Video & DVD Collection: Spanish & English Language.
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| Title: | A+ (AMAS) | | Director: | Xavier Ribera | | Format: | 1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region 2) | | Imprint: | Barcelona: Manga Films 2004 | | Language: | Spanish with optional subtitles in English
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004. Directed and written by: Xavier Ribera. Actores: Eloy Azorin, Elvira Herreria, Jose Coronado, Misia, Ricardo Moya, Fernando Ramallo, Eloi Yebra.
| | Plot: | A+ is probably one of the most refreshing and innovating cinematographic experiences to be presented in Spain the present year. Filmed most of it in video, it tells tree different stories of three different genres with quite different styles. The point in common for all of them is A+, an independent music show that happens to be the goal for all the characters but by many different circumstances. The first story tells us about a young couple of drug dealers that get themselves in serious trouble with local mafia and have to run away from home almost naked and with two packages of cocaine in their hands. That story, maybe the most interesting, is a rough tale abut fate, love and how to live with you own announced dead. The second one is a funny story held by magnificent comedians Fernando Ramallo and Eloi Yebra about two young guys that star a funny trip to A+ in a lousy sidecar a friend of them got. The third story is a soft and elegant tale about generational miscommunication represented by a father that tries to get close to her daughter by bringing her to A+. The result is a really moving piece that faces us to father-child problems in a very stylish and modern way.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Anita no pierde el tren / Anita Takes a Chance | | Director: | Ventura Pons | | Format: | 1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. Dolby digital 5.1. DVD, (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Laurenfilm, 2001 | | Language: | Spanish with optional subtitles in Spanish, English or French.
| | Notes: | Videodisc production of a film made in Spain, 2000. Un film de Ventura Pons ; [Lauren Films presenta una producción de Els Films de la Rambla con la participación de Televisión Española, Canal+ y Televisió de Catalunya]. Special features includes: Making of "Anita no pierde el tren," theatrical trailers, festivals and prizes, criticism, photo gallery, biographies of cast and director, artistic and technical information. Participants: Rosa Maria Sardà, José Coronado, María Barranco, Jordi Dauder.
| | Plot: | Anita has worked at a cinema box-office for the past thirty years; now she is forced to watch that whole era being wiped out, literally, as her old cinema house is pulled down to make way for a modern multiplex. Anita herself is obliged to take early retirement because she doesn't suit the new company's image. Unable to get over the shock of it all, Anita finds herself being drawn back to her old workplace on a daily basis, although all that's left is a building site being put up by a construction firm. By chance, Anita falls in love with one of the workers on the site who drives a bulldozer. A tender affair develops between these two, and though Anita's paramour is married, nevertheless their clandestine love helps both of them raise their hopes for a better future. For Anita, it at least helps her to make a break with the past. Now at last she can begin to believe that there is indeed a life after her old existence.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | 27 horas. | | Director: | Montxo Armendariz. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (93 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL). | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Manga Films, Cine Español, 2001 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Golem ; una produccion de Elias Querejeta ; dirigida por Montxo Armendariz. Released as a motion picture in 1986. Participants: Martxelo Rubio, Maribel Verdu, Jon San Sebastian, Antonio Banderas.
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Heavy drama about three teens in San Sebastian, a port city on the Bay of Biscay in the Basque country of Spain. Covert references are made to political issues like the miseries of shipyard workers and to the police as rather brusque and hard-nosed. Drugs are rampant in the lower orders of city life; one of the teens has dropped out of high school and is a user, as is his girlfriend. He survives by stealing and by handouts from his family, who nevertheless want nothing to do with him. No matter how much a third teen friend tries to get this couple to give up the habit, nothing works. The ultimate question, though not emphasized here, may be who is really responsible for what happens to this unfortunate young couple.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Male friendship | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | 1492, conquest of paradise | | Director: | Ridley Scott | | Format: | 1 videodisc (150 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | | Imprint: | Taiwan : Catalyst Logic, 2002?] | | Language: | English; Dialogue in English with optional subtitles in English, traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1992. A Percy Main/Legende/Cyrk production in association with Odyssey Distributors, Ltd. ; a Ridley Scott film ; written by Roselyne Bosch ; produced by Ridley Scott and Alain Goldman ; directed by Ridley Scott. Director of photography, Adrian Biddle ; film editors, William Anderson, Françoise Bonnot ; music, Vangelis. Participants: Gerard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Loren Dean, Angela Molina, Fernando Rey, Michael Wincott, Tcheky Karyo, Kevin Dunn, Mark Margolis, Juan Diego Botto, Achero Mañas, Sigourney Weaver.
| | Plot: | The film chronicles the first two landmark voyages of Columbus and takes us to the brink of his third and last.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. Columbus, Christopher. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | 7 virgenes / 7 Virgins | | Director: | Alberto Rodríguez | | Format: | 1 videodisc (86 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL/Region 2) | | Imprint: | Barcelona: Alta Classics Group. 2005 | | Language: | Spanish with optional subtitles in English and Spanish
| | Notes: | Estreno en España: 14 Octubre 2005. 2005: Goya Mejor actor revelación (Jesús Carroza). 2005: San Sebastián: Concha de Plata al mejor actor (Juan José Ballesta) Guión: Alberto Rodríguez y Rafael Cobos López.
Producción ejecutiva: José Antonio Félez.
Música: Julio de la Rosa.
Fotografía: Alex Catalán.
Montaje: J. Manuel G. Moyano.
Dirección artística: Javier López.
Vestuario: Fernando García.
Interpretación: Juan José Ballesta (Tano), Jesús Carroza (Richi), Vicente Romero (Santacana), Alba Rodríguez (Patri), Julián Villagrán (José María), Manolo Solo (Director del centro), Ana Wagener (Madre de Richi), Maite Sandoval (Madre de Patri).
Special Features:
Commentary,
Filmographies,
Interactive Menu,
Making Of,
Music Video,
| | Plot: | Verano en un barrio obrero y marginal de una ciudad del sur. Tano (Juan José Ballesta), un adolescente que cumple condena en un centro de reforma, recibe un permiso especial de 48 horas para asistir a la boda de su hermano Santacana (Vicente Romero). Durante el tiempo que dura el permi-so, Tano se reencuentra con su mejor amigo, Richi (Jesús Carro-za), y se lanza a vivir esas horas con el firme propósito de divertir-se, hacer todo lo que le estaba prohibido en el centro: se emborra-cha, se droga, roba, ama y, fundamentalmente vuelve a la vida. Se siente libre y ejerce esa libertad con toda la fuerza y el atrevimiento de la adolescencia. Pero a medida que transcurre su estancia fuera del centro, Tano también asiste al derrumbamiento de todos sus re-ferentes: el barrio, convertido en otro; la familia, el amor y la amis-tad. Más allá de un permiso de 48 horas, la libertad de Tano se convierte en un viaje impuesto hacia la madurez. (La Butaca)
It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother's wedding. Together with his best friend Richi, Tano plans to enjoy his 48-hour pass to the limit, doing all the things he is normally prohibited from doing. He gets drunk, takes drugs, steals, has sex and hangs out with his buddies. He feels free and exerts that freedom with all the force and audacity of a teenager. By the end of his 48-hour pass, Tano has also witnessed the collapse of all the things he takes for granted in his life: the neighborhood, his family, friends and loved-ones - everything is somehow different for him. More than just two days of freedom, Tano's leave turns out to be a journey into maturity.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | 1919, cronica del alba.
2a. parte | | Director: | Antonio J. Betancor | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (All Region) (PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Suevia Films, 2002 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Based on the story by Ramón J. Sender./ Originally released as motion picture in 1983. Director, Antonio José Betancor ; music, Riz Ortolani ; photography, Juan Antonio Ruiz Anchia ; producers, Carlos Escobedo, Javier Moro. Participants: Miguel Molina, Cristina Marsillach, Walter Vidarte.
| | Plot: | This sequel to Valentina jumps ahead eight years where the gentle-poet Pepe is studying in a university and doing an internship in a pharmacy lab. Though it has nearly been a decade, he is still in love with the beautiful Valentina. Unfortunately, things in Spain are getting more tense as his countrymen prepare to rebel against the oppressive government.
A study of the anarchist uprising in Zaragoza in 1919. A fifteen-year-old who has been abandoned by his family works in a drug store, through which pass a parade of enigmatic characters.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | 20 centimeters | | Director: | Ramón Salazar | | Format: | 1 videodisc (113 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All) | | Imprint: | Philadelphia, PA : TLA Releasing, 2006 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Produced by José María Calleja, Iker Monfort ; written and directed by Ramón Salazar. Participants: Mónica Cervera, Pablo Puyol, Miguel O'Dogherty, Concha Galán, Macarena Gómez.
| | Plot: | Marieta is a narcoleptic transvestite prostitute who yearns to be woman and when asleep is the star of lavish musical numbers
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | 90 millas | | Director: | Francisco Rodríguez. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD ; widescreen (1.85:1) ; Dolby digital stereo.. | | Imprint: | Coral Gables, FL : distributed by Venevision International, c2006. | | Language: | Spanish with some English subtitled in Spanish; optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Una produccion Sateco ; en association con Delicias, Sistemas de Producciones Audiovisuales, et al. ; guión, Jorge Herrera ; director, Francisco Rodríguez. Directors of photography, Domingo Solano, Pablo Hernández ; editor, Alberto G. Triguero ; music, Pedro Luis Martínez ; productores ejecutivos, Miguel Angel Derqui, Francisco Rodríguez. Performer Alexis Valdés, Claudia Rojas, Jorge Herrera, Enrique Molina, Daisy Granados, Joel Guillén, Francisco Rodríguez.
| | Plot: | A Cuban family leaves the island on a homemade raft and crosses the dangerous stretch from Cuba to Florida in search of freedom.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Political refugees. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Los abajos firmantes | | Director: | Joaquín Oristrell | | Format: | 1 videodisc (91 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Cameo Media, 2004 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally issued as a motion picture in 2003. Dirigida por Joaquín Oristrell ; una producción de Centro de Nuevos Creadores, Garbo Producciones, Cantinela. Screenplay, Javier Cámara, Juan Diego Botto, Elvira Mínguez, María Botto, and Joaquín Oristrell ; produced by Joaquín Oristrell, Cristina Rota ; music, Nacho Mastretta ; editor, Miguel Angel Santamaría ; artistic direction, Soledad Seseña ; cinematographer, Mischa Lluch ; production director, Sandra Hermida. Participants: Javier Cámara, Juan Diego Botto, Elvira Mínguez, María Botto.
| | Plot: | A "play within a play," 4 actors in a touring company debate the Spanish government's decision to send Spanish troops to Iraq.
The leading actor in a theatre company on tour in Spain dies in a car crash. A new actor, Jorge Ruiz, comes to take over. He is good-looking, young and revolutionary. His arrival gives rise to tensions, jealousy and distrust among the rest of the company and especially so for Mario Soto who is in charge of directing while the stage manager, who is busy working on an opera for the Teatro Real in Madrid, is away. In the first rehearsal of the play they are doing, “The Untitled Comedy” by Federico García Lorca, there is a clash between these two men. This struggle between the two is witnessed by Carmen Morante, the leading actress in the company and Laura G. Reyna who was the secret lover of the late leading actor. If this wasn’t enough the newcomer brings further conflict; he reads a manifesto in favour of peace at the end of the performance. Mario questions this decision and the company is split.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Abre los ojos / Open Your Eyes. | | Director: | Alejandro Amenabar. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (117 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL) | | Imprint: | [Madrid] : Sogepaq Video, c1997. | | Language: | Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Story by Alejandro Amenabar, Mateo Gil ; director of photography, Hans Burmann ; music, Alejandro Amenabar. Cast: Penelope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martinez, Eduardo Noriega. Un film de las Producciones del Escorpion, S.L. ; director, Alejandro Amenabar ; productor, Fernando Bovaipa, Jose Luis Cuerda. Videocassette release of the 1997 motion picture.
| | Plot: | After flirting with another woman during a party, playboy Cesar is given a lift home by his disgruntled sex, only to be horribly disfigured when she intentionally drives her car over an incline. Accused of her murder and confined to a mental hospital, the alienated Cesar explains his plight to a psychiatrist who gradually unravels the terrifying truth about the mistaken identities, apparent betrayals and half-remembered memories that are tormenting Cesar-s mind
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El Abuelo / The grandfather. | | Director: | José Luis Garci | | Format: | 1 videodisc (147 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital 5.1. | | Imprint: | Madrid. Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2001 | | Language: | In Spanish with optional English and French subtitles available.
| | Notes: | Una producción Nickel Odeón Dos, S.A. con la participación de Televisión Española, S.A. ; una película escrita por J.L. Garci y Horacio Valcarcel ; producida y dirigida por José Luis Garci. Participants: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Rafael Alonso, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Agustín González.
| | Plot: | Don Rodrigo, a symbol of an aristocratic family, has returned to his village after a long trip to the United States. He quickly experiences resentment from his village, and comes to understand the value of his true family.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El Abuelo / The grandfather. | | Director: | José Luis Garci | | Format: | 1 videodisc (146 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. | | Imprint: | Burbank, CA: Miramax Home Entertainment.Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2000. | | Language: | In Spanish with optional yellow English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Una producción Nickel Odeón Dos, S.A. con la participación de Televisión Española, S.A. ; una película escrita por J.L. Garci y Horacio Valcarcel ; producida y dirigida por José Luis Garci. Participants: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Rafael Alonso, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Agustín González.
| | Plot: | When news of his son's death brings old Count Albrit home to Spain after years abroad, he's pleased to meet his two charming young granddaughters. But one of the girls is not his son's daughter, and therefore not his true heir. The determined Count sets out to discover which granddaughter is worthy of his love and name.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Acción mutante / Mutant Action | | Director: | Alex De la Iglesia | | Format: | 2 videodiscs (ca. 90 min. 80 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD Region 2 | | Imprint: | Barcelona: Manga Films , 2002 | | Language: | Spanish with Spanish subtitles.
| | Notes: | Una coproducción El Deseo, S.A. y CIBY 2000, con la participación de TVE ; producida por Agustin y Pedro Almodóvar ; director, Alex De la Iglesia ; screenplay, Alex de la Iglesia, Jorge Guerricaechevarria. Director of photography, Carlos Gusi ; editor, Pablo Blanco. Originally produced as motion picture in 1992. Special features include: scene selections. Participants: Antonio Resines, Alex Angulo, Frederique Feder, Fernando Guillén, Enrique San Francisco, Juan Viadas, Karra Elejalde, Saturnino Garcia, Jaime Blanch, Jon Gabella, Feodor Atkine.
Disc 2 includes: “Imagenes del rodaje. Video musical, Juego interactivo, Filmografia de los actores””
| | Plot: | Dystopic science fiction film set in the year 2012 in a world ruled by bodybuilders, designers and the ultra-chic. Accion Mutante, an underground group of mentally and physically disabled are the sole resistance to the cult of beauty and wealth. Ramon, the leader of the group devises plots to kidnap Patricia, daughter of a wealthy industrialist, but the plot does not work out as planned.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Actrius / Actrices /Actresses | | Director: | Ventura Pons | | Format: | 1 videodisc (88 min + 28 min extras) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region 2) | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Manga Films, 2002 | | Language: | Spanish or Catalan with optional subtitles in Spanish, English or French.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997. Una producción de Els Films de la Rambla, S.A. y la participación de TVE, Canal+ España. Director, Ventura Pons; music, Carles Cases. Participants: Nuria Espert; Rosa Maria Sardá; Ana Lizaran; Mercè Pons. Written By: Josep María Benet i Jornet (play)Josep María Benet i Jornet (screenplay)
| | Plot: | In order to prepare for her role as a certain well-known actress, a young woman has lengthy conversations with three different actresses who were good friends with the famous star. Emerging from these conversations are three equally different versions of the past and the events that shaped their lives and careers. This cinematic adaptation of a theatrical work is true to the original, but does not stray far from a theatrical rendering of the story.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Adiós con el corazón | | Director: | Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | United States : Venevision International, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Directed by Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez ; story, Rafael Azcona ; screenplay José Luis García and Rafael Azcona ; produced by José María Calleja ; a production of Alma Ata International Pictures in association with Gaila-Galiardo Productions and Rafael Azcona, Canal+, Warner Home Video.
| | Plot: | The story of a single womanizer, Juan, who, though he's getting older, is still attractive to women. One day his doorbell rings, and a charming young woman is standing there. She says she is Juan's daughter, and from this moment on, Juan's life is nothing but surprises.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | L'age d'or / Edad de oro / The age of gold | | Director: | Luis Buñuel | | Format: | 1 videodisc (63 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | New York : Kino on Video, 2004 | | Language: | French; Silent segments with English intertitles and music ; sound segments in French with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released in France in 1930. Special features: Audio commentary by Robert Short, author of The age of gold: surrealist cinema; stills gallery; Luis Buñuel: a complete filmography. Participants: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst. Producer, Charles Noailles ; writer, Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali ; director, Luis Buñuel. Cinematographer, Albert Duverger.
| | Plot: | Using a melange of strange and unrelated images, this surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention is a statement by Buñuel on the nature of the bourgeoisie, the Church and the police. Banned in France within two weeks of its release
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. France. Surrealism Films. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | A golpes | | Director: | Juan Vicente Córdoba | | Format: | 1 videodisc (113 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid , Spain : Enrique Cerezo Producciones Cinematográficas S.A. , 2005 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English and Portuguese subtitles
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Guión: Juan Vicente Córdoba y María Reyes Arias.
