The Life of Darkness
Genres
Overview
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.
Details
Budget
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Revenue
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Runtime
94 min
Release Date
1940-03-01
Status
Released
Original Language
Arabic
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Mimi Chakib
زهيرة حلمى
Mohsen Sarhan
أحمد علوي
Raoheya Khaled
راوية
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Thuraya Helmy
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Fouad Shafiq
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المعلم دسوقي - القهوجى
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المحامى عبدالقادر الشرقاوي
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مدير مجلة العصر
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ادهم بك
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المراكبي - دور قصير
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مدير اللوكاندة
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المغنية
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تمرجى مستشفى الأمراض العقلية
Lola Sedki
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