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| Title: | Ayer Amargo. |
| Director: | Amilcar Tirado. |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format. |
| Imprint: | San Juan, Puerto Rico : Distributor, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, c2000. |
| Language: | Spanish
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| Notes: | Mitchell Productions, Inc ; written and produced by Jeronimo Mitchell Meléndez ; directed by Amilcar Tirado. Colección cine nuestro
Videocassette release of the 1959 motion picture production. Credits Editor, Amilcar Tirado ; Photography, Agustin Martínez Solares. Performer Marta Romero, Arturo Correa, Roberto Rivera Negrón.
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| Plot: | Follows the life of a loving couple that is childless. Doubts about the doctor-s determination that it is Juana who is infertile are dispelled by the illegitimate son her husband Manolo fathered with a prostitute. He hopes to raise him as their mutual son, but the boy-s arrival marks a profound change in the couple-s life, as Juana struggles with her relationship with the child and her husband.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Puerto Rico. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El beso que me diste / Kiss you gave me.
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| Director: | Sonia Fritz. |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Imprint: | United States: Vanguard Cinema, 2002, c2000. |
| Language: | Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
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| Notes: | A Vanguard Cinema release Nuevo Siglo, S.E. presents a Frances Lausell Stella Soto production of a Sonia Fritz film ; producer, Iliana Siena ; written & directed by Sonia Fritz. Credits Cinematographer, Agustin Cubano ; editor, Francisco Torres ; music, Miguel Cubano ; costume designer, Suzanne Krim ; production designer, Bonita Huffman. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000. Based on the novel El beso que me diste no lo olvidare Jamas by Stella Soto. Performer Maricarmen Aviles, Jimmy Navarro, Rene Monclova, Carola Garcia, Ernesto Concepcion, Humberto Gonzales, Junior Alvarez, Velda Gonzales, Joseph Alicea.
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| Plot: | A bold, loose love story that is open to many interpretations, THE KISS THAT YOU GAVE ME takes place in the year 2006. Angela, the star reporter of an advanced digital cable channel is struggling through a failing marriage. Her husband upon splitting with her, kidnaps her son and brings him to the United States. Angela tracks down her ex-husband with the assistance of a lawyer and retrieves her son. The distance applied in director Sonia Fritz-s direction leaves much of both the relationship between the troubled lovers and the moral dilemmas surrounding the custody of the child will have viewers reading the film many different ways. This Puerto Rican film was made and released in the wake of the notorious Elian Gonzales emigration.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Puerto Rico. Literary Adaptation. Reporters and reporting. Kidnapping, Parental. Mothers and sons. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La Guagua aerea: "a flight of hope" |
| Director: | Luis Molina Casanova. |
| Format: | 1 videocassette ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. |
| Imprint: | [Puerto Rico : Corporación Producciones Culturales, 1994?] |
| Language: | Spanish
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| Notes: | Corporación Producciones Culturales y La Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. Credits Productor director, Luis Molina Casanova. Based on the book by Luis Rafael Sánchez. Performer Chavito Marrero, Idalia Pérez Garay, Teófilo Torres, Sunshine Logroño.
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| Plot: | La Guagua Aerea ia a tragic-comedy in which the main character, a Puerto Rican immigrant, is able to laugh at himself even in times of adversity.
His struggle to survive is endless and has become as routine as his trips back and forth between San Juan and New York.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Puerto Rico. Literary Adaptation. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | The House of Ramon Iglesia. |
| Director: | Luis Soto. |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (ca. 55 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. |
| Imprint: | Los Angeles, Calif. : distributed by NLCC Educational Media, c1986 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | Based on the stage play by Jose Rivera, produced at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Shown on the television program: American playhouse. Production organization, LFS Producations, Inc. Director, Luis Soto ; producer, Laura Mola ; writer, Jose Rivera ; assistant producer, Angela R. Krass ; director of photography, Stephen Bower ; film editor, Gloria Pi~neyro ; composer, Elizabeth Swados. Cast: Roberto Badillo, Nick Corri, Marina Durell, Annie Golden, Israel Juarbe, Jaime Sanchez.
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| Plot: | Ramon Iglesia, the head of a Puerto Rican family transplanted to Long Island, N.Y., encounters difficulties selling his house so that they can move back to Puerto Rico. Shows many of the hardships faced by Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics in the United States, including confrontation among family members as traditional Hispanic values conflict with American values.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Puerto Rico |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Maruja |
| Director: | Oscar Olazabal Quintana |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (120 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. VHS format. |
| Imprint: | [Puerto Rico : s.n., 199-] |
| Language: | Spanish
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| Notes: | Probo Films, Inc. ; produccion Geronimo Mitchell; direccion Oscar Olazabal Quintana. Con la actuacion especial de Cortijo y su combo con Ismael Rivera. Videocassette release of the 1959 motion picture. Musica, Bobby Capo ; guion de Manuel G. Piñera. Cast: Marta Romero, Roberto Rivera Negron, Mario Pabon, Helena Montalban, Axel Anderson, Mona Marti.
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| Plot: | Maruja, the first box office success of puertorican cinema, is the story of a beautiful and sensual woman that awakes the lechery in several men with tragic effects.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Puerto Rico |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Sudor Amargo / Bitter sweet |
| Director: | Sonia Valentín |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (120 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Imprint: | Deerfield Beach, FL : Maverick Entertainment, 2004 |
| Language: | Spanish with some English with Spanish subtitles; optional subtitles in English.
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| Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Producciones Copelar presenta una película de Sonia Valentín ; guión, Alba Nydia Díaz, Fernando Villafaña, Sonia Valentín ; producida por Alba Nydia Díaz ; dirigida por Sonia Valentín. Director of photography, P.J. López ; editor, David Cochran (Diaz) ; music, Gior Roig.Special features include trailer./ Participants: Alba Nydia Díaz, Sonia Valentín, Yamaris Latorre, Yvonne Caro Caro, Esther Mari, Luisa Justiniano, Elsie Moreau, Domingo Quiñones.
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| Plot: | "Set in a Puerto Rico fish-cleaning factory, the film focuses on a group of female workers struggling to hold onto their jobs as massive layoffs and heated protests swirl around them. The volatile atmosphere culminates when their boss is found murdered one morning. As the investigation goes on and each of the women is questioned, the strain puts their friendship to the ultimate test"--Container.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Women employees. Fishery processing plants. Labor disputes. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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