Producción: Enrique Cerezo.
Música: Guateque All Stars.
Fotografía: Teo Delgado.
Montaje: Pablo Blanco.
Interpretes : Natalia Verbeke, Daniel Guzmán, Juanita Acosta, Marian Álvarez, Carlos Caniowski, Andrés Gertrudix, Adrián Gordillo, Zay Nuba, Javier Pereira María Reyes, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, María Vázquez, Alfredo Villa.
| | Plot: | ¿Por qué unos tanto y otros tan poco? Se cuestionan María, Juanita, Vicky, Mena y Nitzia, cinco chicas menores de 25 años, que viven en un barrio del extrarradio de Madrid, sin esperanza de un futuro alentador. Sueñan con ardor conseguir lo que desean pero viendo que la vida por sí misma no se lo da, deciden ir a por ello sin cuestionarse los medios que utilicen para conseguirlo y se lo montan haciendo alunizajes enfrentándose a las bandas de chicos que dominan ese negocio. "Si la vida no nos da lo que necesitamos pues vamos a por ello y lo cogemos. Sabemos que hacemos mal pero supongo que nosotras lo vemos como una manera de salir adelante". Sólo el amor, también presente en sus vidas, aliviará un poco su dolor.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Agustina de Aragón. | | Director: | Juan de Orduña. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (120 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL) | | Imprint: | Valladolid : Divisa Ediciones, 1998, 1957. Series: Clásico español; | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Dirigida por Juan de Orduña ; producida por CIFESA ; guión literario y diálogos, Vicente Escrivá ; dirección, Juan de Orduña. Originally produced as VHS-PAL videorecording, as part of the Clásico español series, in Spain by Divisa Ediciones Originally produced as a motion picture in 1950. Participants: Cast: Aurora Bautista, Fernando Rey, Virgilio Teixeira, Eduardo Fajardo, Manuel Luna.
| | Plot: | During the Siege of Zaragoza by the Napoleonic army, Agustina, a Zaragozan patriot leads the resistance against the French with success finding freedom for Aragon and love.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Biographical films. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Agua con sal / Salted water | | Director: | Pedro Pérez Rosado | | Format: | 1 videodisc (107 min.); sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region All) | | Imprint: | Barcelona, Spain: Cameo Media S.L., c2006. | | Language: | Spanish with subtitles in English.
| | Notes: | Video release of a motion picture produced in 2005. dirigida por Pedro Pérez Rosado. Director, Pedro Pérez Rosado; screenwriter, Lilian Rosado González; composer, Carlos Varela; cinematographer, Miguel Llorens. Participants: Yoima Valdés, Leyre Berrokal, Juan Carlos Morales, Ofelia Medina, Candela Fernández.
| | Plot: | A young Cuban named Olga arrives in Spain with a scholarship convinced that she has landed the chance of a lifetime. Deciding to stay, she eventually becomes an illegal immigrant, suffering the brunt of marginalisation and, unable to return home, having to get by as she can. Mari Jo is a young girl from a poor Valencian suburb, born into a family with nothing but problems. Fate has marked her life as she too becomes an outcast. Both end up working illegally in a furniture factory where they earn three times less than the minimum legal salary.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Cuba. Illegal aliens. Immigrants. Emigration and immigration. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes / Aguirre, the wrath of God | | Director: | Werner Herzog | | Format: | 1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Troy, MI : Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2000 | | Language: | German with optional English soundtrack and subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion in 1972.
Full-frame presentation, Dolby digital, Dolby surround 5.1 (German), mono (English). Special features include: audio commentary with Werner Herzog, theatrical trailer, talent bios.
Credits Written, produced and directed by Werner Herzog ; cinematography, Thomas Mauch ; editor, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus ; music, Popol Vuh.
Performer Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra.
| | Plot: | A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the Amazon in search of gold. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is consumed by visions of conquering all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Peru. Spain Colonies America. El Dorado | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Airbag | | Director: | Juanma Bajo Ulloa | | Format: | 1 videodisc (132 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital 5.1. | | Imprint: | Madrid : Asegarce Zinema : Marea Films : Distribuido por Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1999 | | Language: | Spanish with optional subtitles in English and French.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1997 motion picture. Asegarce Zinema y Marea Films presentan, en coproducción con Road Movies Dritte Produktionen y MGN Filmes, con el apoyo de Eurimages y NRW Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH; y la colaboración de Televisión Española, Canal+ España, Degeto Film, ETB. Drección, Juanma Bajo Ulloa. Screenwriters, Karra Elejalde, Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Fernando Guillén-Cuervo. Music, Bingen Mendizábal. Editor, Pablo Blanco. Cinematographer, Gonzalo Berridi. Participants: Karra Elejalde, Fernando Guillén-Cuervo, Alberto San Juan, Maria de Medeiros, Rosa María Sardà, Pilar Bardem, Francisco Rabal.
| | Plot: | Juantxo is a socially awkward idiot and a mamma's boy. He is, however, engaged to a rich and beautiful woman. A few days before his wedding, Juantxo-s buddies persuade him to go out for a final night of oat-sowing. Juantxo falls for an exotic prostitute. Unfortunately he loses his fiancee-s expensive engagement ring while messing with the hooker. They have three days to find it and their journey takes them on a riotous road trip that leads them into the depths of the Mafia underworld.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Aislados | | Director: | David Marqués | | Format: | 1 videodisc (80 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2) | | Imprint: | Spain: Cameo Media, 2006 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue; English, French, German subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a documentary in 2005. Director: David Marqués. Música: Juanma Redondo. Fotografía: Arie Van Dam. Productor: Jean-Luc Ducasse, Enrique González Macho
Guión: David Marqués Reparto: Adrià Collado, Jean-Luc Ducasse, Eric Francés.
| | Plot: | Adrià llega al puerto de Sant Antoni en Ibiza. Nadie ha venido a recogerle. Incia la búsqueda de “la casa del francés” en Santa Agnès, un pequeño pueblo del interior de la isla, donde le espera Kike para pasar el fin de semana. Durante esos días, y poco a poco, Adrià descubrirá algo que puede hacerle cambiar de vida...
Shot in six days by a crew of six guys, on a budget of just six hundred Euros, Aislados ("Isolated") re-writes the definition of an independent movie, with a helping hand from Avid...
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Alas de mariposa. | | Director: | Juanma Bajo Ulloa | | Format: | 1 videocassette (108 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL). | | Imprint: | Madrid : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1992. | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Iberoamericana Films, Gasteizko Zinema ; escrita por Juanma y Eduardo Bajo Ulloa ; dirigada por Juanma Bajo Ulloa. Photography, Aitor Mantxola, Enric Davi. Iberoamericana Films, Gasteizko Zinema ; escrita por Juanma y Eduardo Bajo Ulloa ; dirigada por Juanma Bajo Ulloa. Participants, Silvia Munt, Fernando Valverde, Susana Garcia, Laura Vaquero.
| | Plot: | Ami is a sensitive 7 year old, whose mother Carmen is obsessed with giving her husband Gabriel a son. When Carmen becomes pregnant, her relationship with her daughter begins to deteriorate. When the new son is born, events turn into a nightmare.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Alatriste (El capitán Alatriste) | | Director: | Agustín Díaz Yanes | | Format: | 1 videodisc (147 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid: Estudios Picasso. Origen PC. La Chauve-Souris, 2007 | | Language: | Spanish with optional subtitles in Spanish, French and English.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of a motion picture produced in 2006. Based on the novel of Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Coproducción España-Francia-USA. Participants: Viggo Mortensen, Juan Echanove, Eduardo Noriega, Elena Anaya, Eduard Fenández, Unax Ugalde, Javier Cámara, Blanca Portillo, Nicolás Belmonte
| | Plot: | España Imperial, siglo XVII. Diego Alatriste, valeroso soldado al servicio de su majestad, combate en una guerra en las frías tierras de Flandes. En una emboscada de los holandeses, Balboa, amigo y compañero de armas, cae herido de muerte. Alatriste escucha de los labios de su amigo una última petición y promete cumplirla: cuidará de su hijo Iñigo y le alejará del oficio de soldado. El propio Alatriste, que malvive vendiendo su espada, se verá implicado en una de estas intrigas cuando es contratado junto a otro mercenario, el italiano Gualterio Malatesta, para dar muerte a dos misteriosos personajes que viajan de incógnito a Madrid...
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | A los cuatro vientos. Lauaxeta / To the four winds, Lauaxeta | | Director: | José A. Zorilla, Arantxa Urretavizcaya, Xabier Elorriaga | | Format: | 1 videocassette (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. | | Imprint: | Donostia : [Distributed by] Filmoteca Vasca, 1999 | | Language: | Spanish, English, Basque, and French, with Spanish subtitles.
| | Notes: | Igeldo Zine Produkzioak ; José A. Zorilla, Arantxa Urretavizcaya, Xabier Elorriaga, guión ; basado en una ídea de [y] producida por Angel Amigo ; M. Grange, transl. & adapt. Version Internacional subtitulada en castellano. Videocassette release of a 1987 motion picture. Participants: Xabier Elorriaga, Anne Louise Lambert, Jean Claude Bouillaud, Peter Leeper, Antonio Passy, Ramón Agirre, Miguel Munarriz, Ramón Barea.
| | Plot: | Semi-fictional account of Estaban Urkiaga, Basque poet, journalist and major in Basque Army during Spanish Civil War, particularly events of 1937 leading up to Urkiaga-s execution by Falangists.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Basque Country. Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. Guernica (Spain). Bombardment, 1937. Estaban, Urkiaga, 1905-1937. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El alquimista impaciente | | Director: | Patricia Ferreira | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Coral Gables, FL : Venevision International, 2005. | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. Based on the novel by Lorenzo Silva. Continental Producciones, Cartel, Tornasol Films, Television de Galicia, S.A. presentan ; en coproduccion con SB Producciones, Sempsa, Patagonik Film Group ; con la participation de Television Espanola ; productores, Gerardo Herrero, et al. ; guion, Patricia Ferreira, Enrique Jimenez ; dirigida por Patricia Ferreira. Director of photography, Marcelo Camorino ; editor, Carmen Frias ; music, Javier Navarrete, José Nieto. Performer Ingrid Rubio, Roberto Enriquez, Chete Lera, Adriana Ozores, Miguel Angel Sola.
| | Plot: | Ironic and intriguing story of two detectives, Vila and Chamorro, who are investigating the mysterious death of a nuclear plant worker who was bound and gagged in a shady motel room.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary Adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El amante bilingüe. | | Director: | Vicente Aranda | | Format: | 1 videocassette (99 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [PAL] | | Imprint: | Madrid : Lolafilms, S.A. ; Roma : International DEAM Films, S.R.L. : Distributed by Columbia Tristar Home Video , c1992. | | Language: | In Spanish and Catalan, with subtitles in Spanish.
| | Notes: | Videocassette release of the 1993 motion picture. Based on a novel with the same title by Juan Marse. Director, Vicente Aranda ; producer, Mario Pedrazza ; editor, Wolfgang Burmann ; screenplay, Juan Marse ; photography, Juan Amores ; music, Jose Nieto. Imanol Arias, Ornella Muti (her voice dubbed by Victoria Peña), Loles Leon, Javier Bardem, Joan Lluis Bozzo.
| | Plot: | A rich girl marries below her status because of sexual attraction. After five years, she finds outside marriage the satisfaction she wants. She divorces her husband and he becomes a beggar. In a riot incident he is hit by a bomb and his face remains disfigured. With the help of a mask he is able to sexually attract his ex-wife again as a completely new person.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Amantes. | | Director: | Vicente Aranda | | Format: | 1 videocassette (100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL). | | Imprint: | Madrid : Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1992. | | Language: | In Spanish.
| | Notes: | Videocassette release of the 1991 motion picture. Pedro Costa Producciones Cinematograficas, S.A. ; con la participacion de TVE, S.A ; una pelicula de Vicente Aranda. Producer, Pedro Costa ; screenplay, Alvaro Del Amo, Vicente Aranda, Carlos Perez Merinero; photography, Jose Luis Alcaine ; music, Jose Nieto. Cast: Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdu.
| | Plot: | After finishing military service, Paco sets off to find work in Madrid, leaving behind his girlfriend Trini in his hometown. In Madrid he embarks on an affair with his landlady and becomes embroiled in the low-life of the district, but the virtuous Trini tries to re-enter his life, with tragic results.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Los amantes del Círculo Polar. | | Director: | Julio Medem. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (112 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital 5.1. | | Imprint: | Madrid : Sogepaq Video, 2001. | | Language: | In Spanish with optional English and French subtitles available.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1998 motion picture produced by Sociedad General de Cine S.A. Una película de Julio Medem. Producer: Femando Bovaira, Enrique López Lavigne ; music composer: Alberto Iglesias ; Screenplay: Julio Medem ; Director: Julio Medem.
| | Plot: | Two lovers are about to embark on an erotic odyssey that will take them to the ends of the earth. A story of love and sexual awakening so powerful it will alter their course forever.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Amanece que no es poco. | | Director: | José Luis Cuerda. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (110 min.); sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL) Region 2 | | Imprint: | Madrid : Círculo Digital, 2002, | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1988. Participants: Antonio Resines, Luis Ciges, José Sazatornil. Video Mercury Films. Director writer, José Luis Cuerda ; director of photography, Porfirio Enriquez ; music, José Nieto.
| | Plot: | Teodoro is a Spanish engineer who works as a professor at the University of Oklahoma. He returns to Spain on sabbatical, only to discover more adventure than he had bargained for.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | A mi la legión! | | Director: | Juan de Orduña | | Format: | 1 videocassette (90 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL) | | Imprint: | Valladolid : Divisa Ediciones, 1998, (1942). Series: Clásico español; | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Participants: Cast: Alfredo Mayo, Luis Peña, Manuel Luna, Pilar Soler. Dirigida por Juan de Orduña en 1942 ; producida por CIFESA. Originally produced as VHS-PAL videorecording, as part of the Clásico español series, in Spain by Divisa Ediciones in 1995.
| | Plot: | Spanish legionnaires bond in friendship and military values, in spite of their differences in social classes.
Nos encontramos ante momentos intensos y agridulces en la vida de dos legionarios de África. La historia de dos hombres de muy diferente condición social. Se conocen pero luego, las circunstancias les separan. La acción se traslada al Palacio Real de un país imaginario llamado Silonia. Pero ambos hombres ya no son los mismos de antes, habían sido curtidos y transformados por el corte legionario. Ya no podían olvidar su condición de caballeros legionarios. Cuando la patria se encuentra en peligro, ellos acuden bajo el emblema de la gloriosa bandera española. Dos amigos por la patria y por la legión ofrecen un auténtico alarde de los eternos valores militares.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Amic, Amat / Beloved, friend / | | Director: | Ventura Pons | | Format: | 1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (Region 1) | | Imprint: | [Santa Monica, Calif.] : Strand Releasing Home Video, 2001 | | Language: | Catalan; In Catalan with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | A production of Els Films de la Rambla, S.A ; with the participation of Televisió Espanyola, S.A and Canal Plus ; a film by Ventura Pons. Producer, director, Ventura Pons ; story, J.M. Benet i Journet ; music, Carles Cases.Title from disc surface. Based on the story " Testament" by Josep M. Benet i Jornet. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999. Participants: Josep Maria Pou, Rosa Maria Sardà, Mario Gas, David Selvas, Irene Montalá.
| | Plot: | The story of a terminally ill professor, who is in love with one of his students, a brilliant but wild, orphaned youth who moonlights as a male hustler.
Jaume is an aging literature professor who discovers he is sick. Confronting death, he decides to leave a will in the form of an essay, based on Llull's The Book of the Friend and the Beloved. His closest friend, Pere, who is also a professor, has a strong aversion to even contemplating death and no interest in reading Jaume's essay. Besides, he has his own problems: his daughter, Alba, informs him and Fanny (his wife), that she is pregnant. Things get complicated when Pere finds out that the father is a brilliant and shady former student of his. Jaume has also given a copy of his essay to David, to whom he is attracted. Pere finds out about their relationship and attempts to save his best friend from David's predatory claws, but meanwhile his own relationship with Fanny is in trouble...
