Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani to
promote an undated rerelease of the 1942 105-minute Kamal Selim
black-and-white film Dreams of Youth [ahlam al-shabab] starring
Farid Al Atrache based on a story by Youssef Wahby with screenplay by
Kamal Selim, dialogue by Badei Khayri and cinematography by Sami
Brail. Plot summary: Farid [Farid Al Atrache] became wealthy; he had
a passion for love so he became acquainted with his neighbor Elham
[Madiha Yousri], an orphan who lived with her Aunt Basiyouni [Marie
Munib]. With Bassiyouni's agreement Farid became Elham's piano
teacher. In a complication that plays itself out during the film a
dancer named Baheya [Taheya Cariocca] also tried to woo Farid, but he
did not love her even though they performed together.
Cast and crew: Kamal Selim, Abdel Ghani, Hassan Fayek, Bechara
Wakim, Farid Al Atrache, Madiha Yousri, Youssef Wahby, Badei Khayri,
Taheya Cariocca, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Sami Brail, Marie Munib, Abbas
Fares
This is a 24" x 35" original Egyptian poster designed by Alzaria for
the 1941 film Leila, the Girl from the Country written and
directed by Togo Mizrahi and starring Laila Mourad as Leila. Plot
summary: Laila Mourad has the part of a country girl who becomes
disillusioned with city life in Cairo and returns to her farm with a
new appreciation for country life.
Cast and crew: Togo Mizrahi, Laila Mourad, Youssef Wahby, Mimi
Shakeeb, Taheya Cariocca, Bechara Wakim, Zouzou Shakeeb, Anwar Wagdi,
Ferdoos Mohammad, Hassan el Baroudi, Fakher Fakher, Salwa Elaam, Abdel
Salam Al Nabulsy, Soad Abdou
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the
1946 Wali Eddine Sameh film The Lady's Puppet starring Naguib
Al Rihani based on the 1898 Pierre Louys novel The Devil Is a
Woman AKA La Femme et le pantin, story by Naguib Al Rihani
and Badei Khayri and starring Naguib Al Rihani as Hassan. Plot
summary: In Cairo during the World War II a poor boy named Hassan
marries a runaway named Laaba, [Taheya Cariocca] who later becomes a
cinema performer; she leaves Hassan for another man, then agrees to
marry the other man while in Lebanon without telling him of her
existing marriage to Hassan.
Cast and crew: Wali Eddine Sameh, Naguib Al Rihani, Badei Khayri,
Pierre Louys, Taheya Cariocca, Suleiman Naguib, Aziz Osman, Bechara
Wakim, Hassan Fayek, Marie Munib, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Badei Khayri,
Mustafa Hassan
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1970 Anwar El-Shenawy film black-and-white film The Mirage
based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Nour El-Sherif as
Kamel. Plot Summary: Kamel (Nour El-Sherif) is a wealthy boy who
marries a teacher named Rebab (Magda). A lot of time is consumed
early in the film with a series of silent flirtations as they shyly
watch each other from a distance in and out of metro cars. They
finally break the tension with an awkward conversation in which he
proposes in his first complete sentence to her. On the wedding night
she discovers he is impotent. Kamel goes to Dr. Amin the psychiatrist
(Rushdy Abaza) who assures him his problems are caused by things that
happened during his childhood. Dr. Amin knows Rebab. He asks her to
help Kamel overcome his problem to get through the marriage crisis and
restore him to full health. The dysfunction continues as Kamel is
unable to perform with his wife, especially since his mother (Aqila
Ratib), who does not like Rebab, dominates his thinking; he is only
able to do this in a brothel. However Kamel still loves Rebab very
much. During this period a relationship begins between Dr. Amin and
Rebab after a furious fight between her and Kamel. This affair
results in pregnancy; when Rebab is on her way home Kamel tells her he
has been cured, but she is not able to respond to him, and he
discovers the truth. Then she dies of a hemhorrage during a
miscarriage.
