Emigrant, The [al-mohager] (1994) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian movie poster F, EX $45 *
Size: 27" x 39"
Price: $45
Condition: Folded, Excellent (whiting on fold lines)
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Pictured is a somewhat worn 27" x 39" promotional poster for the 1994
Youssef Chahine 120-minute color film The Emigrant [al-mohager] with
screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Chahine, poster art by Jan and
cinematography by Ramses Marzouk. Plot summary: Ram [Khaled Nabawy]
lived with his old father [Michel Piccoli] in a poor tribe outside
Egypt. Ram suffered from an unhappy dislike of his position as the
favorite of his father's seven sons; he refused to accept that
situation or to live in fear of drought, famine and flood. He dreamed
of being in control of his own life and of his tribe being prosperous.
He decided to go to Egypt to learn agriculture and to make use of
other areas of knowledge found in Egyptian civilization. His brothers
tied him up and threw him into the hold of a ship bound for Egypt,
believing they had gotten rid of him forever, but Ram made it to Egypt
and began learning agriculture. There he discovered the Egyptians were
more interested in the arts and embalming. Ram met Amihar, [Mahmoud
Hemida] the leader of the Egyptian armies. Amihar was impotent
despite his physical strength and was unable to satisfy his wife
Simihit [Youssra] after she fell in love with him. Amihar gave Ram a
plot of land to farm. Ram fell in love with a pretty Egyptian girl
named Haty [Hanan Turk] who said she would marry him. The two of them
joined with an Egyptian minister farming the new land; they
successfully cultivated the plot from Amihar. They divided the crop
to help alleviate the famine that was threatening Egypt and Ram became
a minister in the Pharaoh's government. Nonetheless he longed to
return to his country after disclosing his identity to his seven
brothers; he returned to his tribe with his wife, where he met with
his father after long years of absence. He found his father had gone
blind crying so much in the belief he had died, as his lying brothers
had claimed. This film was banned by religious authorities in Egypt in
1994 and 1995, both times for violating Islamic strictures against
depicting religious prophets--in this case the Prophet Joseph. After
the ban was lifted The Emigrant became Chahine's most popular
film.
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