The Life of Darkness (1940)
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.
Director:
Ahmad Badrakhan
Writer:
Ahmad Badrakhan
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Mimi Chakib as زهيرة حلمى |
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Mohsen Sarhan as أحمد علوي |
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Raoheya Khaled as راوية |
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Ferdoos Mohamed as خديجة - والدة أحمد |
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Thuraya Helmy as ميمي |
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Fouad Shafiq as سليمان بك - عشيق زهيرة الغنى |
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Mansi Fahmy as علي علوي - والد أحمد |
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Anwar Wagdi as محمود الشيمي - صديق أحمد |
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Abdel Fattah Al-Qosari as المعلم دسوقي - القهوجى |
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Abdel Meguid Shukry as المحامى عبدالقادر الشرقاوي |
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Yahya Najati as مدير مجلة العصر |
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Mostafa El Gazzar as القاضي |
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Mohamed Ibrahim as سيد المنياوي |
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Fouad Fahim as الساكن |
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Edmond Tuima as ادهم بك |
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Mohamed El Kahlawy as المراكبي - دور قصير |
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عبده السروجي as القهوجي |
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Hassan Bayoumi as مدير اللوكاندة |
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Amaal Hussein as المغنية |
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Hussein Issa as تمرجى مستشفى الأمراض العقلية |
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Lola Sedki as فيفى |
| Directing | Ahmad Badrakhan | Director |
| Directing | Farid El Gendy | Assistant Director |
| Sound | عبدالحميد عبدالرحمن | Music |
| Sound | Izzat El Gahely | Music |
| Sound | Mohamed El Kahlawy | Songs |
| Writing | Ahmad Badrakhan | Screenplay |
| Writing | Bayram Al Tunisi | Lyricist |
| Writing | Mahmoud Kamal Hassan | Writer |
| Art | Robert Scharfenberg | Decorator |
| Sound | Aziz Fadel | Sound Engineer |
| Sound | Mustafa Wali | Sound Engineer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Eissa Ahmed | Makeup Artist |
| Editing | Gamal Madkoor | Editor |
| Camera | Mohammad Abdel Azeem | Camera Operator |
| Production | Muhammad Jamal Al Din Rifat | Production Manager |
| Production | Kassem Wagdy | Casting |
