The Life of Darkness (1940)
A middle-class family. The son gets a law degree and wants his son to be a lawyer, but the son wants to be a novelist. The son is surrounded by bad friends, so he is led by them into a life of debauchery and slips into the abyss, betrays trust, misappropriates his father's money, and steals his mother's jewelry to satisfy his mistress's demands, which leads to his mother's death.
- Released
- 1940-03-01
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Ahmad Badrakhan, Ahmad Badrakhan
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Mimi Chakib as زهيرة حلمى
- Mohsen Sarhan as أحمد علوي
- Raoheya Khaled as راوية
- Ferdous Mohamed as خديجة - والدة أحمد
- Thuraya Helmy as ميمي
- Fouad Shafiq as سليمان بك - عشيق زهيرة الغنى
- Mansi Fahmy as علي علوي - والد أحمد
- Anwar Wagdi as محمود الشيمي - صديق أحمد
- Abdel Fattah Al-Qosari as المعلم دسوقي - القهوجى
- Abdel Meguid Shukry as المحامى عبدالقادر الشرقاوي
- Yahya Najati as مدير مجلة العصر
- Mostafa El Gazzar as القاضي