This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mahar Gasour
for the 1984 Ahmed Al-Sabawy film I killed al-Hanash based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hay Adib and starring Adel
Imam as Hassanein. Plot summary: Al-Hanash [Youssef Chaban] oppresses
both Hassanein and Barhouma [Sa'eed Saleh]. When Hassanein goes to
Greece to work he marries his girlfriend Aziza [Safia El Emari] after
she tells him she is pregnant with their child. Al-Hanash hires men
in Greece to fight Hassanein.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Al-Sabawy, Gasour, Ibrahim Saleh, Abdel Hay
Adib, Youssef Chaban, Adel Imam, Sa'eed Saleh, Safia El Emari, Maali
Zayed, Ahmed Rateb, Ezzat Abdul Jawad, Youssef Fawzi, Hussein
El-Sherbini, Nasr Seif, Shawqi Shamekh
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 designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1973 Henry Barakat film A Woman with a Bad Repuation based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Mamdou El Leithy and starring Shams
El-Barudy as Henaa. Plot summary: Henaa and Kamal Shukry [Youssef
Chaban] got married, but then he made her compromise her principles to
help him fulfill his ambitions. He introduced her to his manager
Saafan, [Imad Hamdi] who rewarded Kamal by making him company sales
manager. Henaa soon became a prostitute selling her body to get
promotions. Henaa met her old boyfriend Ahmed Fouad [Mahmoud Yassine]
but she did not tell him about the way she had been behaving with
Saafan. She promised Ahmed she would ask Kamal for a divorce so she
could marry him.
Cast and crew: Shams El-Barudy, Mamdouh El Leithy, Henry Barakat,
Mahmoud Yassine, Imad Hamdi, Hesham Wadid Serri, Mamdouh El Leithy,
George Sidhum, Salah Nazmi, Nagwa Fouad, Youssef Chaban
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 a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour to promote the 1976 109-minute Hassan Al Imam color
film The Nightingale Has Lips [al-kerwan luh shafayef] starring Soheir
Ramzy based on a story by Roget Lahont, screenplay and dialogue by
Hassan Al Imam and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary:
Hussein [Samir Sabri] and Qasem [Youssef Chaban] worked with Kerwan,
[Soheir Ramzy] the female star of a dance troupe. The troupe fell
heavily into debt and there was a breakup. Afterwards there was a
false murder accusation and an incident of marital infidelity,
followed by a resumption of what had gone before.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Roget Lahont, Imad Hamdi, Soheir
Ramzy, Nabila Ebeid, Naima Al Soghayar, Youssef Chaban, Abu Bakr
Ezzat, Hayat Kandeel, Samir Sabri, Enaam Salousa, Wahid Farid, Robab,
Farouq Naguib, Walid Tewfiq, Enaam Salousa
This is a 27" x 39" Egytian poster designed by Morteda Anise for the
1986 Ashraf Fahmy film Naked Shame based on a story by Naguib
Mahfouz with screenplay and dialogue by Mostafa Moharram and starring
Youssra as Elham. Plot summary: After being sentenced to a prison
term in an indecency case Aziza [Hoda Soltan] of Alexandria admitted
to her son Mokhtar [Nour El-Sherif] that his father was the wealthy
Sayed Al-Gamei; she gave him his picture and her marriage contract
with him. Mokhtar went to Cairo to look for his father. He published
a photo of his father in the newspapers a number of times without
result. He got into relationships with Karima, [Shahira] a clerk at
his hotel and the wife of an old man named Khalil Mokhtar [Mohammed
Tawfik] and also with Elham. Mokhtar killed Khalil for his money to
please Karima. Karima had another lover who killed her for her money,
but Mokhtar, who because of circumstances was thought by the police to
be the one who had murdered her, was wrongly arrested and sentenced to
death.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Naguib Mahfouz, Mostafa Moharram,
Ramses Marzouk, Nour El-Sherif, Youssra, Youssef Chaban, Shahira,
Mohammed Tawfik, Hoda Soltan, Ahmed Ghanem, Naima Al Soghayar, Mariam
Fakhr Eddine, Hassan Hussein
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Aziz and Ahmed
Fouad for the 1975 Helmy Rafla film The Tears Dried based on
story and screenplay by Youssef El Sebai and starring Mahmoud Yassine
