The Beginning and the End (1960)
Overview
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.
Cast
Omar Sharif
Hassanein
Sanaa Gamil
Nefisah
Farid Shawqy
Hassan
Kamal Hussein
Hussein
Amina Rizk
The Mother
Salah Mansour
The Grocer's Son
Amaal Farid
Bahiya
Abdel Khaleq Saleh
Hamed Morsi
Mohamed Hamdy
Samia Roshdy
Hussain Ismael
Thuraya Fakhry
Abdel Moneim Ismail
Mohamed Nabih
Uncle Jaber
Ahmed Shukry
Hassan Hassan Hassan
Mokhtar Hussain
Shushu Ezz El Din
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