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The Life of Darkness

The Life of Darkness

Original Title: حياة الظلام

  • Film
  • 1940
  • 1h 34m
  • Released

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.

  • Directing Ahmad BadrakhanFarid El Gendy
  • Writing Ahmad BadrakhanMahmoud Kamal Hassanبيرم التونسي
  • Starring Mimi ChakibMohsen Sarhanروحية خالد
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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.

فيلم حياة الظلام - 1940

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Mimi Chakib زهيرة حلمى
Mohsen Sarhan أحمد علوي
روحية خالد راوية
Ferdous Mohamed خديجة - والدة أحمد
لولا صدقي فيفى
Thuraya Helmy ميمي
Fouad Shafiq سليمان بك - عشيق زهيرة الغنى
منسى فهمي 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
محمد إبراهيم سيد المنياوي
Fouad Fahim الساكن
إدمون تويما ادهم بك
Mohamed El Kahlawy المراكبي - دور قصير
عبده السروجي القهوجي
Hassan Bayoumi مدير اللوكاندة
آمال حسين المغنية
Hussein Issa تمرجى مستشفى الأمراض العقلية
  • Directing Ahmad BadrakhanFarid El Gendy
  • Writing Ahmad BadrakhanMahmoud Kamal Hassanبيرم التونسي
  • Cinematography Mohammad Abdel Azeem
  • Editing Gamal Madkoor
  • Music عبدالحميد عبدالرحمنعزت الجاهليMohamed El Kahlawy
  • Production Design روبرت شارفنبرج/ شارفنبرجعلي عابد
  • Makeup Eissa Ahmed
  • Assistant Director Farid El Gendy
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