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.