as Sami. Plot summary: A famous singer nemed Hoda [Negat] and a
prominent political writer and magazine editor named Sami fell in
love, but their relationship faced professional and personal
opposition among their associates.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chaban, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Abdel Moneim
Ibrahim, Wahid Farid, Helmy Rafla, Naima Wasfy, Mahmoud Yassine, Negat, Youssef El
Sebai, Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Fouad
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Abdel Rahman
and Mohammad Aziz for the 1964 Ahmed Diaeddin film If I Were a
Man AKA law kont ragolan written by Ibrahim al-Wardani and
Ahmed Diaeddin and starring Aida Hilal as Mona Hafez. Plot summary:
Mona Hafez was working in a library researching her doctoral
dissertation on zoology, but her colleague Samir harassed her so much
she had to quit. Her brother Moneim, an actor playing a secondary
role in a theater group, was trying to find her a husband among his
friends, but she did everything she could to make them hate her. Mona
went to Alexandria to work there. She read about a magazine contest
for married people for the best story about the secret of their
happiness. She entered and won, claimed she was married and sent a
picture of her brother Moneim as her husband. To her surprise she won
and was told by a representative of the magazine she and her husband
would be taken on a seven-day trip around the world. She needed to
find a husband as soon as possible but was unable to solve the problem
by consulting a matchmaker.
Cast and crew: Shukry Sarhan, Ibrahim al-Wardani, Ibrahim Adel,
Mohammad Aziz, Abdul Rahman, Youssef Chaban, Abddel Moneim Ibrahim,
Ahmed Diaeddin, Aida Hilal, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Ibrahim Adel, Aziza
Helmy, Esmat Mahmoud, Sabry Abdel Aziz, Adly Kasseb, Abdel Rahman
Abuzahra, Lutfy al-Hakim, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra, Awatef Ramadan,
Abdel Salam Mohammed
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist for
an undated rerelease of the 1963 Niazi Mostafa film I Am the
Fugitive [ana al-hareb] written by Abdel Hay Adib and starring
Farid Shawqi as Hamdi. Plot summary: Hamdi was working as a
corrections officer in a prison. He had a child afflicted with
cerebral palsy in need of expensive treatment. When Hamdi was
transporting four narcotics smugglers one of them tried to escape and
Hamdi killed him. The dead man's family learned about Hamdi's
need for money and tried to bribe him to get revenge.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Niazi Mostafa, Abdel Hay Adib, Zahrat
El-Ola, Salah Mansour, Mahmoud Moursy, Mohamed Hamdi, Masud Isa, Abdel
Khalek Saleh, Youssef Chaban, Nimat Mukhtar
The poster pictured is a 27" x 39" stone lithograph showing the title
of the film as the name of the protagonist Hamida (played by Shadia).
The film is based on the 1947 novel zoqaq al-midaq by Naguib
Mahfouz. Plot Summary: People of various nationalities and trades
lived in Midaq Alley. This story is about Hamida and Hassan when he
was treating her like a sister, but had no influence with her. Hamida
was trying to leave poor Midaq and rise to a better life . Hamida was
able to leave Midaq and work at the English prison in Abbasia where
she met some of the English soldiers and supplied them with narcotics
obtained in Midaq. Her mother could not control her. Abbas the
barber was able to attract Hamida's attention for he loved her and
wanted to marry her. She neither accepted nor refused but she was
hoping for better. Abbas decided to go to the prison to get money. He
went with Uncle Kamel the pastry seller to ask for Hamida's hand. She
agreed to marry him after he returned. However Sayed Atwan the big
merchant in Midaq wanted to marry Hamida too, even though he was
already married. Hamida's mother refused to allow this even though
Hamida was agreeable. However Sayed Atwan took a fall on the street
and died of a heart attack a few days later. Ibrahim Farahat, who was
running for Parliament, appeared in the neighborhood with Farag.
Farag had succeeded in getting Hamida to go with him to the cinema.
