This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1963 Ahmed Diaeddin film Without an Appointment based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Yousef Eisa and starring Soad Hosny as
Salwa. Plot summary: Salwa was in love with Wahid [Mohamed Soltan]
but no one knew, and he did not reciprocrate her feelings because he
loved Nadia [Nadia Lutfi]. At the same time Kamal [Moharram Fouad] was
also in love with Nadia and nobody knew about that either. He did not
know his friend Wahid also loved Nadia. When Kamal found out about
this he decided to get out of the way.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Diaeddin, Soad Hosny, Nadia Lutfi, Muharram
Fouad, Mohamed Sultan, Fakher Fakher, Zouzou Mady, Sair Sabri, Khayria
Ahmed, Salah Jahine, Mimi Shakeeb, Victor Antoun, Yousef Eisa
Pictured is a 27" x 39" promotional poster designed by Mohammad Abdel
Aziz and Ahmed Fouad for the 1962 100-minute Ahmed Diaeddin
black-and-white film Faithful Forever AKA wafa lil-abad
starring Imad Hamdi as Hamdy Hamed and Madiha Yousri as Wafa Kheir
with story and dialogue by Mahmoud Sobhi and cinematography by Victor
Antoun. Plot summary: Nabil Kheir [Ahmad Khamees] was a young
engineer living happily in Alexandria with his daughter Mona [Alawiya
Mostafa] and his wife Wafa. He was a partner in the same office with
his friend Safwat Fahmy [Omar El-Hariri]. One day Nabil saw a young
man trying to kill himself by jumping off a bridge and was able to
save him, but he drowned in so doing and left a bereaved family. The
man Hamdy Hamed Nabil had saved was stricken with remorse and wanted
to atone for his guilt at any price. He tried to get close to the
widow by renting a room in her house without telling her he had been
the cause of her husband's death. She rented him a room because she
needed the money. Hamdy began to have deep feelings for Wafa and
became close to the daughter. Hamdy acquired some money, paid it to
the widow and told her it came from a philanthropist. The widow
accused him of stealing the money from her husband. He tried to
confess to her the truth but Wafa left the country. When she returned
she found Hamdy waiting for her asking her to forgive his mistake.
She forgave him and they married.
Cast and crew: Omar El-Hariri, Ahmad Khamees, Alawyia Mostafa, Imad
Hamdi, Madiha Yousri, Ahmed Diaeddin, Mahmoud Sobhi, Victor Antoun,
Zeinab Sedky, Soheir El-Bably, Salwa Mahmoud, Mohammed Abaza, Mohamed
Reda, Mahmoud Reda, Hussein Ismail, Alawiya Qadri, Noura
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster desiged by Wahib
Fahmy for the 1974 Mahmoud Farid film Devils Forever based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Behgat Kamar and Kamal Zakaria and
starring Adel Imam as Fakhrani. Plot summary: Fakhrani and Kamal
Taleban [Farouk Youssef] wanted to marry the sisters Faten [Safa Abu
al-Saud] and Ferial [Hayat Kandeel] but their father the Sergeant
Maghawy [Mohamed Reda] refused to allow it because their family's
military tradition required the husbands of its daughters to be
soldiers. Fakhrani and Kamal therefore joined the Police Institute
Trustees after finishing school. Their father then agreed to let his
daughters marry them. The plan was delayed when Maghawy's youngest
son Galal was kidnapped.
