The Life of Darkness

The Life of Darkness

1940 · 94 min · ★ 7.0 · 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.

Directed by Ahmad Badrakhan · Written by Ahmad Badrakhan

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