Visitor at Dawn (زائر الفجر, Arabic, 1973) – Framed Poster
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Title: Visitor at Dawn (زائر الفجر)
Country: Egypt
Year: 1973
Poster size: 24″ × 36″
Frame: White wood frame with acrylic front
Condition: Vintage
Publisher: Aflaam
Printed poster for the 1973 Egyptian political thriller Zāʾir al-Fajr (Visitor at Dawn), directed by Moudy Shaker and starring Magda El-Khatib and Ezzat El Alaili. Banned shortly after release, the film critiques authoritarianism and state violence in post-Nasser Egypt through the story of a journalist investigating a young man’s death in police custody. A haunting image of Magda El-Khatib’s distressed face—abstracted in red, black, white, and blue—dominates the composition, visually echoing themes of repression and fragmented truth. Now a cult classic, the film has been re-evaluated as one of the boldest critiques of Egypt’s security state in 1970s cinema.
Exhibited in “Spasial Program” at SculptureCenter, New York, June 18 –July 28, 2025.
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