This is a 6.25" x 9.25" 20-page Egyptian program for the 1950
musical Yasmin written and directed by Anwar Wagdi with screenplay
and dialogue by Abou Seoud El-Ibiary and starring Feyrouz as
Yasmin/Atuta. Plot summary: The head of the family Adel [Mohamamd
al-Dib] did not want another daughter, so when Yasmin was born he left
her at the door of a shelter. Adel later died; the girl grew up and
ran away from the shelter to join a gang of pickpockets as Atuta. She
happened to meet an unemployed trumpet player named Wahid [Anwar
Wagdi] who asked her to help him with his act, stop stealing and
repent. She lived with him for a time but got tired of the
respectable life and went back to the gang. Wahid discovered that
Atuta was a rich man's daughter. When Atuta's gang robbed her
grandfather's [Zaki Rostom] villa the gang was arrested; Atuta became
Yasmin again and went back to her mother, [Madiha Yousri] who married
Wahid.
Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Madiha Yousri, Abdel Rahman, Zaki
Rostom, Abdelhalim Nasr, Feyrouz, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Abu Seoud
El-Ibiary, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Mohammad al-Dib, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdel
Hamid Zaki, Zeinab Sedky, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohammad Kamel, Mohammad Abu
al-Seoud
This is a 12" x 15" Egyptian lobby card for the 1950
film Yasmin written and directed by Anwar Wagdi with screenplay
and dialogue by Abou Seoud El-Ibiary and starring Feyrouz as
Yasmin/Atuta. Plot summary: The head of the family Adel [Mohamamd
al-Dib] did not want another daughter, so when Yasmin was born he left
her at the door of a shelter. Adel later died; the girl grew up and
ran away from the shelter to join a gang of pickpockets as Atuta. She
happened to meet an unemployed trumpet player named Wahid [Anwar
Wagdi] who asked her to help him with his act, stop stealing and
repent. She lived with him for a time but got tired of the
respectable life and went back to the gang. Wahid discovered that
Atuta was a rich man's daughter. When Atuta's gang robbed her
grandfather's [Zaki Rostom] villa the gang was arrested; Atuta became
Yasmin again and went back to her mother, [Madiha Yousri] who married
Wahid.
Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Madiha Yousri, Abdel Rahman, Zaki
Rostom, Abdelhalim Nasr, Feyrouz, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Abu Seoud
El-Ibiary, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Mohammad al-Dib, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdel
Hamid Zaki, Zeinab Sedky, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohammad Kamel, Mohammad Abu
al-Seoud
This is a 24" x 35" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist
for the 1945 Mohamed Abdel Gawad and Kamal Selim film Story of
Love AKA Qisset gharam starring Amira Amir as Hoda.
Cast and crew: Amira Amir, Ibrahim Hammooda, Mohamed Abdel Gawad,
Kamal Selim, Zaki Rostom, Bechara Wakim, Zaki Ibrahim, Mahmoud
El-Meliguy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Abdel Rahman
for the 1950 film Yasmin written and directed by Anwar Wagdi
with screenplay and dialogue by Abou Seoud El-Ibiary and starring
Feyrouz as Yasmin/Atuta. Plot summary: The head of the family Adel
[Mohamamd al-Dib] did not want another daughter, so when Yasmin was
born he left her at the door of a shelter. Adel later died; the girl
grew up and ran away from the shelter to join a gang of pickpockets as
Atuta. She happened to meet an unemployed trumpet player named Wahid
[Anwar Wagdi] who asked her to help him with his act, stop stealing
and repent. She lived with him for a time but got tired of the
respectable life and went back to the gang. Wahid discovered that
Atuta was a rich man's daughter. When Atuta's gang robbed her
grandfather's [Zaki Rostom] villa the gang was arrested; Atuta became
Yasmin again and went back to her mother, [Madiha Yousri] who married
Wahid.
Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Madiha Yousri, Zaki Rostom, Abdelhalim
Nasr, Feyrouz, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Abdel Aziz
Khalil, Mohammad al-Dib, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Zeinab
Sedky, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohammad Kamel, Mohammad Abu al-Seoud, Abdelhalim
Nasr
Pictured is a 36" x 46.5" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Hassan
Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1951 Omar Gomai film My Children
[awladi] starring Zaki Rostom based on a story by Omar Gomai with
cinematography by Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary: A woman dies
leaving her husband [Zaki Rostom (1903-1972)] with three daughters and nobody to
help with their upbringing other than a pretty maid; the maid tries to
use her charms to make the bereaved husband forget about his
sorrow. The maid's husband realizes his wife is interested in her
employer and divorces her. The maid then marries the bereaved husband
after telling him she iss pregnant with his child. The children
resent the marriage and one of the daughters kills the new wife.
