The Beginning and the End (1960)
Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death of their father, their sole breadwinner. The mother and her four children—three brothers and their sister, Nefisah—struggle to avoid slipping into poverty. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.
Director:
Salah Abu Seif
Writers:
Salah Erzine, Salah Abu Seif.
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Omar Sharif as Hassanein |
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Sanaa Gamil as Nefisah |
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Farid Shawqy as Hassan |
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Kamal Hussein as Hussein |
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Amina Rizk as The Mother |
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Salah Mansour as The Grocer's Son |
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Amaal Farid as Bahiya |
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Abdel Khaleq Saleh as |
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Hamed Morsi as |
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Mohamed Hamdy as |
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Samia Roshdy as |
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Hussain Ismael as |
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Thuraya Fakhry as |
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Abdel Moneim Ismail as |
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Mohamed Nabih as Uncle Jaber |
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Ahmed Shukry as Hassan Hassan Hassan |
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Mokhtar Hussain as |
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Shushu Ezz El Din as |
| Camera | Kamal Karim | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Fouad El-Zahry | Music |
| Directing | Salah Abu Seif | Director |
| Writing | Naguib Mahfouz | Writer |
| Writing | Salah Erzine | Screenplay |
| Writing | Salah Abu Seif | Screenplay |
| Sound | نيفيو أورفانللي | Sound Engineer |
| Editing | Emile Bahri | Editor |
| Camera | Salah Karim | Camera Operator |
| Editing | Marcel Saleh | Editorial Services |
| Sound | Fouad El-Zahry | Original Music Composer |
