Film
The Life of Darkness
1940 · 1h 34m · Drama
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Overview
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.
Cast
Mimi Chakib
زهيرة حلمى
Mohsen Sarhan
أحمد علوي
Raoheya Khaled
راوية
Ferdoos Mohamed
خديجة - والدة أحمد
Thuraya Helmy
ميمي
Fouad Shafiq
سليمان بك - عشيق زهيرة الغنى
Mansi Fahmy
علي علوي - والد أحمد
Anwar Wagdi
محمود الشيمي - صديق أحمد
Abdel Fattah Al-Qosari
المعلم دسوقي - القهوجى
Abdel Meguid Shukry
المحامى عبدالقادر الشرقاوي
Yahya Najati
مدير مجلة العصر
Mostafa El Gazzar
القاضي
Mohamed Ibrahim
سيد المنياوي
Fouad Fahim
الساكن
Edmond Tuima
ادهم بك
Mohamed El Kahlawy
المراكبي - دور قصير
Crew
- Ahmad BadrakhanDirector · Screenplay
- Mahmoud Kamal HassanWriter
- Gamal MadkoorEditor
- Kassem WagdyCasting
Media
Details
- Release date
- March 1, 1940
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Arabic
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Drama
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