Cast and crew: Magda, Nour El-Sherif, Naguib Mahfouz, Anwar
El-Shenawy, Aqila Ratib, Taheya Cariocca, Abbas Fares, Rushdy Abaza,
Mahmoud Nasr, Ali El Zorkani, Aziza Helmy, Zeinat Sedki, Mimi Gamal,
Mohammed Abaza, Zeinat Alawy
This film by Aly Badrakhan is on Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of
Egypt's 100 most important films. It is based on a story by Egyptian
Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay and dialogue by Mamdouh
El Leithy. The story is about political persecution under Nasser
after the Egyptian defeat by the Israelis in 1967. It includes
depictions of sexual abuse of a type that had never been attempted in
Egyptian cinema. The poster was designed by Abdel Ghani and Hassan
Mazhar Gasour. Plot Summary: The film begins with a radio news report
of the Egyptian army's 6 October 1973 Suez crossing as Ismail
al-Sheikh [Nour El-Sherif] sits despondent in the Karnak Cafe while
everyone else is rejoicing. He goes to the hospital where Zeinab Diab
[Soad Hosny] is trying to get admitted for surgery. There is a
flashback to Ismail's days as a student in medical college with his
classmates Hamada Helmy [Mohammed Tawfik] and Zeinab. In those days
they were involved with student activities and debates about politics
and ideology. At the same time Ismail was in a romantic relationship
with Aranfala, [Shouweikar] the owner of the coffee shop. However one
night they were arrested and jailed. They were imprisoned for a time,
but after their release he courted Zeinab with the consent of her
parents. Then conditions changed. There were demonstrations and the
authorities began arresting young people. The intelligence service
under the direction of Khaled Safwan [Kamal Al-Shennawi] began using
savage torture methods looking for Muslim Brotherhood elements in the
population; Zeinab was even raped. Zeinab and Ismail were conscripted
for intelligence work and then wrote reports against their comrades.
Zeinab started the May movement for the release of Ismail and everyone
else who was in detention. Ismail returned to his commitment, put his
past behind him and returned to Zeinab.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Nour El-Sherif, Farid
Shawqi, Aly Badrakhan, Naguib Mahfouz, Younes Shalaby, Shouweikar,
Mohamed Sobhi, Taheya Cariocca, Imad Hamdi, Salah Zulfikar, Fayez
Halawa, Mohsen Nasr, Mamdouh El Leithy, Mohammed Tawfik, Naima Al
Soghayar, Aly El Cherif, Wahid Seif, Osama Abbas, Adly Kasseb
This is a 27" x 39" Lebanese poster designed by Stamatis Vassiliou for
the 1961 Enrico Bomba and Andrew Morton Italian/Egyptian historical
epic Love and Faith AKA Sword of Islam AKA Oh
Islam written by Ali Ahmad Bakathir and starring Rushdy Abaza as
Baybars and Lobna Abdel Aziz as Golnar/Gihad. Plot summary: In 1257
the sultana of Egypt, a woman named Shagarat al-Durr, [Taheya
Cariocca] is assassinated along with her suitors, leaving the throne
of Egypt open for Mahmoud [Ahmed Mazhar] to step in just as the
Mongols are about to invade.
Cast and crew: Taheya Cariocca, Rushdy Abaza, Lobna Abdel Aziz,
Ahmed Mazhar, Ema Andi, Enrico Bomba, Andrew Marton, Robert Andrews,
Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Imad Hamdi, Farid Shawqi, Mohammad Sabih, Naima
Wasfy, Zouzou Hamdi al-Hakim, Abbas Fares, Hussein Riad, Taheyya
Cariocca, Ali Ahmad Bakathir, Robert Andrews
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
and Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1966 Atef Salem film Khan
al-Khalili based on a novel by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Samira
Ahmed as Nawal. Plot Summary: The Akef family moved to Khan
al-Khalili. They were the parents, the big brother Ahmed Akef [Imad
Hamdi] who was over 40 and the little brother Rushdy [Hassan Youssef]
who was completing his studies. A variety of personality types lived
in Khan al-Khalili such as the teacher Nunu who lived his life with no
tomorrow and ran sentences together when he spoke. In the midst of
the air raids during World War II the people in the neighborhood took
refuge in the air raid shelter. Ahmed loved his good-looking neighbor
Nawal [Samira Ahmed] and tried to get close to her. His mother talked
about his feelings for her. He felt he had hopes. When Nawal fell in
love with Rushdy, met him and went for a walk with him Rushdy went
through a crisis within and came down with tuberculosis. He thought
of Ahmad and the sacrifice of his love for Nawal. Ahmad began to get
involved with the Khan al-Khalil society and had an encounter with the
teacher Nunu's nihilism. Rushdy's illness worsened and he died.
