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.
Movie: The Life of Darkness
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زهيرة حلمى
أحمد علوي
راوية
خديجة - والدة أحمد
ميمي
سليمان بك - عشيق زهيرة الغنى
علي علوي - والد أحمد
محمود الشيمي - صديق أحمد
المعلم دسوقي - القهوجى
المحامى عبدالقادر الشرقاوي
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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.
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1940-03-01
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