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The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)

The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)

Drama
Release Date: 1977, November 20
Directors: Salah Abu Seif
Countries: Egypt
Production: MISR International Films
Cast: Hassan Hussein, Mohamed Farid, Tahiya Cariocca, Amina Rizk, Ezzat Al Alaily, Farid Shawqy, Shwikar, Nahed Jabr, Sherif Salah El Din

Overview:

The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years before, spends his days thinking about her. The other, who works in the funeral business, spends his life in the pursuit of pleasure because he recognizes that death will bring an end to all enjoyment. They meet and become friends. Through this friendship the water carrier is encouraged to change his morbid way of thinking and to enjoy life.