The Water-Carrier Is Dead (Arabic: السقا مات, transliterated as Al-saqqa mat) is an Egyptian-Tunisian film released on November 20, 1977.
[1] The Water-Carrier Is Dead stars Ezzat El Alaili, Farid Shawqi, Shwikar, Amina Rizk, Taheyya Kariokka, and Nahid Jabr.
[4][5] In the Cairo neighborhood around Al-Hussein Mosque (called Husseiniyah) around 1921, Shusha, a water-carrier, is very afraid of death since he has lost all his loved ones to it.
He tries to foster a close relationship between his surviving son and a woman named Amna, who reminds Shusha of his late wife.
[6] Youssef Chahine found the idea compelling and came around to it, however, and decided to produce it jointly with the Tunisian company SATPC (French: Société anonyme tunisienne de production et d’expansion cinématographique or “Tunisian Film Production and Distribution Company”) in 1977.