Pictured is a 38.5" x 53" two-piece Lebanese poster for the 1973
film Memory of a Night of Love written and directed by Seif
Eddine Shawkat and starring Nelly as Layla. Plot summary: Anwar
[Salah Zulfikar] is living happily with his wife Layla until he runs
into his ex-girlfriend Camilia, [Nabila Ebeid] who is working as a
dancer. She collapses and dies during a visit to his home; Anwar
becomes a murder suspect.
Cast and crew: Seif Eddine Shawkat, Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Nelly,
Salah Zulfikar, Nabila Ebeid, Ziad Mowali, Rafiq Sabi'i, Mariam Fakhr
Eddine, Hala Shawkat, Khaled Taja, Nadia Arslan, Ahmed Abu Saeda, Mona
Wassef
This is a 27" x 39" Lebanese poster for the 1975 film The
Sinners written and directed by Seif Eddine Shawkat and starring
Osama Khalqi as Osama. Plot summary: While he was running away from
some people he had robbed, Osama took a job in a hotel in a remote
area operated by a stingy old man named Mansour [Abdel Latif Fathy]
and his beautiful young dancer wife Salma [Hala Shawkat]. Osama
started an illicit relationship with Salma and then tried to kill
Mansour to get his money. Mansour's daughter Najla [Nelly] arrived on
vacation from medical school. Osama saw her and it changed his life
completely.
Cast and crew: Seif Eddine Shawkat, Hala Shawkat, Nelly, Abdel
Latif Fathy, Osama Khalqi, Mohamed Toroqji, Youssef Shawiri, Shakib
Ghanam, Mazhar Galilani, Adib Shehada, Salma Al-Masri, Tewfik al-Asha,
Samir Salmoun, Anwar al-Morabet, Hassan Baghdadi, Illi Ghariba, Abbas
al-Hawi, Adnan Shabas, Ahmed Farhoud, George Lutfi Al Khaouri
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz to
promote the 1960 Seif Eddin Shawkat 76-minute black-and-white
film Man without a Heart [ragal bila qalb] starring Hind Rostom
based on story and screenplay by Hassan Tewfik with cinematography by
Abdelhalim Nasr. Galal [Yehia Chahine] discovered his wife Zahra
[Zahrat El-Ola] had betrayed him with Kamal [Shukry Sarhan] and killed
him. He swore he would never again go near his wife. The years
passed and the separation continued. Aida [Hind Rostom] came to the
estate intending to draw Galal into her net. Galal found her lying
ill on the ground and took her to his home to stay there until she
could recover. She caught his son [Ahmed Ramzy], a student named
Nabil, in her net, because he loved her madly. The son and the father
competed to get close to Aida while Galal's wife Zahra was aware of
this situation and kept silent. Zahra quickly learned that Aida was
the sister of the murdered Kamal come to take revenge
against her brother's killer. Aida succeeded in getting Galal to ask
her to marry him, then Galal chased his son across a field with a
rifle with the intent of killing him after learning Aida was running
away with him. Before Galal could shoot, he was killed with a bullet
fired by his wife, who wanted to get justice for herself. This is an example of one of those remarkable events often seen in movies where people otherwise not known to the audience for having any abilities with firearms unexpectedly demonstrate remarkable prowess by hitting a human target with a single fatal shot.
Cast and crew: Seif Eddine Shawkat, Hind Rostom, Yehia Chahine, Ahmed Ramzy, Zahrat El-Ola, Shukry Sarhan, Abdelhalim Nasr, Hassan Tewfik, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Abdollah Gheith, Awatef Ramadan, Abbas Al-Dali, Abdel Moneim Seoudi, Sayed Ghanim, Gamal Al-Zini, Ibrahim Khan
This is a poster designed by Ahmed Ghanem to promote the 1961
155-minute black-and-white Atef Salem film A Day of My Life
[yom min omri] with cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr, printed by
Al-Nasr printers of Cairo, starring the late Egyptian singer Abdel
Halim Hafez as Salah. It is based on the 1953 William Wyler
film Roman Holiday. Plot summary: An editor gave the
journalist Salah Shawqi and his colleague the photographer Younes
[Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy] the assignment of covering the arrival of
from Switzerland of Nadia, [Zubaida Tharwat] the daughter of the
millionaire Abu Agila, [Zaki Toleimat] after a long absence. At the
airport Nadia learned her father's wife wanted to marry her to her
brother and she decided to run away. She got on a bus with the
journalists without any of them knowing anything about each other.
Salah and Nadia with Younes and his fiance had a wonderful night at a
nightclub and then she went with him to spend the night at his home.
Younes photographed the two of them together; then the neighbors
realized who Nadia was and pursued her. When the editor learned the
journalist and his colleague had failed at their assignment he
threatened to fire them. Salah discovered the truth about Nadia and
went to the editor with the photographer and the story about what had
happened. Nadia decided to go back to her father, who had decided not
to marry her to a man she did not love. Salah stole the photos and
the papers for the story and prevented the publication of anything
about his beloved. He sent the pictures to Nadia and her father at
the airport. The father understood Salah was a noble man and decided
to marry his daughter to the one she loved.
