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Prince of Shadows

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Prince of Shadows
Directed byPilar Miró
Written byPilar Miró
Mario Camus
Juan Antonio Portos
Based onThe novel Beltenebros by Antonio Muñoz Molina
Produced byAndrés Vicente Gómez
StarringTerence Stamp
CinematographyJavier Aguirresarobe
Edited byJosé Luis Matesanz
Music byJosé Nieto
Release date
  • 13 December 1991 (1991-12-13)
Running time
109 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish
Box office$1.2 million (Spain)[1]

Beltenebros, also known as Prince of Shadows, is a 1991 Spanish crime-thriller mystery film co-written and directed by Pilar Miró and starring Terence Stamp, Patsy Kensit, José Luis Gómez, Geraldine James and Simón Andreu. It was entered into the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution.[2]

Synopsis

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Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the Spanish Civil War has ended, an English communist named Darman, who had fought in the International Brigades, comes back to Spain with the mission to find and kill an infiltrated mole or traitor in the clandestine Communist Party. To find the traitor, Darman begins an affair with Rebecca, a lounge singer and the most expensive and beautiful prostitute in Madrid, who seems to be the lover of the man Darman is looking for. But in this dark post-war Francoist Spain not everything is as it seems, and Darman must first search in his past before he can find his real enemy, who is looking for him as well.[3]

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Top 10 grossers in Spain". Variety. 4 October 1993. p. 66.
  2. ^ "Berlinale: 1992 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
  3. ^ Beltenebros (Prince of Shadows) FilmAffinity
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