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Catalonia. Literary Adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | A mi madre le gustan las mujeres | | Director: | Daniela Fejerman and Inés París. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard; Dolby digital 5.1; wide screen. | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Lauren films, c2002. | | Language: | In Spanish with optional subtitles in English.
| | Notes: | Una producción de Fernando Colomo P.C ; Ensueño Films ; con la participación de Vía Digital ; con al participación de Antena 3 Televisión. " La familia ya no es lo que era."--Container.
Special features include: direct access to scenes, posters, theatrical trailers, filmographies of the artists, directors.
Credits Directors and writers, Daniela Fejerman and Inés París; producers, Fernando Colomo and Beatriz de la Gándara; music, Juan Bardem and Andy Chango.
Performer Leonor Watling, Rosa María Sardá, María Pujalte, Silvia Abascal, Eliska Sirova, Chisco Amado, Alex Angulo.
| | Plot: | Three daughters react to the news that their mother is a lesbian.
Elvira, una chica de veintitantos años, tan guapa como insegura, coincide con sus hermanas, Jimena y Sol en casa de su madre, Sofía, una célebre pianista separada del padre de sus hijas hace años. la madre aprovecha la celebración de su cumpleaños para dar a sus hijas una gran noticia: se ha vuelto a enamorar. Las hermanas aplauden la buena nueva. La madre les advierte que su pareja es algo más joven que ella, ha nacido en Chequia y es también pianista, pero hay algo más: es una mujer. Las tres hermanas intentan reaccionar en un principio como las mujeres modernas, tolerantes y progresistas que se supone que son. pero la realidad es que la noticia les rompe los esquemas. Sobre todo a la neurótica Elvira, a la que la elección de su madre sume en una profunda crisis de identidad sexual
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Lesbians. Family relationships. Mothers and daughters.. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Amic, Amat / Amigo Amado / Beloved, friend / | | Director: | Ventura Pons | | Format: | 1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. PAL (Region 2) | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Els Films, 1998 | | Language: | Catalan or Spanish with Spanish or French or English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999. A production of Els Films de la Rambla, S.A ; with the participation of Televisió Espanyola, S.A and Canal Plus ; a film by Ventura Pons. Producer, director, Ventura Pons ; story, J.M. Benet i Journet ; music, Carles Cases.Title from disc surface. Based on the story " Testament" by Josep M. Benet i Jornet. Participants: Josep Maria Pou, Rosa Maria Sardà, Mario Gas, David Selvas, Irene Montalá.
| | Plot: | The story of a terminally ill professor, who is in love with one of his students, a brilliant but wild, orphaned youth who moonlights as a male hustler.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Catalonia. Literary Adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Amo tu cama rica | | Director: | Emilio Martinez Lazaro | | Format: | 1 videocassette (099 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [PAL] | | Imprint: | Madrid : Kaplan & F. Trueba P.C : Distributed by Columbia Tristar Home Video & CIA. S.R.C., c1993 | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Videocassette release of a 1991 motion picture. Director, Emilio Martinez-Lazaro ; producer, Cristina Huete ; editor, Alfonso Pino ; artistic director, Juan Botella ; screenplay, Emilio Martinez-Lazaro, Martin Casariego, David Trueba ; photography, Jose Luis Lopez-Linares ; music, Michel Camilo. Pere Ponce, Ariadna Gil, Cassen, Lina Canalejas, Ayanta Barilli, Clara Sanchis, Fernando Vivanco, Nancho Novo.
| | Plot: | Troubled love story of two teenagers who like each other but not enough to commit themselves. Eventually they find out that they fit to one another like a bolt to its nut.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El amor perjudica seriamente la salud / Love can seriously damage your health. | | Director: | Manuel Gomez Pereira. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (118 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. in. DVD (Region 1). | | Imprint: | United States: Condor Media : Distributed by Vanguard Cinema, 2000. | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | A film directed by Manuel Gomez Pereira ; produced by César Benítez, Joaquín Oristrell, Manuel Gomez Pereira for Sogetel S.A., Bocaboca Producciones, S.A., Le Studio Canal+, D.M.V.B. Films ; with the special collaboration of Carles Sans and Lola Herrera]. Cinematography, Juan Amorós ; editor, Guillermo Represa ; music, Bernardo Bonezzi. Videodisc release of the 1996 motion picture. Participants: Penélope Cruz, Ana Belén, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Gabino Diego.
| | Plot: | This romantic comedy charts the course of a long-time on-again-off-again love affair between Diana Balaguer and Santi Garcia. Penelope Cruz headlines the cast of this sophisticated Spanish romantic comedy. The film follows 30 years in an on-again, off-again affair that begins when Diana, a devoted fan of the Beatles, seduces shy bellboy Santi so that she can sneak into John Lennon-s Madrid hotel room. Decades later, Diana and Santi remain involved, and an event at the same hotel sheds new light on their relationship.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Amor Idiota / Idiot Love | | Director: | Ventura Pons | | Format: | 1 videodisc (92 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Barcelona: Manga Films, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish with English or Spanish subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005. Producida por Els Films de la Rambla. Dirección: Ventura Pons. Guión Ventura Pons. Fotografía: Mario Montero. Música: Carles Cases. Montaje: Pere Abadal. Intérpretes: Santi Millán. Cayetana Guillén Cuervo. Mercè Pons. Marc Cartes. Jordi Dauder. El guión es del propio director y se basa en un libro de Lluís-Antón Baulenas, que ya había sido adaptado por Pons en Anita no pierde el tren. Se rodó en Barcelona y Buenos Aires a lo largo de ocho semanas a partir del 14 de junio de 2004.
| | Plot: | En medio de un momento de crisis personal , después de una noche de copas en la que el protagonista sale sólo para olvidar las penas, Pere Lluc borracho, de camino a casa se tropieza con la escalera de aluminio de una chica, Sandra que se dedica a colgar banderolas en las farolas. Cae al suelo y conmocionado, se queda fascinado por ella. Cada día que pasa se obsesiona más con la chica. Asistiremos al relato de la tormentosa pasión para conseguir su amor.
Pere-Luc is going through a personal crisis. One night he has a night out on the town with the sole objective of forgetting his troubles. He is staggering home drunk when he crashes into a metal step ladder belonging to Sandra who works hanging banderoles on street lights. He falls to the ground, stunned, and becomes fascinated by the girl. As the days go by his obsession for her grows. We are going to watch the story of this stormy passion as he tries to win her love..
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El Amor brujo / Love, the magician | | Director: | Carlos Saura | | Format: | 1 videodisc (98 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Suevia Films, 2004 | | Language: | Spanish language, subtitles in English or Castilian.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture 1985. Emiliano Piedra Productions ; musica de Manuel de Falla ; libretto de Martinez Sierra ; guión y coreográfia Carlos Saura y Antonio Gades ; dirigida por Jesus Lopez Cobos. Director of photography, Teo Escamilla; editor, Pedro del Rey; music played by Orquesta Nacional de España; conducted by Jesus Lopez Cobos. Participants: Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jimenez.
| | Plot: | El Amor Brujo is the third in director Carlos Saura's flamenco trilogy, preceded by Blood Wedding (1981) and Carmen (1983).The plot involves two gypsies, male and female, who are united in an arranged marriage. Each loves someone else, a circumstance that results in a fatal knife duel. Candela eventually remarries, but her new husband soon discovers that every night at midnight, she is compelled to arise from her bed and dance with the ghost of Jose. The climax involves the girl's torn loyalties between the ghost of her dead husband and her living lover. Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Laura del Sol and Juan Antonio Jimenez are the principals in this well-photographed film.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Gypsies | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Amo tu cama rica | | Director: | Emilio Martínez Lázaro | | Format: | 1 videodisc (106 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid] : Kaplan & F. Trueba P.C : Distributed by Buena Vista Entertainment, 2003 | | Language: | Spanish language, with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of a 1991 motion picture. Una producción Kaplan & Fernando Trueba P.C ; con la participación de T.V.E. Director, Emilio Martínez-Lázaro ; producer, Cristina Huete ; editor, Alfonso Pino ; artistic director, Juan Botella ; screenplay, Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, Martín Casariego, David Trueba ; photography, José Luis López-Linares ; music, Michel Camilo. Participants: Pere Ponce, Ariadna Gil, Cassen, Lina Canalejas, Ayanta Barilli, Clara Sanchis, Fernando Vivanco, Nancho Novo.
| | Plot: | Troubled love story of two teenagers who like each other but not enough to commit themselves. Eventually they find out that they fit to one another like a bolt to its nut.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El Amor Brujo | | Director: | Francisco Rovira Beleta | | Format: | 1 videodisc (100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All, PAL) | | Imprint: | Valladolid, Spain : Divisa, 2003 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967. Loose version of the ballet by Gregorio Martinez Sierra and composed by Manuel de Falla. Dirigida por Francisco Rovira Beleta ; producida por Films R.B. Films R.B. ; escrita por Jose Antonio Nedran, J.N. Caballero Bonal, F. Roviro-Beleta ; una film de Rovira-Beleta. Photography, Gabor Pogani, Francisco Marin ; adaptation and musical direction, Ernesto Halffter ; choreography, Alberto Lorca. Participants: Antonio Gades, La Polaca, Rafael de Cordova, Morucha, Nuria Torray.
| | Plot: | A gypsy couple cannot marry until the ghost of the bride's first husband is put to rest. This is the second cinema version that was made of the theatre piece by Falla. It is a flamenco musical whose central theme is a story of love, passion and cruelty, that Rovira Beleta blends with fantastic elements. It was an Oscar nominee for the best foreign picture in 1967
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Gypsies. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Amor de hombre / Love of man | | Director: | Yolanda García Serrano & Juan Luis Iborra | | Format: | 1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Spain: Vertigo Films ; Philadelphia, PA : TLA Releasing, 2003, c1998. | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitle
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. A film by Yolanda García Serrano & Juan Luis Iborra. Produced by Pastora Delgado ; written & directed by Yolanda García Serrano & Juan Luis Iborra. Participants: Loles León, Ardrea Occhipinti, Pedro Mari Sánchez, Armando del Río, Roberto Alvarez, Roma Sánchez, Jesús Cabrero, Sergio Otegui.
| | Plot: | Al celebrar su cumpleaños de 40 años, Esperanza está rodeada de hombres guapos, todos homosexuales. Su mejor amigo Ramón por muchos años ha sido su consolador. Su amistad es puesto a prueba cuando Ramón se pone obsesionado por un hombre de carácter dudoso. It's Esperanza's 40th birthday and she's captivating it surrounded by dozens of handsome men, all of them gay. Her best friend Ramón has been her comfort for many years, but their relationship is tested when he develops an obsession with a man of questionable quality.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Amor propio | | Director: | Mario Camus | | Format: | 1 videodisc (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | United States] : Distributed by Venevision International, 2006 | | Language: | Spanish with optional subtitles in English.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of a 1994 motion picture. Sogetel, Central de Producciones Audiovisuales, Antea Films con la colaboración de Sogepaq ; productores ejecutivos, José Luis Olaizola M., Fernando de Garcillán ; escrita y dirigida por Mario Camus. Director of photography, Jaume Peracaula ; editor, Jose Maria Biurrun ; music, Sebastian Mariné ; production director, Ricardo García-Arrojo. Participants: Verónica Forqué, Antonio Resines, Fernando Valverde, Anabel Alonso, Carlos Ballesteros, Antonio Valero.
| | Plot: | Juana finds herself in trouble with the law when her husband, a bank manager, skips town after stealing millions of dollars from bank clients. She has to prove that she was not involved in the fraud or will face years in prison. Her life takes a turn for the best when she works with Hilario, on of her husbands victims, to get to the bottom of the scandal.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Ana y los lobos | | Director: | Carlos Saura. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL). | | Imprint: | Madrid : Mangua Films. 1999. | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Originally released as motion picture in 1972. Participants: Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Jose Maria Prada, Jose Vivo, Rafaela Aparicio, Charo Soriano. Screenplay, Rafael Azcona, Carlos Saura ; music, Luis de Pablo ; photography, Luis Cuadrado ; director, Carlos Saura.
| | Plot: | The film deals with a woman and her three sons, each one symbolic of one of the repressive elements of Spanish society: politics, religion and sex. A poor English governess enters the service of this household and becomes the victim of the brothers attentions, aggressions and cruelty.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El angel exterminador / The Exterminating angel. | | Director: | Luis Buñuel. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (93 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS. | | Imprint: | Las Cruces, NM : Hen-s Tooth Video, 1991. | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Nueva version con dialogos de Luis Buñuel del cinedrama de Luis Alcoriza y Luis Buñuel ; productor, Gustavo Alatrista ; director, Luis Buñuel. Title on cassette and container: Originally issued as motion picture in Mexico in 1962. Cast: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook.
| | Plot: | High society dinner guests find themselves unable to leave the room, stay there for days and go totally to the bad before the strange spell is broken. When they go to church to give thanks, they find themselves unable to leave the church.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El Angel exterminador / Exterminating angel | | Director: | Luis Buñuel | | Format: | 1 videodisc (89 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. DVD (region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Radlett, Hertfordshire] : Arrow Films, 2006. | | Language: | Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Gustavo Alatriste presenta ; nueva version con diálogos de Luis Buñuel del cinedrama de Luis Alcoriza y Luis Buñuel ; productor, Gustavo Alatriste ; director, Luis Buñuel. Photography, Gabriel Figueroa ; music, Raul Lavista ; editor, Carlos Savage, Jr.
Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962. Based on a play by José Bergamin. Performer Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Lucy Gallardo, Tito Junco, Claudia Brook.
| | Plot: | After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally dIscovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped. Buñuel's allegory exposes the futility of the conventional thinking of the upper classes.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Mexico. Spain. Literary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Animales Heridos / Wounded animals | | Director: | Ventura Pons | | Format: | 1 videodisc (88 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Barcelona: Filmax, 2006 | | Language: | Spanish, with English and Spanish subtitles
| | Notes: | Released as a motion picture in 2006. Guión: Ventura Pons; basado en relatos del libro "Animales tristes" de Jordi Puntí. Producción: Ventura Pons. Música: Carles Cases. Fotografía: Rafael Lluch. Montaje: Pere Abadal. Dirección artística: Bel-lo Torras. Interpretación: José Coronado , Cecilia Rossetto, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Marc Cartes, Cristina Plazas, Patricia Arredondo, Gerardo Zamora, Aina Clotet,
Francesc Albiol, Teresa Manresa, Paul Berrondo. Estreno en España: 10 Febrero 2006.
| | Plot: | Silvio Lisboa has a lot of money and, for the last year, a lover, Claudia Riera the famous interior designer. This man also has an obsession; hide with her in room 1817 of the Princesa Sofia Hotel. Silvio, in fact, lives near the hotel with his wife Marcia, a neurotic lady of leisure who only finds consolation in the coca infusion brewed by her Peruvian cleaning lady. But the peace of family life is about to be upset by the imminent arrival of Claudia who wants to write a report about the Lisboa’s home. Marcia goes crazy preparing the flat and doesn’t forget even the smallest detail. However, the visit ends tragically as Claudia finds out about Silvio’s sick obsession, cancels the report and considers their secret love affair over. Marcia can’t take this and gets depressed. To get over her depression she has a face lift and the couple go to Cadaqués for a few weeks..
His fantasy is to hide his mistress in room 1817 in the Princess Sofía hotel. Silvio Lisboa is a rich married man and a nervous wreck. He is seeing a famous interior director, Claudia Riera, who decides to make a programme on the Lisboa and in the process discovers her lover's obsession.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. Literary Aaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El año de las luces | | Director: | Fernando Trueba | | Format: | 1 videocassette (104 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL). | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Nuevo Cine Español, 1998 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Director, Fernando Trueba ; producer, Andrés Vicente Gomez. Originally released as a motion picture in 1986. Participants: Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdu, Manuel Aleixandre, Rafaela Aparicio, José Sazatornil, Santiago Ramos, Chus Lampreave, Violeta Cela y Verónica Forqué.
| | Plot: | A tender story of adolescents set in 1940. In 1940, 16-year-old Manolo and 8-year-old Jesus, two sons of a fallen soldier, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. There Manolo is initiated into the adult world and has his first experiences with sex and love
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Anónima de asesinos / Man on the spying trapeze | | Director: | Juan de Orduña | | Format: | 1 videocassette (ca. 92 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS | | Imprint: | Spain/Italy/Germany 1966 | | Language: | Dubbed in English.
| | Notes: | De Juan de Orduña. Cast: Wayde Preston, Helga Sommerfeld y Gianni Rizzo. Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
| | Plot: | With a title like this, it-s got to be good! Right? Perhaps not, but there-s plenty of guilty pleasure to be found in this James Bond knock-off starring Wayde Preston as super-cool secret agent Jerry Land. When he-s not having his way with several lovely ladies, he-s trying to crack a case involving hidden microfilm and a corpse at the Colosseum. There-s danger at every turn, but can Jerry Land handle it while still making time with the babes? You bet he can!
