Water-Bearer Is Dead (El Saqqa Mat)

Catalogue Code

FILM000099

Synopsis

In this masterpiece by the leading director of Egyptian realist cinema, a friendship develops between two men with contradictory world-views.

One, a water-bearer whose wife died twenty years earlier, spends his days remembering her and mourning her loss. The other, a mortician, spends his life in the pursuit of worldly pleasures because he believes that death will end all enjoyment. As their friendship develops, the water-carrier slowly sheds his morbid way of thinking and begins to enjoy the many things that life has to offer.

Year of Release

1997

Running Time

100 mins

Distributor

Arab Film Distribution

EIDR

Genre

Drama

Language

Arabic

Country of Origin

Egypt

Permalink

http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000099

Notes

Nomination
Film Presented - 1979 Venice International Film Festival

People with a connection to this film

Farid Chawki (Actor)Ezzat El-Alayli (Actor)Salah Abu Seif (Director)

Copies in the collection

DVD ARA/FIL/0088 Subtitled: English

Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database

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