Adrift on the Nile [thartharah fawq al-nil] (1971) - (Adel Adham) Egyptian film poster F, NM $75 *

pictured is the Egyptian two-piece promotional movie poster for the 1971 Hussein Kamal film Adrift on the Nile based on the novel by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Adel Adham.

Size: 29" x 54"

Price: $75

Condition: Folded Near Mint

This is an Egyptian two-sheet poster, issued in two pieces. The film is based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz.

Plot Summary: This is the story of a simple Egyptian worker, Anis (played by Imad Hamdi), who dislikes the hypocrisy of the Egyptian government and the illiteracy of the Egyptian public. He tries to escape the problems in Egypt by smoking the drug shisha.

Anis meets with Ragab (Ahmed Ramzi), a former student, who invites him aboard a small boat on the Nile. There Anis finds other lower- and middle-class Egyptians who are also smoking shisha for the same reasons he does.

At the end Anis decides to stop smoking shisha but is soon left alone and deranged in the streets--almost everyone else in Egypt is stoned!




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