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El año del diluvio | | Director: | Jaime Chávarri. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (85 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Mangafilms, c2004. | | Language: | Spanish dialogue with English and Spanish subtitles
| | Notes: | Videodisc recording of a motion picture made in Spain in 2005. Based on a novel with the same title by Eduardo Mendoza. Participants: Fanny Ardant, Darío Grandinetti, Eloy Azorín, Pepa López, Ginés García Millán, Francis Lorenzo, Sandra De Falco, Rosa Novell, Francesc Orella.
| | Plot: | In a really hot summer, Sister Consuelo, the superior of a religious order dedicated to charitable medicine, decides to carry out a project to transform the rambling and almost useless hospital in town into a modern asylum for the old with the most up to date infrastructure. To finance the project, the determined nun decides to visit a rich landowner who lives in the close to the town, Augusto Aixelá, a gentleman farmer famed for being a womaniser. Their continuous encounters bring about a closeness that produces a passionate and stormy attraction whose memory will last until the end of their days. In the final destiny of this relationship, an unhappy confrontation with the bandits and the discovery of certain deceits and vengeances bring about an overturn in the life of Sister Consuelo..
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El año de la garrapata / The year of the slacker | | Director: | Jorge Coira | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 89 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | | Imprint: | S.l. : Urban Vision Entertainment, c2005. | | Language: | Spanish dialogue, English subtitles
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2004. una producción de Filmanova, Lugo Press ; en coproducción con Filmanova Invest, Televisión de Galicia ; y la participación de Canal+, Televisión de Galicia ; dirigida por Jorge Coira. Producers: Antón Reixa, Xosé de Cora. Screenplay, Carlos Portela; director, Jorge Coira; cinematography, Chechu Graf; film editing, Guillermo Represa. Performer Félix Gómez, Javier Veiga, Verónica Sánchez, Maria Vázquez.
| | Plot: | After nine years of college, Fran has graduated to find he has no desire to devote himself to a career, despite the demands of his parents and successful Ph.D. bound girlfriend. He finds salvation in his friend, Morgan, who is the perfect slacker.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Los años bárbaros | | Director: | Fernando Colomo | | Format: | 1 videodisc (120 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD; widescreen 1.85:1; Dolby digital stereo | | Imprint: | Coral Gables, FL : Venevision International, c2005. | | Language: | Spanish; optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. A Beatriz de la Gándara [and] Fernando Colomo production with Mainstream S.A., Sogepaq ; with the participation of Canal+ España and Canal+ Francia ; script, Fernando Colomo, et al. ; director, Fernando Colomo. Director of photography, Néstor Calvo ; artistic director, Alain Bainée ; production director, Félix Rodríguez ; editor, Miguel Ángel Santamaría ; original music, Juan Bardem. Performer Jordi Mollà, Ernesto Alterio, Hedy Burress, Allison Smith, Juan Echanove.
| | Plot: | Set in 1940's Spain, two young men are sent to prison for painting graffiti against the dictator, but they escape and travel the country posing as tour guides for two young American women.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Antartida | | Director: | Manuel Huerga | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | | Imprint: | USA: Lolafilms Home Entertainment ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Distributed by Studio Latino, 2006 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue, English subtitles
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1995. Sogetel/Iberoamaericana Films ; Canal + & Oviedo T.V. ; producer, Andrés Vicente Gómez, Fernando de Garcillán, Pepo Sol ; writer, Francisco Casavella ; director, Manuel Huerga. Director of photography, Javier Aguirresarobe ; editor, Ernest Blasi ; original music, John Cale. Participants: Ariadna Gil, Carlos Fuentes, Francis Lorenzo, José Manuel Lorenzo, Walter Vidarte.
| | Plot: | Maria, a frustrated rock & roll singer with a heroin addiction, has lost her boyfriend to a drug overdose. She has lost the will to live, until she meets Rafia, a young guy with a much clearer view of life than she has.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Antigua vida mía | | Director: | Héctor Olivera | | Format: | 1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1 & 4) | | Imprint: | Spain : Tornasol Films : Alter Films,2001 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. Based on the novel by Marcela Serrano. Writers, Ángeles González Sinde, Alberto Marcías, Marcela Serrano; original music, Angel Illaramendi; cinematography, Alfredy Mayo; film editing, Miguel Perez. Performer Cecilia Roth, Ana Belén, Juan Leyrado, Jorge Marrale, Alfredo Casero, Odiseo Bichir, Cristi Cobar, Diana Lamas.
| | Plot: | A woman tries to help her friend, who is in jail for killing her husband.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Argentina. Literary Adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Aoom | | Director: | Gonzalo Suarez | | Format: | 1 videodisc (150 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | | Imprint: | Madrid: Ocho y medio, 2006 (Editado dentro del libro Pasos en el Tiempo)/I> | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | This movie has only been shown on the film festival in San Sebastian (1970) and never made it to the big screen. Dialogue Writer: Gustau Hernandez. Director: Gonzalo Suárez. Dialogue Writer: Gonzalo Suárez. Cinematographer: Francisco Marin. Cast: Lex Barker, Teresa Gimpera, Luis Ciges, Julian Ugarte.
| | Plot: | Aging actor Ristol (Lex Barker)feels himself prisoner of his body, his job and his traits, and he is very unhappy with his life. He decides to leave his body and to penetrate into a doll's body. The transfer is successful, his soal lives on in the doll and his own body dies. His secretary Constantino is fascinated by the doll and steals it, but soon he becomes scared because of its suggestive ability. He tries to destroy the doll and finally throws it into the sea.
Ristols lover Ana can't accept his death and desperately tries to find him, at times supported by an awkward detective. In the meantime Ristol's soal has migrated into a murdered fisher who now comes alive again. But she is murdered once again and finally Ristol's soal migrates into a stone where he can rest.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Aquesta nit o mai /
Esta Noche O Jamas | | Director: | Ventura Pons | | Format: | 1 videodisc (88 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. PAL (Region 2) | | Imprint: | Barcelona: Manga Films, 2004 | | Language: | Spanish or Catalan with Spanish or English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1992. Música: Carles Cases. Escrita por: Joan Barbero. Distribuidora: Manga Films. Interpretes : Lloll Bertran, Ángel Burgos, José María Cañete, Marta Fernández Muro, María Lanau, Mónica López, Marc Martínez, Amparo Moreno, Blanca Pampols, Mingo Ràfols, Santi Ricart, Camilo Rodríguez, Carles Sans, Mary Santpere
| | Plot: | Un viaje trepidante por un laberinto de fuegos pasionales donde el azar y la magia unen sus fuerzas hasta conseguir que santas, gorilas, estudiantes, traficantes de diamantes, directores de cine, viudas, antropólogos, enanitos, peluqueros, transformistas y otros inútiles cumplan su destino: vivir la verbena de San Juan como un sueño bajo la luna de verano.
The film takes on a trip through a lively metropolis on the eve of a major holiday, witnessing the love lives, family situations, gender confusion and even a diamond traffic ring uniting some 14 different characters. They all have something in common - they're after love, money, live in or visit the same luxury apartment building, and speak Catalan, in the pulsating and hallucinating Barcelona of the 1990s
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La Ardilla roja
| | Director: | Julio Medem. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (111 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL). | | Imprint: | Spain: Sogepaq Video ; Madrid: Distribuido por PolyGram Ibérica, 1999 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Sogetel ; productor ejecutivo, Fernando de Garcillan ; escrito y dirigida por Julio Medem. Videocassette release of the 1993 motion picture. Participants: Emma Suárez, Nancho Novo, Maria Barranco, Karra Elejalde, Carmelo Gómez.
| | Plot: | Jota is a young man whose fortunes are down. His rocker girlfriend has left him and he is considering jumping off of a jetty late one summer night in San Sebastian. Before he can jump, a motorcyclist crashes through the barrier and Jota runs to assist. The woman has amnesia and Jota takes her to the hospital where he registers her as Lisa, his fiance. When Lisa has recovered physically, Jota takes her from the hospital and they go on a vacation to a campground called The Red Squirrel ...
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| Title: | Aro Tolbukhin
en la mente del asesino / Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer | | Director: | Agustí Villaronga | | Format: | 1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in DVD (Region 2 PAL) | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Oberon Cinematográfica ; Barcelona : distribuido por Laurenfilm, 2003 | | Language: | Spanish or Catalan with optional subtitles in English or French
| | Notes: | Una pelicula de Agustí Villaronga, Lydia Zimmermann, Isaac P. Racine ; productor, Antonio Chavarrías ; presentan [de] Oberon Cinematográfica, Altavista Films ; con la participación de Canal+, TVE Televisión Española, Televisió de Catalunya, Moro Films, Lestes Films, Bias Post. Participants: Daniel Giménez Cacho ; Carmen Beato ; Zóltán Józan ; Mariona Castillo ; Xhévdet Bajraj ; Margarita Farran./ Director of photography, Guillermo Granillo ; editing, Ernest Blasi ; music, José Manuel Pagan.
| | Plot: | A Spanish/Mexican co-production, Aro Tolbukhin En La Mente Del Asesino (In the Mind of a Killer) is a semi-documentary about the life of serial killer Aro Tolbukhin. Interviews and reenactments tell the story of a Hungarian man who was sentenced to death before a firing squad in Guatemala. He grew up in Budapest with his twin sister Stella and fled to join the merchant marines during the Russian invasion of 1956. After he was arrested for burning seven people alive in 1981, he confessed to nearly 20 other murders during the Guatemala Civil War. Commentary is provided by Carmen Beato, a former nun who lived with Tolbukhin in Alta Verapaz. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
En 1981 el húngaro Aro Tolbukhin es detenido por quemar vivas a siete personas en la enfermería de la Misión del Di-vino Redentor en Guatemala. Tras su detención, Aro Tol-bukhin confesó además haber asesinado a cinco mujeres y calcinar sus cadáveres. También se autoinculpó de los asesinatos de otras diecisiete mujeres, todas ellas embarazadas, realizados a lo largo de los quince años en que trabajó como marino mercante. En la in-vestigación judicial, al examinar los expedientes de estos casos que aún es-taban por resolver, no tardaron en encontrarse sustanciosas incoherencias que ponían en duda la autoría que Tolbukhin tanto insistía en atribuirse. Fue conde-nado a muerte. Poco antes de su ejecución Aro Tolbukhin es entrevistado por dos documentalistas franceses. A partir de este material la película intenta pro-fundizar en este personaje y en las causas de su comportamiento.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Documentary Films. Guatemala. Mexico. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Arroz y tartana | | Director: | José Antonio Escrivá | | Format: | 1 videodisc (200 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Valladolid : Divisa Home Vídeo, 2003 | | Language: | Spanish with optional subtitles in Spanish and English.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a TV series in 2003. TVE presenta ; una producción de Intercartel ; con la colaboración de Generalitat Valencia. Director, José Antonio Escrivá; writer, Horacio Valcárcel. Based on the novel by V. Blasco Ibáñez; originally broadcast as a miniseries. Participants: Carmen Maura, Jose Sancho, Eloy Azorin, Blanca Jara. Menús interactivos, Acceso directo a escenas, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, un bestseller de la época, Los desastres del 98, Ofrenda de flores fin de rodaje (vídeo), Entrevista con Carmen Maura (Vídeo), Fichas
| | Plot: | This excellent mini-series portrays the Valencian society of the late 19th century and early 20th century. "Arroz y tartana" is technically outstanding, specially concerning art direction, costume design and music.
In turn of the century Valencia, an elegant widow struggles to marry off her two daughters and maintain appearances among the haute bourgeoisie.
En la Valencia de 1900, doña Manuela de Fora, viuda de Pajares, mujer elegante de madura belleza, vive con la obsesión de casar bien a sus dos hijas, Concha y Amparo, habidas en segundo matrimonio. De su primer marido tuvo a Juanito, al que menosprecia por su deseo de ser comerciante.
Quien de verdad aprecia al laborioso Juanito en su tío Juan, hombre de costumbres austeras que reprocha a su hermana Manuela, siempre que puede, su manía de gastar dinero en guardar las apariencias de una alta posición social. Y es que doña Manuela, aparte de su personal gusto por la vida, en su afán de lograr buen partido para “sus niñas” ha hipotecado todas sus fincas.
| | Subjects: | Feature films -- Spain. TV Series. Literary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Asesinato en el Comité Central.
| | Director: | Vicente Aranda | | Format: | 1 videocassette (106 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL). | | Imprint: | Madrid: Sogepaq Video : Distribuido en España por PolyGram Ibérica, S.A., 1997. | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Una producción de Morgana Films, S.A., LolaFilms, S.A., Acuarius, S.A. ; dirigida por Vicente Aranda. Screenplay, Vicente Aranda, director of photography, José Luis Alcaine ; music, Manuel Camp. Videocassette release of the 1982 motion picture. Based on the novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Letterbox format. Participants: Patxi Andión, Victoria Abril, Conrado San Martín, Rosa María Mateo, Héctor Alterio.
| | Plot: | When the Secretary General of the Spanish Communist Party is assassinated during a plenary session of the Central Committee, parallel investigations, both private and official are undertaken to discover the truth. Private detective Carvalho begins his investigation in the company of Carmela, a left-wing militant who is privy to the inner workings of the Party. Anonymous powers interfere with the investigation.
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| Title: | Asfalto. | | Director: | Daniel Calparsoro | | Format: | 1 videodiscs (ca. 92 min.) ; sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL) Region 2 | | Imprint: | Barcelona [Spain]: Filmax Home Video, 2000 | | Language: | Spanish with Spanish subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1999 motion picture produced by José María Lara. Participants: Najwa Nimri, Juan Diego Botto, Gustavo Salmerón, Roger Ibáñez, Javier Nogueiras, Rubén Ochandiano, Carla Calparsoro, Jeff Bigot, David Bolajuzón, Oliver G. Sarmiento, Angel Planas, Javier Vega. Con el apoyo de Eurimages y la participación de TVE, Canal+ y ETB ; y la participación de Albarès Productions y Sur Films ; una producción de José María Lara ; guión, Daniel Calparsoro y Santiago Tabernero con la colaboración de Frank Palacios. Montaje, Julia Juániz ; fotografía, Josep M. Civit ; cámara, Josu Inchaustegui ; ; música, Mastretta y Najwajean.
| | Plot: | Spanish thriller about three young criminals on the streets of Madrid.
Lucía es una joven buscavidas urbana que mantiene una relación muy especial con sus dos amigos, Chino y Charly, unos rateros de poca monta que, como ella, se sienten atrapados por la gran ciudad. El amor que se profesan los tres jóvenes es recíproco y a tres bandas. Los tres se sienten desengañados por la sociedad que les ha tocado vivir y se autodefinen como “euromierda”.
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| Title: | Asi en el cielo como en la tierra / In heaven as on earth. | | Director: | José Luis Cuerda | | Format: | 1 videodisc (135 min.); DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital 5.1. | | Imprint: | Madrid: D.V.D. FILMS. 2002 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Director: Jose Luis Cuerda. Intérpretes: Francisco Rabal, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Jesus Bonilla Videodisc release of the 1995 motion picture.
| | Plot: | Dios padre no puede más. Está harto. Tiene una depresión espantosa y duda de todo ¿Valió de algo que mandase a un Hijo suyo a la Tierra?, ¿no se lo devolvieron hecho un -ecce homo- y continuaron los hombres empecatados hasta las cejas, de espaldas a quien había dado su vida por su redención?. Dios decide tener otro hijo, pero en mejores condiciones que el anterior. Éste lo va a tener en el cielo, lo va a educar Él y va a ser distinto, más moderno. Cuando Jesucristo se entera de las intenciones de su padre, se pilla una gran depresión y llega a pensar que a su Padre le flojea la cabeza. Quiere evitarlo a toda costa y encuentra la manera: un buen Apocalipsis. Pero la idea se encuentra con varios inconvenientes como la dificultad de enterder el libro de San Juan o la falta de presupuesto del Ayutamiento para organizar un Apocalipsis como Dios manda.
God has a little problem when he decides to have another son: there aren-t many virgins left in the world and those that are are not easily convinced by archangel Saint Gabriel and refuse to conceive anyone.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Asignatura pendiente | | Director: | José Luis Garci. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in.;Mono DVD (PAL) Region 2 | | Imprint: | Madrid : Video Mercury Films. Buena Vista Home Entertainment [distributor], 100 años de oro del cine español, 4. 2001, | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Originally released as motion picture in 1977. Participants: José Sacristán, Fiorella Faltoyano. Responsibility: Photography, Manuel Rojas ; director, José Luis Garci ; producer, José Maria González Sinde.Características especiales: Acceso directo a escenas, Menús interactivos.
| | Plot: | A young left-wing lawyer and a former girlfriend, both now married to others, have an affair in which they try to recapture the lost opportunities of their youth.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | A solas contigo. | | Director: | Eduardo Campoy. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (88 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [PAL) | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Cartel, S.A. : Flamenco Films, Laurenfilm : Distributed by Lauren Video Hogar, 1993 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Videocassette release of a 1990 motion picture. Director, Eduardo Campoy ; producer, Mario Pedraza ; editor, Luis Manuel Del Valle ; artistic director, Javier Fernandez ; screenplay, Agustin Diaz-Yanes, Eduardo Calvo, Manolo Matji ; photography, Alfredo Mayo ; music, Mario De Benito. Victoria Abril, Imanol Arias, Juan Echanove, Nacho Martinez, R. Romero Marchent, Conrado San Martin, Manuel Gil, Emma Suarez, Maria Luisa San Jose, Esperanza Campuzano.
| | Plot: | In the Spanish navy a mole passes secret information to a foreign country. Not to be discovered, he kills one of his collegues. He is seen by a girl, but he does not know that she is actually blind. Eventually he is discovered and he kills himself.
