A Shadow You Soon Will Be

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A Shadow You Soon Will Be ★★ Una Sombra Ya Pronto Seras 1994

An allegory of the emptiness of contemporary Argentinian society, following the end of military rule, and based on a 1990 novel by Soriano, who cowrote the screenplay. A man known merely as “The Engineer” (Sola) returns from Europe where he's lived in exile during the military dictatorship. Without family or friends, he wanders through the southern pampas, briefly communicating with other eccentric travelers, and noncommitally watching the world go by. Spanish with subtitles. 105m/C VHS, DVD . AR Miguel Angel Sola, Eusebio Poncela, Pepe Soriano, Alicia Bruzzo, Luis Brandoni, Diego Torres, Gloria Carra; D: Hector Olivera; W: Hector Olivera, Osvaldo Soriano; C: Felix Monti; M: Osvaldo Montes.