This is 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown designer for the 1970
Mouhamed Rady film The Barrier AKA al-hagez based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Bahig Ismail and starring Nadia
Lutfi as Nadia. Plot summary: Ezzat [Nour El-Sherif] did not want to
go to medical school because he had a great aversion to dissection and
could not even hurt a frog, but his older brother Salah [Yehia
Chahine] forced him to enroll. Ezzat and Nadia met and fell in love
but Ezzat did not know Nadia had married his brother Salah before
meeting him. He was deeply hurt when he learned this. He took to
drinking with her image constantly before him. He went home drunk on
one of those difficult nights and Nadia followed him. She caught up
with him and tried to console him. He left her and ran far away to
hide in a basement. Nadia caught up with him again and tried to
understand what had brought him to this state. He tried to kiss her
but she resisted. He took a scalpel out of his pocket and killed her
with it.