He then took her to his sumptious apartment where he tried to kiss
her, but she ran away. The next day Hamida went to Farag without
returning to Midaq, Farad turned his apartment into a dance school and
nicknamed Hamida Titi. Abbas returned from vacation and did not find
Hamida. Hussein quarreled with his father the old teacher who owned a
coffee shop in Midaq and was planning to leave the neighborhood. The
end of the war was announced, which embittered Farag. A drunken
English soldier shot at Titi. She grabbed the gun, shot at Farag and
he died. Abbas happened to be at the bar and he carried Hamida when
she died at Midaq.
Cast and crew: Youssef Chaban, Naguib Mahfouz, Hassan Al Imam, Salah Kabil, Hassan Youssef, Abdel Waress Assar, Aly Hassan, Adly Kasseb, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Hassan el Baroudi, Aqila Ratib, Tewfik El Dekn, Souraya Helmy, Mohamed Reda, Choukoukou, Shadia, Samia Gamal, Hussein Riad
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster for the 1969 Kamal El
Sheikh film Miramar ميرامار based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz and
starring Shadia as Zohra. Plot summary: Zohra left her village and
went to the Miramar boarding house in Alexandria, where she worked as
a maid. There were various classes of people in the boarding house
including feudal lords who were resentful of the revolution's
nationalization of their land, a former ministry attorney who had lost
his influence, the old journalist Amer Wagdi [Imad Hamdi] and Mansour
Bahi, [Abdel Rahman Ali] the perplexed man of culture. Sarhan
al-Beheiri [Youssef Chaban] was a member of the Socialist Union and
his opportunistic side appeared in his effort to steal the company
where he worked and in his telling Zohra falsely that he loved her
before abandoning her and marrying someone else. Talaba Marzuq
[Youssef Wahby] stood by Zohra. The boarding house seemed to be
divided into two parts, the first part being the class that had been
harmed by the revolution and did nothing but make jokes and womanize
as Hosni Alam [Abu Bakr Ezzat] did, and the second part being the
young people like Mansour Bahi, the fugitive from the revolution who
was arrested. Talaba Redwan was an old journalist who had chosen to
live in the shadows. Zohra had been hurt by these circumstances and
was planning to leave the boarding house but then the newspaper seller
Mahmoud Abul-Abbas [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] said he wanted to marry her
because he loved her.
Cast and crew: Kamal El Sheikh, Shadia, Naguib Mahfouz, Youssef Wahby, Youssef Chaban, Imad Hamdi, Nadia El Guindy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Ahmed Taufiq, Ismat Rafat, Abdelhalim Nasr, Abdel Rahman Ali
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani and Wahib
Fahmy to promote the 1977 Abdel Rahman El Khamesy 92-minute
black-and-white film The Purple Rose [zahret al-banafseg]
starring Zubaida Tharwat based on a story by Ibrahim al-Mawgi with
screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Rahman El Khamesy and Ahmed El
Khamesy and cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot summary: As a
married couple Kamal [Mohamed Lutfy] and Samiha [Moshira Ismail] had
their dreams disrupted after Kamal discovered he had a critical
disease, which he concealed from everyone. One night Kamal met an
actress named Hayat [Zubaida Tharwat], who was working at a night club
to make ends meet after her husband died. She was planning to quit
the night club but its manager Rashed [Ahmad Taufiq] wanted her to
stay, so he kidnapped her daughter to get leverage. Hayat fell in
love with Kamal. Kamal decided to end his relationship with Hayat and
tell her about his illness, but he died in his train seat on the way
to see her in Alexandria and never had a chance to do it. In a
dramatic final scene, standing on the train platform waiting for his
arrival Hayat saw him through the window sitting dead in his seat, but
his body was not removed and she watched as the train continued on its
way with its dead passenger.