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| Title: | Astronautas | | Director: | Santi Amodeo | | Format: | 1 videodisc (86 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Tesela P.C. : Distribuido por Buena Vista Home Entertainment S.A., | | Language: | Spanish with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Una película de Santi Amodeo ; una producción de José Antonio Félez para Tesela, P.C. y La Zanfoña. Director/screenplay, Santi Amodeo ; executive producer, José Antonio Felez ; sound, Jorge Marín ; editor, José M.G. Moyano ; music, Lavadora ; cinematographer, Alex Catalan ; art director, Javier López. Special features: "The making of Astronautras" ; promotional trailer ; music clips./ Participants: Nancho Novo, Teresa Hurtado, Juan Motilla, Alex O'Dogherty, Jons Pappila, Manolo Solo, Enrico Vecchi, Julián Villagrán.
| | Plot: | Story of the rehabilitation process of a former drug addict, Daniel. As he struggles to escape drug addiciton, he meets a 15-year old girl with whom he falls in love.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Atame! / Tie me up, tie me down. | | Director: | Pedro Almodovar. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. in. DVD (Region 1). | | Imprint: | Troy, MI : Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2000 | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Miramax Films ; El Deseo, S.A. presenta un film de Almodovar ; guion y direccion, Pedro Almodovar. Director of photography, Jose Luis Alcaine ; editor, Jose Salcedo ; music, Ennio Morricone. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990. Participants: Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles Leon.
| | Plot: | The controversial hit by Pedro Almodovar about Ricki, who falls in love with Marina, an ex-porn movie star, and proceeds to capture her and tie her up at her own apartment. She is torn between trying to escape and falling in love with him. Almodovar-s theme is not the domination of women, but the strangeness of love and possessiveness. The performances are outstanding. Antonio Banderas is psychopathic and vulnerable, Victoria Abril is fierce and funny (Sight and Sound). This is the uncut, unrated version of the film (also released in an R-rated version) which first earned an X from the MPAA for its sexual content. The film was later given an NC-17 when that rating was created.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain, | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Ataque verbal | | Director: | Luis Miguel Albaladejo | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 83 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Madrid. 1999 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Director: Luis Miguel Albaladejo. Actores:
Antonia San Juan, Sergi López, Antonio Resines, Fedra Lorente, Roberto Álvarez
Adriana Ozores, Jorge Alcázar, Félix Álvarez, Melanie Beleña, Diana Cerezo,
Elvira Lindo, Geli Albaladejo, Marta Fernández Muro, Lucrecia, Guión:
Luis Miguel Albaladejo, Elvira Lindo. Música: Lucio Godoy.
| | Plot: | Seven pairs of people exchange a variety of thoughts, feelings, and concerns in this comedy-drama from Spain. Pepa (Antonia San Juan) wants her lover Teo (Sergi Lopez) to tell her that he loves her, only to be disappointed. Newly single Jorge (Antonio Resines) calls to have the water put in his name at his new apartment, only to discover that the customer service representative is his ex-wife Laura (Fedra Lorente). Angel (Roberto Alvarez) is about to receive a liver transplant when he receives a visit from Mercedes (Adriana Ozores), wife of the deceased donor -- who wants to say goodbye to the liver. Benito (Jorge Alcazar) and Jacinto (Felix Alvarez) discuss life at Boy Scout camp. Teenaged Susi (Diana Cerezo) confides to her best friend Virgi (Melany Belena) that she might be pregnant. Street sweepers Milagros (Geli Albaladejo) and Rosario (Elvira Lindo) find an abandoned infant and wonder if they should keep it. And Elke (Marta Fernandez-Muro) visits Cuba to see her significant other, Cari (Lucrecia). Ataque Verbal reunites much of the cast and crew from director Miguel Albaladejo's first film, 1999's surprise success Manolito Gafotas.
Ataque verbal es una comedia de catorce personajes que desarrollan breves situaciones que a veces se entrelazan unas con otras.
Teo y Pepa son dos amigos treintañeros que charlan sentados en una roca, en un paisaje espectacular. Teo es escritor, autor teatral, y le pregunta a su amiga: ¿Cuándo fue la vez que más te emocionaste simplemente hablando con alguien?
Jorge es un ejecutivo recién divorciado que se muda a un apartamento vacío. A lo triste de su situación se añade otra contrariedad: los del Canal de Isabel II no le enganchan el agua tal como le habían prometido unos días atrás.
Llama para reclamar, y le atiende Laura, una mujer muy amable, pero que sólo puede recoger su queja. La charla se prolonga más de lo habitual, y ella acaba reconociéndole a él: hace mucho tiempo estuvieron enamorados.
Ángel es un señor que se repone de un trasplante de hígado. Mercedes es la viuda del donante, un militar que murió en acto de servicio. Apenada por la desaparición de su marido, ella se consuela visitando a Ángel. Pero también hay algo que la inquieta: sabe que su marido tenía una amante, y hay una idea que le ronda por la cabeza y no la deja tranquila... ¿Le estará visitando, ella también?
Benito y Jacinto son dos monitores de boy-scouts que comparten una diminuta tienda de campaña. Antes de dormirse charlan sobre los estrafalarios niños que tienen a su cargo ese verano: uno con poderes, una niña superdotada y un transexual de siete años.
Virgi es una chica de 16 años, muy gorda y muy inocente. Ha tenido un pequeño accidente (un coche la atropelló) y tiene todo el cuerpo vendado, ya que el choque la hizo rodar por el asfalto y se despellejó toda la piel del cuerpo.
Así que parece una momia cebada.
Susi, una amiga suya, muy pija y muy cotilla, viene a visitarla. En principio parece que se trate tan solo de una visita de cortesía, pero poco a poco se van desvelando las auténticas motivaciones de Susi: ha oído que Virgi no está realmente reponiéndose de un accidente, sino que se ha encerrado en casa para ocultar que está embarazada.
Rosario y Milagros son dos barrenderas que encuentran un bebé abandonado en un contenedor de basura. Tras la sorpresa inicial se inicia entre ellas una agria pero a la vez cómica discusión acerca de qué hacer con el recién nacido.
Elke es una lesbiana que ha vuelto a Cuba para reencontrar a Cari, una negrita preciosa a la que conoció dos años atrás. La búsqueda ha tenido éxito y las dos se cuentan todo lo que les ha pasado en esos dos años dosificándose la información, intentado sorprenderse la una a la otra. Elke es escritora, además de otras cosas que se reserva... Pero lo que no sabe es que la auténtica sorpresa se la va a dar Cari a ella.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Atlas de geografía humana | | Director: | | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid: Cameo Media S L, 2007 | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Based on the novel by Almudena Grandes. Tornasol Films ; Messidor Films ; Milou Films presentan ; una película de Azucena Rodríguez ; guion, Nicolás Saad y Azucena Rodríguez ; productores, Gerardo Herrero, Marta Esteban, Rosalía Mera. Editing, Nacho Ruiz Capillas ; music, Luis Mendo y Bernardo Fuster ; cinematography, Xavier Giv. Performer David Selvas, Nacho Fresneda, Boris Ruiz, Alberto Jiménez
| | Plot: | Fran, Rosa, Ana and Marisa are working as a team on an Atlas Geography for an editorial group. At first their lives were quite similar, but now, their lives are about to change. While preparing the Atlas, they will be facing loves, hard times, infidelities and reconciliations. They will redefine their lives, and maybe even find love.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary Adaptations. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | L'auberge espagnole / The Spanish apartment | | Director: | Cédric Klapisch. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (122 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (Region 1) | | Imprint: | United States: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2003. | | Language: | Dialogue in French with optional soundtrack in Spanish, and with optional English and Spanish subtitles.
| | Notes: | Ce qui Me meut présente une co-production franco-espagnole BAC Film, Studio Canal, France 2 Cinema, Mate Production, Castelao Productions avec la participation de Canal+, France 2, Via Digital, un film de Cédric Klapisch ; produit par Bruno Levy ; director, Cédric Klapisch. Director of photography, Dominique Colin ; editor, Francine Sandberg ; music, Loik Dury, Mathieu Dury ; costume designer, Anne Schotte ; production designer, François Emmanuelli.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 2002.
Performer Romain Duris, Judith Godrèche, Audrey Tautou, Cécile De France, Kelly Reilly, Cristina Brondo, Federico D'Anna, Barnaby Metschurat, Christian Pagh, Kevin Bishop, Xavier de Guillebon.
| | Plot: | Xavier is a straight-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh and party.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. France. Students, Foreign -- Drama. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Aupa Etxebeste | | Director: | Asier Altuna y Telmo Esnal | | Format: | 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd. col. ; c2005. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Girona: Eurocine Filmes , 2005 | | Language: | Spanish or Euskera with optional subtitles in English, Catalan and Spanish.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005. Interpretación: Ramón Agirre (Patricio Etxebeste), Elena Irureta (María Luisa), Paco Sagarzazu (Luziano), Iban Garate (Iñaki), Iñake Irastorza (Axun), Patxi González (Exenarro), José Mari Agirretxe (Julian), Felipe Barandiaran (Juan), Ane Sánchez (Maite), Guillermo Toledo (Ladrón), Luis Tosar (Ladrón).
Guión: Telmo Esnal, Asier Altuna y Pablo Bueno.
Producción: José María Lara.
Música: Javi Pez.
Fotografía: Javier Aguirre.
Montaje: Pite Piñas.
Dirección artística: Pello Villalba.
Vestuario: Nagore Aranburu.
| | Plot: | El mismo día en el que la familia Etxebeste va a salir de vacaciones, el padre, Patricio (Ra-món Agirre), recibe una llamada desde el ban-co para informarle de que todas sus cuentas han sido embargadas. Ya no tienen "un euro" para irse de vacaciones, pero tampoco pueden dejar de ir. Nadie en el pueblo puede sospechar cuál es su verdadera situación. Sin co-mentar nada a su familia, todos hacen el equipaje, meten las male-tas en el coche, se despiden de los del pueblo y toman rumbo a Marbella. Poco después de salir del pueblo, Patricio se desvía de la carretera para informar a su familia del plan alternativo: pasarán las vacaciones encerrados en su casa, mientras todo el pueblo creerá que disfrutan del sol y la playa.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Ausentes / Missing | | Director: | Daniel Calparsoro | | Format: | 1 videodisc (91 min.); col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital | | Imprint: | Madrid : Sogepaq, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Director: Daniel Calparsoro. Actores: Alex Brendemühl, Ariadna Gil, Jordi Mollà
Omar Muñoz, Nacho Pérez, Mar Sodupe,
Productor: Juan Alexander. Guión:
Daniel Calparsoro, Ray Loriga. Fotografía:
Josep M. Civit. Música: Carlos Jean.
| | Plot: | Julía and Samuel move to an isolated estate on the outskirts of the city with their children. It seems to be the perfect place but very soon they find out that the idyllic estate holds something else. From the very first day Julia has the feeling that something strange is happening around her. Her fears increase when she finds out that the estate is completely deserted and nobody else lives there. Scared to death by the strangeness of this situation and made wary by the lack of understanding from Samuel and the children, Julia begins to feel that she is the centre of a distressing plot..
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| Title: | Avant garde and experimental films : Perro andaluz / Un chien andalou / An Andalusion dog : | | Director: | Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali | | Format: | 1 videocassette (74 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. | | Imprint: | [Sandy Hook, Conn.] : Video Yesteryear, 2000. | | Language: | Silent with musical accompaniment.
| | Notes: | Besides Un chien Andalou, this video includes another four short films selected from the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's.
| | Plot: | Un chien Andalou is a silent film with musical accompaniment.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Documentary films. Silent films. Short films. Spain. Surrealism in motion pictures.. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Ay, Carmela! | | Director: | Carlos Saura. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format | | Imprint: | Madrid : RCA Columbia Pictures International Video, c1990. | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Based on the play by Jose Sanchis Sinisterra. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990. Iberoamericana Film Internacional, S.A., Ellepi Films, Roma, presenta en asociacion con Television Española una produccion de Andres Vincente Gomez ; guion de Rafael Azcona y Carlos Saura ; direccion de Carlos Saura.Director of photography, Jose Luis Alcaine ; editor, Pedro G. del Amo ; music, Alejandro Masso. Cast: Carmen Maura, Andres Pajares.
| | Plot: | Set in Spain in 1938 during the civil war, the story concerns a group of traveling entertainers caught between two warring factions. They are arrested by Franco-s troops and about to die when they-re saved by an officer who loves the theater and wants them to put on a show for his troops.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Azuloscurocasinegro
| | Director: | Daniel Sánchez Arévalo | | Format: | 1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD | | Imprint: | United States] : Strand Releasing, 2007 | | Language: | Spanish, with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | DVD release of the 2006 motion picture. Strand Releasing ; Tesela PC, S.R.L., et al. ; produced by José Antonio Félez ; written and directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo. Pascal Gaigne, music ; Nacho Ruiz Capillas, editor ; Juan Carlos Gómez, director of photography. Participants: Quim Gutiérrez, Marta Etura, Antonio de la Torre, Héctor Colomé, Raúl Arévalo, Eva Pallarés. Audience: Unrated; This film contains mature subject matter.
| | Plot: | When his father suffers a debilitating stroke, Jorge is forced to put his life and career on hold. He takes over his father's janitorial position, cares for his father and studies at night. He finds himself in an awkward position when his convict brother asks him to impregnate his girlfriend who wants a baby, and Jorge finds himself falling for her. To further complicate matters, Jorge's childhood love returns to his life wanting the same.
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| Title: | Babaouo | | Director: | Manuel Cussó-Ferrer / Salvador Dali. | | Format: | 1 videodiscs (ca. 70 min.) ; sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. DVD. Region 0 | | Imprint: | Barcelona: Kronos 1997 | | Language: | Catalan or Spanish with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | "Originally released as a motion picture 1997. Basat en el guió escrit per Salvador Dali l'any 1932". Production, Kronos Plays & Films ; réalisateur, Manuel Cusso-Ferrer ; scénario et adaptation, Pilar Parcerisas, Manuel Cosso. Image, Joseph M. Civit ; musique, Manel Camp ; montage, Anastasi Rinos. Participants: Hugo de Campos, Cristina Piaget.
| | Plot: | Babaouo´, una película surrealista basada en un guión original que el artista Salvador Dalí escribió en 1932, pero que no ha sido llevado a la pantalla por la ruptura con el realizador Luis Buñuel. Dirigida por el cineasta barcelonés Manuel Cusso-Ferrer 65 años después de ser escrita, ´Babaouo´, que significa algo así como ´el simple´ o ´el inocente´, cierra la trilogía surrealista iniciada por Dalí y Buñuel con ´Un Perro Andaluz´ y ´La Edad de Oro´. ´Se trata de un filme reflejo del inconsciente óptico daliniano´, comenta su director Cussó-Ferrer, quien aseguró además que ´Babaouo´ es lo que podría llamarse ´la sombra blanda de Salvador Dalí´. Relojes blandos, huevos sin plato, Guillermo Tell, imágenes paranoicas, inválidos japoneses, jirafas en fuego o la estética del Art Nouveau son algunos de los elementos dalinianos que flotan en el ambiente de Babaouo de principio a fin.
inedit script written by Salvador Dalí; Matilde is an obscure and sensual character that reflects the search of Dali's "alter ego".
| | Subjects: | Feature Films Spain. Catalonia. Surrealism Films. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Báilame el agua / Fill me with life | | Director: | Josecho San Mateo | | Format: | 1 videodisc (106 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid: Urban Vision Entertainment, 2004 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Ciudad ; produced by José Luis, García Arrojo, José A. Pérez Giner ; screenplay by Daniel Valdés, Ricardo González Iglesias and Mónica Pérez Capilla ; directed by Josecho San Mateo. Cinematograper, Juan Molina ; editor, José Salcedo ; music, Miguel Angel Magüesin.
| | Plot: | David and Maria meet on the subway and fall in love. Money troubles and homelessness plague the couple and David begins selling heroin, while Maria turns to prostitution.
