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A Beginning and an Ending is a film of genre Drama directed by Salah Abou Seif with Omar Sharif
A Beginning and an Ending (1960)
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Add to a movie listBidaya wa Nihaya (Arabic: بداية و نهاية, English: A Beginning and an End) is a 1960 Egyptian film directed by Salah Abouseif and based on the novel by the same name. It was the first film adapted from a novel written by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
At the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival in 1961, the film was nominated for the Grand Prix award. For her role as Nefisah, Sanaa Gamil won the award for Best Supporting Actress.
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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.Actors
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