The Blazing Sun (1954 film)

The Blazing Sun
Theatrical release poster
Directed byYoussef Chahine
Written byAli El Zorkani
Helmy Halim
Produced byGabriel Telhamy
Mustafa Hasan
StarringFaten Hamama
Omar Sharif
Zaki Rostom
Abdel Waress Assar
Farid Shawki
Hamdy Gheith
CinematographyAhmed Khorshed
Music byFouad El Zahiri
Distributed byNile Cinema
Release date
  • 1954 (1954)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryEgypt
LanguageArabic
Budget25.8 million tickets
(Soviet Union)

The Blazing Sun listen (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]

  1. ^ "Film information" (in Arabic). Faten Hamama's official site. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Sira' Fi al-Wadi". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
  3. ^ "«Борьба в долине» (Siraa Fil-Wadi, 1953)". Kinopoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 7 April 2022.