The Beginning and the End

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The Beginning and the End (1960)

Directed by Salah Abu Seif

Drama · 2h 10m

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.

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Cast

Omar Sharif Hassanein Sanaa Gamil Nefisah Farid Shawqy Hassan Kamal Hussein Hussein Amina Rizk The Mother
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Salah Mansour The Grocer's Son Amaal Farid Bahiya Abdel Khaleq Saleh Hamed Morsi Mohamed Hamdy Samia Roshdy Hussain Ismael

Crew

Director
Salah Abu Seif
Screenplay
Salah Erzine, Salah Abu Seif
Writer
Naguib Mahfouz
Director of Photography
Kamal Karim
Original Music Composer
Fouad El-Zahry
Editor
Emile Bahri

Details

Original title
بداية ونهاية
Release date
1960-10-31
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
Drama
Original language
AR
Spoken languages
Arabic
Countries
Egypt
Production
دينار فيلم