The Beginning and the End

2h 10m

Drama

8

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.

Cast

Omar Sharif

Hassanein

Sanaa Gamil

Nefisah

Farid Shawqy

Hassan

Kamal Hussein

Hussein

Amina Rizk

The Mother

Salah Mansour

The Grocer's Son

Amaal Farid

Bahiya

Abdel Khaleq Saleh

Unknown

Hamed Morsi

Unknown

Mohamed Hamdy

Unknown

Samia Roshdy

Unknown

Hussain Ismael

Unknown

Thuraya Fakhry

Unknown

Abdel Moneim Ismail

Unknown

Mohamed Nabih

Uncle Jaber

Ahmed Shukry

Hassan Hassan Hassan

Mokhtar Hussain

Unknown

Shushu Ezz El Din

Unknown

Crew

Salah Abu Seif

Director, Screenplay

Naguib Mahfouz

Writer

Salah Erzine

Screenplay

Emile Bahri

Editor

Kamal Karim

Director of Photography

Salah Karim

Camera Operator

نيفيو أورفانللي

Sound Engineer

Fouad El-Zahry

Original Music Composer, Music

Marcel Saleh

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