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| Title: | Bajarse al moro. | | Director: | Fernando Colomo | | Format: | 1 videodiscs (ca. 84 min.) . sd., col. ; 4 3 4 in.. DVD (Region 2), | | Imprint: | Madrid : ICAA. Produciones JRB. 2000 | | Language: | Spanish; In Spanish with English subtitles available.
| | Notes: | Videocassette release of a 1988 motion picture. Based on the work by José Luis Alonso de Santos. Participants: Verónica Forqué, Antonio Banderas, Aitana Sanchez Gijón, Juan Echanove, Chus Lampreave, Miguel Rellán, Francisco Merino. Director, Fernando Colomo ; producer, Andres Santana ; screenplay, José Luis Alonso de Santos, Joaquín Oristrell, Fernando Colomo ; photography, Javier Salmones ; music, Pata Negro.
| | Plot: | Chusa helps Elena to run away from home. They smoke and sell the -hot stuff-. Alberto and Jaimito share their apartment: hippie life Spanish style with a happy ending.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary Adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La balsa de piedra / The stone raft | | Director: | George Sluizer | | Format: | 1 videodisc (100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish language with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1990. Based on the book by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago. Cinema Vault Releasing presents MGS Film in co-production with Sogecine and Lusomundo ; screenplay, Yvette Biro & George Sluizer ; producer & director, George Sluizer. Director of photography, Goert Giltaij ; editor, Jan Dop ; music, Henny Vrienten. Participants: Federico Luppi, Iciar Bollain, Gabino Diego, Ana Padrao, Diogo Infante.
| | Plot: | An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape. When Spain and Portugal physically separate from the continent, the detached Iberian peninsula aimlessly floats off to sea, becoming home to a group of god-like humans.
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Adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Barbed Wire Dolls / Frauengefängnis (Official Jess Franco collection) | | Director: | Jesus (Jess) Franco | | Format: | 1 videodisc (92 min.) ; sd.,col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | London: VIP Entertainment, 2002 | | Language: | Dialogue in German, English and French language tracks.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.Directed by Jess Franco. Stars: Monica Swinn, Lina Romay, Paul Muller, Roger Darton, Ronald Weiss, Martine Stedil, Eric Falk, Jess Franco, Peggy Markoff.
| | Plot: | After killing her father who had attempted to rape her, Maria da Guerra is sentenced to prison for life. The wardress is a sadistic lesbian without mercy or humanity. Upon her arrival Maria is taken to a special section for mentally disturbed prisoners where torture, rape and bestial violence are part of the day-to-day reality. One day the Regional Governor arrives, claiming to have received a letter from one of the prisoners describing incredible events in the prison. The writer of the letter was clearly unaware that the Governor is also part of the conspiracy. Carlos Costa, a male nurse pretending to be the prison doctor Moore, falls in love with Maria. After seducing him, Maria kills him with a pair of scissors and escapes with her friends Bertha and the disturbed Rosario, hoping to find safety in the Governor’s house, unaware that he will of course not help them...
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Erotic films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Barrio. | | Director: | Fernando León de Aranoa | | Format: | 1 videodisc (94 min.); DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital 5.1. | | Imprint: | Madrid. Filmax. 2000 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English and French subtitles available.
| | Notes: | una producción Elías Querejeta P.C S.L.; para Sogetel, Mact Productions, M.G.N. Films. Director-writer, Fernando León de Aranoa; producer, Elías Querejeta. Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. Special features: bonus trailer, selected filmographies, photo album and storyboards. Presented in a format that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio, 1.85:1. Participants: Críspulo Cabezas, Timy, Eloi Yebra, Marieta Orozco, Alicia Sánchez, Enrique Villén, Francisco Algora, Chete Lera. Awards: 3 Goya Awards for best director, best screenplay and best actress.
| | Plot: | It is August in Madrid, and the heat bears down unrelentingly on the bleak streets of the housing projects, far from the parks and tree-lined avenues of the city center. Three fifteen- year-olds, Manu, Rai, and Javi, always together, always on the move, struggle with the age-old problems of class, the season, and their age: lack of money and opportunity; boredom; and sex, or, more accurately, thoughts of sex. Small apartments, large families, and unemployment create an explosive mix that drives them to the streets, while the alluring images of television and well-stocked but untouchable store windows fuel their imaginations with fantasies that lie beyond their reach. They dream of escape to the cool of the seaside and vacation at a bed-and-breakfast staffed with willing and experienced maids. Adolescent dreaming, rap, and bravado relieve the monotony for a while, but talk of escape and women is just that. An occasional flicker of romantic possibility presents itself, but our three heroes are still more comfortable running with the pack. Roaming the streets, they eventually find trouble, then more trouble, as youthful pranks take a serious turn and their character is tested. Which one will grow up? Which one will rebel? Will they find their way out? With a perfect ear for adolescent dialogue, director Fernando Leon de Aranoa takes us inside the lives of Manu, Rai, and Javi. Barrio, his second film, is a fresh and perceptive study of the adolescent quest for identity in a troubled setting of family strife, petty crime, drugs, and marginalization.
Esta es una historia de barrio. De cualquiera de esos situados en la periferia de las grandes ciudades, a los que no llegan ni el metro ni el dinero. Javi, Manu y Rai comparten esa edad en la que no se es ni hombre ni niño, en la que se habla mucho de chicas y muy poco con ellas. Viven en un barrio de grandes bloques de viviendas sociales, de ladrillo oscuro y arquitectura imposible. Allí hay pocas cosas que hacer, y en agosto aún menos. El centro de la ciudad queda lejos y está mal comunicado. El tiempo en los barrios pasa más despacio, y en verano, ya se sabe, hay mucho tiempo libre. Demasiado como para no ocuparlo metiéndose en líos.
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| Title: | Baton Rouge | | Director: | Rafael Moleon. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS Format. | | Imprint: | Los Angeles : Meridian Video, 1996. | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Modigil, S.A. ; productores ejecutivos, Eduardo Campoy, Edmundo Gil ; guión, Agustin Diaz Yanes y Rafael Moleon ; argumento y diálogos, Agustín Díaz Yanes ; dirigido por, Rafael Moleon. Director of photography, Angel Luis Fernandez ; film editor, José Salcedo ; music, Bernardo Bonezzi.Videocassette release of the 1988 motion picture. Participants: Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Angel de Andrés Lopéz, Laura Cepeda, Noel Molina.
| | Plot: | A murder mystery with sexual overtones. A triangle develops involving Isabel Harris, a rich and beautiful woman disoriented by nightmares, Antonio, a lower-class youth in need of money, and Ana Alonso, a cold and calculating psychiatrist. Antonio and Ana plan the perfect crime. Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril and Carmen Maura star in this sexy thriller loaded with unexpected treachery and passion. Banderas is a gigolo who joins forces with a psychologist to frame a woman for murder. Their victim is experiencing terrible nightmares but she is not so unbalanced as to make the perfect fall gal
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| Title: | Cachorro / Bear cub | | Director: | Luis Miguel Albaladejo | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | United States : TLA Releasing, 2004 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue, with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | TLA Releasing presents a production by Starline Productions with the participation of Televisión Española, Canal +, Telemadrid, Ivac-Filmoteca and Generalitat Valenciana ; produced by Juan Alexander ; directed by Miguel Albaladejo. Assistant director, Jaime Fernández ; editor, Pablo Blanco ; director of production, Alicia Yubero ; original music, Lucio Godoy ; director of photography, Alfonso Sanz Alduán ; screenplay by Salvador García and Miguel Albaladejo. Special features: Dommentary with José Luis García-Pérez ; Deleted scenes ; Director's notes ; Photo gallery. Participants: José Luis García-Pérez, David Castillo, Arno Chevrier, Elvira Lindo, Mario Arias, Diana Cerezo.
| | Plot: | This film tells the engaging story of Pedro, an attractive gay dentist living an active single life in Madrid. He offers to take care of his adorable 9-year-old nephew Bernardo for two weeks while the child's mother travels abroad with her latest "hippie" boyfriend. When Mom suddenly becomes detained in India, however, Pedro must become the boy's caretaker. And to further complicate matters, the boy's grandmother begins a custody battle for the child.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Belle epoque / Age of beauty.
| | Director: | Fernando Trueba | | Format: | 1 videocassette (114 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [PAL] | | Imprint: | Madrid : F. Trueba P.C. ; Barcelona : Lola Films ; Lisboa : Animatografo ; Paris : French Production ; Madrid : Columbia Tristar Home Video & CIA S.R.C. distributor, c1992. | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Director, Fernando Trueba ; producer, Cristina Huete ; editor, Carmen Frias ; screenplay, Rafael Azcona, Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez, Fernando Trueba ; photography, Jose Luis Alcaine ; music, Antoine Duhamel. Cast: Penelope Cruz, Miriam Diaz-Aroca, Gabino Diego, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Michel Galabru, Ariadna Gil, Agustin Gonzales, Chus Lampreave, Mary Carmen Ramirez, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdu.
| | Plot: | During the uprising against the monarchy in Spain, in 1930-1931, Fernando, a deserter from the army, takes refuge with Don Manolo, a republican partisan, who has a large farmhouse. Fernando becomes his cook. Don Manolo has four daughters, who all fall in love with Fernando. He tries his best in managing all four. The local priest hangs himself the day of Fernando-s wedding with the youngest daughter. They go ahead with a -secular wedding-, according to the ideas of the new Republic.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Beltenebros . | | Director: | Pilar Miro. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (112 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.. VHS format [PAL]. | | Imprint: | Madrid : Columbia Tri-Star Home Video, c1992. | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Director, Pilar Miro; script, Mario Camus, Juan Antonio Porto,Pilar Miro; photography, Iavier Aguirresarobe. Based on the novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina. Cast: Terence Stamp, Patsy Kensit, Jose Luis Gomez.
| | Plot: | One night in the winter of 1962, Captain Darman remembers recent events. Days before in England he had been charged with a secret mission -- to fly to Madrid and execute a traitor whohad infiltrated the party-s clandestine apparatus. Darman remembers a similiar order 16 years before
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Beltenebros.
| | Director: | Pilar Miro. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (112 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.. VHS format [PAL] | | Imprint: | Barcelona : El Nuevo Cine Espanol es un marca de Manga Films S.L., 1994. | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Director, Pilar Miro; script, Mario Camus, Juan Antonio Porto,Pilar Miro; photography, Iavier Aguirresarobe.Based on the novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina. Cast: Terence Stamp, Patsy Kensit, Jose Luis Gomez.
| | Plot: | One night in the winter of 1962, Captain Darman remembers recent events. Days before in England he had been charged with a secret mission -- to fly to Madrid and execute a traitor whohad infiltrated the party-s clandestine apparatus. Darman remembers a similiar order 16 years before.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Belle Epoque / Age of beauty. | | Director: | Fernando Trueba | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Culver City, Calif. Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2003 | | Language: | In Spanish or English languages with English or Spanish subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1992. Based on a story by Rafael Azcona, Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez and Fernando Trueba. Letterboxed. Participants: Jorge Sanz, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Miriam Diaz-Aroca, Ariadna Gil, Maribel Verdú, Penélope Cruz, Mary Carmen Ramírez.
| | Plot: | During the uprising against the monarchy in Spain, in 1930-1931, Fernando, a deserter from the army, takes refuge with Don Manolo, a republican partisan, who has a large farmhouse. Fernando becomes his cook. Don Manolo has four daughters, who all fall in love with Fernando. He tries his best in managing all four. The local priest hangs himself the day of Fernando-s wedding with the youngest daughter. They go ahead with a -secular wedding-, according to the ideas of the new Republic.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Belle de jour / Voie lactee / Tristana
| | Director: | Luis Buñuel | | Format: | 3 videodiscs (96 min.; 97 min.; 94 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. | | Imprint: | Paris: Studio Canal, 2004. | | Language: | Dialogue in French with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Belle de jour. Originally released as a motion picture in 1967. Based on the novel by Joseph Kessel. Martin Scorsese and Miramax Zoë ; producers, Robert and Raymond Hakim ; adaption and dialog, Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere ; director, Luis Bunuel. Director of photography, Sacha Vierny; editor, Walter Spohr. Participants: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page.
La voie lactée (Originally produced as motion picture in 1969.un film de Luis Buñuel. Credits: scénario, adaptation et dialogue: Luis Buñuel et Jean-Claude Carrière; partition sonore: Luis Buñuel; régie générale: Jean Lara; directeur de la production: U. Pickard; produit par Serge Silberman. Participants: Cast: Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny, Édith Scob, Bernard Verley
Tristana. Originally produced as motion picture in 1970. Janus Films ; directed by Luis Buñuel. Screenplay, Luis Buñuel, Julio Alejandro. Participants: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero./ Audience: Not rated.
| | Plot: | Belle de jour. Subtle, erotic film about a wealthy young surgeon's wife who indulges her masochistic fantasies by working as a part-time prostitute in a Paris brothel.
La voie lactée.
A playful satire of organized religion centers on two scraggly hippie pilgrims who set off on a modern odyssey and end up travelling through time.
Tristana. Set in 1920's Spain, this film is a scathing examination of moral decay. Tristana, a victim of her own captivating beauty, is desired by two men. One is her lecherous guardian whose physical advances repulse her and cause her to have nightmares of his death by decapitation, and the other is a young artist who wants to marry her, but lacks the courage.
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| Title: | Belle de jour | | Director: | Luis Buñuel | | Format: | 1 videodisc (102 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | United States : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, 2002 | | Language: | Dialogue in French with optional soundtrack in English, with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1967. Based on the novel by Joseph Kessel. Martin Scorsese and Miramax Zoë ; producers, Robert and Raymond Hakim ; adaption and dialog, Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere ; director, Luis Bunuel. Director of photography, Sacha Vierny; editor, Walter Spohr. Special features: feature commentary track with Bunuel scholar Julie Jones; original theatrical trailer; 1995 rerelease trailer./ Participants: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page.
| | Plot: | Subtle, erotic film about a wealthy young surgeon's wife who indulges her masochistic fantasies by working as a part-time prostitute in a Paris brothel.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. France. Prostitution Paris. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Besame / Casablanca, nid d'espions
| | Director: | Henri Decoin | | Format: | 1 videodisc (97 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Canada : Videosueños ; Madera, CA : Madera Cinevideo, 2002, | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1963. Directed by Henri Decoin. Participants: Sara Montiel, Maurice Ronet, Franco Fabrizzi.
| | Plot: | Intrigue, romance and mystery combine to trap Sarita Montiel as the main character in a net of espionage and deadly revenge in the exotic Casablanca of the year 1942. Intriga, romance y misterio en la exótica Casablanca del anõ 1942.
Intrigue, romance and mystery combine to trap Sarita Montiel as the main character in a net of espionage and deadly revenge in the exotic Casablanca of the year 1942.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Besos de Gato / Cat Kisses | | Director: | Rafael Alcázar | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 82 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (NTSC, Region 2) | | Imprint: | Madrid: 2006 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Blue Legend Productions, SL. Written by: Rafael Alcázar, Felipe Hernández Cava y Beda Docampo Freijoo; based in Alejandro Gándara´s Falso movimiento'. Producers: Federico Bermúdez de Castro y Álvaro Zapata. Music: Víctor Reyes. Actors: Juanjo Puigcorbé (Fran), Leticia Dolera (Carlota), Ruth Gabriel (Mara), Lola Marceli (Elvira), David Carrillo (Totó), Pepe Sancho (Turco), Antonio Resines (Dueño chocolatería), Imanol Arias (Anchoas), Antonio Dechent, Antonio Barroso.
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| | Plot: | Fran, un abogado de éxito, llega a su casa a cenar. Pero esta noche su hija Carlota no ha vuelto aún, -algo inusual en ella- y Fran, acuciado por su mujer, sale en su busca. Con las indicaciones de Totó , su otro hijo, a Fran no le resulta muy complicado dar con Carlota en una discoteca. Carlota le cuenta que su novio, Chema, ha desparecido y se niega a volver a casa sin haberle encontrado. Fran decide acompañar a su hija para buscarle. Se inicia entonces un complicado recorrido por la noche de la ciudad que, después de no pocas sorpresas, terminará al amanecer. Pero a la vez que buscan a Chema padre e hija emprenderán un difícil camino por encontrarse, conocerse y recuperar sus afectos. La noche acaba resultando dramática para Fran que se ve atrapado en medio de los errores de su vida. Pero no hará ascos a ningún sacrificio si con eso no solo puede lavar sus culpas si no recuperar el cariño de su hija.
