| The Blazing Sun | |
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| Directed by | Youssef Chahine |
| Written by | Ali El Zorkani Helmy Halim |
| Produced by | Gabriel Telhamy Mustafa Hasan |
| Starring | Faten Hamama Omar Sharif Zaki Rostom Abdel Waress Assar Farid Shawki Hamdy Gheith |
| Cinematography | Ahmed Khorshed |
| Music by | Fouad El Zahiri |
| Distributed by | Nile Cinema |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Arabic |
| Budget | 25.8 million tickets (Soviet Union) |
The Blazing Sun (Arabic: صراع في الوادي, Ṣira‘ Fī al-Wādī) is a 1954 Egyptian romance drama film directed by Youssef Chahine and written by Helmy Halim and Ali El Zorkani. It stars Omar Sharif and Faten Hamama. This was the first film role that Omar Sharif played. In 1996, during the Egyptian Cinema centennial, this film was selected one of the best 150 Egyptian film productions. It was presented in the 1954 Cannes Film Festival under the name The Blazing Sky.[1][2] It was a box office hit in the Soviet Union, where it sold 25.8 million tickets in 1956.[3]
- ^ "Film information" (in Arabic). Faten Hamama's official site. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Sira' Fi al-Wadi". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
- ^ "«Борьба в долине» (Siraa Fil-Wadi, 1953)". Kinopoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 7 April 2022.