AL NASS WAL NIL (1968) | [aka... الناس والنيل - Un Jour, Le Nil (France)]

Written by:
Hassan Fouad

Nicolai Vikorski

Produced by:
Youssef Chahine

Cinematography by:
Abdel Aziz Fahmy

 Peter Tisko

Editing by:
Rashida Abdel Salam

Original Music by:
Aram Khachaturyan

Genre:
Drama/History/Poverty

Production Company:
Misr international films

Hayat el cinema w el masrah

  Aswan, in Egypt. After two years of a titanic work, the old course of the Nile will be fermé' and the inauguration of Dam to open a new era at the same time as to flood the ancestral grounds definitively. One day memorable, loan of nostalgia and feelings exacerbated for those which live on its banks.

Abdelamig Baraka
Ezzat El Alaili
Tewfik El Dekn
Zouzou Mady
Mahmoud El Meligi
Salah Zolfokaar
Seif El Dine
Inna Fyodorova
Imad Hamdi
Soad Hosny
Hocine Ismael

.  film got re-released in 1989 after the hidden/new version was kept in France. This film cause a lot of problems in the making for Chahine due to the confrontations and different demands by the Egyptian and Russian government.

 Egypt/Soviet Union/France - n/a min - 35MM - Color -  mono

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