Fran, a successful lawyer from Madrid, comes home for dinner. But tonight Carlota, his seventeen years old daugther, is not at home yet and Fran decides to go out to look for her. He does not find any difficult to get her out in a disco thanks Totó, his young son. Carlota does not know anything about her boyfriend and she refuses to come back home without any news from him. In this task, Fran decides to go out with her to know if Chema (Carlota´s boyfriend) is ok and then begins a hard and complicated night´s journey in the city, that will not end up before dawn. But, at the same time, the looking for Chema becomes the looking for themselves, the looking for the deepest and most hide feeling to the resort to be able to com e across again. Night turns dramatical for Fran who feels caught up between his own mistakes. But he will fight to the end not only for clearing his sins but also to recover the love of his daughter.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. Literary Adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Besos para todos / Kisses for everyone | | Director: | Jaime Chávarri | | Format: | 1 videodisc (96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Coral Gables, Fla. : Venevision International, 2004 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. una pelicula de Sogecine ; producida por la Fiesta con la participación de Canal + y la participación de TVE ; productor, Gustavo Ferrada ; guión, Jose Ángel Esteban, Carlos López ; director, Jaime Chávarri. Director de fotografía, Hans Burmann ; dirección artistíca, Fernando Saénz, Ulia Loureireo ; música original de Carlos Cases ; diseño de vestuario, Pedro Moreno ; directora de producción, Marisol Carnicero. Participants: Emma Suárez, Eloy Azorín, Roberto Hoyas, Chusa Barbero, Inãki Font, Pilar López de Ayala.
| | Plot: | In 1965 three young men are sent to Cadiz, Spain so that they can study without distraction for their medical school entrance exams. But distraction finds them in the form of four young women from a local ragtag dance troupe who moonlight as prostitutes.
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| Title: | Las Bicicletas son para el verano | | Director: | Jaime Chavarri | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2) | | Imprint: | Murcia : Grupo Editorial Mundografic, 2006 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1983 motion picture. Based on the play by Fernando Fernán Gómez. Alfredo Matas presenta; guion Salvador Maldonado; musica Francisco Guerrero; director de arte Gil Parrondo; productor ejectivo Alfredo Matas y Helena Matas; Director Jaime Chavarri. Participants: Amparo Soler Leal, Agustin Gonzalez, Victoria Abril.
| | Plot: | Madrid, 1936, Luisito 14 años, ha suspendido física y se va a quedar sin la bicicleta que le habían prometido sus padres si aprobaba el curso. 'Las Bicicletas son para el verano,' es la crónica humana de unasfamilias que vivien su historias personales con humor, con momentáneos radicalismos con afán de supervivencia, en el escenario de una guerra civil ideológica y de intereses"--Container. The day-to-day experiences of a lower middle class family in Madrid during the Civil War, 1936.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Bienvenido Mister Marshall. | | Director: | Luis García Berlanga. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (95 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL) | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Dream Time Entertainment S.A., 1999, 1952 | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Dirigida por Luis G. Berlanga. Head of production, Vicente Sempere ; screenplay, Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis G. Berlanga, Miguel Mihura ; producer, Joaquin Reig ; photography, Manuel Berenguer ; music, Jesus G. Leoz. Based on the novel by Luis Emilio Calvo Sotelo, Bienvenido, Mister Marshall. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1952 by Estudios C. Lineal. Nuestra Cine--Container. Participants: Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Morán, José Isbert, y la voz de Fernando Rey.
| | Plot: | The inhabitants of tiny Villar del Rio hear that they have been selected for aid under the Marshall Plan. The promise of great wealth transforms the village overnight.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Bienvenido Mister Marshall | | Director: | Luis García Berlanga. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (75 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in | | Imprint: | [Madrid] : Iberoamericana Films ; Murcia, Spain : Grupo Editorial Mundografic, 1990. | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1953. Based on the novel by Luis Emilio Calvo-Sotelo.Screenplay, J.A. Bardem, L.G. Berlanga, Miguel Mihura ; original music, Jesús G. Leoz ; cinematography, Manuel Berenguer ; film editing, Pepita Orduna. Performer Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Morán, José Isbert, Alberto Romea, Elvira Quintilla, Luis Penez de Leon, Felix Fernandez. Awards Cannes Film Festival: International Prize & Special Mention, 1953. Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain: CEC Award for Best Original Story, 1954. National Syndicate of Spectacle, 1954.
| | Plot: | The inhabitants of tiny Villar del Rio hear that they have been selected for aid under the Marshall Plan. The promise of great wealth transforms the village overnight.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Bienvenido a casa | | Director: | Fernando Trueba | | Format: | 1 videodisc (118 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region 2). | | Imprint: | Madrid: distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Espana, S.A., | | Language: | Spanish with Spanish language subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. Producida por Cristina Huete y Teddy Villalba ; una película de David Trueba. Directed and written by David Trueba; executive production, Cristina Huete; music by Javier Limón and Andrés Calamaro; photography by Juan Molina. Participants: Alejo Sauras, Pilar López de Ayala, Ariadna Gil, Juan Echanove, Jorge Sanz, Concha Velasco, Vicente Haro, Javivi Gil Valle, Julián Villagrán, Juana Acosta, Carlos Larrañaga.
| | Plot: | "Eva (Pilar López de Ayala) y Samuel (Alejo Sauras) son una joven pareja enamorada que acaba de instalarse a vivir juntos. Samuel en-cuentra trabajo como fotógrafo en una revista de información general. Allí conocerá a sus nuevos compañeros: una atractiva redactora de sucesos (Ariadna Gil), un encallecido crítico de cine (Juan Echanove), un atípico infor-mador económico (Julián Villagrán), un curtido periodista deportivo (Jorge Sanz) y un frustrado cantautor que lleva la sección musical (Javivi Gil Valle). Rodeado por todos ellos, Samuel tratará de supe-rar las dificultades de su convivencia con Eva, de sostener su amor en la difícil tarea de ser pareja. Siempre vigilante y protectora, su madre (Concha Velasco), velará porque su hijo no cometa los mis-mos errores que ella cree haber cometido en el pasado. El pasado, precisamente, vendrá en busca de Samuel en el reencuentro con Nieves (Juana Acosta), una amiga de la infancia. Pero todo comien-za a desencadenarse el día en que Eva le confiesa a Samuel que esperan un hijo."--From La butaca website.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Bilbao | | Director: | Bigas Luna | | Format: | 1 videodisc (95 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region all, PAL) | | Imprint: | Valladolid: Divisa Home Video, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1978 motion picture. una película de José Juan Bigas Luna. Director, Bigas Luna ; screenplay, Bigas Luna ; producer, Pepón Coromina ; cinematography, Pedro Aznar ; editor, Anastasi Rinos. Participants: Angel Jové, María Martín, Isabel Pisano, Pepita Lluñell, Francisco Falcon, Jordi Torras, Marta Molins, Pep Castelló, Betty Bigas Tura. Extras: El otro Bilbao ; Mery Martín, la vampiresa suenca -- La pasión del voyeur ; photo gallery ; cast and crew information.
| | Plot: | Leo, an introverted misfit, becomes obsessed with Bilbao, a Barcelona prostitute, stalking her and keeping a secret scrapbook about her.
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| Title: | Blue Rita / Das Frauenhaus (Official Jess Franco collection) | | Director: | Jesus (Jess) Franco | | Format: | 1 videodisc (92 min.) ; sd.,col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | London: VIP Entertainment, 2002 | | Language: | Dialogue in German, English and French language tracks.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1977. Directed by Jess Franco. Cast: Eric Falk, Pamela Stanford, Olivier Mathot, Martine Flety, Guy Delorme, Angela Ritschard.
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Besides running a highly popular nightclub cum brothel, Blue Rita works for several crime organizations and secret services. Having once been heavily tortured, Rita is frigid and she tries to restore her sexual desires with a chemical injected into her vagina.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Erotic films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Boca a boca / Mouth to mouth. | | Director: | Manuel Gómez Pereira. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (97 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. | | Imprint: | [Burbank, Calif.] ; Miramax Home Entertainment. | | Language: | Spanish with yellow English subtitles. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
| | Notes: | Miramax Films ; producida por César Benítez, Joaquín Oristrell, Manuel Gómez Pereira para Sogetel, S.A., Bocaboca Producciónes, S.A., Star Line Productions, S.L. ; con la colaboracion de Sogepaq ; director, Manuel Gómez Pereira. Director of photography, Juan Amoros ; editor, Guillermo Represa ; music, Bernardo Bonezzi ; screenplay, Joaquin Oristrell, et al.. Originally produced as motion picture in 1995. Participants: Javier Bardem, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Josep Maria Flotats, María Barranco.
| | Plot: | A struggling actor reluctantly takes a job as a phone sex operator and falls for a sultry, mysterious caller who wants to do more than just talk.
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| Title: | Bodas de sangre / Blood wedding. | | Director: | Carlos Saura. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (71 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS; Dolby-processed soundtrack. | | Imprint: | Los Angeles, Calif. : Cinematheque Collection, c1986. | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Una produccion de Emiliano Piedra ; version cinematografica de Carlos Saura con la colaboracion de Antonio Gades ; director, Carlos Saura ; adaptacion al ballet, Alfredo Mañas. Based on: Bodas de sangre Federico Garcia Lorca. Originally produced as motion picture in 1981. Photography, Teo Escamilla ; editing, Pablo G. Del Amo ; original music, Emilio de Diego ; choreography, Antonio Gades. Cast: Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos (Marisol), Juan Antonio Jimenez, Carmen Villena, Pilar Cardenas.
| | Plot: | A filmed flamenco-ballet dance rehearsal which tells, in dance, the story of a young bride who deserts her husband-to-be and who leaves their wedding with her married lover.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Bodas de sangre / Blood wedding | | Director: | Carlos Saura | | Format: | 1 videodisc (68 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Suevia Films, 2004 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue with subtitles in Spanish or English.
| | Notes: | Libra Films ; Emiliano Piedra Productions ; director, Carlos Saura ; producer, Emiliano Piedra ; script, Antonio Artero. Choreography, Antonio Gades ; ballet adaption, Alfredo Mañas ; director of photography, Teo Escamilla ; music, Emilio De Diego ; editor, Pablo G. del Amo. Dancers: Antonio Gades (Leonardo), Cristina Hoyos (Bride), Juan Antonio Jimenez (Groom), Pilar Cardenas (Mother), Carmen Villena (Wife).
| | Plot: | Screen adaptation of Flamenco interpretation of Antonio Gades' ballet based on the play Bodas de sangre by Federico García Lorca.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Bohemios | | Director: | Juan de Orduña. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [PAL standard] | | Imprint: | Madrid : RTVE Videoespaña, Teatro lírico español; Las Zarzuelas. | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Televisión Española (TVE), Ltd.; Directed by Juan de Orduña, Original music by Amadeo Vives, Cinematography by Federico G. Larraya, Writing credits, Miguel de Palacios (play), Guillermo Perrín (play), Manuel Tamayo. Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
| | Plot: | Bohemios se inspira en la novela de Henri de Murger, Scènes de la vie de Bohéme, que también sirvió de inspiración para las óperas de Piccini y de Leoncavallo, ambas con el mismo nombre, La Bohème. Aunque la trama no es la misma.
La acción se desarrolla en una buhardilla de París, al fondo una grán ventana permite ver los tejados. Es de noche y está nevando. A la izquierda una puerta conecta con el descansillo de una escalera, al fondo del cual se ve otra puerta. A la izquierda se ve una estufa apagada y un abrigo colgado de una puerta. A la derecha otra puerta, y cerca de ella, un clave con un taburete, más allá un sillón y varias sillas. Sobre un velador reposan un montón de libros y papeles. Todo está en desorden. Al levantarse el telón aparece Roberto sentado frente al clave en actitud de tocar.
Roberto Randel es un músico que está preparando una ópera basada en un texto de su amigo Víctor, sin ninguna esperanza de estrenarla. El canto de una vecina, Cossette, molesta continuamente a Roberto ya que repite la música que él compone, lo que acaba con su inspiración. Víctor y Roberto se quejan de que no tienen nada para comer y es cuando Marcelo, padre de Cossette, le pide el abrigo a Roberto para asistir a un concierto de prueba para su hija en el Salón de la Opera-Comique. Al tiempo Cossette confiesa su amor por Roberto a Pelagia, la portera.
En el salón de artistas de la Opera-Comique de París se da una fiesta suntuosa. Girard entra asegurándole a Víctor que su libreto debería ir no con música de Roberto, sino de alguien famoso, como Auber, a quien asegura conocer. Víctor va en su nombre a saludar al célebre compositor. Luego Girard se encuentra a Marcelo y Cossette, y les promete protección, así como a Roberto.
Cuando se quedan solos Girard aconseja a Roberto que ponga su música no sobre el libreto de Víctor, sino sobre un texto de Scribe, a quien asegura conocer. Roberto se va en busca del célebre libretista. Rechazado por éste, se encuentra con Víctor y ambos descubren las patrañas de Girard cuando éste, para salir del atolladero pretende presentarlos para que trabajen juntos.
Al final de la obra, todos felicitan calurosamente a Roberto, Cossette y Víctor. Girard anuncia que hará que se extrene la ópera, incluso que influirá en la prensa, pero ya nadie lo toma en serio. Los tres artistas saben que a partir de ahora les espera la gloria.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Zarzuelas. Musical films. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El bola. | | Director: | Achero Mañas. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital 5.1. | | Imprint: | Madrid. Suevia films. 2000 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English and French subtitles available.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as motion picture in 2000. Participants: Juan José Ballesta (Pablo El bola Pellet), Pablo Galán (Alfredo), Alberto Jiménez (José), Manuel Morón (Mariano), Ana Wagener (Laura). Se presentó en la Sección Zabaltegi del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián 2000. Consiguió los Goyas a la mejor película, dirección novel, actor revelación y guión original. Consiguió el Premio Fassbinder al descubrimiento del año en los Premios del cine europeo 2001.
| | Plot: | El Bola es un chaval de 12 años que vive una atmósfera violenta y sórdida. Su situación familiar, que oculta avergonzado, le incapacita para relacionarse y comunicarse con otros chicos. La llegada de un nuevo compañero al colegio, con quien descubre la amistad, y la posibilidad que ello le brinda de conocer una realidad familiar distinta por completo, le darán fuerzas para aceptar y finalmente ser capaz de enfrentarse a la suya.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El Bosque animado | | Director: | José Luis Cuerda. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (108 min.) ; sd., col. 14 3/4 in. DVD, PAL (Region 2.) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Suevia Films, 2002 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Videocassette release of a 1988 motion picture. Participants: Alfredo Landa, Encarna Paso, Fernando Valverde, Alejandra Grepi, Miguel Rellan, Alicia Hermida, Amparo Baro, José Nieto.
Responsibility: Director, José Luis Cuerda ; producer, Eduardo Ducay ;
adaptation, Rafael Azcona ; photography, Xavier Aguirresarobe ; music, José Nieto. Based in the novel by Wenceslao Fernández Flórez
| | Plot: | A bandit, a well digger, a working girl, a boy who doesn't want to work, a girl who is emigrating, a ghost who is looking for company ... and a matriarch who exploits the working children are all intertwined in this story..
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary Adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El bruto / The brute | | Director: | Luis Buñuel | | Format: | 1 videodisc (81 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | S.l. : Cozumel Films ; United States: Ventura Distribution, 2003 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue with English subtitles
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1952. Internacional Cinematográfica ; argumento original de Luis Alcoriza y Luis Buñuel ; dirección de Luis Buñuel. Photography, Agustín Jiménez ; editor, Jorge Bustos ; music, Raúl Lavista. Special feature: Pedro Armendáriz filmography. Participants: Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, Andrés Soler, Rosita Arenas
| | Plot: | A slow-witted but strong slaughterhouse worker who is hired by a slumlord to break a tenant strike accidentally kills one of the strike leaders. He is then drawn into a doomed affair with the landlord's wife.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Mexico. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Buen Viaje Excelencia | | Director: | Albert Boadella. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 109 plus 30 min.extras) ; sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. (DVD PAL, Region 2) | | Imprint: | Barcelona: Warner Home Video 2003 | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Estreno en España: 10 Octubre 2003.Dirección y guión: Albert Boadella.
Interpretación: Ramón Fontserè (Franco), Minnie Marx (Dra. Müller), Pilar Sáenz (Doña Carmen), Xavier Boada (Marqués), Jesús Agelet (Pacón), Lluis Elías (Dr. Vicente), María Teresa Berganza (Carmencita), Juan Viadas (Padre Bulart), Saturnino García, Luis Cuenca.
Producción: Andrés Vicente Gómez.
Música: Ángel Illarramendi.
Fotografía: José Luis López Linares.
Montaje: Alejandro Lázaro.
Dirección artística: Félix Murcia.
Vestuario: Macarena Soto.
