''Of Love and Shadows'', also known as ''De amor y de sombra'', is a 1994 Chilean-Argentine-American

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

written and directed by

Betty Kaplan Betty Kaplan is a Venezuelan-American film and television director born in New York City and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She is Co-Chair of the Directors Guild of America Latino Committee. Kaplan has directed the films ''Doña Bárbara'', '' A ...

and starring Antonio Banderas,

Jennifer Connelly Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American actress. She began her career as a child model before making her acting debut in the 1984 crime film ''Once Upon a Time in America''. After having worked as a model for several year ...

Stefania Sandrelli Stefania Sandrelli (born 5 June 1946) is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the ''commedia all'Italiana'', starting from the 1960s. She was 14 years old when she starred in '' Divorce Italian Style'' as Angela, the cousin and love i ...

and

Patricio Contreras Patricio Contreras (born December 15, 1947) is a Chilean- Argentine television, film and stage actor. Biography Contreras was born in Santiago, Chile in 1947 and emigrated to neighboring Argentina following the 1973 coup d'état against left ...

. It is based on the 1984 novel of the same name by

Isabel Allende Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (; born in Lima, 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known for novels such as ''The House of the Spirits'' (''La casa de los espír ...

Plot

Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the

Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of ...

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 *

as Irene *

as Beatriz *

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as José * Camilo Gallardo as Gustavo *

as Mario *

Jorge Rivera López Jorge Rivera López (born 19 March 1934) is an Argentine actor of television and film. Career During the 1980s military dictatorship, López, along with Luis Brandoni, Roberto Cossa, Osvaldo Dragún and Pepe Soriano, accompanied by Nobel ...

as Prof. Leal * Jacques Arndt as The General

Reception

The film had almost 300,000 admissions in Argentina during 1995.

References

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* * * 1994 films 1994 drama films Argentine drama films American drama films Films directed by Betty Kaplan Films shot in Buenos Aires Films set in Chile Films about the Chilean military dictatorship Miramax films 1990s English-language films 1990s American films 1990s Argentine films {{1990s-Argentina-film-stub