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.

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.

• 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
• Tomás Gutiérrez Larraya 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

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

• Life in Shadows at IMDb

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