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The Water-Carrier Is Dead

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The Water-Carrier Is Dead

7.9

1h 43m

1977

Synopsis

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

Drama

Cast & Crew

Farid Shawqy

Farid Shawqy

as Shehata Effendi

Ezzat Al Alaily

Ezzat Al Alaily

as Shusha Al-Sakka

Shwikar

Shwikar

as Aziza Nofal

Amina Rizk

Amina Rizk

as Umm Amna

Tahiya Cariocca

Tahiya Cariocca

as Zamzam

Nahed Jabr

Nahed Jabr

as Amna

Sherif Salah El Din

Sherif Salah El Din

as Sayed

Hassan Hussein

Hassan Hussein

as Sheikh Sayed

Ibrahim Qadry

Ibrahim Qadry

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