This is a 27" x 39" poster designed by al-Khad for the 1986 Atef
E-Taib film Language File AKA Malaf fil-Adab written
by Wahid Hamed and starring
Farid Shawqi as Rashad. Plot summary: Vice Squad Officer Saeed [Salah
al-Saadany] is upset because his boss stops an investigation of Alia
because of her political connections. This prompts him to attempt to
get convictions based on falsified information.
Cast and crew: Atef E-Taib, Wahid Hamid, Farid Shawqi, Said Shimi,
Madiha Kamel, Salah al-Saadany, Tewfik El Dekn, Ahmed Bedir, Ali Al
Ghandour, Mahmoud Al Iraqi, Youssef Dawood, Taghreid El Beshbishy,
Olfat Imam, Abdul Jawad Metwali, Zakaria Mouafi, Salwa Othman, Rafat
Ragi, Nasser Seif
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Aziz and Abdel
Fathy for the 1982 Mohamed Abdel Aziz film At the Minister's Door
based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Samir Abdel Azim
and starring Adel Imam as Kamal. Plot summary: Noora's [Youssra]
father [Salah Nazmi] refuses to allow her to marry Kamal because his family is too
poor. A neighbor woman named Anhar [Safia El Emari] marries Kamal's
father [Tewfik El Dekn] after her fiance Khamis [Sa'eed Saleh] abandons her.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Abdel Fathy, Mohamed Abdel Aziz,
Adel Imam, Youssra, Tewfik El Dekn, Salah Nazmi, Sa'eed Saleh, Safia
El Emari, Ahmed Rateb, Ahmed Bedir, Ahmed Shokry, Lucy, Mokhtar Al
Sayed, Ibrahim Qadry, Essam Farid, Samir Abdelazim"
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by
Walid Wahig for the 1962 film Judgment Day written and directed
by Abdel Rahman Sharif and starring Samira Ahmed as Yasmin / Salwa.
Plot summary: In the year 1946 in Port Said Enayat [Samiha Ayoub] is
involved with the smuggler Amin, [Hassan Hamed] who goes to prison.
When he gets out, he wants revenge and gets close to Enayat's husband
Ahmed [Imad Hamdi] and daughter Salwa. He is killed later; Ahmed is
accused of the murder and sent to prison for 15 years.
Cast and crew: Samira Ahmed, Imad Hamdi, Kamal Salaheddine, Abdel
Rahman Sharif, Samiha Ayyoub, Tewfik El Dekn, Fakher Fakher, Hassan
Hamed, Wedad Hamdy, Ibrahim Emara, Zuzu Madi, Nahed Sabri
This is a 27" x39" Egyptian rereleae one-sheet poster for the 1938
Mohamed Abdel Gawad film The Life of Christ based on a
screenplay by Taha Hussein. Plot summary: The film follows the life
of Christ as told in the New Testament.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Taha Hussein, Aziza Helmy,
Ahmed Alam, Samiha Ayyoub, Abdel Alim Khattab, Salah Sarhan, Tewfik El
Dekn, Saad Ardash, Stephan Rosti, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Fawzia Ibrahim,
Afaf Shaker
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1975 Said Marzouk film The Culprits based on a story by Naguib
Mahfouz, screenplay by Mahdouh El Leithy and Naguib Mahfouz and
starring Hussein Fahmy as Ahmad Saber. The film is included in Ahmad
Al-Hadari's list of Egypt's 100 most important films. Plot Summary:
The actress Sanaa Kamal [Soheir Ramzy] was murdered in her bed. The
investigator summoned all those who were in her home on the night of
her death including her fiancee Ahmad Saber, the director of the
company that published the papers the actress used to help build the
building, his friend who betrayed his wife and the strong young man
who sold his body to the actress while at the same time making plans
to steal the treasury at an institution. Then everyone who was at the
party at her home that night was arrested after the investigator
discovered the crime took place during the party. Her fiance the film
director admitted he had killed her out of jealousy.
