A Shadow You Soon Will Be

Name: A Shadow You Soon Will Be
Genre: Drama
Released: 1994-05-05
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Rating: 6.50
Cast: Martín Coria, Pepe Soriano, Miguel Ángel Solá, Roberto Carnaghi

– This film follows the exploits of middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the ..

Type:

Movie

Rating:

6.50 / 10

Duration:

One Hour and 45 Minutes

Release Year:

1994

Original Name:

Una sombra ya pronto serás

A Shadow You Soon Will Be (1994) - Also known as Una sombra ya pronto serás

This film follows the exploits of middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the early 80's following the end of Argentina's long military dictatorship and is based on a 1990 novel by Osvaldo Soriano. Only recently returned from European exile, with no family and friends to welcome him home, "the engineer" travels the lonely southern Pampas of Argentina on the way to a job. He is periodically joined by other strange wanderers such as Nadia, the gun slinging psychic, Lem, a strange travelling millionaire, Barante, the hobo, and Coluccini, a bankrupt circus owner who involves "the engineer" in a rigged card game..

Styles:

Road Movie

Producing Country:

Argentina

Filming Locations:

Alaska, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Cleveland Ohio, Rome Italy

Genre:

Drama

Release Date:

05 May 1994

Language:

Spanish, Italian, Latin

MPAA Content-Rating:

UNRATED

Directed by:

Héctor Olivera

Story Written By:

Osvaldo Soriano, Héctor Olivera

Main Actors:

Martín Coria, Pepe Soriano, Miguel Ángel Solá, Roberto Carnaghi

Plot:

A computer programmer who, after his train breaks down, takes to wandering aimlessly through remote regions of La Pampa, Viedma and Carhue. he meets a succession of equally lost souls, including a globe-trotting gambler, a circus owner whose performers left him "because the whole country was a circus: and a tarot card reader with large gaps in her knowledge of the future.

Awards:

6 wins & 7 nominations.

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database:

6.5/10