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Life in Shadows

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Life in Shadows
Directed byLorenzo Llobet Gracia
Written by
Starring
CinematographySalvador Torres Garriga
Edited byRamón Biadiú
Music byJesús García Leoz
Production
company
Castilla Films
Release date
  • 6 April 1949 (1949-04-06)
Running time
90 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Kinder p.401

Bibliography

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