Day of My Life, A [yom min omri] (1961) - (Abdel Halim Hafez) Style A Egyptian film poster F, NM $55 *
Size: 27" x 39"
Price: $55
Condition: Folded, Near Mint
This is a poster designed by Ahmed Ghanem to promote the 1961
155-minute black-and-white Atef Salem Egyptian film A Day of My
Life [yom min omri] with cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr,
printed by Al-Nasr printers of Cairo, starring the late Egyptian
singer Abdel Halim Hafez as Salah. It is based on the 1953 William
Wyler film Roman Holiday. Plot summary: An editor gave the
journalist Salah Shawqi and his colleague the photographer Younes
[Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy] the assignment of covering the arrival from
Switzerland of Nadia, [Zubaida Tharwat] the daughter of the
millionaire Abu Agila, [Zaki Toleimat] after a long absence. At the
airport Nadia learned her father's wife wanted to marry her to her
brother so she decided to run away. She got on a bus with the
journalists without any of them knowing anything about each other.
Salah and Nadia with Younes and his fiance had a wonderful night at a
nightclub and then Nadia went with Salah to spend the night at his
home. Younes photographed the two of them together; then the
neighbors realized who Nadia was and pursued her. When the editor
learned the journalist and his colleague had failed at their
assignment he threatened to fire them. Salah discovered the truth
about Nadia and went to the editor with the photographer and the story
about what had happened. Nadia decided to go back to her father, who
had decided not to marry her to a man she did not love. Salah stole
the photos and the papers for the story and prevented the publication
of anything about his beloved. He sent the pictures to Nadia and her
father at the airport. The father understood Salah was a noble man
and decided to marry his daughter to the one she loved.