Cast and crew: Omar Gomai, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Rushdy Abaza, Zaki Rostom, Shadia, Zuzu Shakeeb, Madiha Yousri, Zeinab Sedki, Kamal Hussein, Mohammad Tawfiq, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Gamalat Zayed, Beba Ibrahim, Aziza Helmy, Abdel Moneim Basyouni
Pictured is an Egyptian rerelease poster by an unknown designer
made to promote the 1957 120-minute Salah Abouseif black-and-white
film Tough Guy [al-fotuwwah] starring Farid Shawqi based on a
story by Mahmoud Sobhi and Farid Shawqi with screenplay by Naguib
Mahfouz, Salah Abouseif, Mahmoud Sobhi and El Sayed Bedir and
cinematography by Hesham Wadid Serri.
The man pictured on the poster is the late Farid Shawqi
(1920-1998), one of Egypt's most popular and prolific actors, who
appeared in 275 films made in Egypt, Turkey and Syria. The poster
shows Shawqi as a peasant wearing a traditional galabiyya, holding
the tail of it between his teeth to make it easier to run.
The film is about a man from a rural area who comes to Cairo
looking for work, rises to social prominence as the owner of a
successful produce business and then eventually loses most of what he
has and almost his life in an altercation with an arch competitor. It
is a black-and-white thriller with overtones of an old-time urban
gangster film. The film is included on critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007
list of Egypt's 100 most important films, and it is also in the top
100 according to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq.
Plot Summary: A man from upper Egypt named Haridi [Farid Shawqi] is
looking for a way to feed himself working in a vegetable market. The
work is hard manual labor but he succeeds in the employ of an
important merchant named Abu Zayd [Zaki Rostom] and also with the help
of a experienced woman named Husseinia [Taheyya Cariocca]. Haridi
becomes one of Abu Zayd's close associates and learns all his secrets,
ways of taking bribes, holding public auctions and peddling
influence. Haridi then separates from Abu Zayd, marries Husseinia and
becomes an important merchant. After a long series of heated and
sometimes violent clashes with Haridi, Abu Zayd goes to prison and
Haridi becomes the social boss of the market using Abu Zayd's methods
and following in his footsteps as another oppressor. He even acquires
the title "Bey." When Abu Zayd is released from prison there is a
dispute between him and Haridi over a big auction. The dispute
becomes a hot confrontation in which Abu Zayd dies and Haridi is
arrested.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Taheya Cariocca, Salah Abouseif, Zaki Rostom, Mimi Shakeeb, Tewfik El Dekn, Fakher Fakher, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa, Naguib Mahfouz, Hassan el Baroudi, Mohamed Reda, Abdel Alim Khattab, Hoda Soltan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Hesham Wadid Serri, Wadid Serri, Naima Wasfy, Loutfy El Hakim, Salwa Mohamed, Mahmoud Sobhi, El Sayed Bedeir, Kamal Yassine, Nazim Shaarawy, Ahmed al-Hamaqi, Abdou Youssef
Pictured is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Studio
Marcel to promote the 1965 96-minute Henry Barakat black-and-white
film The Sin [al-haram] starring Faten Hamama with
screenplay and dialogue by Sa'd al-Din Wahba and
cinematography by Dia El-Mahdy.
This film is beautifully made by one of Egypt's great directors.
It is on film critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most
important Egyptian films; it is based on a novel by Youssef Idris. In
a 1984 survey by Al-Fonoon magazine it was voted one of the ten best
films in the history of Egyptian cinema. Plot summary from Wikipedia:
Azizah [Faten Hamama], a poor peasant, portrays worker oppression in
this somber social drama. She gets savagely raped by a guard when she
goes into the fields to gather potatoes. She does not reveal what has
happened to her husband [Abdallah Gheith] who is suffering from an
illness. She conceals the pregnancy and throttles the baby after it is
born. She also dies soon thereafter. The migrant workers rally around
her memory as she becomes a martyr to the cause of the struggling
peasants.
