The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)
The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years before, spends his days thinking about her. The other, who works in the funeral business, spends his life in the pursuit of pleasure because he recognizes that death will bring an end to all enjoyment. They meet and become friends. Through this friendship the water carrier is encouraged to change his morbid way of thinking and to enjoy life.
Director: Salah Abu Seif
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Farid Shawqy as Shehata Effendi |
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Ezzat Al Alaily as Shusha Al-Sakka |
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Shwikar as Aziza Nofal |
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Amina Rizk as Umm Amna |
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Tahiya Cariocca as Zamzam |
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Nahed Jabr as Amna |
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Sherif Salah El Din as Sayed |
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Hassan Hussein as Sheikh Sayed |
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Ibrahim Qadry as |
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Mohamed Farid as Gad |
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Naeem Essa as |
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Nahid Jabr as |
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Balqis Shariaa as |
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Balqis Shariaa as |
| Directing | Salah Abu Seif | Director |
| Directing | Abdel Fattah Madbouly | First Assistant Director |
| Writing | Youssef El Sebai | Writer |
| Writing | Mohsen Zayed | Writer |
| Writing | Naguib Eskandar | Writer |
| Editing | Rashida Abdel Salam | Editor |
| Production | Youssef Chahine | Producer |
| Sound | Mostafa Kaeml | Assistant Sound Engineer |
| Sound | Fouad El-Zahry | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Rashida Abdel Salam | Director of Photography |