La vida por delante is a 1958 Spanish comedy film starring and written and directed by Fernando Fernán Gómez. The film enjoyed enough success to inspire a sequel, La vida alrededor, released in 1959.[1][2]
| La vida por delante | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Fernando Fernán Gómez |
| Written by | Fernando Fernán Gómez Manuel Pilares |
| Starring | Fernando Fernán Gómez Analía Gadé Manuel Alexandre Rafaela Aparicio José Isbert Gracita Morales |
| Cinematography | Ricardo Torres |
| Edited by | Rosa G. Salgado |
| Music by | Rafael de Andrés |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Plot
editLife ahead narrates[3] the misadventures of a newlywed couple, the lawyer Antonio Redondo (Fernando) and the doctor Josefina Castro (played by Fernán Gómez's partner at the time, the Hispanic-Argentine Analía Gadé) with their different avatars. Family, work and conjugal, especially with those insurmountable barriers that must be overcome in order to acquire a decent home. It emerges as an acid and gray portrait of the Spain of the fifties, explaining the miseries and hardships that squeezed the desire for prosperity and freedom of a youth that lived in a constant unreality, tortured by the lack of autonomy, hopes and expectations. Within an opaque, gloomy and gloomy nation that left no room for genius or debate.[4]
Nominations
editThe film was nominated for Best Film at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in 1959.[5]
References
edit- ^ Sardá, Juan (12 August 2016). "Clásicos españoles (II): Fernando Fernán Gómez".
- ^ "Biografía Fernando Fernán Gómez".
- ^ Palomo, Miguel Ángel (2016-01-26). "Un gran retrato de la España de los años cincuenta: 'La vida por delante'". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ^ Redondo, Rubén. "La alternativa | La vida por delante (Fernando Fernán Gómez)" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ^ Cine (1959). "Ganadores Premios Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata 1959".
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