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