The Other الآخر (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1999) Egyptian one-sheet

The Other (1999) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 25" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Nagy Shaker for the 1999 Youssef Chahine film The Other written by Youssef Chahine and Khaled Youssef and starring Hanan Turk as Hanane. Plot summary: Adam [Hani Salama] is a student from a wealthy family who returns to Cairo from New York for a break from his studies and a visit. During his Cairo break Adam falls in love with Hanane, a journalist of modest means who is conducting a campaign against the wealthy Egyptian elite as they plunder the country. Adam's parents, who are themselves part of the corrupt Egyptian upper class, and especially his mother Margaret, [Nabila Ebeid] are opposed to the relationship between Adam and Hanane.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef, Nabila Ebeid, Mahmoud Hemida, Hanan Turk, Hani Salama, Lebleba, Hassan Abdel Hamid, Ezzat Abou Aouf, Ahmed Fouad Seli, Amr Saad, Ahmed Wafik, Edward Said, Hamdine Sabahi, Tamer Samir

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Silence We're Rolling سكوت ح نصور (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (2001) Egyptian one-sheet

Silence... We're Rolling (2001) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 2001 Youssef Chahine film Silence We're Rolling starring Latifa as Malek. Plot summary: Malek is a popular singing star who lives with her aristocrat mother and her daughter Lola in an old villa, where she has been living since her divorce. Malek has fallen in love with Lam'i, a conniving boy who is after her wealth and wants to use her to get into film. Because of this relationship Malek neglects her art. Lola collaborates with Naser in an effort to expose Lam'i.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Latifa, Ahmed Bedir, Ahmed Wafik, Magda El-Khatib, Zaki Abdel Wahab, Ahmed Mehrez, Mostafa Shaaban, Ruby, Cherif Mohy Eddine, Khaled Fouad, Hani Salama, Hanan Turk, Khaled El Ghandour, Mohamed El Abendani, Aina Yehia

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Jamila the Algerian جميلة Magda 1958 Egyptian one-sheet

Jamila the Algerian (1958) - (Magda) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 38" undated rerelease poster for the 1958 Youssuf Chahine film Jamila the Algerian written by Ali Esserkami, Youssef Essiabi, Naguib Mahfouz, Uadjih Nagib and Abder Rahman el Charkani and starring Magda as Jamila. Plot Summary: The youth of Algeria could find no means of liberation other than battle. Jamila Buohired decided she had to be a part of the liberation front, so she joined Yousef Saadi's [Ahmed Mazhar] secret team. The team was smuggling weapons from the Arab nations and killing French officers. The team had to change its hiding place and Jamila volunteered to help. Soldiers arrested her, but the rest of her team escaped. She was savagely tortured and told to reveal Yousef's location, but she endured the utmost torture without betraying her country. In a rigged trial she was sentenced to death but there was an international movement to save her. According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of the top 100 Egyptian films.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Ali Esserkami, Youssef Essiabi, Uadjih Nagib, Abder Rahman el Charkani, Magda, Ahmed Mazhar, Salah Zulfikar, Rushdy Abaza, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Hussein Riad, Abdel Aziz Fahmi, Naguib Mahfouz, Farida Fahmy, Adly Kasseb, Zahrat El-Ola, Tahani Rached, Kariman, Nadia El Guindy, Salah Nazmi, Fakher Fakher, Ahmed Louxor, Shafik Noureddin, Soleyman Al-Guindy, Said Khalil, Sherine, Mohamed Hamdi, Youssef El Sebai

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Auliban the Seller of Jokes بياع الخواتم Fairuz 1965 Italian Billboard

