Rose and Thorn ورد و شوك (Nahed Sherif) - (1970) Egyptian one-sheet

Rose and Thorn (1970) - (Nahed Sherif) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty and Wael for the 1970 Kamal Salaheddin musical Rose and Thorn starring Nahed Sherif as Basima based on a novel by Fathy Abdel Hady and screenplay and dialogue by Ramona. Plot summary: Hassan Darwish Osman [Mohamed Rushdy] was a young man from Tanta who had loved his neighbor's daughter Basima for a long time. It was a love that would inevitably end in marriage; he had agreed to this the night of his sister's wedding. At the time he did not realize Basima was pregnant. When Hassan went to Cairo his wallet, cash and credit cards were stolen. The thief [Farouq Ali] was killed in a traffic accident and at first everyone thought Hassan had been killed too. The police even said that to his family. When Basima heard Hassan had been killed she tried to hide her pregnancy, but had trouble finding a way to get out of her house. She later confessed to a taxi driver named Mishmish [Saeed Saleh] what had happened; he agreed to marry her after hearing her story. Then Hassan turned up unexpectedly on the wedding night and Basima married him instead.

Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Mohamed Rushdy, Nagwa Fouad, Nawal Abul Foutouh, Amal Ramzy, Kamal Salaheddin, Saeed Saleh, Sayed Zayan, Ibrahim Saafan, Gamel Ebada, Ramona, Fathy Abdel Hady, Mohammad al-Dafrawy, Saeeda Galal, Farouq Ali, Malek al-Gamal

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The Balah Agency وكالت البلح (Nadia El Guindy) - (1982) Egyptian one-sheet

The Balah Agency (1982) - (Nadia El Guindy) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour and Morteda Anise for the 1982 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film The Balah Agency written by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Nadia El Guindy as Nematollah. Plot summary: Nematollah lived at the Balah Agency. She had married most of the merchants and used her relationship with the important employee Amgad, [Ahmed Louxor] who helped her learn the secrets of bargaining. She did not hesitate to kill her competitors. Abdollah [Mahmoud Yassine] came to the agency and went to work for Nematollah. She liked him, married him and made him the boss of the agency in charge of her affairs. This angered her former husband Abdoun [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] who had gone to work for her after his bankruptcy. Abdollah discovered the truth about Nematollah and her crimes. He left her, met Amgad's daughter Mervat, [Samia Al-Alfy] married her and established a special agency with Amgad's help. Nematollah tried to bring Abdollah back but he refused. She took revenge against him by arranging to kill Amgad so no one would help him when she got her assistants to steal Amgad's goods. Abdollah thought of returning to her and asked her to confess to her crimes. The police came and arrested Namatollah. Abdoun pick up an axe to kill Abdollah with it out of revenge but Nematollah sacrificed herself for him and met her demise.

Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Wahid Seif, Sayed Zayan, Nadia El Guindy, Hesham Wadid Serri, Wadid Serri, Ahmed Zaki, Mostafa Moharram, Samia Al-Alfy, Farouk Feloux, Imad Moharram, Ahmed Louxor, Mohamed Al-Shawihi, Hafez Amin

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Emotions and the Body [العاطفة والجسد] (Naglaa Fathy) - (1971) Egyptian Film Poster

Emotions and the Body [al-atefa wal-gessad] (1971) - (Naglaa Fathy) original Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed to promote the 1971 Hassan Ramzi film Emotions and the Body [al-atefa wal-gessad] starring Naglaa Fathy based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Hassan Ramzi with cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: A happy relationship developed between Hoda [Naglaa Fathy] and Ahmed [Mahmoud Yassine]. Ahmed was planning to meet with her parents to ask for her hand, then suddenly went abroad to get his doctorate. Hoda's father [Ibrahim Saafan] got into a severe financial crisis and died, leaving Hoda in great pain. She felt better when she heard Ahmed was returning, but his plane crashed while Hoda was waiting to meet him at the airport. Her friend Dolat [Soheir El-Bably] tried to get her to accept treatment at a home for women, but she would not stay there; she went on a partying binge in Lebanon instead. Then Hoda heard Ahmed had not died, so she wrote him a letter about her situation. Ahmed came to see her, but she overdosed on sleeping pills and killed herself the following day.

Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Soheir El-Bably, Rushdy Abaza, Hassan Ramzi, Mahmoud Nasr, Omar Khorshid, Ibrahim Saafan, Sayed Zayan, Nabila El-Sayed, Ali Ezzedine, Esmat Amer

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Streets of Fire [شوارع من نار] (Nour El-Sherif) - (R1994)

Streets of Fire [shaware men nar] (Nour El-Sherif) (R1994) Egyptian film poster

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

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Love Sweeter than Love حب احلى من الحب (Naglaa Fathy) - (1975) Egyptian one-sheet

Love Sweeter than Love (1975) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown designer made to promote the 1975 Helmy Rafla film Love Sweeter than Love [hob ahla min al-hob] starring Naglaa Fathy and Mahmoud Yassine based on El Sayed Bedir's adaptation of the Robert Wise film The Sound of Music with screenplay and dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa Sami and cinematography by Essam Farid. Plot summary: The attorney Refaat [Mahmoud Yassine] had trouble finding a nanny for his five children after they had rejected the other nanny for various reasons. He was hoping the new nanny Laila [Naglaa Fathy] would be better than her predecessor. Laila turned out to be a big success and the children loved her, which brought harmony and order to the home. Refaat fell in love with Laila and asked her to marry him; she agreed and became his wife and a mother to his children. Naglaa Fathy is lovely and does a lot of nice singing and skipping in this film as Laila, but she's a far cry from Julie Andrews.

Cast and crew: Helmy Rafla, Nabila El Sayed, Leila Hamada, Sayed Zayan, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, El Sayed Bedeir, Mohammad Mostafa Sami, Essam Farid, Nadia Al-Kilani, Nabila El Sayed, Farouq Naguib, Taghrid Ali, Laila Sabouni, Sayed Zayan, Sabrin, Aziza Amir

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