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 byFernando Fernán Gómez
Written byFernando Fernán Gómez
Manuel Pilares
StarringFernando Fernán Gómez
Analía Gadé
Manuel Alexandre
Rafaela Aparicio
José Isbert
Gracita Morales
CinematographyRicardo Torres
Edited byRosa G. Salgado
Music byRafael de Andrés
Release date
  • 5 September 1958 (1958-09-05)
Running time
90 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

Plot

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Life 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

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The film was nominated for Best Film at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in 1959.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Sardá, Juan (12 August 2016). "Clásicos españoles (II): Fernando Fernán Gómez".
  2. ^ "Biografía Fernando Fernán Gómez".
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Redondo, Rubén. "La alternativa | La vida por delante (Fernando Fernán Gómez)" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  5. ^ Cine (1959). "Ganadores Premios Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata 1959".
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