The Hunger الجوع (Soad Hosny) - (1986) Egyptian one-sheet

The Hunger (1986) - (Soad Hosny) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani for the 1986 Ali Badrakhan film The Hunger based on characters developed by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay by Esam Ali and Ali Badrakhan and starring Soad Hosny as Zubaida. Plot summary: This film is a remake of the 1986 Houssam El-Din Mustafa epic film The Racketeers [al-harafish]. In the year 1886 Farag Al-Gebali [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] worked as a wagon driver to support his mother. He was married to Zeinab [Soad Hosny]. His brother Gaber [Abdel Aziz Makhyoun] worked as a blacksmith and married the poor girl Zubeida [Sanaa Younes] after the death of the thug who had raped her during a brawl among the neighborhood gangs. The people of the neighborhood appointed Farag as their main tough guy but he snubbed them after his marriage to a wealthy woman, [Youssra] moving into her mansion and running her agency. The nile subsided, the rains did not come, famine began, the people became poor and the merchants played their games because they feared their stocks would be raided when the people became hungrier and prices went up. Farag exploited the famine in Cairo by hoarding grain. He broke all his old promises and made a pact with the rich that the tough guy had to side with the nobility. Zubaida led the racketeers against Farag who was killed, and appointed her husband Gaber as the new tough guy, but Gaber refused and advised them to rely on themselves. The revolution became collective with Zubaida's help.

Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Abdel Ghani, Youssra, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Esam Ali, Aly Badrakhan, Sanaa Younes, Souraya Helmy, Naguib Mahfouz, Mostafa Moharram, Mahmoud Abdelsamie, Youssra, Samiha Tawfiq, Sayed Sadek, Hafez Amin, Ahmed Abu Abih, Said Tarabeek, Hanan Soleyman, Adel Awad, Randa, Naim Esa, Othman Abdul Menem, Youssef Abid, Ibrahim Hussein, Mohamed Tarabeek, Abdelhay Ezzat, Abdel Ghany Naser, Fathy Ibrahim, Sayed Salem, Adel Abulgheit, Madiha Youssri

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God's World دنيا الله (Nour El-Sherif) - (1984) Egyptian one-sheet

God's World (1984) - (Nour El-Sherif) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anise for the 1984 Hassan Al Imam film God's World AKA The Honey of Bitter Love based on story by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay and dialogue by Essam Al-Gomblati and starring Nour El-Sherif as Ibrahim. Plot summary: Ibrahim worked as a company employee. He met an itinerant vendor named Yasmine [Maali Zayed] and liked her. He told her he knew a delivery boy who looked just like the one who had the job of delivering employee salaries. Yasmine's friend Hamuda [Saeed Saleh] told her she should go with Ibrahim, whom he knew to be the delivery agent planning to embezzle the salaries and make a getaway to Alexandria. Ibrahim stole the salaries and went to the port with Yasmine. In Alexandria Yasmine quarreled with him, broke a chair over his head and ran away with the cash. She went to her friend Hamuda and found he had married his old friend Aziza [Essad Youniss]. Hamuda emphasized to Yasmine that the police were looking for her because she had killed Ibrahim. He pretended he would try to hide her and told her she had to leave the cash with him. Yasmine recognized the deception and told the police about her crime, but then she discovered Ibrahim had not died and they had all been arrested after a chase.

Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Ibrahim Saleh, Sa'eed Saleh, Maali Zayed, Naguib Mahfouz, Essad Youniss, Sanaa Younes, Leila Gamal, Shafik Galal, Ibrahim Saleh, Essam Al-Gomblati, Al-Montaser Billah, Abdel Wahab Galil, Magda Hamada, Mahmoud Al Zohairy, Mohamed Abdel Magid, Mohamed Al-Oraby, Mostafa Karim, Qadria Kamel, Samir Rostam, Said Tarabeek, Souraya Ezzedine

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Consolationجبر الخواطر Sherihan 1998 Egyptian one-sheet

Consolation (1998) - (Sherihan) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 25.75" x 36.5" Egyptian poster for the 1998 Atef-e Taieb psychological thriller Consolation [gabr al-khawater] based on a story by Abdel Fatah Rizk, screenplay and dialogue by Bachir El Dik and starring Sherihan as Nawal Ibrahim al-Saadi. Plot summary: In Alexandria Nawal Ibrahim al-Saadi was suffering from schizophrenia in a psychiatric clinic after being forcibly separated from her divorced husband and her only son Adel. She met many patients suffering from various problems. Dr. Mahmoud Shaker [Ashraf Abdel Baqi] sympathized with Nawal and tried to help her as much as possible, but he saw the hospital director Dr. Al-Meliguy [Hassan Mostafa] was subjecting the patients to unsafe experiments; this prompted him to take action against the schemes.

Cast and crew: Atef-e Taieb, Sherihan, Abdel Fatah Rizq, Bachir El Dik, Samir Farag, Ashraf Abdel Baqi, Enaam Salousa, Sanaa Younes, Alaa Wali Eddine, Lamia Al-Gedaoui, Farida Seif el Nasr, Jihan Nasr, Tarek Lotfy, Hassan Mostafa, Hend Akef, Galeela Mahmood, Alain Zoghbi, Gihan Fadel, Aisha Al-Kilani, Alaa Wali Eddine

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Alexandria-New York (2004)

Alexandria-New York (1004) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian film poster

This film, which among other things represents Chahine's mixed feelings about the United States, won 6 awards at the Egyptian Film Society Festival, including Best Director, Best Makeup, Best Poster, Best Coming Actor (Ahmed Yehia), Best Actress (Yousra El Lozy), and Best Actor (Mahmoud Hemeda). It was also voted best film of the year 2004 in a readers poll conducted by the newspaper Al-Ahram.

Plot Summary from IMDB: "Egyptian film director Yehia encounters his first love Ginger as he was being celebrated in New York. Back then they were 19 years old. The American Dream was the thing of the 20th century. Yehia, the boy from Alexandria, and Ginger, the American gal, were students at Pasadena Playhouse.40 years later, they are back together but the world has changed and the American Dream is no longer what it used to be. Yehia finds out that he had begotten an American child, a boy. Through a boisterous epic in which heroes love, sing, dance, laugh and cry, Youssef Chahine reconsiders his past and his ambiguous relationship to America which he loved so much. Written by www.YoussefChahine.us"

Cast and Crew: Youssef Chahine, Mahmoud Hemida, Ahmed Yehia, Youssra, Yousra El Lozy, Lebleba, Hala Sedki, Magda El-Khatib, Nelly Karim,Mohamed Hasabo, Sanaa Younes, Soad Nasr, Yousra Selim, Mahmoud Saad, Mahmoud El Lozy, Hamdy El Sakhawy

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