''Life in Shadows'' (Spanish:''Vida en sombras'') is a 1949 Spanish

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directed by Lorenzo Llobet Gracia and starring Fernando Fernán Gómez,

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and Isabel de Pomés.Kinder p.401 It was made in

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Cast

* Fernando Fernán Gómez as Carlos *

as Ana * Isabel de Pomés as Clara * Fernando Sancho as Productor *

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as Luis *

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as Sra. Durán *

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as Doncella *

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as Esposa * Miquel Graneri as Marido *

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as Fotógrafo * Valero as Carlos, niño * Juan López as Luis, niño * Antonia Llobet as Ana, niña *

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as Comandante * Tomás Gutiérrez Larraya as Vendedor de Films Selectos * Hernández as Otor vendedor *

Joaquín Soler Serrano Joaquín Soler Serrano (19 August 1919, Murcia - 7 September 2010, Barcelona Camino Garrigó Camino Garrigó was a Spanish film actress. She appeared in twenty eight films, generally in supporting roles such as ''While Angels Sleep'' (1947).Lancia p.102 Selected filmography * ''The Complete Idiot (1939 film), The Complete Idiot'' (1939) ...

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.

External links

* 1949 films 1949 drama films Spanish drama films 1940s Spanish-language films Spanish black-and-white films 1940s Spanish films {{1940s-Spain-film-stub