My Dark Darling [habibi al-asmar] (1958) - (Taheya Cariocca, Samia Gamal) undated rerelease Egyptian film poster F, NM $85 *
Size: 27" x 39"
Price: $85
Condition: Folded Near Mint
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian rerelease poster designed by an
unknown artist to promote the 1958 104-minute Hassan El-Seify
black-and-white film My Dark Darling [habibi al-asmar] starring
Taheya Cariocca and Samia Gamal based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Mahmoud Ismail and with cinematography by Abdel Aziz
Fahmy. Plot Summary: Samara [Samia Gamal] was a poor girl with an
abundance of femininity and beauty engaged to a mechanic named Ahmed
[Shukry Sarhan], but her love for dance drew her to her neighbor, a
dancer named Zakia [Taheya Cariocca]. She secretly went with Zakia to
the hall where she worked. She met a weathy man there named Rostom
[Youssef Wahby] who liked her and wanted to court her but she rejected
him; she later changed her mind and married him, deciding this was her
only way out of poverty; he worked on her appearance by buying her
luxurious clothing and jewelry. When Samara's fiance learned she had
unexpectly disappeared to marry the rich man, he became furious and
swore he would take revenge against her. Zakia tried to calm him by
ushering him into a relationship with an international trader [Mahmoud
El-Meliguy] who took him on as an associate in a shady trading
operation. In this operation Ahmed changed his name to Ibrahim and
ran into Rostom and Samara by chance in Lebanon. Samara's husband
also turned out to involved in criminal activity and when she saw
Ahmed again in Lebanon they were not getting along. She tried to
rekindle her relationship with Ahmed without success; Ahmed had found
a new life. Rostom's assistant Semsem [Stephan Rosti] tried to kill
Ahmed after Rostom has realized the nature of their former
relationship. Ahmed survived the murder attempt; then Zakia and Ahmed
began to form a relationship, but Zakia was killed by Semsem in a
domestic shootout in Rostom's sumptious home in Lebanon. When Samara
and Rostom returned to Cairo Rostom was shot by the police. Ahmed and
Samara were left alone together in Cairo at last to pick up the pieces
in their old relationship.
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