Life in Shadows

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Life in Shadows
Directed by Lorenzo Llobet Gràcia
Written by
Starring
Cinematography Salvador Torres Garriga
Edited by Ramón Biadiú
Music by Jesús García Leoz
Production
company
Castilla Films
Release date
  • 6 April 1949 (1949-04-06)
Running time
90 minutes
CountrySpain
Language Spanish

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. [1] It was made in Barcelona.

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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.

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References

  1. Kinder p.401

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