Cast and crew: Hussein Fahmy, Soheir Ramzy, Zubaida Tharwat, Said
Marzouk, Salah Zulfikar, Adel Adham, Youssef Chaban, Imad Hamdi,
Tewfik El Dekn, Naguib Mahfouz, Samir Sabri, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim,
Kamal Al-Shennawi, Mustafa Imam, Abdel Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel,
Sameer Ghanem, Wahid Seif, Osama Abbas, Leila Fahmi, Naima Al
Soghayar, Said Abdel Ghani
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1973 Houssam El-Din Mustafa
film Devils on Vacation based on story screenplay and dialogue
by Adly El-Mowaled and starring Mohamed Awad as Hamada. Plot summary:
While Hamada was in the Abu Qir Mediterranean resort area Awad
[Ghassan Mattar] hid some valuable diamonds in his camera. Hamada did
not realize this because he was too busy enjoying himself with his
friends Galal [Hassan Youssef] and Salah [Youssef Fakhr Eddine].
Awad's gang was pursuing them to get the diamonds; the police were
also monitoring the situation waiting for the right time to get
involved.
Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ibrahim Saleh, Adly
El-Mowaled, Mohamed Awad, Hassan Youssef, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Soheir
Ramzy, Lebleba, Ghassan Mattar, Kanaan Wasfy, Tewfik El Dekn, Ahmed
Abaza
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian promotional poster for
the 1939 Mohamed Abdel Gawad film The Life and Passion of the Lord
Jesus Christ starring Ahmed A'lam as Jesus. Plot summary: This is
said to be the first film in Arabic about the life of Jesus. Jesus is
an adult when the film begins. The film catalogues his miracles and
other famous New Testament events.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Tewfik El Dekn, Aziza Helmy,
Samiha Ayyoub, Afaf Shaker, Fawzia Ibrahim, Saad Ardash
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1966 Fatin Abdel Wahab
film My Wife the Director General written by Abdel Hamid Gouda
El Sahhar and Saad Eldin Wahba and starring Shadia as Esmat. Plot
summary: Hussein Omar [Salah Zulfikar] was surprised when his wife
Esmat was made director general of the construction company where he
was working. He concealed his marriage to the director general but he
was forced to admit it later when friction developed between them over
trivialities. Esmat tried to have a new honeymoon with her husband,
while her husband asked for a transfer to her department so he could
be a witness to the value of her work.
Cast and crew: Fatin Abdel Wahab, El-Deif Ahmed, Shadia, Salah
Zulfikar, Fatin Abdel Wahab, Mahmoud Fahmy, Tewfik El Dekn, Shafik
Noureddin, Youssef Chaban, Kariman, Adel Imam, Abdel Hamid Gouda El
Sahar, Saad Eldin Wahba
Pictured is an original 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet movie poster
designed to promote the 1961 153-minute Henry Barakat black-and-white
film There is a Man in Our House [fi baitina ragol] starring
Omar Sharif based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay by
Youssef Issa and Henry Barakat, dialogue by Youssef Issa and
cinematography by Hesham Wadid Serri. Plot summary: Ibrahim [Omar
Sharif] assassinates the prime minister who has been collaborating
with the imperialists, then asks his friend Mohey [Hassan Youssef] to
hide him. Mohey's father does not welcome the fugitive, but his
sisters are happy to help Ibrahim contact his political friends.
