The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)
1h 43m
Running Time
November 20, 1977Release Date
The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)
1h 43m
Running Time
November 20, 1977Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Farid Shawqy
Shehata Effendi
Ezzat Al Alaily
Shusha Al-Sakka
Shwikar
Aziza Nofal
Amina Rizk
Umm Amna
Tahiya Cariocca
Zamzam
Nahed Gabr
Amna
Sherif Salah El Din
Sayed
Nahed Jabr
Actress
Hassan Hussein
Sheikh Sayed
Ibrahim Qadry
Mohamed Farid
Gad
Naeem Essa
Salah Abu Seif
Director
Abdel Fattah Madbouly
First Assistant Director
Youssef El Sebai
Writer
Mohsen Zayed
Writer
Naguib Eskandar
Writer
Mahmoud Sabo
Director of Photography
Rashida Abdel Salam
Editor
Fouad El-Zahry
Music
Youssef Chahine
Producer
Mostafa Kaeml
Assistant Sound Engineer
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 20, 1977
Original Nameالسقا مات
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 43m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
the 100 best films in the memory of egyptian cinema
Wiki.
The Water-Carrier Is Dead (Arabic: السقا مات, transliterated as Al-saqqa mat) is an Egyptian-Tunisian film released on November 20, 1977. The film was directed by Salah Abu Seif and produced by Youssef Chahine. Its screenplay, written by Mohsen Zayed, is based on a 1952 novel by Yusuf Sibai. The Water-Carrier Is Dead stars Ezzat El Alaili, Farid Shawqi, Shwikar, Amina Rizk, Taheyya Kariokka, and Nahid Jabr.
The film won the award for the Best Egyptian film of the year in 1977. It was later listed at the Dubai film festival among the best 100 Arab films of all time.
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