The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)

  • NR
  • 11/20/1977 (EG)
  • Drama
  • 1h 43m

Overview

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.

Salah Abu Seif

Director

Youssef El Sebai

Writer

Mohsen Zayed

Writer

Naguib Eskandar

Writer

Cast

Farid Shawqy's headshot

Farid Shawqy

Shehata Effendi
Ezzat Al Alaily's headshot

Ezzat Al Alaily

Shusha Al-Sakka
Shwikar's headshot

Shwikar

Aziza Nofal
Amina Rizk's headshot

Amina Rizk

Umm Amna
Tahiya Cariocca's headshot

Tahiya Cariocca

Zamzam
Nahed Gabr's headshot

Nahed Gabr

Amna
Sherif Salah El Din's headshot

Sherif Salah El Din

Sayed
Hassan Hussein's headshot

Hassan Hussein

Sheikh Sayed

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