''Life or Death'' ( ar, حياة أو موت, Hayat ou maut, transliterated as ''Ba’r al gharam'') is a 1954 Egyptian film directed by

Kamal El Sheikh Kamal El Sheikh ( ar, كمال الشيخ; 2 February 1919 – 2 January 2004) was an Egyptian film director. He directed 28 films between 1952 and 1987, with eight of them in the Top 100 Egyptian films list. Selected filmography * '' Mala ...

. It was entered into the

1955 Cannes Film Festival The 8th Cannes Film Festival was held from 26 April to 10 May 1955. The Golden Palm went to the US film '' Marty'' by Delbert Mann. The festival opened with '' Du rififi chez les hommes'' by Jules Dassin and closed with ''Carmen Jones'' by Otto Pr ...

Synopsis

The film talks about the story of a man who is sick with the heart, so he sends his daughter to come to you with treatment and to cure the one who is in a hurry, but the person who gave his daughter the medicine discovers that this medicine contains a deadly poison because of the wrong composition of the medicine.

Cast

* Emad Hamdi * Youssef Wahby *

Madiha Yousri Madiha Yousri ( ar, مديحة يسري; née Hannouma Habib Khalil Ali ( ar, هنومة حبيب خليل); 3 December 1921 – 29 May 2018) was an Egyptian film and television actress. She starred in dozens of classic Egyptian films over th ...

Hussein Riad Hussein Mohamed Shafiq ( ar, حسين محمد شفيق, more commonly known by his stage name Hussein Riad ( ar, حسين رياض , (1897–1965) was an Egyptian actor, who mainly played "dad roles". His career spanned about 46 years and he appe ...

: played the role of (pharmacist) *

Rushdi Abaza Rushdy Saiid El Bughdady Abaza ( arz, رشدي سعيد البوغدادي أباظة) (3 August 1926 – 27 July 1980) was an Egyptian film and television actor. He was considered one of the most charming actors in the Egyptian film industry. He ...

: played the role of (police officer) * Duha Amir: played the role of (the child Samira) * Adly Kaseb: played the role of (officer) * Ahmed Al-Haddad: He played the role of (from whom the ring was stolen) * Ezzedine Shaker

References

External links

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El Cinema page
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Life or death on the Kinopoisk website (in Russian)

Life or Death at Letterboxed
1954 films 1950s Arabic-language films Egyptian black-and-white films Films directed by Kamal El Sheikh {{Egypt-film-stub