In Egypt and in other Muslim countries a man can divorce his wife just by repeating three times the verbal formula "I divorce you". Women can't do that. Women have a much more difficult time if they want a divorce, especially if the husband doesn't want to give his wife a divorce. Sometimes in Egypt it is too easy for men to divorce their wives; they do it in a fit of anger and then soon regret it. If this happens, the marriage can only be restored if the divorced wife first marries another man, then gets a divorce from him and remarries her first husband. As I gather from the film, there are apparently men who are professional "temporary husbands" who are paid to marry women and then divorce them so they can go back to the husbands they had. This film is about one of these men, a man named Mamdouh played by the great Egyptian actor/comedian Adel Imam. The twist in this case is that the divorced woman and the temporary husband fall in love and decide not to divorce. This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour.
Sonya and the Madman (1977) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian one-sheet
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1977
Houssam El-Din Mustafa film Sonya and the Madman based on the
1866 Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel Crime and Punishment with
screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Diab, cinematography by Ibrahim
Saleh and starring Naglaa Fathy as Sonya. Plot summary: In 1940s
Cairo, law student Mokhtar [Mahmoud Yassine] found a poor girl
sleeping in the street named Sonya whose circumstances were driving
her to vice and crime. He fell in love with her and asked her to stop
being a girl of the night in exchange for his financial help. In this
adaptation Mokhtar is the madman who has Raskalnikov's part in the
Dostoyevsky story. Naglaa Fathy's Sonya is also Dostoyevsky's Sonya.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Imad Hamdi, Sa'eed Saleh, Abdel
Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam
El-Din Mustafa, Ibrahim Saleh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ruhia Khaled, Nazim
Shaarawy, Naima Al Soghayar, Mahmoud Diab, Soheir Reda
A Cigarette and a Glass [sigara wa kas] (Samia Gamal) (1957) original Egyptian stone litho film poster
Pictured is a 27.5" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohamed Abdel
Aziz to promote the 1955 112-minute Niazi Mostafa black-and-white
film A Cigarette and a Glass [sigara wa kas] starring Samia
Gamal based on a story by Abdel Aziz Salam, screenplay by Abdel Aziz
Salam, Hassan Tewfik and Niazi Mostafa, dialogue by Abdel Aziz Salam
and Hassan Tewfik and cinematography by Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot
summary: This is a famous Egyptian melodrama in which the late Samia
Gamal (1924 - 1994) plays the part of a renowned dancer named Hoda
Gamal, who gives up the spotlight for marriage and is then driven to
drink by jealousy. Hoda is jealous of a scheming Italian nurse named
Yolanda [Dalida] who is working for her husband Dr. Mamdouh Samy
[Nabil Al Alfi]. The tension is resolved at the end with the outbreak
of a fire in their apartment that threatens the life of their
daughter; this brings the couple to their senses and results in
Yolanda's replacement as Dr. Mamdouh's assistant. Kouka, the wife of
director Niazi Mostafa, sings the title song in her role as Hoda's
friend and fellow performer Azz.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Abdel Aziz Salam, Nabil Al Alfi, Seraj Munir, Dalida, Kouka, Mohamed Reda, Hussein Abdel Nabi, Hosni Claude, Mervat Kazem, Kamal al-Zeini, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Hassan Tewfik, Samia Gamal
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In Egypt and in other Muslim countries a man can divorce his wife just by repeating three times the verbal formula "I divorce you". Women can't do that. Women have a much more difficult time if they want a divorce, especially if the husband doesn't want to give his wife a divorce. Sometimes in Egypt it is too easy for men to divorce their wives; they do it in a fit of anger and then soon regret it. If this happens, the marriage can only be restored if the divorced wife first marries another man, then gets a divorce from him and remarries her first husband. As I gather from the film, there are apparently men who are professional "temporary husbands" who are paid to marry women and then divorce them so they can go back to the husbands they had. This film is about one of these men, a man named Mamdouh played by the great Egyptian actor/comedian Adel Imam. The twist in this case is that the divorced woman and the temporary husband fall in love and decide not to divorce. This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour.
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Sonya and the Madman (1977) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian one-sheet
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1977 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film Sonya and the Madman based on the 1866 Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel Crime and Punishment with screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Diab, cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh and starring Naglaa Fathy as Sonya. Plot summary: In 1940s Cairo, law student Mokhtar [Mahmoud Yassine] found a poor girl sleeping in the street named Sonya whose circumstances were driving her to vice and crime. He fell in love with her and asked her to stop being a girl of the night in exchange for his financial help. In this adaptation Mokhtar is the madman who has Raskalnikov's part in the Dostoyevsky story. Naglaa Fathy's Sonya is also Dostoyevsky's Sonya.
Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Imad Hamdi, Sa'eed Saleh, Abdel Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ibrahim Saleh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ruhia Khaled, Nazim Shaarawy, Naima Al Soghayar, Mahmoud Diab, Soheir Reda
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A Cigarette and a Glass [sigara wa kas] (Samia Gamal) (1957) original Egyptian stone litho film poster
Pictured is a 27.5" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohamed Abdel Aziz to promote the 1955 112-minute Niazi Mostafa black-and-white film A Cigarette and a Glass [sigara wa kas] starring Samia Gamal based on a story by Abdel Aziz Salam, screenplay by Abdel Aziz Salam, Hassan Tewfik and Niazi Mostafa, dialogue by Abdel Aziz Salam and Hassan Tewfik and cinematography by Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary: This is a famous Egyptian melodrama in which the late Samia Gamal (1924 - 1994) plays the part of a renowned dancer named Hoda Gamal, who gives up the spotlight for marriage and is then driven to drink by jealousy. Hoda is jealous of a scheming Italian nurse named Yolanda [Dalida] who is working for her husband Dr. Mamdouh Samy [Nabil Al Alfi]. The tension is resolved at the end with the outbreak of a fire in their apartment that threatens the life of their daughter; this brings the couple to their senses and results in Yolanda's replacement as Dr. Mamdouh's assistant. Kouka, the wife of director Niazi Mostafa, sings the title song in her role as Hoda's friend and fellow performer Azz.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Abdel Aziz Salam, Nabil Al Alfi, Seraj Munir, Dalida, Kouka, Mohamed Reda, Hussein Abdel Nabi, Hosni Claude, Mervat Kazem, Kamal al-Zeini, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Hassan Tewfik, Samia Gamal
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