Nawal was stricken by Rushdy's death and the family decided to move
from Khan al-Khalili to another area.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Atef Salem, Samira Ahmed, Imad
Hamdi, Hassan Youssef, Taheya Cariocca, Abdel Waress Assar, Mohamed
Reda, George Sidhum, Tewfik El Dekn, Amal Zayed, Abdel Khalek Saleh,
Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Mustafa Samy
This is a 27" by 39" Egyptian one-sheet designed by Gasour for the
1980 Hassan Al Imam film Don't Be Unfair to Women based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Faisal Neda and starring Hanaa
Tharwat as Fatma. Plot summary: Fatma worked as a maid in Hamuda's
[Sayed El-Sawy] villa. She shot him and turned herself in to the
police. During the investigation she refused to give a motive for the
killing, but it was also found that Hamuda was shot three times while
Fatma had fired only one bullet. Hamuda had gotten Fatma's mother
pregnant and then refused to marry her. Hassanein, [Mustafa Metwalli]
who had been working at the villa and was tired of fulfilling Hamadu's
every whim, was the one who had fired the fatal bullets after Fatma
had fired her one shot and left the room. Fatma was found innocent.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Taheya Cariocca, Hala Fakher, Sa'eed
Saleh, Naima Al Soghayar, Mustafa Metwalli, Shafik Galal, Ibrahim
Saleh, Inas Al Degheidy, Faisal Nada
This is a 46.5" x 60.5" Egyptian poster for the 1985 Youssef Chahine
film Adieu Bonaparte [الوداع يا بونابرت] based on a screenplay by Youssef Chahine
and Yousry Nasrallah and starring Michel Piccoli as Cafarelli. "The
film relates the experiences of an Egyptian family during the
occupation of Alexandria by Napoleon and his army, and the uneasy
friendship between a young Egyptian poet and one of Bonaparte's
advisers. The exigencies of a big budget co-production might have
accounted for a diminution in the great Chahine's poetry and power,
but there are some spectacular scenes and excellent performances,
notably from [Patrice] Chereau as a fanatical Bonaparte." - The
Faber Companion to Foreign Films.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Michel Piccoli, Mohsen Mohieddin, Patrice Chereau, Mohsena Tewfik, Taheya Cariocca, Hoda Soltan, Gamil Ratib, Salah Zulfikar, Tewfik El Dekn, Seif El Dine, Mohamed Atef, Farid Mahmoud, Hassan Husseiny, Hassan El Adl, Mohamad Dardiri, Claude Cernay, Christian Patey, Mohsen Nasr, Abla Kamel
This is an original 35" x 23.5" Egyptian poster for the 1945 Kamal
Selim film Friday Evening [leylet al-gom'a] based on story and
screenplay by Kamal Selim, dialogue by Badi Khairi and starring Taheya
Cariocca as herself. Plot summary: This is a musical farce in which a
wealthy uncle wants his nephew to marry so he will get his
inheritance, but the nephew is already married.
Cast and crew: Taheya Cariocca, Badi Kheiri, Anwar Wagdi, Kamal Selim, Amira Amir, Bechara Wakim, Marie Munib, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Souraya Helmy, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Ismail Yasseen, Ibrahim Hamuda, Mohammad Abdel Matlab, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Ahmed El Haddad
This is an original-year 23.5" x 35" Egyptian poster designed by
Studio Gasour and Khatab and printed by al-Halaby printers of Cairo to
promote the 1950 Helmy Rafla film The Girl from Paris [bint
bariz] starring Taheya Cariocca based on story and dialogue by Abou
Seoud El-Ibiary with cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: The
manager of a theater where Adel [Mohammad Fawzi] worked as a musician
hired a French dancer to work with him; when a cable came to the
manager apologizing that the dancer would not be coming to Cairo, he
hired a local look-alike [Taheya Cariocca] whom he falsely presented
as the French dancer. Adel was not aware of the impersonation at
first but he fell in love with the substitute and married her even
after he realized what had happened.
