
People And The Nile / Annass Wal Nil
- Release Date: 1968
- Type: Featured
- Run time: 86 Minutes
- Directed by: Youssef Chahine
- Produced by: Al Mouasasa Al Misriya Lel Cinema, Mosfilm
- Screenplay: Mostafa Imam , Mohsen Nasr
- Cast: Soad Housni , Salah Zulfikar , Ijor Vladimirov , Ezzat El Alayli , Vladimir Ivanshof , Seif El Din , Yuri Kamouruf , Mahmoud El Meligy
- Cinematography: Teshin Wishlankov , Tershinka Constantine
- Art direction: Habib Abdel Nour
- Editing: Rashida Abdel Salam
- Costume design: Hanafi Ahmed , Khayrat Hassan
- Music: Khatshtid Riyan
- Sound: Sergio Metrafitsh
- Subtitles: N/A
- Scenario: Hassan Fou & Nicolai Vikroski
Synopsis:
The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers and workers, Egyptians and Soviets. Beginning with the day the waters of the Nile were diverted, Chahine shows how individual concerns sometimes outweigh the myth surrounding a collective undertaking. The first Egyptian-Soviet co-production was shown to its two sponsor governments in 1968, inspiring considerable displeasure. Re-editing was demanded; along with newly shot sequences using actors. Consequently, the film was not shown until 1972.