The Water-Carrier Is Dead

1h 43m
Drama
7.9

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.

Cast

Farid Shawqy
Shehata Effendi
Ezzat Al Alaily
Shusha Al-Sakka
Shwikar
Aziza Nofal
Amina Rizk
Umm Amna
Tahiya Cariocca
Zamzam
Nahed Jabr
Amna
Sherif Salah El Din
Sayed
Hassan Hussein
Sheikh Sayed
Ibrahim Qadry
Unknown
Mohamed Farid
Gad
Naeem Essa
Unknown
Nahid Jabr
Unknown
Balqis Shariaa
Unknown
Balqis Shariaa
Unknown

Crew

Salah Abu Seif
Director
Youssef El Sebai
Writer
Naguib Eskandar
Writer
Mohsen Zayed
Writer
Rashida Abdel Salam
Editor, Director of Photography
Abdel Fattah Madbouly
First Assistant Director
Youssef Chahine
Producer
Mostafa Kaeml
Assistant Sound Engineer
Fouad El-Zahry
Original Music Composer

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