The Life of Darkness (1940)
حياة الظلام
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.
- Date of release
- 1940-03-01
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Ahmad Badrakhan
Casting
- Mimi Chakib — زهيرة حلمى
- Mohsen Sarhan — أحمد علوي
- Raoheya Khaled — راوية
- Ferdous 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
Recommended
- Cairo Station 1958 · ★ 7.4
- Fast Girls 2012 · ★ 6.0
- The Nest 2020 · ★ 6.1
- Strange Weather 2016 · ★ 5.9
- The Young One 1960 · ★ 7.0
- Above the Rim 1994 · ★ 7.1
- The Girl in the Book 2015 · ★ 5.8
- Run 1991 · ★ 6.0
- Jungleland 2020 · ★ 6.4
- All Day and a Night 2020 · ★ 6.3
- The Truth About Emanuel 2013 · ★ 6.0
- Lorelei 2020 · ★ 6.0