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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

A Bit of Fear (1969)

A Bit of Fear [shay min al-khawf] (1969) - (Shadia) Egyptian film poster

This film was directed by Hussein Kamal based on a story by Tharwat Abaza, with screenplay and dialogue by Sabry Ezzat; the cinematography was done by Ahmed Khorshed; it is on Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films. The poster was designed by Mohamed Hussein. Plot Summary: Atris the grandson became the image of his grandfather in cruelty, violence, tyranny and crime. He ruled the life of his village with the terror he imposed upon its inhabitants. He had loved Fouada since she was a child but she refused him after he came to resemble his grandfather in spirit and action. Atris courted Fouada and asked her father for her hand in marriage but Fouada refused the marriage. Her father feared Atris's anger, and instead of announcing her refusal of the marriage he announced her agreeent to it. Atris was overjoyed when he heard this news, but Sheikh Ibrahim incited the people against Atris and his gang, declaring that his marriage to Fouada was cancelled. Ignoring Atris's orders, Fouada allowed water to flow into the lands of the farmers after he had denied it to them. The people defied Atris and his gang and burned his mansion while he was in it.

Cast and crew: Shadia, Hussein Kamal, Sabry Ezzat, Amal Zayed, Yehia Chahine, Mohammed Tawfik, Mahmoud Moursy, Ahmed Khorshed, Salah Nazmi, Tharwat Abaza, Sabry Ezzat

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Between Heaven and Earth بين السماء والارض (Hind Rostom) - (1960) Egyptian one-sheet

Between Heaven and Earth (1960) - (Dir: Salah Abouseif) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian undated rerelease poster by an unknown artist for the 1960 Salah Abouseif film Between Heaven and Earth based on a screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz, El Sayed Bedeir and Salah Abuseif and starring Hind Rostom as the movie star Nahed Shukry. A group of city people got into an elevator going to various floors in a big building. There was an actress who had a role to play in a film about the tallest building. She was being pursued by a man who was in the habit of following women. There was a woman going to her lover, and there was someone from a gang that steals valuables. There was a crazy person fleeing from a mental hospital and an old man who had left his family to marry a younger woman. The elevator stopped working, but the doorman had gone to see a soccer game, so the rescue was delayed. The police were called, who finally located the elevator and broke through the wall. The rescue was made and they all went back to their original plans. The actress completed her job, the thief was arrested and the man who loved women went looking for a new woman. According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of the top 100 Egyptian films. This film is also on film critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films. Although it was not a commercial success, it was Egypt's entry in the Yugoslavia Film Festival in 1960.

Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, El Sayed Bedeir, Hind Rostom, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Said Abu Bakr, Naima Wasfy, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Shafik Noureddin, Mahmoud Azmy, Zizi Mustafa, Wahid Farid, Naguib Mahfouz, Ahmed Louxor, Souraya Fakhry, Nazim Shaarawy

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The Berry and the Cane التوت والنبوت (Ezzat El Alaili) - (1985) Egyptian one-sheet

The Berry and the Cane (1985) - (Ezzat El Alaili) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Azem for the 1985 Niazi Mostafa color film The Berry and the Cane based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz (the sequel to his Racketeers), screenplay by Essam Gomblati and starring Ezzat El Alaili as Ashour. Plot summary: After the death of Al-Nagy the old neighborhood boss, the oppression and humiliation of his family by Hasouna [Hamdy Gheith] the new neighborhood boss increased. The mother Halima [Amina Rizk] and her sons Ashour, Fayez [Samir Sabri] and Zia [Mahmoud El Guindi] were subjected to this oppression. Fayez ran away after stealing a vehicle and selling it. Fayez met Laila the owner of a night club and took charge of the management of her work. After a time he returned to the neighborhood a wealthy man and restored dignity to the family. He bought them a home and they moved into it. He opened an office in the Al-Nagy name and increased his wealth. Then the dancer took revenge against him. He lost all his wealth and committed suicide before they could arrest him. Ashour the oldest son married Aziza Redwan, [Taysir Fahmy] the woman he loved. Hasouna capitalized on the collapse of Fayez's financial power to torment the family again. He forced Ashour to divorce his wife so he could marry her. On the wedding night Ashour crept in with a gang of thugs behind him to seize Hasouna and drive him away. He became the new neighborhood boss and got his woman back.

Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud El Guindi, Amal Ramzy, Salah Nazmi, Mona Al-Said, Niazi Mostafa, Ezzat El Alaili, Samir Sabry, Ibrahim Saleh, Mahmoud Nasr, Amina Rizk, Hamdy Gheith, Mona Said, Taysar Fahmy, Amal Ramzy, Adel Badreddine, Fakry Sadeq, Ali Al Ghandour, Samira Sedki, Amal Diab, Hafez Amin, Mohieddine Abdel Mohsen, Ahmed Aql, Mohamed Moursy, Nariman, Mehget Abdel Rahman, Kamal Al-Desouky, Hosn El-Dib, Magdi Said, Ahmed Abu Abih, Mohamed Khalil, Mostafa Akasha, Fawzy Al Sharkawi, Atef Barakat, Mahmoud Abu Zeid, Sayed Hatam, Motawe Oweysi, Abdel Moniem Al-Nemr, Sami Ali, Essam al-Gomblati

