This is an Egyptian one-sheet designed by Walid Wahig for the 1971
Atef Salem film Girls in the University based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Abo Zaid and starring Shukry
Sarhan as Morad. Plot summary: The film tells a story about a group
of men and women from different walks of life studying at an Egyptian
university and their romances and friendships.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Mahmoud Fahmy, Shukry Sarhan, Soheir
El-Morshidy, Nour El-Sherif, Nabila El Sayed, Hafez Amin, Zizi
Mustafa, Atef Salem, Mahmoudd Abo Zaid, Momtaz Abaza, Nadia al-Kilani,
Ahmed Abdel Halim, Tewfik El Dekn, Wafiq Fahmy, Alia Ali, Ibrahim
Sakar
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour and Ahmed
Fouad for the 1961 Ibrahim Emara film For a Handful of Kids
[min agle khefnet awlad] based on a story by Sami Ghanim, screenplay
by Mohammad Mostafa Sami and starring Rushdy Abaza as Hassan. Plot
summary: Hassan was an elementary school teacher at a school directed
by Mr. Madbouly [Abdel Moneim Madbouly]. Hassan lived happily with
his wife Nadia [Soheir al-Morshedy] even though they had been married
seven years without having any children. Then they began to quarrel
about not having children and one of Hassan's friends suggested he
marry the director's sister so he could have children. He did this and
kept it secret from his first wife Nadia. Then both of the women had
children. Nadia had a girl and the second wife [Soheir Zaki] had a
boy. He was able to meet the costs of both households, but the women
kept having children until Hassan had eight. Then there were so many
problems Hassan's situation became unbearable.
Cast and crew: Sami Ghanim, Mohammad Mostafa Sami, Rushdy Abaza,
Soheir El-Morshidy, Soheir Zaky, Ibrahim Emara, Mostafa Shawqi, Rafet
Fahim, Mostafa Helmy, Mostafa Reshwan, Hani Shaker, Atef Mokaram,
Abdel Azim Kamel, Aqila Ratib, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Soheir Zaki, Ali
Al-Moawen, Soheir Al-Morshedy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist to
promote the 1967 Salah Abouseif 111-minute black-and-white film The
Second Wife [الزوجة الثانية az-zawget at-tania] starring Soad Hosny based on a
story by Ahmed Rushdy Saleh with screenplay and dialogue by Mohammad
Mostafa Sami and Sa'd al-Din Wahba and cinematography by Abdelhalim
Nasr. Plot summary: A village mayor [Salah Mansour] fancies a young
woman named Fatma [Soad Hosny] in his village. There are two problems. First, his
present wife Hafiza [Sanaa Gamil] does not want him to take a second
wife, and second, the young woman the mayor desires already has a
husband Aboul-Eyli [Shukry Sarhan] with children and they are a happy family with
a lot of love for one another. The mayor does not care about these
things, because he is the corrupt bad guy who already has a
reputation for abusing and cheating his villagers. He forces the young
woman's husband to divorce her so she can marry him, which he does,
causing much pain and regret to himself, his wife and his
children. The mayor marries the divorced woman and takes her into his
home, but in a long series of comic evasive episodes she contrives
never to sleep with him. The mayor, who was already sick, eventually
dies. Fatma becomes a village hero for standing up for the
village people against the mayor in his schemes to take their land,
and after the mayor dies she returns to her husband, poor but
happy. This is a social realist film with lots of accurate detail
about life in an Egyptian village, directed by the late socialist
director Salah Abouseif (1915-1996). This film may be realistic for its details
about village life, but Fatma's successful evasion of the
mayor's designs is probably not as realistic as the film suggests.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Shukry Sarhan, Sanaa Gamil, Salah Mansour, Soheir El-Morshidy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Salah Abouseif, Abdelhalim Nasr, Ahmed Rushdy Saleh, Muhammad Nuh, Mohammad Mostafa Sami, Hassan el Baroudi, Sa'd al-Din Wahba, Naima Al Soghayar, Ibrahim Al-Shami, Iskandar Mansy, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdy, Mohammad Idris, Ahmed Sami, Redwan Hafez
This an original folded 27" x 39" Egyptian movie poster designed by
Raouf for the 1976 Youssef Chahine film Return of the prodigal
son freely adapted from the 1907 André Gide novel, produced in
Egypt and Algeria with screenplay by Salah Jahine and Youssef Chahine
and starring Ali Mahrez as Ali. Plot summary: "Return of the
Prodigal Son is another Chahine parable set between the
Arab-Israeli wars. An activist who's been jailed for more than a
decade, Ali is eagerly awaited by his family. All hope that this just
man will stand up against his ruthless brother's tyranny, but nobody
even recognizes the prodigal when he shows up during a big
party. Prison has so thoroughly crushed Ali's youth and idealism that
he now allies himself with the
oppressor." From the Cornell University Library web site.
The film is a melodrama/musical centering on family strife in the
Madbouli family heightened by the release of the family's youngest son
from prison after serving ten years for construction fraud, who turns
out to be a disappointment when he goes to work at his father's
factory. The family lives on a farm headed by an authoritarian father
[Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. The film has also been seen as an allegorical
treatment of Egypt's poliitical disillusion following the death of
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), who had been criticized by some as an
authoritarian leader of a police state, too dependent on the power of
his personal charisma and unable to create intermediary institutions
or adopt practical programs for national development.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Salah Jahine, Farouk Beloufa,
Raouf, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Shukry Sarhan, Hoda Soltan, Ayda Reyad,
Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Souheir El-Mourchidy, Ali El Scherif, Ali Mahrez,
Sid Ali Kouiret, Ahmed Abdel Waress, Ragaa Hussein, Ahmed Bedir, Magda
El-Roomy, Hesham Selim, André Gide
Plot Summary: In this film by Sayed Essa the people in a coastal
village found themselves in a dilemma when they were evicted from
their lands to make way a new project and had to move to new land
to prepare for residence there. The emigrants included Awad and his
sister Henia. Life on the new land was not easy for the land they
were to cultivate was salty and it was not possible to cultivate it
until after this problem was corrected. Some people decided to go back
where they came from but others decided to remain and face the problems.
The land began to germinate too slowly and during this experience
Henia sensed that Hassan was interested in her; during the first planting
he asked her brother for her hand. They married but Awad felt that
because of his sister's marriage he would have to live alone. However
to his own surprise he married Amina and she lived with him.
