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| Directed by | Salah Abouseif |
| Written by | Naguib Mahfouz |
| Starring | Omar Sharif Sanaa Gamil |
| Music by | Fouad El Zahery |
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| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Arabic |
The Beginning and the End (Egyptian Arabic:بداية و نهاية) is a 1960 Egyptian film directed bySalah Abouseif and based on the 1950 novel by the same name. It was the first film adapted from a novel written byNaguib Mahfouz.The Beginning and the End is the 7th in the top 10 films of the list of the Top 100 Egyptian films of all time.[1]
At the2nd Moscow International Film Festival in 1961, the film was nominated for the Grand Prix award.[2] For her role as Nefisah,Sanaa Gamil won the award for Best Supporting Actress.[2][3]
The film portrays the lives of the members of an Egyptian family, who are three brothers, their sister Nefisah (Sanaa Gamil) and their mother (Amina Rizk), after the family's patriarch's death.
The older brother Hasan (Farid Shawki) turns to crime, while the younger brother, Hussien, leavesCairo to work in another city. The youngest brother, Hassanein (Omar Sharif), aspires to be an officer, and in order to achieve that he puts his family into financial difficulties.
Nefisah falls in love and has an affair with the localgrocer's son (Salah Mansour) and when he doesn't marry her, she works as aprostitute to support her brother.
The tragic ending of the film is one of the most memorable in Egyptian films; Nefisah gets arrested by the police and her brother Hassanien bails her out. After an intense argument between her and her brother, Nefisah commitssuicide by throwing herself in theNile followed by her brother, who throws himself in too.
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