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Monday, January 21, 2013

Beauty of the Airport حسناء المطار (Naglaa Fathy) - (1970) Egyptian one-sheet

Beauty of the Airport (1970) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian rerelease one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Aziz and Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1970 El Sayed Bedir film Beauty of the Airport based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Abdul Rahim Abol Aouf and starring Naglaa Fathy as Jill. Plot summary: On the return flight from Beirut the lawyer Fouad (Hassan Youssef) met a pretty girl (Naglaa Fathy) who called herself Jill. They separated at the Cairo airport. Fouad went home and Jill went to a hotel in the city. At the airport the police found an unclaimed briefcase filled with dollars and investigated the source of the funds. Downtown the gang was looking everywhere for Jill -- who did the gang's accounting -- intending to torture her to make her tell them the location of the briefcase. The leader of the gang demanded that she be released so they could follow her and find the briefcase. Jill feared for her life and contacted the attorney Fouad for help, claiming she was being threatened with murder because of an inheritance from the family of her deceased husband. Fouad befriended her and allowed her to stay with him. The gang learned where she was staying and seized her a second time in an automobile owned by the father of Fouad's fiance Amal. Fouad was worried about the possibility of being associated with the gang when he read a report about Jill's struggle in dark circumstances. Meanwhile the security men were tracking the gang's movements and ordered that they be surrounded and caught before they could flee to Beirut. The innocence of Amal's father was proven and it was established that he was not part of the gang; indeed it was proven that the leader of the gang was the one who had been driving his automobile.

Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Hassan Youssef, El Seyed Bedir, Aly Hassan, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Samia Shukry, Shafik Noureddin, Wahid Ezat

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The Barrier الحاجز - (Nadia Lutfi) - (1970) Egyptian one-sheet

The Barrier (1970) - (Nadia Lutfi) Egyptian one-sheet

This is 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown designer for the 1970 Mouhamed Rady film The Barrier AKA al-hagez based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Bahig Ismail and starring Nadia Lutfi as Nadia. Plot summary: Ezzat [Nour El-Sherif] did not want to go to medical school because he had a great aversion to dissection and could not even hurt a frog, but his older brother Salah [Yehia Chahine] forced him to enroll. Ezzat and Nadia met and fell in love but Ezzat did not know Nadia had married his brother Salah before meeting him. He was deeply hurt when he learned this. He took to drinking with her image constantly before him. He went home drunk on one of those difficult nights and Nadia followed him. She caught up with him and tried to console him. He left her and ran far away to hide in a basement. Nadia caught up with him again and tried to understand what had brought him to this state. He tried to kiss her but she resisted. He took a scalpel out of his pocket and killed her with it.

Cast and crew: Mouhamed Rady, Bahig Ismail, Nadia Lutfi, Yehia Chahine, El Sayed Radi, Hesham Wadid Serri, Wadid Serri, Nour El-Sherif, Nour Ismail, Nabaweya Said, Mokhtar Al Sayed, Anwar Ismail

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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Badia Masabni بديعة مصابني (Nadia Lutfi) - (1975) Egyptian rerelease one-sheet

Badia Masabni (1975) - (Nadia Lutfi) Egyptian rerelease one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by Mohammad Abdel Aziz and Abdel Ghani for the 1975 Hassan Al Imam film Badia Masabni based on a screenplay by Mustafa Samy and starring Nadia Lutfi as Badiaa Masabny. Plot summary: This film portrays one of the most important artistic periods of Egyptian dance, when tens of artists developed performances of Eastern dances. These dancers included Badia Masabni; this film tells her story and how she established the Badia Casino, where she also starred as a dancer. The film also tells the story of the love relationship between Badia and the actor Naguib Rihani and how the two worked together to establish the art of Eastern dance, both as an exhibition art and as a performance component on the comedy stage. Disagreements eventually pulled them apart, leaving Badia burdened with heavy debts and psychological problems. She sold her casino to one of her fellow dancers there, then left Egypt to return to her native Lebanon.

Cast and crew: Imad Hamdi, Nabila Ebeid, Nadia Lutfi, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Hassan Al Imam, Nabil Badr, Nabila Ebeid, Nabil El-Hegrassy, Hussein El Imam, Fouad El-Mohandes, Farida Seif El Nasr, Shafik Galal, Nesrine, Amal Ramzy

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Ayyoub ایوب Omar Sharif 1983 Egyptian one-sheet

Ayyoub (1983) - (Omar Sharif) Egyptian one-sheet

This film was directed by Hany Lasheen, screenplay and dialogue by Mohsen Sayed and cinematography by Abdel Moneim Bahnassy; it is based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz. The poster was designed by Sami. Plot Summary: Abdelhamid Al-Sokkari was a successful businessman. He returned from abroad after signing contracts for a huge project, but because of his many responsibilities and his increased anxiety he was stricken with paralysis. He returned in a wheelchair after his treatement failed. His son took over the company operations and his wife used his ideas with friends and at gatherings. His daughter Nabila was a medical student in love with Engineer Hamed. Her father had agreed to her engagement to him despite their social differences. Abdelhamid met Dr. Galal, a friend from his youth when they had been heroes of the national movement. This filled his life, made it meaningful and got him out of his state of depression. He welcomed life with a new personality. He decided to write his memoirs including the truth and the names of those who participated with him in suspicous operations until he acquired what wealth he had. The memoirs would open the sun and moon for him and deliver the news to his partners. He asked his friends to help him publish the book. His partners tried without success to prevent him publishing the book; then they shot him while he was on his way to the publisher.

Cast and crew: Hany Lasheen, Naguib Mahfouz, Athar El-Hakim, Fouad El-Mohandes, Omar Sharif, Madiha Yousri, Abdel Moneim Bahnassy, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mustafa Fahmy, Sameh El-Sereety, Osama Abas, Leila Fahmi, Hafez Amin, Mohsen Zayed, Mohamed Abu Daoud, Maraya Khouri, Marwan Labib, Soheir Sabri, Karwal Abriku, Samia Sassi, Reshwan Mostafa, Sadeq Amin, Abu Fatouh Emara, Hassan Al-Anwar