The Life of Darkness
حياة الظلام
Release: 1940-03-01
·Runtime: 94m
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.
Production Countries
Egypt
Production Companies
Muhammad Jamal Al Din Rifat
Cast
Mimi Chakib
as زهيرة حلمى
Mansi Fahmy
as علي علوي - والد أحمد
Mostafa El Gazzar
as القاضي
Mohamed Ibrahim
as سيد المنياوي
Mohsen Sarhan
as أحمد علوي
Raoheya Khaled
as راوية
Thuraya Helmy
as ميمي
Abdel Fattah Al-Qosari
as المعلم دسوقي - القهوجى
Abdel Meguid Shukry
as المحامى عبدالقادر الشرقاوي
Yahya Najati
as مدير مجلة العصر
Mohamed El Kahlawy
as المراكبي - دور قصير
Ferdoos Mohamed
as خديجة - والدة أحمد
Anwar Wagdi
as محمود الشيمي - صديق أحمد
Edmond Tuima
as ادهم بك
عبده السروجي
as القهوجي
Hassan Bayoumi
as مدير اللوكاندة
Amaal Hussein
as المغنية
Fouad Shafiq
as سليمان بك - عشيق زهيرة الغنى
Fouad Fahim
as الساكن
Hussein Issa
as تمرجى مستشفى الأمراض العقلية
Lola Sedki
as فيفى
Crew
Mohamed El Kahlawy
Songs
Ahmad Badrakhan
Director, Screenplay
Mustafa Wali
Sound Engineer
Bayram Al Tunisi
Lyricist
Aziz Fadel
Sound Engineer
Eissa Ahmed
Makeup Artist
Muhammad Jamal Al Din Rifat
Production Manager
Izzat El Gahely
Music
Gamal Madkoor
Editor
Mohammad Abdel Azeem
Camera Operator
Farid El Gendy
Assistant Director