Auliban the Seller of Jokes (1965) - (Fairuz) Italian billboard

This is a 79" x 169" Italian billboard poster designed by Manfredo for the 1965 Youssef Chahine film Auliban the Seller of Jokes written by Assi and Mansour Rahbani and starring Fairuz as Rima. Plot summary: The story is set in the year 1914 in a peaceful mountain village in Lebanon. The mayor, seeing that the population is bored, invents a fictitious character named Rajeh; he tells stories to villagers about the exploits of this person, who is a robber and a murderer. One day the mayor (Nasri Shamseddine) warns the villagers that Rajeh is heading to the village itself and tells them they must beware. Two clever men realize the mayor has been lying and decide to impersonate the fictitious Rajeh, steal money and assault the mayor in the dark. Eventually an old man who is really named Rajeh arrives in the village, amid public fears. Then it became obvious that Rajeh was merely a seller of rings for weddings who had wanted to marry his son to the mayor's daughter Homa (Fairuz). The two miscreants willingly go to jail for exploiting the mayor's prank.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Manfredo, Assi Rahbani, Mansour Rahbani, Fairuz, Nasri Shamseddine, Joseph Azar, Phelemone Wehbe, Joseph Nassif, Elie Choueiri, Mansour Rahbani, Salwa Haddad, William Hasswani, Huda, Andre Domage

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Adieu Bonaparte [الوداع يا بونابرت] dir: Youssef Chanine 1985 Large Egyptian poster

Adieu Bonaparte [الوداع يا بونابرت] (1985) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian film poster

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

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Those People of the Nile [الناس و النيل] (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1972)

Those People of the Nile [الناس و النيل al-nas wal-nil] (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1972) Egyptian film poster

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed to promote the 1972 105-minute Youssef Chahine color film Those People of the Nile [الناس و النيل al-nas wal-nil]) based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Hassan Faoud and Nicolai Vigorovosky and cinematography by Yu-Lan Chen, Aleksandre Shelenkov and Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary: This film dramatizes the construction of the Aswan Dam in Egypt, a joint Russian-Egyptian project completed in 1971. When the film was completed in 1968 it was banned by both governments because of political issues and not cleared for official release until 1972 after some of the scenes had been filmed again. The film portrays the personal conflicts of displaced Russian workers and the displeasure of some Egyptian workers and local residents because of the impact of the diversion of the Nile.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Abdelmaig Baraka, Ezzat El Alaili, Tewfik El Dekn, Seif El Dine, Inna Fyodorova, Imad Hamdi, Soad Hosny, Hocine Ismael, Vladimir Ivashov, Yuri Kamomyj, Valentina Kutsenko, Mabrouka, Zouzou Mady, Mohamed Morshed, Madiha Salem, Igor Vladimirov, Svetlana Zhgun, Salah Zulfikar, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Aleksandr Shelenkov, Yu-Lan Chen, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Alia Abdel Moneim, Fatma Emara, Valeria Ivashokov, Diwari Kamiruni, Yuri Cameroni

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You Are My Love [إنت حبيبي] (Farid Al Atrache) - 1957)

You Are My Love [enta habibi] (Farid Al Atrache) (1957) original Egyptian oversize stone litho film poster

This is a 33" x 45" original Egyptian stone litho poster designed by Studio Adly to promote the 1957 109-minute Youssef Chahine black-and-white film You are My Love [enta habibi] starring Farid Al Atrache and Shadia based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary with cinematography by Ahmed Khorshed. Plot summary: The two cousins Yasmina [Shadia] and Farid [Farid Al Atrache] despise each other but decide to marry anyway because that is the only way they can meet the conditions of their grandfather's will, which stipulates they will be disinherited if they are not married. They agree the marriage will be on paper only. Nana [Hind Rostom], the woman to whom Farid's heart really belongs, accompanies them as a chaperone on their honeymoon to Aswan along with Farid's friend Zaher [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim]. Then during the honeymoon Yasmina discovers she really loves Farid and Farid also discovers he loves only Yasmina; the two restart their honeymoon.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Ali Abdel Al, Farid Al Atrache, Hind Rostom, Shadia, Ahmed Khorshed, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Seraj Munir, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Zeinat Sedki, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Mimi Shakeeb, Abdel Ghani Nagdi, Sayed Soleiman, Abdul Nabi Mohammad