Cast and crew: Muhammad Fawzi, Taheya Cariocca, Leila Fawzi, Helmy Rafla, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Aziz Osman, Samiha Tawfiq, Stephan Rosti, Elias Moadab, Abou Seoud El-Ibiary, Bruno Salvi, Sanaa Samih, Wedad Hamdy, Edmond Tuema, Abdel Moneim Ismail
This is a an Egyptian program folder with eight unbound collage sheets
from the 1953 Niazi Mostafa film Hamido based on a story by
Farid Shawqi with screenplay by El Sayed Bedeir and Niazi Mostafa,
dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir, cinematography by Wahid Farid and
starring Farid Shawqi as Hamido. This was quite a popular film in
Egypt but original posters and other memorabilia for it are quite
rare. Plot summary: Hamido was a fisherman near Alexandria who was
trying to get ahead by dealing in narcotics, which was the shortest
route to wealth. He joined a narcotics gang and courted a girl named
Sa'dia [Hoda Soltan] who was working for his mother. She trusted him
and fell in love with him, but then he seduced her and started avoiding
her. He regretted his promise to marry her because he had taken up
with Fawzia [Taheya Cariocca] the girlfriend of the leader of his gang
[Mahmoud El-Meliguy] and taken over leadership of the gang. When his
mother realized Sa'dia was pregnant she threw her out of the house,
but then Sa'dia told the mother the truth about her son's narcotics
dealing. Hamido overheard this angry denunciation; he took
Sa'dia out on a boat ride in the sea so he could drown her with her
shame and be done with her. However she was later rescued by a fishing
boat that happened to pass. A police agent disguised himself,
infiltrated Hamido's narcotics gang and arrested them, but Hamido
himself fled and was killed before he could be arrested.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Wahid Farid, Farid Shawqi, Hoda Soltan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Marie Munib, El Sayed Bedeir, Taheya Cariocca, Ferdoos Mohammed, Said Abu Bakr, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Mohsen Hassanein, Anwar Zaki, Hassan Hamed, Ne'mat Mokhtar, Suleiman al-Nagdi, Abdel Magid Shukry, Abdel Hamid Badawi
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian rerelease poster designed to promote the
1959 105-minute Atef Salem black-and-white film We Are the
Students [ehna al-talamiza] based on a story by Tewfik Saleh and
Kamel Youssef with screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz, dialogue by Mohamed
Abu Youssef and cinematography by Bruno Salvi. The film was
originally distributed by the Dollar Film Company. Plot summary: The
three students Adel [Omar Sharif], Hassanein [Shukry Sarhan] and Samir
[Youssef Fakhr Eddine] all had problems. Adel loved his neighbor
Saham [Amal Farid], but her father refused to allow them to marry and
banned him from the house. Hassanein's uncle [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]
came to him from upper Egypt to emphasize the importance of rising up
against the ones who had killed his father. Samir was suffering from
his father's neglect. Samir and the maid Fatma [Ferdoos Mohammed] had
illicit relations and she became pregnant. Adel learned from the
dancer Gamalat [Taheya Cariocca] about Fatma's miscarriage. The three
robbed the bar where they drank to get the money to provide medical
treatment for the miscarriage but the money they stole did not cover
the costs and Fatma died. Gamalat screamed and the neighbors and the
police came. They were all tried and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of the top
100 Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Atef Salem, Shukry Sarhan, Omar Sharif, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Taheya Cariocca, Bruno Salvi, Tewfik Saleh, Amal Farid, Kamel Youssef, Mohamed Abu Youssef, Youssef Fakhreddine, Zizi El-Badrawy, Abdelaziz Ahmed, Tahani Rached, Kamal Hussein, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Ferdoos Mohammed, Fouad Shafik, Mimi Shakeeb, Nagwa Fouad
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
Pictured is an Egyptian rerelease poster by an unknown designer
made to promote the 1957 120-minute Salah Abouseif black-and-white
film Tough Guy [al-fotuwwah] starring Farid Shawqi based on a
story by Mahmoud Sobhi and Farid Shawqi with screenplay by Naguib
Mahfouz, Salah Abouseif, Mahmoud Sobhi and El Sayed Bedir and
cinematography by Hesham Wadid Serri.
The man pictured on the poster is the late Farid Shawqi
(1920-1998), one of Egypt's most popular and prolific actors, who
appeared in 275 films made in Egypt, Turkey and Syria. The poster
shows Shawqi as a peasant wearing a traditional galabiyya, holding
the tail of it between his teeth to make it easier to run.
