The Beloved Country [بلد المحبوب] (Taheya Cariocca) - (1951)

The Beloved Country [al-balad al-mahbub] (Taheya Cariocca) - (1951) Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a 23" x 35" poster designed by Dimitri Gabriel and Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1951 Helmy Rafla two-hour black-and-white film The Beloved Country [al-balad al-mahbub] starring Taheya Cariocca based on a story by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary with dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, screenplay by Helmy Rafla and cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A wealthy farmer owns hundreds of acres of land. He advises his son to marry his friend's daughter but she refuses because she does not want to marry a farmer. Her father pressures her to marry him because this will relieve him of financial hardship due to the money he will get after they marry. However the girl loves her cousin in Cairo who does not have money. The boy meets a dancer and and asks her to teach him the ways of modern life and how to interact with girls. He wants all of this so he can please the girl who has refused him. The dancer falls in love with him. Meanwhile the girl discovers the truth about her cousin, who abandons her after learning her father is on the verge of bankruptcy. Then the girl agrees to marry the first boy. The dancer withdraws from their lives.

Cast and crew: Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Helmy Rafla, Bruno Salvi, Taheya Cariocca, Ismail Yasseen, Saad Abdel Wahab, Soad Makawy, Hassan Fayek, Sherifa Maher, Zeinat Sedki, Abdel Waress Assar, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Wedad Hamdy, Soraya Fakhry, Zaki Ibrahim, Amina El-Said, Dalal Mahmoud, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim

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Personal Double [saheb balin] (1946) - (Bechara Wakim)

Personal Double [saheb balin] (1946) - (Bechara Wakim) Egyptian film poster

This is a 23.5" x 35" first printing of an Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz to promote the 1946 Abbas Kamel film Personal Double [saheb balin] starring Bechara Wakim based on story, dialogue and screenplay by Abbas Kamel with cinematography by Very Verkash. The poster was printed by Raghaeb Printers and the film was produced and distributed by the Al-Ahram Studio. Plot summary: The wealthy Shuman Pasha discovered that one of the local people resembled him to a great extent. That was the embittered teacher Abbas who lived with his wife Radia. The pasha lived the life of a rich man in a social position with systems and rules in addition to collective responsibilities to the individual. He made an agreement with the teacher Abbas to change roles in life, because Abbas was fed up with poverty and need. Abbas fell in love with the pasha's maid, but everyone rejected that relationship because they were not socially equal. He told them the truth but they denied it and said he was crazy. Shuman Pasha, who had lost his memory, was living the homeless life and could not adapt to a life of poverty. After a few comic incidents the two met and traded places again. Everyone discovered this strange resemblance, which clarified the reason for the change in positions. Abbas married the wealthy man's maid and finally achieved security and social equality.

Cast and crew: Abbas Kamel, Very Varkash, Bechara Wakim, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mimi Shakeeb, Ferdoos Mohammad, Mohammad Choukoukou, Ismail Yasseen, Soad Makawy, Sanaa Samih, Ya'qub Tanius, Lola Abdou, Tilly Mazlum, Mohammad Kamel, Hassan Kamel

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