Puppeteer, The [al-aragoz] (1989) - (Omar Sharif) style B Egyptian film poster F, NM $95 *
Size: 27" x 39"
Price: $95
Condition: Folded Near Mint
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Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Nagy Shaker to
promote the 1989 Hany Lasheen 109-minute color film The
Puppeteer [al-aragoz] starring Omar Sharif based on an idea by
Hany Lasheen with screenplay and dialogue by Essam El Shamaa and
cinematography by Mohsen Ahmed. Plot summary: The puppeteer Mohammad
Gad Al-Karim [Omar Sharif] taught his craft to his son Bahlul [Hesham
Selim], who later completed his higher education. Mohammad married a
beautiful carnival worker named En'am [Mervat Amin], who loved his
profession and was not ashamed of it. However Mohammad's educated son
Bahlul tried to distance himself from his father's class of people.
Bahlul asked his father to leave his old profession and stay at home,
because he had come under the influence of a corrupt pasha, had
married the pasha's daughter and set his sights on winning a seat in
Parliament. The father stuck with his principles hoping to rekindle
Bahlul's ethics and idealism. En'am bore Mohammad another son who
grew up to become a puppeteer with a puppeteer's ethics,
characteristics and class attributes. Omar Sharif's portrayal of a
traditional itinerant Egyptian puppeteer is authentic and emotionally
sympathetic. Hesham Selim, as the ambitious son entering a changing
world with a traditional background, experiences the conflicts and
pressures that arise as time passes and generations confront new
social circumstances.
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