| La vida por delante | |
| Director: | Fernando Fernán Gómez |
| Starring: | Fernando Fernán Gómez Analía Gadé Manuel Alexandre Rafaela Aparicio José Isbert Gracita Morales |
| Music: | Rafael de Andrés |
| Cinematography: | Ricardo Torres |
| Editing: | Rosa G. Salgado |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| Country: | Spain |
| Language: | Spanish |
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]
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]
The film was nominated for Best Film at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in 1959.[5]