Cast and crew: Abdel Halim Hafez, Zubaida Tharwat, Atef Salem, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Soheir El-Bably, Zaki Toleimat, Abdelhalim Nasr, Seif Eddine Shawkat, Youssef Gowhar, Zuzu Madi, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Salah Nazmi, Soraya Fakhri, Ahmed Louxor
This is an Egyptian film poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1964 Youssef Chahine 100-minute color
film Dawn of a New Day [fagr yom gedid] with story and screenplay by
Samir Nasry, dialogue by Abdel Rahman El-Sharqawy, cinematography
by Abel Aziz Fahmy and starring the late Sanaa Gamil (1930-2002) as Nayed. Plot summary: A varied group of bourgeois people
were living in poverty in Cairo after political conditions turned
against them. They included Nayed, a women in her 40s.
She met a young man named Tareq (Seif El Dine) and was drawn to him
even though he was from a completely different social class; she did
not choose a man from her own class, not even Abu Al-Ala who was
trying to get close to her. Tareq was still a student at the
university living in a humble room on an upper floor and studying
engineering. The boy had to go abroad for three years to complete his
studies. He discovered that Nayed was treating him as a substitute
for a small boy who had died years ago. This is what started her
relationship with a poor man, but he was unable to correct the
situation. Nayed tried to obtain the money to give to her beloved so
he could complete his studies, working as a secretary at the press
office her brother managed, but then she suddenly decided to end her
association with this boy, who was no more than twenty-two years of
age; they said goodbye to each other at the Cairo Station.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Sanaa Gamil, Seif Eddine Shawkat,
Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Seif El Dine, Hamdy Gheith, Soheir El-Bably,
Abdel Rahman El-Sharqawy, Samir Nasry
Plot summary: The old husband of a young woman manager of a
beverage company died and the employees gathered around her. One of
them flattered her because he wanted to be the general director.
However she preferred the company's director of advertising and took
him as a husband instead of appointing him general director, even
though he was already the husband of a good woman and the father of
three girls. The new wife was able to convince her husband to divorce
the mother of his children and keep his daughters with him until they
were of legal age. This separation was painful for the family. The
youngest went to visit her sisters in the home of her father. They
decided to run away and resolved not to separate. The three sisters
passed their nights outside for they had no place to go. Their lives
continued in this painful way. The father and the divorced mother
searched for the fugitive sisters with the police while a journalist
became aware of this social problem, and then the truth was told. The
three sisters disguised themselves as boys and went to work for the
pianist Ibrahim and his boy, another child who had lost his family in
a similar way. The three sisters took up the profession of dancing
and singing accompanied by the piano and stayed in an abandoned bus
procured for them by Nadia. They decided to attack the factory of the
carbonated beverage company owned by the wife of the father. The
three little girls began distributing publications and warning the
people against buying the factory's products. This threatened the
factory and brought it to a sales slump. The angry wealthy wife
lodged complaints against the divorced wife accusing her of inciting
her daughters against her.
The accused was interrogated and the police arrested the girl. The
sisters learned of the arrest and fled with a determination to commit
suicide. The police, the father and the mother began searching for
the sisters and the group found clothing floating in the water. This
seemed to mean the sisters had killed themselves, but then the girls
suddenly appeared and the father embraced his divorced wife.
The Fairuz starring in this film was a much younger Egyptian actress
and is not to be confused with Lebanese diva by the same name.
Cast and crew: Fairuz, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Seif Eddine Shawkat, Nelly, Aziza Helmy, Mohammed Tawfik, Hassan el Baroudi, Abdel Ghani Nagdi, Anwar Madkour, Abbas Rahmy, Hassan Tewfik, Bruno Salvi
Unspoken Love (1959) - (Hind Rostom) Egyptian one-sheet
Boheira played games to get a successful man to marry her because
she coveted his wealth, even though he was married to Samiha and loved
her. The engineer's colleague Hoda loved him in silence and was
content just to go along happily with his wife. Samiha had a daughter
and after the birth the family and her husband agreed to an operation
on her to save her life, without telling her. The girl grew and
created a tie between the engineer and his wife. Boheira made her
network around the engineer, but he thought of her as just a friend.
However his wife was mindful of this and doubted him. The child died
in an accdent and this killed the relationship between the enginer and
his wife. Hoda made an effort to restore their unity and get rid of
Boheira. Samiha learned from the physician that she would never bear
children and that her husband had agreed to the operation. She
despaired of restoring happiness to the family and the problems
returned. Boheira took advantage of the opportunity and got close to
the engineer. Hoda worked to restore peace between the two married
people; however Samiha was aware that Boheira was competing in dance
and soccer. Recently she had had a nervous breakdown and thought Hoda
was having a relationship with her husband. She made Hoda leave the
house to prevent them from talking to each other; this left Boheira
alone with the engineer and it strengthened their relationship. The
home was darkened with an air of difficulty. Samiha decided to kill
her husband the engineer because she thought he was betraying her.
However both she and Boheira were hurt in an accident. The engineer
discovered Hoda's love for him and and her sacrifice, and he married
her. Directed by Seif Eddine Shawkat.
Cast and Crew: Hind Rostom, Yehia Chahine, Mariam Fakhr Eddine,
Ferdoos Mohammed, Seif Eddine Shawkat