Cast and crew: Faten Hamama, Henry Barakat, Zaki Rostom, Abdallah Gheith, Youssef Idris, Sa'd al-Din Wahba, Ahmed Dia Al-Mahdi, Hassan el Baroudi, Abdel Alim Khattab, Hassan Mustafa, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Dia El-Mahdy, Kawsar al-Asal, Mohammad Shawqi, Kheiri al-Qalyoubi, Lutfi Abdel Hamid, Kawsar Shafiq, Sami Sarhan
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by an
unknown artist to promote the 1962 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 119-minute
black-and-white film The Remains of a Virgin [baqaya azraa]
starring Mariam Fakhr Eddine based on a story by Ismail al-Habruk with
screenplay and dialogue by Youssef El Sebai and cinematography by
Mostafa Hassan. Plot summary: Nabila [Mariam Fakhr Eddine] went to
Cairo to teach and on her first job she quarreled with Hoda Abdel
Fattah [Magda El-Khatib], the daughter of a former minster and head
of one of the nationalist political parties. Hoda had lost her mother
when she was a child and this had made her stubborn and spoiled. Her
father [Zaki Rostom] sent for Nabila to tell her this and a strong
relationship developed between them which resulted in their marriage,
even though she had been in love with the journalist Mahmoud Kamal
[Shukry Sarhan] since they were children. However Mahmoud had not
wanted to marry her because he was afraid a marriage with a village
girl would hurt his career; he was in Algeria covering the
revolution when Nabila married Abdel Fattah. He returned to Cairo
with the intention of marrying her, only to find that he had missed
his opportunity. Nabila was also still in love with Mahmoud and they
remained friends. Mahmoud was later falsely accused of a political
murder and sentenced to death, but Nabila testified at the trial that
he had been with her, so he was acquitted. However they were never
able to marry.
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by
Abdel Rahman to promote the 1956 101-minute Niazi Motafa
black-and-white film Platform Number 5 [rasif nemra khamsa]
starring Farid Shawqi based on a story by Farid Shawqi with screenplay
by El Sayed Bedair, Niazi Mostafa and Barti Mostafa, dialogue by El
Sayed Bedeir and cinematography by Alvisy Orphanily. Plot summary: A
gang was smuggling heroin through the port of Alexandria and Navy
Sergeant Khamis [Farid Shawqi (1920-1998)] was trying to catch them.
The gang tricked Khamis with a telephone call and caused him to leave
his post. While he was away from his post the gang stole his rifle,
which resulted in him being discharged from the navy. One night one of
the gang members named Basyouni [Zaki Rostom (1903-1972)] killed
Khamis's wife, but the killing was witnessed by a mute maid. The
killer was also smuggling heroin with the help of homing pigeons. In
the meantime Khamis had fallen in love with a singer in a bar [Hoda
Soltan (1925-2006)]; after catching the killer/smuggler, Khamis
married her and was reinstated in the navy after it was determined
that what he had done was in the line of duty. When this film was
made Farid Shawqi and Hoda Soltan were already married (1951) in real
life.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Niazi Mostafa, Hoda Soltan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Zaki Rostom, Alvisy Orphanily, Fakher Fakher, Malak El Gamal, Soliman Gendy, Naima Wasfy, El Sayed Bedeir, Barti Mostafa, Abdel Ghani al Sayed, Anwar Zaki
This 35" x 45" oversize Egyptian poster was designed by Studio Adly
and Mohammad Abdel Aziz to promote the 1961 Youssef Maalouf 114-minute
black-and-white film Dearest of the Beloved [aaz al-habaib]
starring Soad Hosny as Kawsar based on a story by Omar Gamii with
screenplay by Youssef Issa, Ibrahim Aboud and Henry Barakat;
cinematography was by Alvisy Orphanily. Plot summary: A pensioner
named Ebrahim Effendi [Zaji Rostom] was the head of a family with a
number of grown children. He was forced to hide a satchel full of
narcotics on behalf of local coffee shop owner Khalifa Abdel Salam
[Hassan el Baroudi] who was also a smuggler to get some extra money to
cover his family expenses. When this was discovered by the police his
engineer son Mokhtar [Shukry Sarhan] took responsibility for it
himself to spare his mother Amina [Amina Rizk] the shock of seeing her
beloved husband go to prison. Mokhtar went to prison for five years
and the father died in sadness. When Mokhtar was released he was
unable to find a job in Egypt so he took a job in Kuwait for a few
years. The mother Amina continued living with her oldest son Abdulla