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The Sparrow [العصفور] (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1972)

The Sparrow [al-asfour] (dir: Youssef Chahine) (1972) Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a 27" x 39" poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1972 Youssef Chahine 102-minute color film The Sparrow [al-asfour] starring Seif El Din, based on a story by Lotfi al-Khawali with screenplay and dialogue by Lotfi al-Khawali and Youssef Chahine and cinematography by Mostafa Imam. According to a critics poll taken at the 2013 Dubayy International Film Festival this is one of the 100 most important Arab films. Plot summary: This film made in Algeria and Egypt is a reaction to the Arab loss of the 1967 war with Israel. It has a spirit of pride and patriotic conviction where director Chahine attempts to show the war was lost from within due to corruption and weakness in the ruling classes. In one of the film's several narrative lines the character Baheyya [Mohsena Tewfik] leads defiant demonstrations, rejects the defeat and demands that Gamal Abdel Nasser return to the government after stepping down. The sparrow motif symbolizes the brave and innocent Arab peoples who have become victims of national and international circumstances.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Ali El Cherif, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Seif El Din, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Habiba, Mohsena Tewfik, Salah Kabil, Salah Mansour, Abdel Waress Assar, Hamdy Ahmed, Ragaa Hussein, Mahmoud Kabil, Hassan el Baroudi, Nazim Shaarawy, Mohamed Khalil, Sayed Shahat, Mustafa Imam, Lotfi al-Khawali

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The Sixth Day [اليوم السادس] - (Dalida) - (1986)

The Sixth Day [al-yom al-sades] (Dalida) (1962) Egyptian film poster

This is a 27" x 19.5" Egyptian poster made to promote the 1986 Youssef Chahine film The Sixth Day [al-yom al-sades] starring the Franco-Italian singer Dalida (Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti 1933-1987) based on a novel by Andree Chedid with screenplay by Youssef Chahine and cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: This film tells a story set during the 1947 cholera epidemic in Cairo, when it was believed that anyone infected with the disease would die within six days. Sadiqa [Dalida] is a woman who leaves Cairo on a Nile vessel to bury relatives. She has lost everyone in her family and her only remaining hope is her grandson, but he is also afflicted with the disease; when he dies she kills herself, even though she has a young companion on her Nile voyage named Okka [Mohsen Mohieddin] who has fallen in love with her despite the difference in their ages.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Hamdy Ahmed, Mohamed Mounir, Shouweikar, Dalida, Ahmed Handy, Ibrahim Maher, Mohsen Mohieddin, Mohsen Nasr, Salah El-Saadany, Zaki Abdel Wahab, Hamdy Ahmed, Ibrahim Maher, Andree Chedid, Hesham Abdel Hamid, Hassan El Adl, Youssef al-Ani, Mehget Abdel Rahman, Seif Eddine, Maher Salim, Khaled Al-Haggar, Ezzat Badreddine, Ihab Salem, Maher Essam, Mohamed Dardiri

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Is it Chaos? [هي فوضى؟] (2007) - (dir: Youssef Chahine)

Is it Chaos? (1972) - (Khaled Saleh) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 38.5" Egyptian poster designed by the Sign Agency to promote the 2007 121-minute Youssef Chahine and Khaled Youssef color film Is it Chaos? [hiyya fawda?] starring Khaled Saleh based on screenplay and dialogue by Nasser Abdel-Rahmane with cinematography by Ramses Marzouk. Plot summary: This film is set in the midst of social unrest in Cairo, where the endemic police corruption is addressed by focusing on a corrupt officer named Hatem [Khaled Saleh] who becomes a law unto himself and controls everyone except the woman named Nour [Menna Shalabi] for whom he has a passionate desire but cannot win.