Ibrahim eventually rejoins the rebellion in Egypt and is killed in an
attack on a British base. This film is on film critic Ahmad
Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Zubaida Tharwat, Henry Barakat, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus,
Rushdy Abaza, Omar Sharif, Zahrat El-Ola, Hassan Youssef, Tewfik El
Dekn, Hesham Wadid Serri, Hussein Riad, Nahed Samir, Abdel Khalek
Saleh, Youssef Chaban, Abdel Moneim Bassioni
This poster was designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1975 Tayseer
Aboud film The Shipyard of Violence with screenplay and dialogue
by Faisal Nada and Gamal Amar and based on a story by Faisal
Nada. Cinematography was by Aly Kheirollah. Plot summary: Rostam Bey
[Farid Shawqi] managed the affairs of a shipping company owned by him
and his late brother. His nephew Hassan [Samir Sabry] demanded his
share of the company, but the uncle refused to give it to him to keep
the fleet from being divided. However Hassan insisted on recovering
his father's rights and his share in the company. While he was trying
to get what was rightfully his he discovered Tawfiq [Tewfik El Dekn]
was manipulating the company's affairs. He tried to change his uncle's
mind but his uncle did not trust him, while Tawfiq was making the
distance between uncle and nephew even greater. When Hassan proposed
to his cousin Dalia [Nahed Sherif] because they were in love, Rostam
refused to allow the marriage and Tawfiq was making plans to kill
Hassan. They had a vicious fight. By the time Rostam Bey and his
daughter Dalia arrived Hassan had been unable to do any harm to his
detested rival; Tawfiq shot Dalia in the chest and she died in the
arms of her father and fiance. Only then did Rostam realize how wrong
he had been about his nephew.
Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Farid Shawqi,
Samir Sabry, Amina Rizk, Tewfik El Dekn, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Tayseer
Aboud, Faisal Nada, Gamal Amar, Aly Kheirollah, Ibrahim Qadry, Mohamed
Hamdi, Hamdi Sherif, Amira, Hala Sedki, Dina Abdullah, Ezza Kamal,
Luwais Youssef
Pictured is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Gasour and
Anise for the 1972 110-minute Ashraf Fahmy color film Forbidden
Desires [raghabat mamnu'a] starring Shadia based on a story by
Hanifa Fathy with screenplay and dialogue by Sabry Moussa and
cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: Tafida [Karima Mokhtar]
was a young woman of breathtaking beauty but her brother Ahmed Atia
al-Gablawy [Hussein Fahmy] put strict controls on her; She was forced
to flee those restraints so she could marry the man she loved, whom
her brother had forbidden her to marry. When she arrived at the
shipping yard in Alexandria where she had agreed to meet her beloved
she was surprised to find someone attacking him, and the attacker
killed him as soon as he saw her. She tried in vain to save him but
he died from the stab wounds all over his body. Tafida went back to
her brother's home, her clothes stained with the blood of her beloved;
her brother's daughter Samia [Shadia] was upset at the sight of the
blood and screamed. The days passed and it seemed as if Tafida had
become deranged after seeing her beloved killed before her eyes. Her
brother Atia got her a room far away from his home close to the docks
and he did not allow her to see anyone or anyone to see her. Atia
al-Gablawy was a hard-hearted man whose human emotions were all dead,
but despite that he was quite possessive. For example he refused to
allow his daugher Samia to attend school because he didn't want anyone
to see her. She lived in ignorance and felt very bad because of that.
He sent his son to school to learn the sciences that would qualify him
to help at the factory he had established, but Ahmad continued his
studies and enrolled at the faculty of fine arts to study art,
unbeknownst to his father. Ahmed fell in love with a classmate named
Azza [Mervat Amin] and they decided to marry. Naturally with their
marital plans Azza learned everything about Ahmed and he learned
everything about her. Azza decided to do a graduation project at the
college about the docks area in Alexandria and Ahmad encouraged
her. He even invited her to live with his family so she could complete
her studies. Azza went to the docks area near Alexandria while Ahmad
happened to be with his father at the factory. She was surprised to
see Samia; he had not known she was her brother's classmate and was
even educated, after being sentenced to ignorance by her father. She
made a show of welcoming her and while she was preparing a room for
her Azza walked around the house. She wandered into the room where
Tafida was staying and screamed in fright at the sight of her. Tafida
screamed more loudly and the panic spread. Atia and his son Ahmad
happened to arrive at the same time, and Ahmad welcomed Azza. He
introduced her to his father who also welcomed her; this calmed her
after the shock of seeing Tafida. Despite Atia Al-Jablawy's show of
welcoming his son's classmate, he watched her closely so she would not
discover the truth about him or what drove Tafida crazy, and
especially the fact that the one who had killed Tafida's beloved was
the husband [Ezzat Abdel Gawad] of the maid Shawq [Aida Abd el Aziz].
