Bidaya wa Nihaya (Arabic: بداية و نهاية, English: 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.
For her role as Nefisah, Sanaa Gamil won the best supporting actress award at the Moscow Film Festival in 1961.
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Bidaya wa Nihaya (Arabic: بداية و نهاية, English: 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.
For her role as Nefisah, Sanaa Gamil won the best supporting actress award at the Moscow Film Festival in 1961.
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...
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