Cast and crew: Abdel Rahman El Khamesy, Zubaida Tharwat, Adel Imam, Mohamed Lutfy, Ahmed Taufiq, Youssef Chaban, Mohsen Sarhan, Adel Abdel Azim, Moshira Ismail, Alia Abdel Moneim
The Purple Rose [zahret al-banafseg] (1977) - (Zubaida Tharwat) Egyptian film poster
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani and Wahib
Fahmy to promote the 1977 Abdel Rahman El Khamesy 92-minute
black-and-white film The Purple Rose [zahret al-banafseg]
starring Zubaida Tharwat based on a story by Ibrahim al-Mawgi with
screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Rahman El Khamesy and Ahmed El
Khamesy and cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot summary: As a
married couple Kamal [Mohamed Lutfy] and Samiha [Moshira Ismail] had
their dreams disrupted after Kamal discovered he had a critical
disease, which he concealed from everyone. One night Kamal met an
actress named Hayat [Zubaida Tharwat], who was working at a night club
to make ends meet after her husband died. She was planning to quit
the night club but its manager Rashed [Ahmad Taufiq] wanted her to
stay, so he kidnapped her daughter to get leverage. Hayat fell in
love with Kamal. Kamal decided to end his relationship with Hayat and
tell her about his illness, but he died in his train seat on the way
to see her in Alexandria and never had a chance to do it. In a dramatic final
scene, standing on the train platform waiting for his arrival Hayat
saw him through the window sitting dead in his seat, but his body was
not removed and she watched as the train continued on its way with its
dead passenger.
Cast and crew: Abdel Rahman El Khamesy, Zubaida Tharwat, Adel Imam, Mohamed Lutfy, Ahmed Taufiq, Youssef Chaban, Mohsen Sarhan, Adel Abdel Azim, Moshira Ismail, Alia Abdel Moneim
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy to promote
the 1982 124-minute Hisham Abu El-Nasr color film The Mawardy
Cafe ['ahwet al-mawardy] starring Farid Shawqi based on a story by
Ahmed Galal with screenplay and dialogue by Mohsen Zayed and
cinematography by Abdel Moneim Bahnassy. Plot summary: Hassanein Abu
Sena [Youssef Chaban] got out of prison after killing one of the
residents of his building. Fear overtook the people in his
neighborhood because of his domination. Abu Sena persuaded some of
the people to leave their apartments in his building in exchange for
money and he converted those units into commercial shops and
import-export offices. Abu Sena convinced Ghabasha [Hassan Hosny] to
rent a furnished apartment to a wealthy Arab named Redwan. A
journalist named Ahmad [Farouk Al-Fichawi] recorded the changes that
had been happening in the neighborhood but his editor refused to
publish his articles. Safrut [Abdel Salam Mohamed] liked Farawla
[Nabila Ebeid] but she rejected him. He therefore quit his job
working in the coffee house owned by her father al-Mawardy [Farid
Shawqi] and left the neighborhood. Al-Mawardy married his mistress
Ragaa after having problems with Abu Sena. Ghabasha pressured his
niece Warda [Maha Osman] to marry Redwan, but on the wedding day she
fled to Alexandria. She also liked her neighbor the student Mamdouh
[Farid Mahmoud], but he had no feelings for her. Safrut returned to
the neighborhood after becoming wealthy. Abu Sena and Safrut made an
agreement with Ghabasha to kill Ahmad on the night of his marriage to
Farawla. Al-Mawardy divored his wife Ragaa. Ahmad's friend Shabaan
[Mamdouh Abd El Aleem] collected his articles about the neighborhood
and published them in a book of memories. When Mamdouh read what
Ahmed had written about him he recognized his mistake and went back to
Warda in Alexandria. The two of them married in a celebration in the
neighborhood. Abu Sena died at the hands of unknown murderers.
