The Sixth Day / Al Yom El Sades

• Release Date: 1986
• Type: Featured
• Run time: 105 Minutes
• Directed by: Youssef Chahine
• Produced by: Marianne Khoury, Humbert Balsan, Jean-Pierre Mahot
• Screenplay: Youssef Chahine, Hassan Al Gretly
• Cast: Dalida, Mohsen Mohy El Deen, Shwekar, Hamdy Ahmed, Sanaa Younis, Salah El Saadany, Mohamed Mounir, Youssef Chahine, Abla Kamel, Hassan El Adl, Maher Essam
• Cinematography: Mohsen Nasr
• Art direction: Tarek Salah El Deen
• Editing: Louk Barneea
• Costume design: Yvone Saysinoudeel, Nahed Nasrallah
• Music: Omar Khayrat
• Sound: Terry Sebania
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Synopsis:

Based on the novel by Andree Chedid, the film explores a period in British-colonialized Egypt during the mid-twentieth century. In a poor Cairo neighborhood, Sadika is taking care of her bedridden husband, and later, her cholera-infected grandson. She shares a subtle love relationship with the young Okka, who makes his living performing song and dance numbers with a monkey. Okka’s joyful and life-affirming spirit is a welcome challenge to the atmosphere of death that overwhelms the impoverished neighborhood; it is also the vehicle through which Sadika finds resiliency, love and social connection despite the isolation she suffers as her grandson’s caregiver.