Choice, The [al-ekhtiar] (1971) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet $95 *
Size: 27" x 39"
Price: $95
Condition: Folded, Near Mint
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This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
for the 1971 Youssef Chahine (1926-2008) film The Choice based
on a story by Naguib Mahfouz and Youssef Chahine. It won the Tanit
d'Or prize at the 1971 Carthage Film Festival. Cinematography was by
Ahmed Khorshed. Plot Summary: Sayed [Ezzat El Alaili] was a famous
writer and researcher living in Alexandria who had climbed to the top
of the social and political pyramid. He was married to Sharifa [Soad
Hosny]. He and his wife were preparing for a trip abroad to work in a
UN delegation. He read a report in a newspaper about the murder of
his twin brother Mahmoud [Ezzat El Alaili] and postponed his trip. He
contacted the police and asked them to investigate. Mahmoud was a
sailor who lived his life far and wide as he wished to do, without any
responsibilities. He had absolutely no interest in social or
political centers; in this he was the opposite of his brother who
tried to be at the top of social affairs. However he was often
defeated by his own reworked ideas, which contained nothing new.
Mahmoud stayed away from the social life Sayed loved; he preferred
instead to live his life free of tedious problems. He moved as he
wished according to whim, across Mahmoud's magical world and
frequenting all its places from the homes of artists to magificent
mansions. The police officer was skeptical about what was happening
around him and began to develop a plan for tracking this writer Sayed,
who was living a double life: The cultured man was caught between the
true roots of culture and the effort to rise socially. Sayed fled but
the police caught him and put him in a mental hospital. "When a
free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother--a famous
novelist--is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible
liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn
that Sayed's successful fictions owe much to the inspiration of his
brother Mahmoud's adventurous life. Just as the evidence against the
novelist seems overwhelming, Mahmoud turns up alive. But why are the
twins never seen together...? In this very personal film, one can see
the symbolic outlines of the uneasy relationship between Egyptian
intellectuals and the problems of the proletariat". From
the Cornell University Library web site.
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