Movielogr
The Beginning and the End (1960)
Directed by Salah Abouseif
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.
Length 130 minutes
Actors
Omar Sharif | Sanaa Gamil | Farid Shawqi | Kamal Hussein | Amina Rizk | Salah Mansour | آمال فريد | Abdul Khaleq Saleh | Hamed Morsi | Mohamed Hamdy | Samia Roshdy | Hussein Ismail | Thoraya Fakhry | Abdel Moneim Ismail | Mohamed Nabih | Ahmed Shukry | Mokhtar Hussain | Shushu Ezz El Din