Cast and crew: Mahmoud Farid, Safa Abu Al-Saud, Hayat Kandeel,
Nagwa Fouad, Nabila El Sayed, Mohamed Reda, Adel Imam, Behgat Kamar,
Victor Antoun, Kamal Zakaria, Farouk Youssef, Safaa Abo Seud, Madhar
Abol Nega, Ibrahim Saafan, Medhat Gamal, Nasr Seif, Ahmed Salama,
Mohamed Abo Hashish, Mahmoud al-Tufi, Sayed Ibrahim, Ahmed Nabil
This is a 23.25" x 35" stone lithograph movie poster by an unknown
artist for the 1958 Mahmoud Zulfikar film Me and My Heart based
on a story by Amin Yousseff Ghurab, screenplay by Mahmoud Zulfikar and
Amin Yousseff Ghurab and starring Mariam Fakhr
Eddine as Leila. Plot summary: A woman named Leila was
shocked when she saw her mother in her husband's [Hussein Kandil] arms
and ran out of the house in a rush. She was hit by a car and taken to
a hospital. She was shocked again when Dr. Mohsen at the hospital
[Imad Hamdi] gave her a job and then proposed marriage. Dr. Mohsen
knew she was from a prosperous family. He contacted her brother,
[Youssef Fakhr Eddine] who asked her husband to divorce her; he
refused and obtained a court order summoning her to a marital
obedience dwelling.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1964
Ahmed Diaeddin black comedy An Abnormal Girl AKA fatat
shaza based on a story by Adly El-Mowalid and starring Showeikar
as the abnormal girl. Plot summary: The film depicts a picaresque
chain of events in which a girl [Showeikar] is modeling swimsuits and
then removed from the scene by her fiance [Ahmed Ramzy] because as a
model she attracts inappropriate attention from a group of men. They
then find themselves at a party at a villa where a physician [Youssef
Fakhreddine] attempts to enlist her services as a model for his
paintings, but this too is deemed inappropriate by her fiance, who
attempts to get the physician charged with lewd behavior with the help
of some compromising photos he has taken. The girl takes a job as a
cabaret waitress; while working there she learns her father [Mahmoud
El-Meliguy] is in prison. She goes to meet him when he is released,
but is surprised to find that his second wife is also there to meet
him. This is so traumatic for her that she attempts to kill herself
by jumping into the Nile, but is rescued by one of her father's men,
who takes her in a coma to her father's home. When she regains
consciousness she finds her father in the room with her and thinks he
is the one who has abducted her. She flees, breaks a leg while
falling off a balcony and is treated by the same painter/physician she
met at the party. She learns that this physician had not been guilty
of lewd intentions after all. However, when questioned and accused in
court the physician commits suicide. Her father attempts to take her
with him from the court but she refuses to go. She makes her way
through a maze of hallways at the courthouse and then disappears.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Diaeddin, Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Victor Antoun,
Rushdy Abaza, Ahmed Ramzy, Youssef Fakhreddine, Youssef Fakhr Eddine,
Shouweikar, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Tewfik El Dekn, Adly El-Mowalid, Adel
Adham, Mimi Shakeeb, Madiha Kamel, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Fatheya
Chahine, Mohammed Abaza
This is a 35.5" x 47" oversize stone litho Egyptian poster designed by
an unknown artist to promote the 1954 Mahmoud Zulfikar 130-minute
black-and-white film The Good Earth الارض الطيبة based on a story by Mahmoud
Zulfikar with screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Gohar, cinematography
by Victor Antoun and starring Mariam Fakhr Eddine as Saadia. Plot
summary: A simple country girl named Saadia lived on a farm with her
wealthy uncle Ali [Hussein Riad] without realizing she was the
daughter of a wealthy man from a secret marriage. The wealthy man left
his great wealth to his daughter and died. She went to Cairo to
receive her inheritance. Her uncle's wife Bahiga [Zuzu Madi] plotted
with her lover Zaki [Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy] to confiscate the girl's
money with the help of her mother's brother, a poor photographer named
Hussein [Kamal Al-Shennawy]. However the heiress gradually fell in
love with her uncle Hussein, who revealed the details about a
fraudulent court case they were trying to build against her, causing
it to fail. The girl went back to the farm and distributed her
inheritance among the peasants working there, then married her uncle
after realizing he was a good man even if he was poor.
Cast and crew: Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Youssef Gohar, Victor Antoun, Omar al Gizawy, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Hussein Riad, Mahmoud Zulfkar, Zuzu Madi, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Fouad El-Mohandes, Souraya Fakhry, Saad Makawy, Abdel Hamid Badawy, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Kitty, Mohamed al-Toukhi, Farag al-Nahas, Amal Wahid, Soad Fawzi, Mohamed Sabih, Khayria Kheiri
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
to promote the 1969 89-minute Houssam El-Din Mustafa black-and-white
film Son of Satan [ibn al-shaytan] starring Farid Shawqi based
on story, screenplay and dialogue by Adly El-Mowalid with
cinematography by Victor Antoun. Plot summary: The son of Satan was a
disguised criminal whose primary aim in life was to kill all the men
who had married again after leaving their wives and children. This
was his way of getting revenge against his own father for remarrying.
