Bidaya wa Nihaya (film)

Bidaya wa Nihaya (film)

Infobox Film
name = Bidaya wa Nihaya


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director = Salah Abouseif
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writer = Naguib Mahfouz
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starring = Omar Sharif
Sanaa Gamil
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released = 1960
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imdb_id = 0053652

"Bidaya wa Nihaya" ( _ar. بداية و نهاية, _en. A Beginning and an End) is a 1960 Egyptian film based on the novel by the same name. It was the first film adapted from a novel written by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

The film was directed by Salah Abouseif and nominated for "Grand Prix" at the 1961 Moscow Film Festival. [ [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Moscow_International_Film_Festival/1961 Moscow film festival 1961 on IMDB] ]

For her role as Nefisah, Sanaa Gamil won the best supporting actress award at the Moscow Film Festival in 1961. [ [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/618/cu1.htm Al Ahram weekly article on Sanaa Gamil] ]

Plot

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 Sultan (Farid Shawki) turns to crime, while the younger brother, Hassan, leaves Cairo to work in another city. On the other hand, the youngest brother, Hassanein (Omar Sharif), aspires to be a police officer, and in order to achieve that he puts his family into financial difficulties.

Nefisah falls in love and has an affair with the local grocer's son (Salah Mansour) and when he doesn't marry her, she works as a prostitute 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 commits suicide by throwing herself in the Nile followed by her brother, who throws himself in too.

Cast

*Omar Sharif as Hassanien
*Sanaa Gamil as Nefisah
*Farid Shawki as Sultan
*Amina Rizk as the mother
*Salah Mansour as the grocer's son
*Amal Zayed

External links

*imdb title|id=0053652

References


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