

The Life of Darkness
1940 · 94 min · Drama
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.
- Director
- Ahmad Badrakhan
- Writers
- Ahmad Badrakhan, Mahmoud Kamal Hassan
- Released
- March 1, 1940
- Language
- Arabic
Cast

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
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