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Life or Death, is a 1954 Egyptian movie, directed by Kamal El Sheikh, and starring Youssef Wahby, Madiha Yousri, Emad Hamdy, with a runtime of 95 minutes. Content rating: G.
Life or Death is an Egyptian thriller film that transforms a simple pharmacist's error into a desperate race against time. A man suffering a heart attack sends his daughter to fetch his medicine, but after she leaves, the pharmacist realizes he has accidentally compounded a lethal poison instead of a cure. He reports the mistake to the police, and the chief officer of Cairo launches an urgent citywide search to find the man before he takes the fatal dose. Tightly plotted and genuinely tense, the film demonstrates how Egyptian cinema can extract gripping drama from the most ordinary of circumstances, building heart-pounding suspense around a single terrible accident with irreversible consequences.
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