Lawahez
(1957) - (Shadia) Egyptian one-sheet
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the
1957 Hassan Al Imam film Lawahez based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Mohamed Mostafa Samy and starring Shadia [1931-2017] as
Lawahez. Plot summary: Lawahez was a bright star among the great
performers, who sang and danced with wonder and fascination. Her
parents had been sent to prison and she was summoned to visit her
ailing mother at the prison hospital. Her mother confessed to her
that she was not the daughter of the convicted "bachelor teacher."
She was the daughter of a respected man who had married her mother
secretly and had not left her. She later married "the teacher" who
took advantage of her and involved her in his crimes. The mother died
and the girl felt she had been released from the domination of the
criminal she had thought to be her father, who had been sending her
threatening extortionist letters from the prison. The girl refused to
pay anything to the messenger then went to a police officer to seek
protection from him. By chance this officer was the son of the second
wife of the respected man who was the girl's true father. He spoke to
his mother's husband about the tragedy of the girl he had seen in his
office and the man realized the girl Lawahez was his daughter. He
told the officer and asked him to conceal the matter to avoid angering
his mother. The officer decided the only way to save the girl from
the miserable night life was to bring her home to work as a maid for
her father, his mother's husband, who had taken ill. Lawahez agreed
to this because she loved the officer. She lived at her father's house
without telling her friends, and the young son, who was her half
brother, flirted with her. She and the officer fell in love. The
"teacher" got out of prison and went looking for the girl. He broke
into the father's home and demanded that the girl be returned to him.
The real father refused. The teacher offered to pay to have the girl
turned over to him. Then the wife discovered the girl had worked in a
cabaret and banished her from the home to return to her old work. The
teacher and his gang went to the cabaret where they abducted the girl
and took her to his hideout. He tried to rape her but the girl
resisted and stabbed him to death with a knife just when the officer
arrived with policemen to save her.
Cast and crew: Shadia, Hassan Al Imam, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Mahmoud
El-Meliguy, Mahmoud Ismail, Zouzou Nabil, Alvisy Orphanily, Mohamed
Mustafa Samy, Kariman, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Fakher Fakher, Aziza
Helmy, Qatquta, Shafik Noureddin, Salwa Sami, Hussein Ismail, Mohsen
Hassanein, Salwa Mahmoud, Abbas Al-Dali, Anwar Zaki, Souraya Hassan,
Mahmoud El Guindi, Elham Ibrahim
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