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Drama

The Water-Carrier Is Dead

1977, Nov 20

1h 43m

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.

Directed by

Salah Abu Seif

Written by

Naguib Eskandar, Mohsen Zayed, Youssef El Sebai