Sleepless [la anam] (1958) - (dir: Salah Abouseif) Egyptian film poster F, NM $85 **jg**
Size: 27" x 39"
Price: $85
Condition: Folded Near Mint
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This is an undated Egyptian rerelease poster made by an unknown
designer to promote the 1958 Salah Abouseif 121-minute color
film Sleepless [la anam] starring Faten Hamama and Omar Sharif
based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay by El Sayed
Bedeir and Salah Ezzedine, dialogue by Saleh Gawdat and cinematography
by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Nadia's [Faten Hamama] father
[Yehia Chahine] divorced her mother and she grew up in her father's
care. He did not remarry and dedicated his life to educating and
caring for his daughter. When Nadia was 16 her father married Safia
[Mariam Fakhr Eddine] who was a lady of nobility, but Nadia was
alienated from the woman who came to take her mother's place in her
father's castle. Nadia met Mostafa [Imad Hamdi] at a party and began
dating him and frequenting his apartment without the knowledge of her
family. Then Mostafa met her father's wife at a party and showed an
interest in her. Nadia became more jealous of her, which led to her
banishment from the house. Nadia deceived her father into believing
there was a sinful relationship between his wife and his brother Aziz
[Omar Sharif] who was living in the house with him. The father
divorced his wife and she departed from the home, leaving Nadia lady
of the house once more. Nadia felt remorse of conscience and arranged
for her father to marry Kawsar [Hind Rostom], an old associate of hers
they encountered while on a beach in Alexandria. However she quickly
discovered that her father's new wife Kawsar had a lover named Samir
[Rushdy Abaza] to whom she intended to give the wealth of Nadia's
father. Nadia recorded a telephone conversation between them
demonstrating this. She refrained from telling the truth to her
father to keep from ruining his marriage a second time. Her suffering
increased when she realized Mostafa did not love her after all and
that he had gone to Safia after the divorce and courted her for
himself. Her father came upon Mostafa's new wife with her lover and
Nadia had to convince her father that he was her own lover who had
come to court her. However Nadia could not continue the deception and
finally told her father the truth on the wedding night. Fate
intervened another time when a candle set fire to Nadia's wedding gown
right after she had refused to marry Samir during a forced ceremony
and was taken to a hospital, where they saved her life leaving her
body disfigured with burns. This film is included on critic Ahmad
Al-Hadari's 2007 list of Egypt's 100 most important films.
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