[Nour El-Demerdash] and his wife Lawahez [Sherifa Maher], but she had
to take a job as a maid in a hospital. Mokhtar returned looking for
his mother. Abdulla suffered a burn injury, then recognized his
mother working in the hospital while he was undergoing treatment. The
brothers went to the hospital to bring their mother back home.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Shukry Sarhan, Amina Rizk, Zaki Rostom, Sherifa Maher, Youssef Maalouf, Alvisy Orphanily, Omar Gamii, Youssef Esa, Henry Barakat, Soheir El-Barouni, Nour El-Demerdash, Hassan el Baroudi
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
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian undated rerelease poster by and unknown
artist for the 1961 120-minute black-and-white Hassan Al Imam
film The Mute [al-kharsaa] (aka The Dumb Girl) based on
the 1948 Jean Negulesco film Johnny Belinda with story and
screenplay by Mohamed Moustapha Sami and cinematography by Wahid
Farid. Plot summary: The mute girl Naima [Samira Ahmed] lived in a
fishing village by a lake with her father Derwish (Fakher Fakher) and
his wife [Zouzou Nabil]. A doctor [Imad Hamdi] came to the village to
help the people build a cooperative compound to relieve them of the
domination of a local bully named Atris [Zaki Rostom]. The doctor
trained Naima as a nurse but soon after she started working she was
raped by Atris's son. Naima's father found out what happend and
accused the doctor of being the cause; then the entire village turned
against him. He left the village, but returned to defend Naima. Naima
found the rapist and stabbed him with a knife; he then confessed to
his crime. Naima married a soldier from the village.
Cast and crew: Samira Ahmed, Imad Hamdi, Hassan Al Imam, Mohamed Moustapha Sami, Wahid Farid, Zaki Rostom, Zouzou Nabil, Hassan Youssef, Mohammad Alawan, Fakher Fakher, Kamal Hussein, Fifi Youssef, Ya'qub Mikhail, Hussein Ismail, Mohammad Sabih, Samih Kamel, Jean Negulesco, Johnny Belinda
Determination [al-azima] (1939) - (Fatma Rouchdi) very rare Egyptian film poster 27" x 39" printed by Matabi Masr of Cairo
In the 1995 Cairo 100 Years of Egyptian Cinema Festival this film was ranked number one among the top 100 films. Directed by Kamal Selim, cinematography Very Varkash. Starring Fatma Rouchdi, Abd Al-Aziz Khalil, Zaki Rostom, Hussein Sedki, Anwar Wagdi, Abbas Fares, Marie Munib, Mokhtar Osman, Mokhtar Hussein, Hikmat Fahmi, Souraya Fakhry, Hassan Kamel.
In his 1969 book An Introduction to the Egyptian Cinema Egyptian director Mohamed Khan says of this film: "The story of Determination is only a skeleton to serve the film's other deeper aims. It takes place in a poor district in Cairo and concerns, among others, Mohamed, the local barber's son, who resists becoming a government official after finishing his secondary school. Mohamed hopes to better himself through a business deal with a rich man's son. This deal fails and while Mohamed is awaiting his government appointment he is threatened with the loss of his sweetheart to the local butcher. Eventually Mohamed succeeds in becoming a business man and marrying his girl. Determination is regarded as the first film of a school which was new to the Egyptian scene: the realistic school. For the first time an Egyptian film-maker dealt realistically with a social problem drawn from real life and conditions in Egypt. The deepest traditions of the Egyptian people reflect the respect and esteem accorded to officials, to the exclusion of other social classes such as tradesmen, craftsmen and independent workers. The official in his suit and Tarboosh (the Effendi) is compared with the tradesman or craftsman in his galabia, the official and his fixed regular salary and the independent worker and his uncertain earnings. This grave problem produced consequences which had a great influence on Egyptian society, especially during this period. If a young man were fortunate enough to obtain his secondary school certificate or university degree, his only hope of a stable income was to become a government employee. The result was that only foreigners went into trade or industry. The owners of the commercial or industrial companies in Egypt were Italians, Greeks, French, Swiss or British, and it was unusual to find a single Egyptian among them. Egyptian families of the middle class always chose an official to marry their daughters, however small his income might be, rejecting an independent worker even if his income was higher. Selim's film had a really overwhelming success, such as had never previously been known in the Egyptian cinema."
