{{short description|1972 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Cruel Sea | image = | caption = | director = {{ill|Khaled Al Siddiq|ar|خالد الصديق}} | producer = | writer = Khaled Al Siddiq | starring = Mohammed Al-Mansour | music = | cinematography = Tewfik El-Amir | editing = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1972}} | runtime = 106 minutes | country = Kuwait | language = Arabic }}

'''''The Cruel Sea''''' ({{langx|ar|بس يابحر}}, translit.&nbsp;Bas Ya Bahar) is an Arabic-language 1972 Kuwaiti drama film written directed by {{ill|Khaled Al Siddiq|ar| خالد الصديق}}. It was the first Kuwaiti film to be produced and focuses on the very challenging existence for most people before the discovery of oil in Kuwait.<ref name="filmbirth">{{cite web |url=http://www.filmbirth.com/kuwait.html |title=History of Cinema in Kuwait |accessdate=2 December 2011 |work=filmbirth |archive-date=6 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406053201/http://www.filmbirth.com/kuwait.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="NY Times">{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/155452/Bas-Ya-Bahar/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408031625/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/155452/Bas-Ya-Bahar/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 April 2008 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |author=Clarke Fountain |date=2008 |title=Bas Ya Bahar (1972) |accessdate=2 December 2011 }}</ref> The film was selected as the Kuwaiti entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 45th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.<ref>Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</ref>

==Cast== * Mohammed Al-Mansour as Moussaed * Amal Bakr as Nura * Saad Al Faraj as Father * Hayat El-Fahad as Mother

==See also== * Cinema of Kuwait * List of submissions to the 45th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Kuwaiti submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0121994|The Cruel Sea}}

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