Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- passionate
- foreboding
- melancholic
- classic film night
- arab cinema retrospective
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Ahmed's attempts to improve sugar-cane cultivation threaten the Pasha's control over production and exports.
Ahmed and Amal's childhood affection is revived amid the Pasha's authority and competing marriage arrangements.
The southern valley village connects agricultural policy, local rivalries, fabricated accusations, and romantic conflict.
The production is identified as black and white, reinforcing its classic Egyptian melodramatic register.
Films like The Blazing Sun, and why
The Night of Counting the Years
Egyptian rural melodrama combining forbidden romance, class conflict, and corrupt local power
A Place in the Sun
classic romance shaped by social hierarchy, family pressure, and emotionally heightened drama
The Earrings of Madame de...
black-and-white romantic drama where personal desire collides with entrenched social power
Movie Details
- Director
- Youssef Chahine
- Release Date
- 1954-03-01
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 (43)
Cast
- Faten Hamama
- Omar Sharif
- Zaki Rostom
- Farid Shawqy
- Abdel Warith Assir
- Hamdy Ghaith
- Zaki Ibrahim
- Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
- Abdel Ghani Qamar
- Mansi Fahmy
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Criterion Channel
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Blazing Sun about?
- In a southern Egyptian valley, an agronomist's campaign to improve sugar-cane farming collides with a Pasha's authoritarian interests and a dangerous rekindled romance.
- What is The Blazing Sun like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Blazing Sun as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is The Blazing Sun violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in The Blazing Sun as mild.
- Which films are like The Blazing Sun?
- Films with a similar feel include The Night of Counting the Years, A Place in the Sun, and The Earrings of Madame de....
- How long is The Blazing Sun?
- The Blazing Sun runs 116 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Blazing Sun?
- In United States, The Blazing Sun streams on Criterion Channel.
