My Father Is up the Tree [abi fawq al-shagarah] (1969) - (Abdel Halim Hafez) undated rerelease Egyptian film poster F, EX $45 *
Size: 27" x 39"
Price: SOLD
Condition: Folded, Excellent (edge damage)
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This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian undated rerelease one-sheet poster made
to promote the 1969 142-minute Hussein Kamal color film My Father
is up the Tree [abi fawq al-shagarah] based on a story by Ihsan
Abd al-Qudus with screenplay by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Sa'deddine Wahba
and Youssef Francis, dialogue by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus and Sa'eddine
Wahba and cinematography by Wahid Farid. This was the last film in
which Abdel Halim Hafez appeared and is still the longest-running film
in the history of Arab cinema. Plot summary: A group of university
students went to Alexandria for summer vacation.Two of the students, a
couple named Adel [Abdel Halim Hafez] and Amal [Mervat Amin], had a
disagreement; then Adel fell in love with a much older worldly-wise
nightclub dancer in town named Ferdoos [Nadia Lutfi]. Ferdoos invites
Adel to live with her, gives him money and says she loves him, but he
soon learns she has other men. Amal notices Adel's disappearance but
does not know what has happened until one of Adel's friends finds him
and tells her. Adel and Ferdoos fly to Lebanon together for a few
dancing and singing scenes in various touristic settings. After Adel
and Ferdoos return from Lebanon, Ferdoos is obliged to go back to
hustling men to meet her expenses, for which Adel is not prepared.
When he tries to go back to the gang at the beach, they all reject him
and he is unable to restart his relationship with Amal. Adel's father
[Imad Hamdi], having no word from his son, goes to Alexandria looking
for him. There he meets one of the bar women and becomes involved
with her, as Adel had done. One of Adel's friends from the beach gang
finds him and tells him what his father is doing, and that his friends
at the beach are willing to make amends. When he finds his father he
tells him of his experiences and that he has learned from them. With
sympathetic intervention from Ferdoos, father and son are reconciled
and Adel reestablishes his relationship with Amal.
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