Because he feared that discovery, he also concealed his feelings from
his children and behaved in an exemplary way in front of them. It was
of the utmost importance to Azza that the father know the nature of
her relationship with Ahmed's daughter, who deeply loved him. She
insisted on revealing to Ahmad's father their agreement to travel to
Europe to complete their studies, but Ahmed was reluctant to do this
because he knew about his father's ethics and tyranny. However
because of Azza's insistence he had to tell the truth to his father,
who erupted in anger and decided to break up their relationship no
matter what the cost. In the meantime the criminal who had killed
Tafida's beloved had finished his sentence and was about to get out of
prison; his wife was afraid because she had been in a sinful
relationship with Atia al-Gablawy [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] throughout the period of her
husband's absence. She decided to ask for a divorce. The father did
not care about that because he was preoccupied with his son's
relationship with his friend Azza. When Azza saw the father's control
over his son she decided to return to Cairo immediately; one day Ahmed
came across the place where his father had been meeting the maid
Shawq, and just then his sister Samia came upon the same scene!
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Morteda Anise,
Hanifa Fathy, Shadia, Mervat Amin, Hussein Fahmy, Youssef Sha'ban,
Tewfik El Dekn, Mohsen Nasr, Sabry Moussa, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Aida
Abdel Aziz, Karima Mokhtar, Mokhtar Al Sayed, Abdel Azim Sa'ad, Ezzat
Abdel Gawad, Anwar Al-Askari, Aly El Cherif, Mohamed Khalil
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1961 Hassan Al Imam
film My Life is the Price AKA Life is Like That based
on a story by Hassan Al Imam, screenplay and dialogue by Mohammad
Osman and starring Hoda Soltan. Plot summary: A rich man named Gaber
[Hussein Riad] met a young woman named Soad [Hoda Soltan] towards whom
he could not express his feelings because her husband Dr. Hussein
[Ahmed Mazhar] kept getting in the way. The woman did not seem as if
she would be easy to seduce so Gaber sent her husband abroad on a
mission to distract him. He then tried to get close to her but she
would not allow it; he sent the couple a will leaving a large sum of
money to a son from another woman. When Dr. Hussein heard about this
he separated from his wife. Soad decided to avenge the damage that
had been done to her reputation. She went to court and presented
medical evidence her husband was impotent.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Hoda Soltan, Ahmad Mazhar, Hussein
Riad, Tewfik El Dekn, Zouzou Nabil, Nagwa Fouad, Abdel Aziz Fahmy,
Nahed Samir, Hamed Morsi, Ragaa Hussein
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian movie poster designed by Samira for the
1984 Mohamed Khan film Missing Person written by Assem Tawfiq,
starring Yehia El-Fakharany as Atia Abdel Khaleq and inspired by the
1958 H. E. Bates novel The Darling Buds of May. Mohamed
El-Assyouti wrote this plot summary on IMDB: "A culinary piece of
cinema. This humourous critique of dehumanisation in big-city life
depicts a depressed urban dweller who leaves for the countryside,
where he tries to sell a piece of land he has inherited. He is charmed
by the idyllic life, but has to keep up with the voracious appetites
of his hosts, who literally never stop eating, even waking up to
snack. He soon adapts to their eating habits but only after he is
taken to a hospital with severe indigestion due to his hosts'
generosity."
Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Assem Tawfiq, Tewfik El Dekn, Yehia
El-Fakharany, Laila Eloui, Farid Shawqi, Tarek El-Telmessani, Aida
Abdel Aziz, H.E. Bates
This is a 27" x 38.5" poster for the 1985 Mohamed Khan film Half a
Million written by Bachir El Dik and Mohamed Khan and starring
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz as Youssef. Plot Summary: Serag [Yehia
El-Fakharany] cashed a check for a half million pounds at the Transfer
Bank company with his girlfriend Kawsar. The employee Youssef and the
thief Rafai [Saeed Saleh] wanted to get the bag with the money in it.
They grabbed the bag and took it to a deserted location but they found
it had been emptied of cash. They agreed to look for the original
bag. Serag killed Kawsar. Then he lived in a hotel with the cash.
