The Beginning and the End

(1960)

★ 8.2 IMDb · 10 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1960

Runtime: 130 мин

Country: Egypt

Director: Salah Abu Seif

Cast: Омар Шариф, Sanaa Gamil, فريد شوقي, Kamal Hussein, Amina Rizk, Salah Mansour, Amaal Farid, Abdel Khaleq Saleh, Hamed Morsi, Mohamed Hamdy

Plot

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.