Sira` Fi al-Wadi

Sira` Fi al-Wadi صراع في الوادي
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Directed by	Youssef Chahine
Produced by	Gabriel Telhamy Mustafa Hasan
Written by	Ali El Zorkani Helmy Halim
Starring	Faten Hamama Omar Sharif Zaki Rostom Abdel Waress Assar Farid Shawki Hamdy Gheith
Music by	Fouad El Zahiri
Cinematography	Ahmed Khorshed
Distributed by	Nile Cinema
Release date	1954
Running time	125 minutes
Country	Egypt
Language	Arabic

Sira` Fi al-Wadi  listen  (Arabic: صراع في الوادي‎‎, Ṣira‘ Fī al-Wādī, English: Struggle in the Valley or The Blazing Sun) is a 1954 Egyptian romance/drama film directed by the acclaimed Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine and written by Helmy Halim and Ali El Zorkani. It starred Omar Sharif and Faten Hamama. This was the first film role that Omar Sharif played and it was this role that earned him stardom. 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.

Omar Sharif plays Ahmed, an engineer whose father (played by Abdel Waress Assar) is a farmer and a farm owner. His father succeeds in improving and increasing the production of sugar cane in his farm. Taher Pasha, a wealthy land owner, who runs a competing sugar cane production facility, feels threatened by his recent production prosperity. Ahmed is in a love relationship with the pasha's daughter, Amal, but as a consequence to the rivalry between both their fathers, he is compelled to hide their relationship.