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Cast
Mimi Chakib
as زهيرة حلمى
Mohsen Sarhan
as أحمد علوي
Raoheya Khaled
as راوية
Ferdoos 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
Movie Info & Details
Release Year1940
Runtime1h 34m
LanguageArabic
CertificationNR
GenresDrama
Votes1
DirectorAhmad Badrakhan
WritersAhmad Badrakhan, Mahmoud Kamal Hassan
TypeFeature Film
Rating7.0 out of 10
Cast10 credited
Also Known AsThe Life of Darkness
About The Life of Darkness
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.
Directed by Ahmad Badrakhan, The Life of Darkness leans on a strong ensemble — Mimi Chakib, Mohsen Sarhan, Raoheya Khaled — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.
The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about drama titles of 1940.
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