La vida alrededor (1959)
- Directed by
- Fernando Fernán Gómez
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- Spain
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rating
- 5.6 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A struggling lawyer in 1950s Spain uses schemes to get by with his wife. The film pokes fun at the tough times when housing and jobs were hard to find.
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What happens
La vida alrededor (English: Life Around Us) is a 1959 Spanish comedy film written, starred and directed by Fernando Fernán Gómez. The movie follows La vida por delante made by the same crew in 1958. The film is a satire about the years where housing was scarce and jobs were even scarcer, quite a contrast with the present Spain where life is easier than during the hard years when Franco ruled with an iron fist. Mr. Fernan Gomez plays Antonio, a lawyer who was not a good student and has to resort to schemes to eke a living for himself and the wife. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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