This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1981 Zaki Saleh
film Beware We Are the Crazy Ones based on story, screenplay
and dialogue by Anwar Abdel Malek and starring Nahed Sherif as Ashjan.
Plot summary: Hoda [Safa Abu Al-Saud] loved Wahid [Mustafa Fahmy] who
lived in an apartment in the building her mother owned. Wahid got
mixed up in narcotics smuggling and got involved with Ashjan, one of
the smugglers. He was arrested, after which he and Hoda were reunited.
Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Mustafa Fahmy, Sa'eed Saleh, Younes
Shalaby, Zaki Saleh, Safa Abu Al-Saud, Salah El-Saadany, Mohamed Reda,
Aqila Ratib, Seif Allah Mokhtar, Magda Hamada, Samir Wali Eddine,
Mohamed Hamdi, Anwar Abdel Malek
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy and
al-Khad for the 1983 Ahmed Fouad film The Cart Driver
AKA al-arbagy based on story, screeenplay and dialogue by Wahid
Hamed. Cinematography was by Ibrahim Saleh and the poster art was by
Wahib Fahmy and al-Khad. Plot Summary: The cart driver Sayed [Mahmoud
Yassine] lived with his wife Fakiha [Shouweikar] and his children. He
convinced the lottery ticket seller Shalabia [Maali Zayed] to sell him
one so he could try his luck. He won 1000 pounds and decided to spend
the money on an adventure. The people in the neighborhood were happy
for him with the exception of Sheikh Nazir who said he was just going
to waste the money in nightclubs. However this was too much money to
gamble, so he used it to make a deal with a corrupt manipulator, whose
betrayal he soon discovered when he lost the money. He told the
police, they caught the criminal; then the cart driver went back home
and continued living as before.
Cast and crew: Mahmoud Yassine, Younes Shalaby, Shouweikar, Maali
Zayed, Ahmed Fouad, Bahgat Kamar, Nabil Badr, Zizi Mustafa, Ibrahim
Saleh, Wahid Hamed, Samir Wahid, Farouk Youssef, Shawqy Shamekh,
Mohammad Abo Hashih, Abdel Aziz Esa, Zizi Mustafa
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" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the 1982 Ahmed
Sarwat film Five in Hell based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Sami Ghoneim, cinematography by Said Chimi and starring
Sa'eed Saleh as Fahmy. Plot summary: Fahmy makes an agreement
with his friends Nasr [Younes Shalaby] and Kamal [Ahmed Adawiyya] to
steal a company's treasury to pay for the medical expenses of Fahmy's
son. After stealing the money they hide it before they are arrested.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Tharwat, Sa'eed Saleh, Sami Ghoneim, Younes
Shalaby, Ahmed Adawiyya, Wahid Seif, Aly El Cherif, Essad Youniss,
Aida Riad, Ahmed Abdel Waress, Zizi Mustafa, Said Chimi, Othman Abdul
Menem, Mohamed Abo Hashish, Salah Yehia, Nasr Hammad
This is a 27" x 39" Lebanese poster designed by Dar Hani and Gasour
for the 1976 Hassan Al Imam film Amar al-Zaman starring Naglaa
Fathy as Amar al-Zaman. Plot summary: Amar al-Zaman was an innocent,
naive girl who left her home town of al-Mansoura to look for work in
Cairo. Someone tried to rape her when she arrived in Cairo but she was
rescued by an acquaintance named Soltan [Sa'eed Saleh] who worked as a
magician in a cabaret. He got her a job in the cabaret but she failed
as a waitress because she was clumsy. A carnival puppeteer and former
ballet dancer named Mohsen [Mustafa Fahmy] fell in love with her.
Mohsen was obliged to work in cabarets because of a war injury and
doubted Amar al-Zaman cared for him, but in fact she loved him too.
Cast and crew: Abu Bakr Ezzat, Hassan Al Imam, Mustafa Fahmy,
Sa'eed Saleh, Younes Shalaby, Hala Fakher, Naglaa Fathy, Hala Sedki,
Ramses Marzouk, Saleh Iskandarani, Mohamed Shawky, Mohammad Nagam,
Ibrahim Nasr, Eza Kamal, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Mona Abdulla
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammed Abdel
Aziz to promote the 1978 Hussein Kamal 137-minute color film We're
the Bus People [ehna bitu' al-otobis] starring Adel Imam based on
the 1976 Jalal al-Din Al-Hamamsi novel Dialogue behind the
Walls [hewar wara' al-aswar] with screenplay and dialogue by
Farouk Sabry and cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: The
story's events begin in the days leading up to the 1967 six-day war. A
quarrel breaks out on a crowded bus between two acquaintance
passengers named Gaber [Adel Imam] and Marzouq [Abdel Moneim Madbouly]
and the bus conductor. Gaber and Marzouq are eventually jailed for
their conduct. A group of arrested political dissidents later joins
them in the jail. They are all transferred to another holding facility
and accused of distributing publications calling for the overthrow of
the government; of course Gaber and Marzouq refuse to sign confessions since they have been accidentally grouped with the
dissidents. They are not believed, brutally flogged, tortured and
forced to confess to crimes of which they are not guilty. Marzouq is
later killed by gunfire from guards during a prison revolt. The title
of the film is a line Marzouq repeats several times while pleading his
innocence under interrogation. This film is widely understood
as a fierce indictment of oppression under corrupt Arab governments.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Moshira Ismail, Hussein Kamal, Aqila Ratib, Said Abdel Ghani, Younes Shalaby, Ibrahim Saafan, Wagdy El-Araby, Essad Youniss, Gamal Ismail, Gamal Ismail, Madhar Abol Naga, Abdalah Mishrif, Ahmed Salama, Reshwan Said, Ali Al Ghandour, Adawy Gheith, Alia Abdel Moneim, Ahmed Salama, Abdel Hamid al-Monir, Abou Al-Seoud Attia, Sayed Mahmoud, Rafet Ragi, Faisal Azab, Reshwan Mostafa
