Of Love and Shadows
Appearance
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Directed by | Betty Kaplan |
Screenplay by | Donald Freed |
Produced by | Richard B. Goodwin Betty Kaplan Paul Mayersohn Hervé Hachuel (executive producer) |
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Cinematography | Félix Monti |
Edited by | Bill Butler Kathryn Himoff |
Music by | José Nieto |
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Distributed by | Miramax Films |
Release dates | October 7, 1994 (Germany) May 10, 1996 (USA) |
Language | English |
Box office | $19,710 |
Of Love and Shadows, also known as De amor y de sombra, is a 1994 Chilean-Argentine-American drama film written and directed by Betty Kaplan and starring Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Connelly, Stefania Sandrelli and Patricio Contreras. It is based on the 1984 homonymous novel by Isabel Allende.[1][2]
Plot
Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and her heart to the atrocities being committed by the state.
Cast
- Antonio Banderas as Francisco
- Jennifer Connelly as Irene
- Stefania Sandrelli as Beatriz
- Diego Wallraff as José
- Camilo Gallardo as Gustavo
- Patricio Contreras as Mario
- Jorge Rivera López as Prof. Leal
- Jacques Arndt as The General
References
- ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
- ^ Karen Regelman (October 24, 1994). "Review: 'Of Love and Shadows'". Variety. Retrieved 25 February 2014.