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The story of Mayor Abdul Razek al-Sharshabi (Omar al-Sharif) when his younger son, Tawfiq (Khalid al-Nabawi) is called for army recruitment, his wife (Safiya al-Omari), rejects it, suggesting to send someone else to go instead. So the Mayor persuaded a poor father named Abdul-Muqeem (Izzat al-Alayli) to send his only son Masrey instead.
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Morando na Alexandria em meio à dura realidade da Segunda Guerra, o adolescente Yehia se retira para um mundo de fantasia. Obcecado por Hollywood, ele sonha em estudar cinema nos EUA. Porém, quando se apaixona e descobre as mentiras da ocupação europeia, ele começa a reavaliar sua identidade.
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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.
