The Water-Carrier Is Dead

The Water-Carrier Is Dead

Release Date: 1977-11-20

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.

Rating: 7.9 / 10

Cast

Farid Shawqy

Farid Shawqy

as Shehata Effendi

Ezzat Al Alaily

Ezzat Al Alaily

as Shusha Al-Sakka

Shwikar

Shwikar

as Aziza Nofal

Amina Rizk

Amina Rizk

as Umm Amna

Tahiya Cariocca

Tahiya Cariocca

as Zamzam

Crew

  • Salah Abu Seif - Director

  • Abdel Fattah Madbouly - First Assistant Director

  • Youssef El Sebai - Writer

  • Naguib Eskandar - Writer

  • Mohsen Zayed - Writer

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