah al-Sayed with cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. Plot
summary: Attia [Fouad El-Mohandes] was a good man whose wife Amina
[Shouweikar] complained about his weak character and finally left him.
He did not know what happened to her or their daughter [Madiha
Salem]. After a few years Attia decided decided to look for work in
the cinema. He met a greedy producer [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] and learned
that he intended to use a wealthy woman to produce films for him
because he was bankrupt. Attia learned that this woman was none other
than his wife, who had been left a large amount of money from a man
she had been nursing. Attia tried to save his daughter, who thought he
had died, and his wife from the greedy producer. He hid his identity
from his daughter [Madiha Salem] hoping to prevent her from marrying
the producer's son [Samir Sabri], but then he had a change of heart
when the producer's son turned out to be different from his father;
the marriage eventually took place and Attia and Amina were also
reconciled again.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian rerelease poster made by an unknown
designer to promote the 1967 Hassan Al Imam film Palace Walk
['asr al-shawq] starring Nadia Lutfi based on a story by Naguib
Mahfouz with screenplay and dialogue by Mustafa Samy and
cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. This film was Nour El-Sherif's film
debut. Plot summary: After the death of Fahmy ibn al-Sayed Ahmed Abdel
Gawad and the death of the father five years later, his daughters
moved after they were married to the neighborhood of the Palace of
Longing in the 1920s. When Zanuba was born in Zubaida's home, Sayed
Abdel Gawad quit the night life. When he decided to return to
Zubaida's home he disovered that yesterday's child Zanuba had grown up
to become a girl who could make him fall in love with her and buy his
people for her. At the same time however Zanuba loved Yassine the son
of Ahmed Abdel Gawad, without knowing the truth of this. She married
Yassine and came into the family of Sayed Abdel Gawad as the respected
wife of his son. As for Kamal, he loved Aida but she did not marry
him and left him. He then rejected everything he had believed in.
After assessing his poverty she married a rich boy.
Cast and crew: Nadia Lutfi, Yehia Chahine, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Magda El-Khatib, Amal Zayed, Samir Sabri, Nour El-Sherif, Naguib Mahfouz, Hassan Al Imam, Soheir El-Barouni, Hala Fakher, Ahmed Ghanem, Mohammad Shawky, Hussein Ismail, Naima Al Soghayar, Sa'eed Saleh, Nour El-Sherif, Zizi Mustafa, Sherifa Maher, Mimi Shakeeb, Zuzu Shakeeb, Mostafa Hassan, Mustafa Samy
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian one-sheet poster made to promote
the 1969 142-minute Hussein Kamal color film My Father is up the
Tree [abi fawq al-shagarah] based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus
with screenplay by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Sa'deddine Wahba and Youssef
Francis, dialogue by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus and Sa'eddine Wahba and
cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: A group of university
students went to Alexandria for summer vacation.Two of the students, a
couple named Adel [Abdel Halim Hafez] and Amal [Mervat Amin], had a
disagreement; then Adel fell in love with a much older worldly-wise
nightclub dancer in town named Ferdoos [Nadia Lutfi]. Ferdoos invites
Adel to live with her, gives him money and says she loves him, but he
soon learns she has other men. Amal notices Adel's disappearance but
does not know what has happened until one of Adel's friends finds him
and tells her. Adel and Ferdoos fly to Lebanon together for a few
dancing and singing scenes in various touristic settings. After Adel
and Ferdoos return from Lebanon, Ferdoos is obliged to go back to
hustling men to meet her expenses, for which Adel is not prepared.
When he tries to go back to the gang at the beach, they all reject him
and he is unable to restart his relationship with Amal. Adel's father
[Imad Hamdi], having no word from his son, goes to Alexandria looking
for him. There he meets one of the bar women and becomes involved
with her, as Adel had done. One of Adel's friends from the beach gang
finds him and tells him what his father is doing, and that his friends
at the beach are willing to make amends. When he finds his father he
tells him of his experiences and that he has learned from them. With
sympathetic intervention from Ferdoos, father and son are reconciled
and Adel reestablishes his relationship with Amal.
Cast and crew: Abdel Halim Hafez, Nadia Lutfi, Mervat Amin, Imad Hamdi, Amer al-Askari, Yusef Shahuri, Hussein Kamal, Wahid Farid, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Samir Sabri, Salah Nazmi, Nabila El-Sayed, Fathy Abdul Sattar, Nahed Samir, Hamed Morsi, Youssef Francis
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian film poster designed by Mohammad Abdel
Aziz and Ahmed Fouad to promote the 1970 Ahmed Diaeddin 89-minute
black-and-white film The Mirror [al-maraya] starring Naglaa
Fathy as Karima based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohieddin
Aref with cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Karim's
[Abdel Moneim Madbouly] first daughter Karima had breathtaking beauty.
