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 35" x 45" two-piece Egyptian poster made to promote the 1953
Ezzel Dine Zulficar 92-minute black-and-white film Night Train
[qattar al-leil] starring Samia Gamal based on a story by Stephan
Rosti with screenplay by Zaki Saleh, Stephan Rostam and Ezzel Dine
Zulficar with cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: The father
of Samia [Samia Gamal] was in a severe financial crisis and decided to
sell his house to get out of it. Samia's boyfried Adel [Imad Hamdi]
tried to prevent this by paying off her father's debt, but was unable
to do so before the house was sold, and to make matters more
complicated, Samia also told him she no longer wanted to be in a
relationship with him.
Cast and crew: Ezzel Dine Zulficar, Stephan Rosti, Wahid Farid, Zaki Saleh, Samia Gamal, Imad Hamdi, Seraj Munir, Suleiman Naguib, Fakher Fakher, Salah Nazmi, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Hussein Isa, Hussein Eisa, Zaki Ibrahim, Aida Kamal, Abdel Alim Khattab
This Egyptian poster designed by Fathy Al-Khodri was made to promote
the 1959 100-minute Hassan El-Seify black-and-white film The
Highwayman starring Rushdy Abaza with screenplay by Hassan
El-Seify, story and dialogue by Zaki Saleh and Stephan Rosti and
cinematography by Alevise Orfanelli. Plot summary: Wahid (Rushdy
Abaza) was a boy who lost his father as a child. His mother took care
of him for a short time but then she also soon died. Wahid had a
friend named Abou Ezz who worked as a drug dealer. Abou Ezz taught
Wahid how to gamble and he lost all of his money. Then Abou Ezz
proposed that he take part in a narcotics smuggling operation to get
his money back. The police followed them and then Wahid was blamed for
the killing of his cousin the officer Galal. Wahid deplored the murder
and decided to kill his cousin's killer. He knew the killer was
Al-Asmar the Dark One, a member of Abou Ezz's gang. Al-Asmar
announced he was leaving the gang and going to Alexandria. Wahid
followed him, shot at him, then fled in an automobile he stopped on
the road driven by a singer (Hoda Soltan) with her writer friend. At
the singer's home Wahid told his story to the woman and then the
singer also talked about her past. Abou Ezz arrived at the home of the
singer; the police arrived at the same time and arrested the members
of Abou Ezz's gang. One of them admitted he was the killer Al-Asmar.
Wahid was released and decided to marry the singer.
Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Hoda Soltan, Tewfik El Dekn, Stephan Rosti, Hussein Riad, Hassan El-Seify, Mahmoud Farag, Reyad El-Kasabgy, Aziz Osman, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Zaki Saleh, Alevise Orfanelli, Elham Zaki, Souraya Fakhry, Awatif Yusuf, Mohammed Tawfk, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Anwar Madkour
This is a promotional poster for designed by Ahmed Hamed for the 1961 Hassan El-Seify 90-minute
black-and-white film Fattouma starring Hind Rostom with story,
screenplay and dialogue by Zaki Saleh and cinematography by Alvisy
Orphanily. Plot summary: Fattouma (Hind Rostom) told her boyfriend
Dr. Wahid Farid (Kamal Al-Shennawi) that her husband had left her a message
saying he intended to commit suicide. Wahid advised her to leave the
message beside the body so the police would not be suspicious. She
asked him to do this himself. He went to the home of the deceased and
was surprised to find him threatening him with a pistol instead of dead.
He took out his own pistol and killed the husband of his mistress. He
told the police he had known Fattouma long ago when she almost committed
suicide, but Dr. Wahid had given her hope and asked her to marry him. He
spent the night with her and the next morning he left a message with her
but the wind blew it out the window before she saw it. When she woke up she decided to
kill herself. Then she married Khorshid (Mahmoud El-Meliguy) so he would
take care of her son. Wahid went back, met her by chance and became her
lover. Fattouma's account to the police was from a different point of
view. She said when her husband knew Wahid had returned from abroad he
invented the story to blackmail him to get money for his son. She claimed
she told her lover about the killing of her husband so he could face him,
and that she had changed the pistol because of the extent of the danger to
her lover. The lovers were then accused, but the attorney was able to
prove they had not collaborated in the killing.
Cast and crew: Hind Rostom, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Ahmed Hamed, Hassan El-Seify, Zaki Saleh, Khayria Ahmed, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Orlando, Hoda Shamseddine, Alvisy Orphanily
