Life in Shadows

1949 Spanish film
  • Victorio Aguado
  • Lorenzo Llobet Gracia
StarringCinematographySalvador Torres GarrigaEdited byRamón BiadiúMusic byJesús García Leoz
Production
company
Castilla Films
Release date
  • 6 April 1949 (1949-04-06)
Running time
90 minutesCountrySpainLanguageSpanish

Life in Shadows (Spanish:Vida en sombras) is a 1949 Spanish drama film directed by Lorenzo Llobet Gracia and starring Fernando Fernán Gómez, María Dolores Pradera and Isabel de Pomés.[1] It was made in Barcelona.

Plot

Carlos, born in a fair booth related to cinema, and author of an amateur film when he was fourteen years old, becomes a professional camera operator, since his entire life has been marked by that art .

He married Ana, to whom he proposed during a screening of Romeo and Juliet. When the Civil War breaks out, he separates from his wife to film some shots of the conflict and she dies in a shootout. To escape his remorse, he decides to become a war reporter, and after the end of the war he falls into depression, coming to hate cinema.

Cast

  • Fernando Fernán Gómez as Carlos
  • María Dolores Pradera as Ana
  • Isabel de Pomés as Clara
  • Fernando Sancho as Productor
  • Alfonso Estela as Luis
  • Graciela Crespo as Sra. Durán
  • Félix de Pomés as Señor Durán
  • Mary Santpere as Doncella
  • Marta Flores as Esposa
  • Miquel Graneri as Marido
  • Jesús Puche as Fotógrafo
  • Valero as Carlos, niño
  • Juan López as Luis, niño
  • Antonia Llobet as Ana, niña
  • Antonio Leal as Comandante
  • Tomás Gutiérrez Larraya as Vendedor de Films Selectos
  • Hernández as Otor vendedor
  • Joaquín Soler Serrano as (voice)
  • Enrique Tusquets as Hombre del puro
  • Arturo Cámara as Comandante
  • Camino Garrigó as Madre de Ana
  • María Severini as Dueña de la pensión

References

  1. ^ Kinder p.401

Bibliography

  • Marsha Kinder. Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain. University of California Press, 1993.
  • Life in Shadows at IMDb


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