This is an Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1977 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 122-minute color film Sonya and the Madman [sonya wal-magnun], with cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh, printed by Arabic Cinema Printers. The film is based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, but the central character is switched and in this Egyptian film adaptation becomes Dostoevsky's Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov (Sonya) who in the novel falls in love with the criminal protagonist, Rodio Romanovitch Raskalnikov (Rodya); Raskalnikof (the madman) is played in this Egyptian film by Mahmoud Yassine.

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