Cast and crew: Hisham Abu El-Nasr, Farid Shawqi, Nabila Ebeid, Mohsen Zayed, Ahmed Galal, Mamdouh Abd El Aleem, Alim Abdel Monem, Alia Abdel Monem, Farouk Al-Fichawi, Hafez Amin, Youssef Chaban, Naima El Soghayar, Hassan Hosny, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Ibrahim Nasr, Maha Osman, Nadia Zaghloul, Abdel Moneim Bahnassy, Mahmoud Amer, Qadria Kamel, Nader Fathollah, Farid Mahmoud
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel
Aziz and Wahib Fahmy to support the 1967 164-minute Helmy Rafla color film Loved by
the Masses [ma'budet al-gamahir] starring Abdel Halim Hafez based
on a story by Mustafa Amin with dialogue by Mohammed Abu Youssef,
screenplay by Helmy Halim and Youssef Gohar and cinematography by
Wahid Farid. Plot summary: Ibrahim [Abdel Halim Hafez] was an actor
and a musician at the beginning of his career living in a poor
neighborhood. He loved a famous musician named Soheir [Shadia], who
was the star of his band, and he discovered she had the same feelings
for him. They surprised everyone by deciding to marry, but this did
not please the band director, who tried to separate them. Soheir was
surprised to discover on the night of the marrriage contract that there
was a woman who claimed to be Ibrahim's wife and that she had borne his
child. Soheir decided to cancel the marriage and because of her sadness her
popularity faded, while Ibrahim's popularity increased and he became a
famous musician. He did not forget his love for Soheir. One day
Soheir saw a picture of the woman who was claiming to be Ibrahim's
wife and realized she was an actress who had been trying to steal her
beloved. She did not care about the woman's false claims so she went
to Ibrahim's neighborhood, who welcomed her and publicly declared his
return to her.
Cast and crew: Helmy Rafla, Fouad El-Mohandes, Mohamed Reda, Youssef Chaban, Hassan Fayek, Zeinat Sedki, Shafik Noureddin, Shadia, Abdel Halim Hafez, Wahid Farid, Zein El-Ashmawy, George Sidhum, Ahmed El Haddad, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Mustafa Amin, Helmy Halim, Youssef Gohar, Mohamed Abu Youssef, Nadia Ezzat, Hussein Ismail, Ahmed Farahat
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by
Gasour to promote the 1970 Shafiq Shamia 80-minute black-and-white
film Honor incident [hadsa sharaf] starring Zubaida Tharwat
based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Idriss with
cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: Banat, the prettiest
girl in her village, lived with her brother Farag and his wife. She
worked with him to meet living costs. All the young men in the
village wanted her because of her charm and beauty but none approached
her other than Shaban, who did so despite his mother's objections. He
made a contract to marry her and her brother Farag felt relieved
because his sister had finally settled on somone and was to be
married. A frivolous boy named Gharib appeared and tried to get Banat
by offering to have the local seamstress Zakia make some clothing for
her, but he failed. Shaban noticed Gharib's attention and Banat's
rejection of him; they quarrelled and he had to cancel the marriage
contract. Farag suggested she marry Gharib, but she vehemently
refused. Gharib came across her once in a field and when she saw him
she was horrified and ran away from him screaming. The people in the
village thought he had raped her and they took her to Om George for an
examination to see if she was still a virgin. Her innocence was
proven, but she could no longer live among them so she went to Zakia
the taylor so she could do what the people in the village wanted her
to do so she could submit herself to Gharib.
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman to
promote the 1970 Abdel Hamid Al-Shazly 90-minute black-and-white
film Dreadful Hours [al-saat al-rahiba] starring Nabila Ebeid
based on a story by Nabil Nawar and screenplay and dialogue by Yayha
Tadros with cinematography by Gamal El-Tabei. The film was produced
and distributed by Gamal El-Tabei Films. Plot smmmary: Ramzy was a
young man who worked at his corporate job seriously and with
discipline. He lived in a humble apartment with his sister Sanaa, a
good and simple girl. Shawkat Bey tried to push Ramzy into a projects
office to facilitate his embezzlement activity. He issued an order
appointing Ramzy director of an office so he could collaborate with
him. He also introduced him to an abnormal girl so she could catch
him in her traps. Ramzy proposed to her and discovered the extent of
her demands and dreams about such things as villas and automobiles.
She tried to push him into accepting bribes and Shawkat Bey tried to
get rid of him by catching him on an accusation of accepting a bribe so he
could have him thrown into prison. Ramzy endured the prison sentence;
when he was released he found his sister had committed suicide after
one of his friends had assaulted her. Then he sought revenge against
the manager who had gotten him thrown in prison and the friend who had
killed his sister.
Cast and crew: Nabila Ebeid, Ahmed Ramzy, Youssef Chaban, Shams El-Barudy, Nawal Abul Foutouh, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Abdel Hamid Al-Shazly, Gamal El-Tabei, Haleh Al-Shawareby, Mahmoud Sobhy, Rafat El-Tabei, Salah Dessouky, Amin Antar
