Life in Shadows (Spanish:Vida en sombras) is a 1949 Spanish drama film directed by Lorenzo Llobet Gràcia and starring Fernando Fernán Gómez, María Dolores Pradera and Isabel de Pomés.Kinder p.401 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 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
Bibliography Marsha Kinder. Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain. University of California Press, 1993.
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