| Life in Shadows | |
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| Directed by | Lorenzo Llobet Gracia |
| Written by |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Salvador Torres Garriga |
| Edited by | Ramón Biadiú |
| Music by | Jesús García Leoz |
Production company | Castilla Films |
Release date | 6 April 1949 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
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.
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.
