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
We have here a 27" x 29" Egyptian poster designed by Al-Khad to
promote the 1986 Hossam El-Din Mostafa 118-minute color film The
Racketeers [al-harafish] starring Mahmoud Yassine based on a story
by Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay and dialogue by Ahmed Saleh and
cinematography by Mamoun Ata. Plot Summary: In this film generations
of urban poor and their families come and go; this repetitive flow is
the story. Soleiman al-Nagy [Mahmoud Yassine] defeats Atris [Salah
Kabil] in a stick fight, establishes himself as the local tough guy
and distributes justly to the district racketeers the assets he has
collected from the rich. The rich people try to get rid of him.
Sania marries him after he divorces his first wife. She is able to
separate him from the racketeers and draw him into wealthy
circles. He opens a big agency. Khedr works with his father Soleiman
at the agency. He marries Bakr Redwana, [Laila Eloui] who loves him;
then he runs away from home after Bakr accuses him of disloyalty.
Soleiman's father becomes ill and moves to the home of his old wife
after she returns to his protection. When it becomes known that he
is bankrupt Atris becomes the neighborhood tough guy again. Khedr
returns and buys the agency at auction to bring dignity back to the
family after overcoming Atris. He discredits Bakr Redwana, who
acknowledges his brother's innocence before she dies.
Cast and crew: Mahmoud Yassine, Laila Eloui, Salah Kabil, Sawsan Badr, Naguib Mahfouz, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Safia El Emari, Mamdouh Abd El Aleem, Ibrahim Al Sharkawi, Mamoun Ata, Ahmed Saleh, Leila El Emari, Ezzat Abdul Jawad, Abdel Gawad Metwally, Nadia Shamseddine, Ahmed Abou Abih, Shirin Omar, Fifi Mady, Mohamed Abou Hashish
This is a 27" x 38.5" Egyptian poster designed by Nagy Shaker to
promote the 2007 126-minute Khaled Youssef color film In Better
Times [heyna maysara] starring Hala Fakher as Om Reda based on
screenplay, story and dialogue by Naser Abdel Rahman and Khaled
Youssef with cinematography by Ramses Marzouk. The film was produced
by the Al-Batros Company for Cinema Production and Distribution. Plot
summary: Om Reda was living in poverty in the Aswa'iya district
awiating the return of her son from Iraq after the Gulf War. Living
with her was her youngest son Adel Hashisha [Amru Saad]. He left his
friend Nahed [Samia al-Khashshab] with his mother to live there while
he served a six-month prison sentence for getting into a fight to
rescue her. After he got out of prison he fell in love with Nahed but
refused to marry her until times got better. Nahed abandoned her son
in an empty seat on a city bus because of the father's refusal to
recognize him. Adel regretted what he had done and tried to get Nahed
back but it was not feasible. He was put in prison again on a charge
contrived against him by the officer who had been giving him guidance
and teaching him about terrorist activities. He then became trustee
of a workshop owner to learn terrorist operations, and he found a
hideout on an estate. Adel was trying to find himself with difficulty
at a time when Nahed was going from house to house falling in love
with the rich people. She tried to go back to Adel again but could not
find him. Their son grew up in a home that had adopted him, but then
the owner of the home threw him out and he took refuge in ad hoc
street shelters. He slept with one of the girls there and they fled to
Alexandria together. There was a fracas at the estate between the
police and Al-Qaeda which ended with the removal of all street
shelters and some of their residents, including Om Reda, Fathy [Amru
Abdel Galil], his wife and others. Adel fled to Alexandria on the
same train Nahed was riding, while his son, his grandson and his wife
were all on the roof of the same train, but none of them knew about
each other. The film closes with a printed text apology read aloud by
director Khaled Youssef: "I apologize to the people if they cannot
understand what they have seen, but in fact I found the reality even
more cruel than what was shown on the screen."
Cast and crew: Khaled Youssef, Amr Abd El-Guelil, Hala Fakher, Somaya El Khashab, Ghada Abdel Razek, Ramses Marzouk, Naser Abdel Rahman, Amru Saad, Ahmed Bedir, Sawsan Badr, Ahmed Said Abdel Ghani, Wafaa Amer, Amru Abdel Galil, Khaled Saleh, Amira Fathy, Abdollah Mosharaf, Sameh Al-Sariti, Mohamed Karim, Sameh Moghawari, Motaz Al-Swifi, Mohammad Farouq