She loved a boy named Kamal [Samir Sabri] whose wealth she envied, but
at the same time she was madly in love with her cousin, an ambitious
engineer named Ahmad [Nour El-Sherif]. Meanwhile her sister Hoda's
life had long been limited since her cousin had been chosen as a
husband and they loved each other. The mother pushed her daughter
Karima towards Kamal, but Karima's heart was with Ahmad. In light of
Karima's ambivalence Ahmad saw no way out other than a relationship
with his colleague Safa, while Kamal distanced himself from Karima and
married a rich girl. Karima had fallen victim to her own ambivalence.
Meanwhile her sister Hoda introduced her to an Arabic language teacher
at the school where she worked, professor Younes, and tried to present
her to him as a bride, but he quickly discovered she was worthless
because she did not know how to do anything around the house. She was
so interested in clothing and decorations that she became sick, and in
the efforts by the physician, the sister, her husband and the father
to heal Karima, Hamdi sent a letter to summon Ahmad to come and cure
Karima, but she could not accept his marriage. She tried to separate
them but failed and became disgusted with her own life. She rejected
her mother's advice about making a new commitment to the completion of
her studies.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Diaeddin, Naglaa Fathy, Mohammad Abdel Aziz,
Ahmed Fouad, Nour El-Sherif, Adel Imam, Zizi Mustafa, Zuzu Shakeeb,
Amal Ramzy, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Mimi Shakeeb,
Adel Abdel Azim, Samir Sabri, Ibrahim Saafan, Malek Sokar, Taghrid
al-Bashbishi, Ahmed Abu Abih, Ibrahim Nasr, Nagi Sayed, Mohieddin
Aref, Salah al-Eskanderani
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Meftah and Fathy
al-Khodri and printed by Arabic Cinema Printers to promote the 1986
Abdel Moneim Shoukry 111-minute color film The Embrace of Fear
[ahdan al-khawf] starring Samir Sabri as Rushdy based on a story by
Ahmed El Mola, screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Samaha and
cinematography by Mahmoud Sabu. The film was produced by the
International Technical Production Company and distributed by Sawt
al-Hob. Plot summary: Prince [Gamil Rateb] was the leader of a
narcotics smuggling gang. He dominated them all because of their
weaknesses. To help with a shipment of narcotics he employed Wafa,
[Raghda] an airline hostess in love with one of his agents named Rushdy.
Rushdy rescued her from this job and brought about the downfall of
Prince. Then they married.
The 1965 Egyptian film The Nun [al-raheba] (directed by Hassan Al Imam) has censored and uncensored posters. The censored poster just makes the color of the skin of the shoulders and back of the actress Hind Rostom the same as the color of her dress. This film was about a woman with a split personality, as the poster illustrates nicely.
This is a promotional poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz and Moaty
for the 105-minute Helmy Rafla 1974 color war film The Great
Loyalty [al-wafa' al-'azim] starring Naglaa Fathy and Mahmoud
Yassine with story, screenplay and dialogue by Faisal Nada and
cinematography by Wahid Farid and Essam Farid. Plot summary: When
Rauf [Kamal Al-Shennawi] got married to Soha [Hala Al-Shawarby] there
was someone present at the wedding who opposed the marriage and wanted
to prevent it. When the lights went out during an air raid this person
took advantage of the sirens and shot and killed Soha while she was
dancing with Raouf. Raouf's friend Ibrahim [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim]
advised him to adopt a little orphan girl named Wala' [Naglaa Fathy]
who had lost her parents in the war and later became a music student.
Raouf became her father and she grew up with Adel, [Samir Sabri] the
son of his friend Ibrahim, who became an army officer. Ibrahim wanted
her to marry his son but Raouf objected. They planned to marry anyway;
then Wala' met her neighbor Officer Safwat [Mahmoud Yassine] and they
fell in love. Safwat went to ask Raouf for Wala's hand in marriage,
but Raouf knew Safwat was the son of the killer of his bride, so he
refused and drove him away. The October 1973 war was declared and
Safwat went to the front. He met Adel and a friendship developed
between them. Safwat learned Adel was engaged to his beloved; then he
was hit during an operation and lost a leg. Adel learned the truth
about the love between Safwat and Wala' and decided to withdraw from
her life.
