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 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 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 2014 book in Arabic by Sameh Fathy about Egyptian film
posters, with introduction by Egyptian director Samir Seif, 216
pages in Arabic, 31 pages of English translation by Seham Abdel
El-Salam and color illustrations. The book is 9.25" x 12"; it also
includes brief biographies in Arabic and English of the most important Egyptian poster
artists. ISBN: 978-977902003-7
Cast and crew: Sameh Fathy, Samir Seif, Seham Abdel El-Salam
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Azem for the
1987 Samir Seif film The Tiger and the Female AKA al-nimr
wal-onsa based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ibrahim
al-Mawgi and starring Adel Imam as Waheed. Plot summary: Waheed, a
narcotics officer, gets help from Naeema [Athar El-Hakim] and her
young son Tamer [Maher Essam] so he can infiltrate a family of drug
dealers.
Cast and crew: Samir Seif, Essam Farid, Azem, Adel Imam, Athar
El-Hakim, Anwar ismail, Ahmed Akl, Ibrahim Al Sharkawi, Youseff Daoud,
Maher Essam, Mustafa Metwalli, Sayed Sadek, Youssef Eid, Rafat Ragi,
Aida Abdel Aziz, Hanem Mohamed, Ibrahim al-Mawgi
This is a 27.5" x 39.25" Lebanese one-sheet poster designed by
Hewarian for the 1979 Samir Seif film Wild Woman المتوحشة written by
Ibrahim El-Mougy and starring Soad Hosny as Baheya. Plot summary:
Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival
entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf
[Mahmoud Abdel Aziz]. She later takes a factory job and is followed
there by Ashraf; he eventually asks her to marry him. Baheya agrees
to the proposal. When Ashraf presents her as his intended bride to
his mother Eqbal [Leila Fawzi] she objects because of their social and
class differences.
Cast and crew: Samir Seif, Hewarian, Ibrahim El-Mougy, Soad Hosny,
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Leila Fawzi, Tewfik El Dekn, Ragaa Hussein, Soad
Nasr, Ahmed Abdel Waress, Naima Wassfi, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra
This is a 27.5" x 39.25" Lebanese one-sheet poster designed by
Hewarian for the 1979 Samir Seif film Wild Woman written by
Ibrahim El-Mougy and starring Soad Hosny as Baheya. Plot summary:
Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival
entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf
[Mahmoud Abdel Aziz]. She later takes a factory job and is followed
there by Ashraf; he eventually asks her to marry him. Baheya agrees
to the proposal. When Ashraf presents her as his intended bride to
his mother Eqbal [Leila Fawzi] she objects because of their social and
class differences.
Cast and crew: Samir Seif, Hewarian, Ibrahim El-Mougy, Soad Hosny, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Leila Fawzi, Tewfik El Dekn, Ragaa Hussein, Soad Nasr, Ahmed Abdel Waress, Naima Wassfi, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra
This film is based on Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce with a story
that begins in 1942 beside the Suez Canal in the city of Ismailia
Egypt. The poster measures 25.5" x 37" and was designed for a 1994
rerelease of Samir Seif's 1984 108-minute color film Streets of
Fire starring Nour El-Sherif based on screenplay and dialogue by
Ibrahim al-Mawgi and Ahmed Saleh with cinematography by Essam Farid.
Plot summary: A policeman named Imam [Nour El-Sherif] was transferred
from Ismailia to Cairo to work in a red light district. He fell in
love with a whore named Nousa [Madiha Kamel] who worked with a local
thug named Galal [Sayed Zayan], but Imam did not know Nousa was a
whore. In an incident defending Nousa, Imam beat up a British soldier
and then lost his job. He returned to the neighborhood looking for
work, became a pimp and got into a fight with Galal. Imam won the
fight, became the district's dominant tough guy and married
Nousa. Later when prostitution was outlawed, Imam took to nightclub
life and then joined revolutionaries fighting the British. A year
earlier the 1983 Nader Galal film Five Doors Bar [khamsa bab]
had also been based on Irma La Douce, set at about the same
time in Cairo's Ezbekia district.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Madiha Kamel, Laila Eloui, Sayed Zayan, Mohamed Reda, Samir Seif, Naima Al Soghayar, Negah El-Mogui, Atef Barakat, Zakaria Mouafi, Billy Wilder, Essam Farid, Karima El-Sherif, Hanem Mohamed, Sharifa Zaitoun, Amima Selim, Mohammad Shawky, Zakaria Mouafi, Ahmed Abu Abia, Kassim Al Daly, Fouad Khalil, Reda Al Sayed, Souraya Ezzeddine, Fouad Abdel Aziz, Youssef Fawzi, Wasila Hussein, Hosni Abdel Galil, Hayatem, Youssef Assal, Ahmed Abdel Hadi, Ahmed Farid
This is a picture of a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by al-Khad to
promote the 1991 133-minute Samir Seif color film Shams
al-Zanati starring Adel Imam based on the 1960 John Sturges
film The Magnificent Seven with story, screenplay and dialogue
by Magdy Hidaya and cinematography by Samir Farag. Plot summary: Shams
al-Zanati [Adel Imam] was an Egyptian rebel who fought British
forces in Egypt during the Second World War. The film depicts Shams
al-Zanati's love for and eventual marriage to a young Bedouin widow
named Hanna [Sausan Badr], which begins while Hanna is working in a
Cairo coffee shop and helping Shams al-Zanati evade British agents.
The marriage takes place in Hanna's oasis village after a bloody
shootout there between Shams al-Zanati's insurgent gang and another
gang led by Marshall Borei.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Mahmoud Hemida, Sawsan Badr, Samir Seif, Mustafa Metwalli, Abdulla Mahmoud, Ibrahim Nasr, Noha El Amroussi, Mahmoud El Guindi, Rushdi El Mahdi, Ahmed Maher, Said Tarabeek, Magdy Hidaya, Ali Abdel Rahim
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty to promote the
1985 108-minute Samir Seif color film The Pursued [al-motarad]
starring Nour El-Sherif based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz with
screenplay and dialogue by Ahmed Saleh and Samir Seif and
cinematography by Mohsen Ahmed. Plot summary: Samaha al-Nagy [Nour
El-Sherif] set a time for his marriage to Mahlabia [Rowa Al-Kateb] but
then discovered the neighborhood tough guy al-Qalali [Magdy Wahba] had
decided to marry her. Samaha and Mahlabia tried to run away but the
tough guy's helpers killed Mahlabia and got Samaha accused of it.
Samaha hid in upper Egypt without returning to Cairo but he found that
al-Qalali's men had come to his town. He disguised himself as a
Sheikh, opened a drug store, married Mahasen [Soheir Ramzy] and told
her the truth about himself. He had a quarrel with the neighborhood
tough guy Dehrug, [Ebrahim Abdelrazek] won the fight with him and
became the neighborhood tough guy himself. He sensed he was being
followed by the police and went into hiding. Through Mahasen he asked
his uncle Khedr [Salah Nazmi] and his brother Redwan [Mohammed Al
Tagy] to contact his helpers the racketeers to form a force to
challenge al-Qalali. Redwan was killed and Khedr was stricken with
paralysis. Mahasen married Helmy [Abu Bakr Ezzat] after he told her
Samaha had died. Samaha came back, killed Helmy and fled.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Samir Seif, Nour El-Sherif, Mohsen Ahmed, Ahmed Saleh, Soheir Ramzy, Magdy Wahba, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Taheya Cariocca, Salah Nazmi, Rowa Al-Kateb, Mohammed Al Tagy, Ebrahim Abdelrazek