Cast and crew: Youssef El Sherif, Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef, Hala Fakher, Khaled Saleh, Hala Sedki, Menna Shalabi, Dorra Razouk, Amr Abdel Gelil, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Safwa, Nasser Abdel-Rahmane, Ramses Marzouk, Seif Abdel Rahman, Abdullah Mosharraf, Maher Salim, Ahmed Yehia, Rola Mahmoud, Mahmoud Sameh Abdullah, Hanan Abbas, Ahmed al-Adawy, Mohamed Fawzi

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Return of the Prodigal Son [عودة الابن الضال] (1976) - (dir: Youssef Chahine)

The Return of the Prodigal Son (1976) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet

This an original folded 27" x 39" Egyptian movie poster designed by Raouf for the 1976 Youssef Chahine film Return of the prodigal son freely adapted from the 1907 André Gide novel, produced in Egypt and Algeria with screenplay by Salah Jahine and Youssef Chahine and starring Ali Mahrez as Ali. Plot summary: "Return of the Prodigal Son is another Chahine parable set between the Arab-Israeli wars. An activist who's been jailed for more than a decade, Ali is eagerly awaited by his family. All hope that this just man will stand up against his ruthless brother's tyranny, but nobody even recognizes the prodigal when he shows up during a big party. Prison has so thoroughly crushed Ali's youth and idealism that he now allies himself with the oppressor." From the Cornell University Library web site. The film is a melodrama/musical centering on family strife in the Madbouli family heightened by the release of the family's youngest son from prison after serving ten years for construction fraud, who turns out to be a disappointment when he goes to work at his father's factory. The family lives on a farm headed by an authoritarian father [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. The film has also been seen as an allegorical treatment of Egypt's poliitical disillusion following the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), who had been criticized by some as an authoritarian leader of a police state, too dependent on the power of his personal charisma and unable to create intermediary institutions or adopt practical programs for national development.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Salah Jahine, Farouk Beloufa, Raouf, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Shukry Sarhan, Hoda Soltan, Ayda Reyad, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Souheir El-Mourchidy, Ali El Scherif, Ali Mahrez, Sid Ali Kouiret, Ahmed Abdel Waress, Ragaa Hussein, Ahmed Bedir, Magda El-Roomy, Hesham Selim, André Gide

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A Lover's Call نداء العشاق dir: Chahine 1961 Egyptian one-sheet

A Lover's Call (1961) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian film poster made by an unknown designer to promote the 1961 Youssef Chahine 104-minute black-and-white film A Lover's Call [neda' al-'oshaq] starring Berlanty Abdel Hamid based on a story by Abdel Hay Adib adapted from the 1946 King Vidor film Duel in the Sun with screenplay by Abdel Hay Adib and Wagih Naguib, dialogue by Behgat Kamar and cinematography by Alvisy Orphanily. Plot summary: Ward [Berlanty Abdel Hamid] was an attractive dancer in the Nile Delta village of Sonbat who found a job ginning cotton in a factory. There she caught the eye of the factory's owner Metwaly [Farid Shawqi], as well as his brother Abduh [Shukry Sarhan], but she gave her heart to Abduh. Ward and Abduh then went through a harrowing series of violent misadventures until both are killed at the hands of the Abduh's jeslous brother.

Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Shukry Sarhan, Berlanty Abdel Hamid, Youssef Chahine, Tewfik El Dekn, Aziza Helmy, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Abdel Hay Adib, Wagih Naguib, Alvisy Orphanily, Behgat Kamar, Souraya Fakhry

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Adieu Bonaparte الوداع يا بونابرت (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1985) Egyptian one-sheet

Adieu Bonaparte (1985) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet

This is an Egyptian poster for the classic 1985 Youssef Chahine film Adieu Bonaparte, featuring Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. From the Faber Companion to Foreign Films: "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."

