The Man Who Lost His Shadow
Synopsis
When a man has no more ideas, when he no longer knows why he does certain things, Antonio says to Paul, "it's like he's lost his shadow." Antonio thinks Paul has lost his shadow. An old Andalusian communist who'd returned to his country after a long exile in France, Antonio takes in Paul, who has fled home after being fired by the paper he worked on. "You think everything can be fixed," Antonio says to Paul. "Everything that goes on in your mind and in peoples' lives. You run away in your mind, but life catches up with you." Not just life, women, too. Paul's present girlfriend, Anne, and his ex, Maria, set out after him. This could turn into farce or tragedy. It in fact becomes neither. No one has to die in this story, but in fact someone does. Antonio, and with him, a whole slice of history, that period when people believed in social utopias. Paul loses his shadow, all right, but not the one Antonio had in mind, for Antonio was Paul's shadow...
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Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (3)
- Co-production : Gemini Films
- Foreign production companies : Tornasol Films, Filmograph SA
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Bureau Sales
Full credits (12)
- Screenwriter : Alain Tanner
- Director of Photography : José Luis López Linares
- Music Composer : Arié Dzierlatka
- Assistant directors : Nathalie Donnini, Manuel Martin Cuenca
- Editor : Monica Goux
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Paul Mugel
- Costume designer : Ana Alvargonzalez
- Foreign producers : Josean Gomez, Gerardo Herrero
- Producer : Paulo Branco
- Co-producer : Paulo Branco
- Sound assistant : Sophie Chiabaut
- Production Designer : Ana Alvargonzalez
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Spain, Switzerland, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Spain, Switzerland, France)
- Production year : 1991
- French release : 15/01/1992
- Runtime : 1 h 42 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 75345
- Visa issue date : 24/01/1992
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
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