They sent a girl to him to take the money from him. There was a
confrontation and they all died. Youssef found the case containing
the half million.
Cast and crew: Saeed Saleh, Hala Sedki, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Yehia
El-Fakharany, Tewfik El Dekn, Mohamed Khan, Ahmed Rateb, Bachir El
Dik, Farida Seif El Nasr, Aziza Helmy, Said Sheimy, Medhat Morsy,
Nahed Samir, Hafez Amin, Ahmed Hussein, Hoda Kamal, Safa Al-Sabaa
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the
1981 Ashraf Fahmy film The Devil Preaches based on a story by
Naguib Mahfouz and starring Farid Shawqi as Al-Dinari. Plot summary:
The dominant district thug Al-Dinari hired laundry worker Shata
al-Hagari [Nour El-Sherif] to conduct surveillance on his fiancee
Wedad [Nabila Ebeid]. Shata did not like this job but he liked Wedad
and they decided to marry. After they were married Shata and Wedad
lived under the protection of Al-Shebli, [Adel Adham] the dominant
thug in the Al-Atouf district, who was hostile to Al-Dinari.
Al-Shebli wanted Wedad and he raped her in front of Shata. He said
his primary motivation for doing this was to get revenge against
Al-Dinari. Shata returned with Wedad to his family, who knew what had
happened to him. He asked Al-Dinari to set a time for him to meet
Al-Shebli in a fight. Shata had advised staying away from his wife
because she was about to have a baby but Al-Shebli had refused. Shata
resolved to take revenge; when the fight took place Shata killed
Al-Shebli, but he was then killed almost immediately by one of
Al-Shebli's henchmen. Wedad had her baby the same day and decided to
move to another place with her son. Al-Dinari was sad about what had
happened despite the district celebration of his victory over his
enemy.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Nour El-Sherif, Nabila Ebeid, Adel
Adham, Naguib Mahfouz, Ashraf Fahmy, Karima Mokhtar, Hafez Amin,
Tewfik El Dekn, Farouk Fathalla, Said Sheimy, Said Al-Shiemy, Ahmed
Saleh
This isa 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Marcel and Mohamed
Abdel Aziz for the 1970 Aly Reda black-and-white musical Ticket
Thief based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Osman and
starring Naglaa Fathy. Plot summary: Zeinab, [Naglaa Fathy] a poor
woman with a factory job, bought a lottery ticket, had it stolen and
then reported the numbers on the stolen ticket to the police. After
the stolen ticket won 5000 pounds, the man the thief sold it to, an
underpaid dancer named Ahmed Shaker, [Mahmoud Reda] was arrested when
he tried to claim his winnings.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Marcel, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Aly Reda,
Farida Fahmy, Mahmoud Reda, Adel Adham, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Tewfik
El Dekn, Hassan Mustafa, Mahmoud Choukou, Naima Al Soghayar, Zizi
Mustafa, Ahmed Khorshed, Mohamed Osman, Mimi Shakeeb, Ahmed Khorshed,
Ali Gohar, Hassan al-Meliguy, Fatma Emara, Faiza Fouad
This is a 27" x 39" poster designed by Abdel Aziz and Aziz for the
1969 Hassan El-Seify film Mama's Secretary starring Nadia Lutfi
as Camelia. Plot summary: The wealthy widow Camelia lived with her
daughter Amal [Neveen]. She met Shalaby Abudaba when he was performing
in a carnival act; her daughter was attracted to him because he
resembled her father. Camilia offered him a job as her secretary
after initially thinking he was her late husband; he then discovered
theft and embezzlement in her accounts that were being managed by
Haridi [Tewfik El Dekn]. Haridi tried to get even with Shalaby.
Cast and crew: Hassan El-Seify, Hesham Wadid Serri, Farid Shawqi,
Nadia Lutfi, Tewfik El Dekn, Nawal Abul Foutouh, Neveen, Zaki Mohammad
Hassan, Sayed Ghanim, Hamdi Salem, Ibrahim Kamal, Sayed al-Araby,
Mansour Gaber, Faiza Fouad