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

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The Emigrant المهاجر (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1994) Egyptian one-sheet

The Emigrant (1994) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a somewhat worn 27" x 39" promotional poster for the 1994 Youssef Chahine 120-minute color film The Emigrant [al-mohager] with screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Chahine, poster art by Jan and cinematography by Ramses Marzouk. Plot summary: Ram [Khaled Nabawy] lived with his old father [Michel Piccoli] in a poor tribe outside Egypt. Ram suffered from an unhappy dislike of his position as the favorite of his father's seven sons; he refused to accept that situation or to live in fear of drought, famine and flood. He dreamed of being in control of his own life and of his tribe being prosperous. He decided to go to Egypt to learn agriculture and to make use of other areas of knowledge found in Egyptian civilization. His brothers tied him up and threw him into the hold of a ship bound for Egypt, believing they had gotten rid of him forever, but Ram made it to Egypt and began learning agriculture. There he discovered the Egyptians were more interested in the arts and embalming. Ram met Amihar, [Mahmoud Hemida] the leader of the Egyptian armies. Amihar was impotent despite his physical strength and was unable to satisfy his wife Simihit [Youssra] after she fell in love with him. Amihar gave Ram a plot of land to farm. Ram fell in love with a pretty Egyptian girl named Haty [Hanan Turk] who said she would marry him. The two of them joined with an Egyptian minister farming the new land; they successfully cultivated the plot from Amihar. They divided the crop to help alleviate the famine that was threatening Egypt and Ram became a minister in the Pharaoh's government. Nonetheless he longed to return to his country after disclosing his identity to his seven brothers; he returned to his tribe with his wife, where he met with his father after long years of absence. He found his father had gone blind crying so much in the belief he had died, as his lying brothers had claimed. This film was banned by religious authorities in Egypt in 1994 and 1995, both times for violating Islamic strictures against depicting religious prophets--in this case the Prophet Joseph. After the ban was lifted The Emigrant became Chahine's most popular film.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Khaled el Nabaoui, Ahmed Bedir, Safia El Emari, Mahmoud Hemida, Yousef Ismail, Khaled Nabawy, Michel Piccoli, Ahmad Salama, Hanan Turk, Youssra, Ramses Marzouk, Menaha al-Batrawy, Sayed Abdel Karim, Amru Abdel Khalil, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Pierre Sioufi

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An Egyptian Story حدوتة مصرية (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1982) Egyptian one-sheet

An Egyptian Story (1982) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a promotional poster designed by Gasour for the 1982 120-minute Youssef Chahine color film An Egyptian Story [haduta masria] based on a story idea by Yousef Idriss, screenplay by Youssef Chahine and cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: In this autobiographical meditation director Yehia (Chahine) has a heart attack while directing one of his films. He is obliged to go to England and submit to the care of coronary specialist Magdy Ya'qoub. During the operation he sees scenes from the past, critiques of the way he directs his films, how he met his wife the daughter of a film producer, how he dreamed of exhibiting his film Nile Boy at the Cannes Film Festival, and his direction of films like Cairo Station and Jamila. These scenes are shown in the framework of a trial where there is a confrontation between the successful director and the small child within. The dream trial also brings out the director's relationship with the Egyptian revolution, his craving for success and his encounter with the American dream. The heart operation is a success.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Youssef Idriss, Oussama Nadir, Mohsen Mohieddin, Nour El-Sherif, Ahmed Mehrez, Abdullah Mahmoud, Mahmoud Elgendi, Mohamed Mounir, Ragaa Hussein, Seif El Dine, Youssra, Hanan, Leila Hamada, Magda El-Khatib, Raga El Geddaoui, Ahmed Salama, Soheir El Monsaterli, Andrew Dinwoodie, Abdel Hadi Anwar, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Said Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Abdel Hadi, Nabila El Sayed, Soad Nasr, Aly El Cherif, Hassan Hussein, Mohsen Nasr, Tewfik El Dekn, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Soheir El-Bably, Mimi Shakeeb, Leila Sheir, Aly Ezeddin, Lotfala Hanan