There was a local lunatic who called himself the son of Satan [Tewfiq
El Dekn], but there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing against
him. The owner of a public place named Atris [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]
refused to hold any weddings in the village fearing the son of Satan
would take revenge. The police sergeant Morsi [Farid Shawqi], who
tried to keep the peace, gave him assurances. Morsi's brother
[Ibrahim Khan] came to the village and was kidnapped by the son of
Satan. He was saved by Saidia [Naglaa Fathy] who lived with her
mother at the home of the son of Satan; she then fled for her life.
The Son of Satan chased her everywhere. After a long bloody struggle
between the son of Satan, Sergeant Morsi and his brother Ibrahim, they
discovered that the real son of Satan was actually Atris, the owner of
the public place. He was killed in the struggle and then life
continued calmly in the village.
Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Tewfik El Dekn, Naglaa Fathy, Ibrahim Khan, Neemet Moukhatar, Nimat Mukhtar, Adly El-Mowalid, Victor Antoun, Al-Tukhi Tewfiq, Ahmed Morsi, Alia Abdel Moneim, Ahmed Abuebia, Samir Walieddin, Qadria Kamel, Kamal al-Zeini, Hussein Ismail
This film is based on the 1929 Jean Giono novel Un de
Baumugnes, and the 1934 film Angele based on the same
novel directed by Marcel Pagnol and starring Orane Demazis as Angele
Barbaroux. It was directed by Hassan Ramzi with screenplay by Hassan
Ramzi and Naguib Mahfouz, cinematography by Victor Antoun.
Plot Summary: Zeinab believed it was her right to choose her
husband but her father the mayor arranged a marriage to her cousin
against her wishes. Zeinab ran away and her cousin decided he would
kill her if he found her. Zeinab went to Cairo where she met a young
physician who gave her shelter. They fell in love and agreed to marry
in three years after he returned from an assignment in Europe.
However he came home drunk one night and raped her. In the morning he
was unable to explain to her his decision to marry her. He left and
she thought he had fled after deceiving her. She left the house and
went to live with one of the doctor's friends, who treated her as a
sister. They joined a singing group that toured the Arab nations.
When the physician returned he tried to find Zeinab so he could marry
her but no one could say where she was. She was living with the
physician's friend outside Cairo where she had her baby and was
raising the child. She learned from the newspapers that he had become
a representative for the hospital in her town. She decided to return
to Cairo to ask him to acknowledge his son. When she met him he was
confused to learn he had a son. He emphasized he would acknowledge
him but he asked her to give him time. She believed he was fleeing
from her. Suddenly her family summoned him to help her dying father.
She went with him and asked his forgiveness. The father died and the
cousin decided to kill her, but he changed his mind in the end because
of her sister's pleading, and she finally returned to her town. The
physician's friend mediated between Zeinab and the physician and
harmony was restored between them.
Cast and crew: Hassan Ramzi, Shadia, Shukry Sarhan, Zaki Rostom, Kariman, Ferdoos Mohammed, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Victor Antoun, Abdel Alim Khattab, Naguib Mahfouz, Mohamed Sabih, Jean Giono, Marcel Pagnol, Orane Demazis, Angele Barbaroux
Love in August (1966) - (Fouad El-Mohandes) three-piece Egyptian poster
This 65x39" poster for a 1966 Hassan El-Seify film was designed by Wahib Fahmy and Abdel Aziz, printed by Al-Nasr printers of Cairo and distributed by the General Company for the Distribution and Marketing of Cinematic Films [sherket al-'am li-tawdi' wa-ard al-aflam al-sinemaia]. The actors in the painting are Fouad El-Mohandes holding the undersized umbrella, and Shouweikar whom he is attempting to shelter. The umbrella seems much too small for blocking either sun or rain, and seems also to symbolize the suitor's hopeless situation. I haven't seen the film but have read that the character Farid (El-Mohandes) is trying to fill the shoes of the late husband of Salwa (Shouweikar), who was killed in a traffic accident on their wedding night. Apparently he manages to do this because they eventually marry (the required happy ending for this type of Egyptian film).
