Sunstroke [darbet shams] (1978) - (dir: Mohamed Khan) Egyptian film poster F, NM $250 **jg**
Size: 26.5" x 38"
Price: $250
Condition: Folded, Near Mint
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This is a 26.5" x 38" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
to promote the 1978 113-minute Mohamed Khan color
film Sunstroke [darbet shams] starring Nour El-Sherif as Shams
based on a story by Mohamed Khan with screenplay and dialogue by Fayez
Ghali and cinematograpy by Said Al-Shiemy. Plot summary: This film is
a remake of the 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni film Blow-Up.
Shams [Nour El-Sherif] is a magazine photojournalist in love with a
woman named Salwa [Noura], a woman with a salaried job who supports
him in his work. Together they dream of big projects. Shams is
called to photograph a sumptuous party. He happens to photograph some
papyrus with words burned on it that are difficult to decipher. These
words lead him to a gang led by a woman [Leila Fawzi]. This gang is
smuggling rare works abroad and counterfeiting money. The gang begins
to pursue Shams after he discovers its secret and the police are
unable to reach this mysterious woman, who commits a series of
murders. The man investigating Shams gives him a picture of the gang.
The two of them look for Salwa after the gang kidnaps her but she
escapes after fleeing on the Helwan Metro at night. The gangleader
dies when she falls out the door from a moving train while Shams is
chasing her and the police are able to catch the rest of the
gang. Shams and Salwa resume their lives and are shown in a final
scene walking together on the old elevated pedestrian walkway at
Tahrir Square.
This relatively unpeopled film relies heavily on night highway
chase scenes, and other tense escapades in the metro, in train
stations, on trains and in abandoned buildings. Nour El-Sherif and
Noura move about a great deal on a small blue motorbike through
various parts of Cairo and Helwan; these scenes are also shown in
aerial shots. The poster shows the film's emphasis on various modes
of transportation.
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