Girls of the Night [banat al-lail] (1955) - (Madiha Yousri) Egyptian stone litho film poster F, NM $125 *
Size: 24" x 35"
Price: $125
Condition: Folded, Near Mint
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This a 24" x 35" Egyptian poster designed by Stamatis Vassiliou to
promote the 1955 135-minute black-and-white Hassan Al Imam
film Girls of the Night [banat al-lail] based on a story by
Hassan Al Imam with screenplay and dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir and
cinematography by Alevise Orfanelli. Plot summary: One of the girls
of the night, the daughter of a decent man, fell into the ways of
seduction and became a cabaret professional, but she was deeply
unhappy and wanted to return to a pure upright life. One night the
girl happened to see a conservative family who had been her neigbors
before her fall. They loved her and made an agreement with her to
save her. They welcomed her back into the old friendship that had
connected the two families and agreed to a marriage between her and
their son, believing she was still pure. The girl was pregnant and
felt that her hopes for marriage had died, but the nurse who treated
her told her to sell the child at birth to a barren woman who was
afraid she would lose her husband if she could not give him a child.
However the girl refused to sell her baby and decided to tell her
fiance everything. Her fiance's father discovered the truth about her
life and what she had done, forbade his son to marry her and threw her
out of the house. Then the boy had an accident at work, broke his
spine and was taken to the hospital. He was told an operation would
be needed that would cost his father a lot of money. The girl learned
about it and agreed to sell her baby and give the money to the
hospital. The boy she loved was saved and then she had her baby and
gave it to the barren woman, who took advantage of her husband's
travel as a naval officer and told him she had borne the child in his
absence. The days passed and the girl left Egypt for Lebanon. There
she ran across her daughter with the woman who had bought her, and
motherly emotions stirred in her heart. She followed the woman to
Egypt, where she asked her to return her child to her. However the
woman told her husband the whole truth and he went with her to the
cabaret where the girl worked. There the fiance and his father met and
tried to intervene to resolve the situation. They found the girl doing her
dance on a high platform. She died after it became clear that the
woman's husband was the baby girl's father, the one who had previously
had a relationship with her.
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