Between Two Palaces [bayn al-qasrayn] (1964) - (dir: Hassan Al Imam) Egyptian film poster F, NM $135 *
Size: 27" x 39"
Price: $135
Condition: Folded, Near Mint
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This is a poster designed by Ragheb for a 1964 Hassan Al Imam film
based on the 1956 Naguib Mahfouz novel Between two Palaces
[bayn al-qasrayn] which was published as the first of the three novels
in his famous Cairo Trilogy. Plot Summary: In 1914 Fahmy
[Salah Kabil] joined a secret national society where Ibrahim [Ezzat El
Alaili] welcomed him. His brother Yassine [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] was
in love with one of the dancers and the entire family trembled at
meeting his father Sayed Abdel Gawad, [Yehia Chahine] especially his
wife whom he had married 20 years earlier divorcing the mother of his
oldest son Yassine. Outside the home Yassine was corrupt and weak.
He owned a grocery store and had begun looking for a new lover to
replace the dancer Galia [Mimi Shakeeb] who had gotten old. He liked
Zubaida [Maha Sabry] and gave her everything she wanted. He would go
to her secretly and there Yassine discovered the truth about his
father. Sayed Abdel Gawad was a respected man in his own home. He
would eat alone while his wife and children would wait until he
finished before eating. His wife Amina, [Zouzou Nabil] his daughters
Aisha [Hala Fakher] and Khadija [Soheir El-Bably] and his sons Kamal,
[Wagdy El-Araby] Yassine and Fahmy stood in awe of their father.
Yassine was a secretary at the Benin school and Famy was a student at
the Law College. He wrote political publications, distributed them
among colleagues and hid them in the poultry coops on the roof of his
home. At the same time this was an opportunity to see his neighbor
Mariam [Zizi El-Badrawy]. He loved her but preferred to postpone the
relationship with her until after he completed his studies and the
British left Egypt. Kamal was a student in secondary school and
participated in many demonstrations. When Sayed Abdel Gawad learned
his former wife and Yassine's mother wanted to marry again he sent her
son to her to try to persuade her not to do so but he discovered she
had already married, quarreled with her and left. Yassine wanted a
few days with Zubaida the dancer. He told his family he was going to
Port Said and asked them not to leave the house. However Kamal
persuaded his mother to visit the shrine of Sayedna al-Hussein, but
she was injured on the way and despite the advice of her children not
to tell their father she told him the truth. He banished her and then
made peace with her again. Latifa [Souraya Fakhry] engaged her two
daughters to her sons. Yassine married Zeinab and Fahmy was killed
when the British soldiers shot at the demonstrators.
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