1977
7.9 (7 votes)
1h 43m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
MISR International Films
The Water-Carrier Is Dead (السقا مات)
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.
Key Crew
Director: Salah Abu Seif
Writer: Youssef El Sebai, Naguib Eskandar, Mohsen Zayed
Director of Photography: Mahmoud Sabo
Producer: Youssef Chahine
Top Cast
Farid Shawqy
Shehata Effendi
Ezzat Al Alaily
Shusha Al-Sakka
Shwikar
Aziza Nofal
Amina Rizk
Umm Amna
Tahiya Cariocca
Zamzam
Nahed Gabr
Amna
Sherif Salah El Din
Sayed
Hassan Hussein
Sheikh Sayed
