The Beginning and the End

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.

• Salah Abu SeifDirector
• Naguib MahfouzWriter
• Salah Abu SeifScreenplay
• Salah ErzineScreenplay
• Fouad El-ZahryOriginal Music Composer

• Omar SharifHassanein
• Sanaa GamilNefisah
• Farid ShawqyHassan
• Kamal HusseinHussein
• Amina RizkThe Mother
• Salah MansourThe Grocer's Son
• Amaal FaridBahiya
• Abdel Khaleq SalehCast
• Hamed MorsiCast
• Mohamed HamdyCast
• Samia RoshdyCast
• Hussain IsmaelCast