Pictured is a 27" x 39" promotional poster designed by Mohammad Abdel
Aziz and Ahmed Fouad for the 1962 100-minute Ahmed Diaeddin
black-and-white film Faithful Forever AKA wafa lil-abad
starring Imad Hamdi as Hamdy Hamed and Madiha Yousri as Wafa Kheir
with story and dialogue by Mahmoud Sobhi and cinematography by Victor
Antoun. Plot summary: Nabil Kheir [Ahmad Khamees] was a young
engineer living happily in Alexandria with his daughter Mona [Alawiya
Mostafa] and his wife Wafa. He was a partner in the same office with
his friend Safwat Fahmy [Omar El-Hariri]. One day Nabil saw a young
man trying to kill himself by jumping off a bridge and was able to
save him, but he drowned in so doing and left a bereaved family. The
man Hamdy Hamed Nabil had saved was stricken with remorse and wanted
to atone for his guilt at any price. He tried to get close to the
widow by renting a room in her house without telling her he had been
the cause of her husband's death. She rented him a room because she
needed the money. Hamdy began to have deep feelings for Wafa and
became close to the daughter. Hamdy acquired some money, paid it to
the widow and told her it came from a philanthropist. The widow
accused him of stealing the money from her husband. He tried to
confess to her the truth but Wafa left the country. When she returned
she found Hamdy waiting for her asking her to forgive his mistake.
She forgave him and they married.