The film is about a man from a rural area who comes to Cairo
looking for work, rises to social prominence as the owner of a
successful produce business and then eventually loses most of what he
has and almost his life in an altercation with an arch competitor. It
is a black-and-white thriller with overtones of an old-time urban
gangster film. The film is included on critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007
list of Egypt's 100 most important films, and it is also in the top
100 according to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq.
Plot Summary: A man from upper Egypt named Haridi [Farid Shawqi] is
looking for a way to feed himself working in a vegetable market. The
work is hard manual labor but he succeeds in the employ of an
important merchant named Abu Zayd [Zaki Rostom] and also with the help
of a experienced woman named Husseinia [Taheyya Cariocca]. Haridi
becomes one of Abu Zayd's close associates and learns all his secrets,
ways of taking bribes, holding public auctions and peddling
influence. Haridi then separates from Abu Zayd, marries Husseinia and
becomes an important merchant. After a long series of heated and
sometimes violent clashes with Haridi, Abu Zayd goes to prison and
Haridi becomes the social boss of the market using Abu Zayd's methods
and following in his footsteps as another oppressor. He even acquires
the title "Bey." When Abu Zayd is released from prison there is a
dispute between him and Haridi over a big auction. The dispute
becomes a hot confrontation in which Abu Zayd dies and Haridi is
arrested.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Taheya Cariocca, Salah Abouseif, Zaki Rostom, Mimi Shakeeb, Tewfik El Dekn, Fakher Fakher, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa, Naguib Mahfouz, Hassan el Baroudi, Mohamed Reda, Abdel Alim Khattab, Hoda Soltan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Hesham Wadid Serri, Wadid Serri, Naima Wasfy, Loutfy El Hakim, Salwa Mohamed, Mahmoud Sobhi, El Sayed Bedeir, Kamal Yassine, Nazim Shaarawy, Ahmed al-Hamaqi, Abdou Youssef
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Aly Al-Sayed and
Moaty to promote the 118-minute Hassan Al Imam color film Time of
Love [asr al-hob] starring Mahmoud Yassine based on a story by
Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay and dialogue by Essam al-Gomblati and
cinematography by Ramses Marzouk. Plot summary: Two friends, the
theater actor Hamdy [Mahmoud Yassine] and the merchant Ezzat [Magdy
Wahba], competed to win the heart of their neighbor Badria [Soheir
Ramzy]. She married Hamdy and they worked together in political
theater. The police were chasing Hamdy and he sought refuge with his
friend Hussein. He came upon his wife Badria at Hussein's apartment
as he was trying to rape her. Hamdy thought she was being disloyal to
him. He killed Hussein and was sentenced to life in prison. He
learned from fellow detainee Ahmad that Ezzat had informed on him. He
broke with him and told Badria he regretted the way he had treated
her. Ezzat arrived and they fought. When Ezzat got the upper hand
with Hamdy Badria rushed in and killed him, and she was imprisoned.
The years passed. They met and neither recognized the other. Hamdy
had lost his sight.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Ramses Marzouk, Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Yassine, Soheir Ramzy, Magdy Wahba, Taheya Cariocca, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Mohamed Khairi, Salah Nazmi, Ahmed Diab, Essam al-Gomblati, Shahira, Aziza Rashed, Samiha Tawfiq, Mostafa Karim, Ahmed Diab, Hayam Halal, Fawzy Al Sharkawi
Pictured is a 24" x 36" Egyptian poster designed by Wahdan to promote
the 1942 105-minute Kamal Selim black-and-white film Dreams of
Youth [ahlam al-shabab] starring Farid Al Atrache, based on a
story by Youssef Wahby with screenplay by Kamal Selim, dialogue by
Badei Khayri and cinematography by Sami Brail. Plot summary: Farid
[Farid Al Atrache] became wealthy and he had a passion for love. That
was why he became acquainted with his neighbor Elham [Madiha Yousri],
an orphan who lived with her aunt Basiyouni [Marie Munib]. With
Bassiyouni's agreement Farid became Elham's piano teacher. In a
complication that plays itself out during the film a dancer named
Bahia [Taheya Cariocca] also tried to woo Farid, but he did not love
her even though they performed together.
Cast and crew: Kamal Selim, Hassan Fayek, Bechara Wakim, Farid Al Atrache, Madiha Yousri, Youssef Wahby, Badei Khayri, Taheya Cariocca, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Sami Brail, Marie Munib, Abbas Fares
