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Life or Death (1954) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1954 · 95 mins · Arabic
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- Directed by
- Kamal El Sheikh
- Starring
- Anwar AlKhawam, Rashwan Mustafa, Rushdy Abaza, Abdel Ghani El Nagdi, Emad Hamdy, Madiha Yousri
After suffering a heart attack, a man asks his daughter to get medicine. The pharmacist who gives her the prescription realizes he has unintentionally mixed a poisonous elixir into the drug. He alerts the authorities, prompting Cairo’s chief police officer to launch a campaign to retrieve the antidote and prevent the fatal dose from reaching patient.
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