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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
Omar SharifHassanein
Sanaa GamilNefisah
Farid ShawqyHassan
Kamal HusseinHussein
Amina RizkThe Mother
Salah MansourThe Grocer's Son
Amaal FaridBahiya
Abdel Khaleq Saleh
Hamed MorsiCast
Mohamed HamdyCast
Samia RoshdyCast
Hussain IsmaelCastExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Kamal Karim
- Director
- Salah Abu Seif
- Writer
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Screenplay
- Salah Erzine
- Screenplay
- Salah Abu Seif
- Editor
- Emile Bahri
- Original Music Composer
- Fouad El-Zahry