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Dawn of a New Day فجر يوم جديد (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1964) Egyptian one-sheet

Dawn of a New Day (1964) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet

This is an Egyptian film poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1964 Youssef Chahine 100-minute color film Dawn of a New Day [fagr yom gedid] with story and screenplay by Samir Nasry, dialogue by Abdel Rahman El-Sharqawy, cinematography by Abel Aziz Fahmy and starring the late Sanaa Gamil (1930-2002) as Nayed. Plot summary: A varied group of bourgeois people were living in poverty in Cairo after political conditions turned against them. They included Nayed, a women in her 40s. She met a young man named Tareq (Seif El Dine) and was drawn to him even though he was from a completely different social class; she did not choose a man from her own class, not even Abu Al-Ala who was trying to get close to her. Tareq was still a student at the university living in a humble room on an upper floor and studying engineering. The boy had to go abroad for three years to complete his studies. He discovered that Nayed was treating him as a substitute for a small boy who had died years ago. This is what started her relationship with a poor man, but he was unable to correct the situation. Nayed tried to obtain the money to give to her beloved so he could complete his studies, working as a secretary at the press office her brother managed, but then she suddenly decided to end her association with this boy, who was no more than twenty-two years of age; they said goodbye to each other at the Cairo Station.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Sanaa Gamil, Seif Eddine Shawkat, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Seif El Dine, Hamdy Gheith, Soheir El-Bably, Abdel Rahman El-Sharqawy, Samir Nasry

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The Choice الاختيار (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1971) Egyptian one-sheet

The Choice (1971) - (Soad Hosny) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1971 Youssef Chahine (1926-2008) film The Choice based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz and Youssef Chahine. It won the Tanit d'Or prize at the 1971 Carthage Film Festival. Cinematography was by Ahmed Khorshed. Plot Summary: Sayed [Ezzat El Alaili] was a famous writer and researcher living in Alexandria who had climbed to the top of the social and political pyramid. He was married to Sharifa [Soad Hosny]. He and his wife were preparing for a trip abroad to work in a UN delegation. He read a report in a newspaper about the murder of his twin brother Mahmoud [Ezzat El Alaili] and postponed his trip. He contacted the police and asked them to investigate. Mahmoud was a sailor who lived his life far and wide as he wished to do, without any responsibilities. He had absolutely no interest in social or political centers; in this he was the opposite of his brother who tried to be at the top of social affairs. However he was often defeated by his own reworked ideas, which contained nothing new. Mahmoud stayed away from the social life Sayed loved; he preferred instead to live his life free of tedious problems. He moved as he wished according to whim, across Mahmoud's magical world and frequenting all its places from the homes of artists to magificent mansions. The police officer was skeptical about what was happening around him and began to develop a plan for tracking this writer Sayed, who was living a double life: The cultured man was caught between the true roots of culture and the effort to rise socially. Sayed fled but the police caught him and put him in a mental hospital. "When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother--a famous novelist--is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn that Sayed's successful fictions owe much to the inspiration of his brother Mahmoud's adventurous life. Just as the evidence against the novelist seems overwhelming, Mahmoud turns up alive. But why are the twins never seen together...? In this very personal film, one can see the symbolic outlines of the uneasy relationship between Egyptian intellectuals and the problems of the proletariat". From the Cornell University Library web site.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Saad Ardash, Abdel Kader Hussein, Mahmoud Sobhi, Rashad Hamed, Kemal Morsy, Ashraf al-Solhdar, Hoda Soltan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Naguib Mahfouz, Ezzat El Alaili, Seif El Dine, Soad Hosny, Seif Eddine Shawkat, Ahmed Khorshed, Mimi Shakeeb, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra, Madiha Kamel, Youssef Wahby, Aly El Cherif

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