Extras Menús interactivos, Acceso directo a escenas, Franco en Vich, El Joglars Francamente, La música de " Buen Viaje, Excelencia", Galería fotográfica, Ficha técnica, Ficha artística, Publicaciones de Els Joglars,Menús interactivos, Acceso directo a escenas, Franco en Vich, El Joglars Francamente, La música de " Buen Viaje, Excelencia", Galería fotográfica, Ficha técnica, Ficha artística, Publicaciones de Els Joglars
| | Plot: | Franco (Ramón Fontserè) pasa sus últimos días en el Palacio de El Pardo, entre delirios del pasado, y rodeado de su familia y su fiel séquito militar. Éstos, desesperados por el de-licado estado de salud del Caudillo, deciden recurrir a la medicina alternativa de la Doctora Müller (Minnie Marx): una moderna mujer alemana que, ante el asombro de todos, termi-nará convirtiéndose en la mano derecha del Generalísimo.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. Francisco Franco Bahamonde, 1892-1975. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La buena vida | | Director: | David Trueba | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | | Imprint: | Thousand Oaks, CA : Studio Latino, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1996. Una coproducción Fernando Trueba, P.C., S.A., Kaplan, S.A. Olmo Films, S.L. (España) & L Films (Paris) & Academy Films (Rome) con la participación de TVE, Canal+ (España) & Canal+ (Francia) una pelicula de David Trueba ; productor, Ana Huete, Cristina Huete, Fernando Trueba ; guión, David Trueba ; director, David Trueba. Cinematography, William Lubtchansky ; art director, Cristina Mampaso ; editor, Ángel Hernández Zoido ; original music, Antoine Duhamel. Performer Fernando Ramallo, Lucia Jiménez, Luis Cuenca, Isabel Otero, Joel Joan, Vicky Peña, Jordi Bosch, Alma Rosa Castellanos, Muntsa Alcañiz, Orestes Gas.
| | Plot: | Fifteen-year-old Tristan (Fernando Ramallo) is passionate about two things other boys his age are not-- growing up and penning his own biography.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Buñuel y la mesa del Rey Salomon. | | Director: | Carlos Saura. | | Format: | 1 videodiscs (ca. 100 min.) ; sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL) Region 2 | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Sogedasa: Filmax Home Video, 2002 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture 2001. Participants: El Gran Wyoming, Pere Arquillué, Ernest Alterio, Adrià Collado.
| | Plot: | A fictionalized Luis Buñuel is offered a great movie idea about explorers looking for King Solomon-s magical table in Toledo, Spain. The director goes home, mulls it over and suddenly starts imagining the whole film played out with a younger version of himself, Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca as the protagonists..
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Bwana | | Director: | Imanol Uribe | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Columbia TriStar Home Video, | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1996 film. Basada en la obra teatral de Ignacio del Moral, La mirada del hombre oscuro. una produccion Aurum, S.A. Cartel, S.A. y Origen PC, S.A. ; con la colaboracion de Antena 3 Television y la participacion de Canal+ España. Dirigida, Imanol Uribe ; director de produccion, Antonio Guillen Rey ; musica, Jose Nieto ; fotografia, Javier Aguirresarobe ; productor ejecutivo, Antonio Cardenal ; guion, Imanol Uribe, Juan Potau, Paco Pino.Participants: Andres Pajares, Maria Barranco, Emilio Buale, Alejandro Martinez, Andrea Granero, Miguel del Arco.
| | Plot: | A Spanish family's seaside vacation becomes a tense, seriocomic exploration into xenophobia when they stumble across an illegal African immigrant stranded upon the beach after an accident destroyed his raft and left his traveling companion dead. When patriarch Antonio, a somewhat dim-witted taxi driver, sees the miserable Ombasi huddled around a campfire, he is immediately suspicious and frightened for his family. Unfortunately, they lose their car keys and have no choice but to remain with the mysterious foreigner, who speaks no Spanish. At first, the film takes a humorous look at the family's struggle to communicate with the stranger, but then three racist skinheads arrive and the story takes a much darker turn.
Antonio, a taxi driver, his wife, and two chidren arrive one fine afternoon at a solitary beach, looking for sea-shells. However, they will find more than expected: namely, Ombasi and Yambo, two illegal African immigrants, apparently thrown back to the ocean from where they came, in search of a better life in Spain. The sun sets, and the evening, night and morning which follow see other bizarre characters entering the scene, before the Africans' and the other characters' fates are finally decided. (From daaveedee.com)
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. Neo-Nazis. Skinheads. Gangs. Race relations. Emigration and immigration. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cuerpo en el bosque | | Director: | Joaquín Jordá | | Format: | 1 videocassette (85 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL). | | Imprint: | United States: Sogedasa ; [Barcelona] : Filmax Home Video, 1997 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Filmax presenta una producción para Sogedasa, Els Quatre Gats Audiovisuals S.A., Films de l-Oriente S.L. ; con la participación de Televisión Española, Canal+ España ; con la colaboración de I.C.A.A., Ministerio de Cultura y Departament de Cultura Generalitat de Catalunya ; productor, Julio Fernández ; una película escrita y dirigida por Joaquín Jordá. Photography and camera, Carles Gusi ; editor, Ivan Aledo ; music, Sergi Jorda. Videocassette release of the 1996 motion picture. Participants: Rossy de Palma, Ricard Borrás, Nuria Prims, Pep Molina, Joan Masdeu.
| | Plot: | A group of hunters discover in a thicket in the forest the body of a semi-clothed girl with clear indications that she had been murdered.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La caza / The hunt | | Director: | Carlos Saura | | Format: | 1 videodisc (93 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Diario El País, 2003 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | DVD release of the 1965 motion picture. Una película de Carlos Saura. Screenplay, Carlos Saura, Angelino Fons ; music, Luis de Pablo ; photography, Luis Cuadrado. Participants: Ismael Merlo, Alfredo Mayo, Jose María Prada, Emilio Gutierrez Caba, Fernando Sánchez Polack, Violeta García, María Sánchez Aroca.
| | Plot: | A heavily symbolic study of hatred and rivalry among four hunters, three of whom are Franquist veterans. They go to shoot rabbits in an area near Madrid where some of the heaviest battles of the Civil War were fought. The hunt becomes an allegory of war.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Veterans. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cabeza de Vaca. | | Director: | Nicholas Eshevarria. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (ca. 108 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. | | Imprint: | United States: New Horizons Home Video, 1993. | | Language: | In Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Producciones Iguana in co-produccion with Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia, Television Espa~nola, S.A., Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario, Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematografica, Channel Four Television, American Playhouse Theatrical Films, Grupo Alica ... present a Nicolas Echevarria film ; screenplay, Guillermo Sheridan, Nicolas Echevarria ; producers, Rafael Cruz, Jorge Sanchez, Julio Solorzano Foppa, Bertha Navarro ; director, Nicholas Eshevarria.. Director of photography, Guillermo Navarro; editor, Rafael Castenedo; music, Mario Lavista. Based on the book: Naufragios by Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca. Originally produced as motion picture in 1990. Cast: Juan Diego, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castanon.
| | Plot: | In 1528 a Spanish expedition founders off the coast of Florida. 600 lives are lost. One survivor, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical culture, becoming a healer--and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Mexico. Spain. Explorers. America. Florida. Discovery and exploration.
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Biographical films. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cachito | | Director: | Enrique Urbizu | | Format: | 1 videodisc (420 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid] : Origin P.C./Aurum. Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish optional subtitles in English,
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1995 motion picture. Based on the short story "Un asunto de honor" by Arturo Perez Reverte. una producción Origin P.C., S.A. Aurum S.A ; con la colaboración de Antena 3 Televisión y la participación de Canal+ España ; dirigida por Enrique Urbizu ; guión, Imanol Uribe, Francisco Pino, Jésus Regueira y Enrique Urbizu. Director of photography, Alfredo Mayo ; editor, Pablo Blanco ; music, Bingen Mendizabal. Participants: Jorge Perugorria, Sancho Gracia, Amara Carmona, Elvira Mínguez, Aitor Mazo.
| | Plot: | After dying of her grandmother, Toñi starts off in search of her mother of whom she knows almost nothing: an old letter and a direction to a hotel called "Paradise". On the way, Toñi meets Manolo, a robust truck driver who offers himself to help her and who takes her destiny to be his.Once they find the hotel, it turns out to be a highway club and his owner, Rafael, sees in a young girl a gold mine...
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary Adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La caja 507 | | Director: | Enrique Urbizu. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (112 min.) ; sd., col. 14 3/4 in. DVD, PAL (Region 2.) | | Imprint: | Madrid: Sogepaq 2003 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue with English or Spanish subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2002. Dirección: Enrique Urbizu
Guión: Enrique Urbizu , Michel Gaztambide
Producción: Fernando Bovaira , Gustavo Ferrada
Fotografía: Carles Gusi
Música: Mario de Benito
| | Plot: | Modesto, un hombre honrado y trabajador, diri-ge una sucursal bancaria en la Costa del Sol. Unos atracadores revientan las cajas de segu-ridad de su banco y le dejan atrapado en la cá-mara que las contiene. La caja 507 es una de ellas y su contenido le revela que la muerte de su hija, ocurrida ha-ce unos años, no fue accidental. Rafael, un ex policía corrupto y sin escrúpulos, tendrá que recuperar lo robado en esa caja. Mien-tras que los documentos desaparecidos estén en otras manos, su vida no vale nada, por lo que emprenderá una búsqueda desespe-rada para recuperarlos. Ambos se ven envueltos en una frenética carrera con objetivos distintos en la que sus destinos se cruzan. Una carrera con reglas que Rafael conoce bien y a las que Modes-to tendrá que adaptarse para conseguir que se haga justicia. Sin embargo, este último tiene una ventaja: nadie cuenta con él, nadie sabe lo que él sabe. La Caja 507 es como una bomba que, al abrir-se, estalla en manos de dos hombres que lo han perdido casi todo.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Calle Mayor. | | Director: | Juan Antonio Bardem. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (115 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL). | | Imprint: | Valladolid : Divisa Ediciones, 2000, 1957. Series: Clásico español. | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Videocassette release of the 1957 motion picture. Based on a play by Carlos Arniches. Participants: Betsy Blair, Jose Suarez Class Descrpt: Escrita y dirigida por J. A. Bardem ; Suevia films, Play art ; productor Manuel J. Goyanes. More Corp Auth: Suevia Films.
| | Plot: | For 18 years, since she left the convent, Isabel has passed her empty hours walking up and down the main street of her provincial town. Some bored young men decide that one of their number should pretend to court the spinster.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El calentito | | Director: | Chus Gutierrez | | Format: | 1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2 PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2006 | | Language: | Spanish with English and Spanish subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005. Telespan 2000 y Estudios Picasso ; dirigida por Chus Gutierrez ; guion, Juan Carlos Rubio, Chus Gutierrez. Participants: Veronica Sanchez, Macarena Gomez, Juan Sanz, Ruth Diaz, Nuria Gonzalez.
| | Plot: | Madrid, the early 80s. Sara’s a girl from a nice, middle-class family, a good student who nevertheless longs for a little bit of excitement. One night she sneaks out of her house and heads to El Calentito, the hottest of the happening clubs that form the bedrock of that explosion of art, culture, and nightlife known as la movida. Slated to perform is a trio called the Siux, but as they’re about to go on one of their members quits. Desperate for a replacement, the remaining Siux ask Sara to perform with them for the night. It’s beyond a dream come true — and since the Siux have an interview with a record producer the next day, maybe even a future. Chus Gutierrez’s buoyant, perceptive new film captures not only the spirit of freedom that characterized those first post-Franco years but also its still fragile nature..
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| Title: | La Camarera del Titanic / The Chambermaid on the Titanic | | Director: | Bigas Luna | | Format: | 1 videocassette (VHS) (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. (PAL) | | Imprint: | Tornasol Films/Mate Production | | Language: | In Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | una producción Mate Production, S.A. [et. al.] ; director Bigas Luna ; guión, Bigas Luna y Cuca Canals. Cast: Aitana Sanchez Gijon, Romane Bohringer, Olivier Martinez Salvador Madrid.
| | Plot: | Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to share his room. They do, chastely; when he awakens, she is gone, but he sees her at the sailing and gets a photo of her. When he returns home, he suspects that his wife Zoe has been sleeping with Simeon, the foundry owner. Horty goes to the bar, where his friends get him drunk and he starts telling an erotic fantasy of what happened with him and Marie, drawing a larger audience each night.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El Camino | | Director: | Josefina Molina | | Format: | 2 videodiscs : (150 min.) sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All, PAL) | | Imprint: | Valladolid : Divisa Ediciones, 2002. (Series clásicas TVE) | | Language: | Spanish; optional subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, or Portuguese.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1977 television series in 5 episodes. Based on the novel by Miguel Delibes. De Miguel Delibes ; RTVE presenta ; guión, Jesús Martínez de León, Josefina Molina ; direccion, Josefina Molina. Music, Román Alis ; artistic director, Rafael Palmero ; photography, Magi Torruella ; executive producer, Salvador Augustín.Participants: Amparo Baró, Alicia Hermida, Fernando Aguilera, Antonio Gamero, Enriqueta Carballeira, Paloma Pagés, Félix Rotaeta, Paloma Hurtado, Francisco Casares, Fernando Sánchez Polack, Ampero Valle
| | Plot: | In a Castilian village, a member of a group of three friends, is on the verge of leaving to the city, where his father wants him to study the baccalaureate. The boy feels nostalgia for the world that they force him to leave and remembers what until that moment it has been his life in the village, next to the vast variety of personages who live there.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. TV series. Spain. Literary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Camaron | | Director: | Jaime Chávarri | | Format: | 1 videodisc (119 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. (PAL) (Region 2) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Monoria Films : Filmanova Invest : distributed by Buena Vista International, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. Monoria Films en coproducción con Filmanova Invest presentan con la participación de TVE / TeleMadrid ; productores Miguel Menéndez de Zubillaga y Juan Riva de Aldama ; guión Álvaro del Amo y Jaime Chávarri ; director Jaime Chávarri. Original music: Carles Casas. Participants: Oscar Jaenada, Verónica Sánchez, Merçé Llorens. Awards: Goya Awards (2005): Best Actor, Best Costumes, Best Make-up.
| | Plot: | Biographical drama of José Monge Cruz, "Camarón de la Isla," the legendary Spanish flamenco singer. Focuses on his relationships with his wife Dolores Montoya "La Chispa" and guitarists, Paco de Lucía, Tomatito and Paco Cepero.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Flamenco musicians. Camaron de la Isla | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cancion de Cuna. | | Director: | Jose Luis Garci. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (93 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format. | | Imprint: | Madrid : BMG Video, 1994 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Una produccion Nickel Odeon ; con la participacion de TVE y Canal+ Espana ; producida y dirigida por Jose Luis Garci. Cinematography, Manuel Rojas ; screenplay Jose Luis Garci, Horacio Valcarcel ; music, Manuel Balboa. Videocassette release of the 1993 motion picture. Based on a novel of the same title by Gregorio Martinez Sierra. Cast: Fiorella Faltoyano, Amparo Larrañaga, Maria Massip, Virginia Mataia, Diana Pe~nalver, Maria Luisa Ponte, Maribel Verdu.
| | Plot: | A group of Spanish nuns find a baby girl abandoned in a basket. The foundling arouses the maternal instincts of the cloistered nuns who take the baby in and raise her. Eighteen years later she marries and leaves for Cuba. Set in Castille in the 19th century.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La canción del olvido | | Director: | Juan de Orduña. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (ca. 93 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [PAL standard] | | Imprint: | Madrid : RTVE Videoespana, Teatro lírico español; Las Zarzuelas. 1995 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Televisión Española (TVE), Ltd. A film version of the zarzuela by José Serrano. Participants: Intérpretes: Maria Cuadra, Juan Luis Galiardo, Rosana Yanni, Antonio Martelo, Luchy Soto, Luis Frutos ; con las voces de: Josefina Cubeiro, Vicente Sardinero, Dolores Pérez, Francisco Saura. Dirección y realización, Juan de Orduña. Libro: Federico Romero, Guillermo Férnandez-Shaw.
| | Plot: | La acción de esta deliciosa obra se desarrolla en el antiguo Reino de Napoles, en 1799. Rosina, joven princesa romana, se ha enamorado de Leonello, capitán audaz y aventurero, a quién viene siguiendo desde Roma. Leonello tiene concertada una cita con Flora Goldini, celebre cortesana. Rosina se entera y celosa, quiere impedir la entrevista, para lo cual se vale de Toribio, un pobre músico, al que viste de gran señor e introduce en la casa de Flora. Cuando Leonello llega a la cita, Rosina en su disfraz de paje , le advierte que la plaza está ya ocupada por otro, y le sugiere vengarse conquistando a la esposa de su rival. Le cita para las diez en la propia casa de Rosina.
Acude Leonello, presuntuoso. Ya en galas de mujer Rosina finge dormir y el aventurero Capitán queda prendado de su belleza. Despierta Rosina y en un apasionado dúo Leonello se confiesa enamorado, esta vez de verdad, pero Rosina finge no creerle, hasta que ya segura de su amor, le confiesa toda la farsa.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Zarzuelas. Musical films. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cañas y barro | | Director: | Juan de Orduña. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (82 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS. (PAL) | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Dream Time Entertainment S.A., 1999. | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Director, Juan de Orduña. Videocassette release of the 1954 motion picture. Adaptation of Blasco Ibañéz- novel Cañas y barro. Participants: Ana Amendola, Virgilio Teixeira.
| | Plot: | The story takes place in a city of a Valencia lagoon, in an area of fisherman and rice growers. The series simultaneously records the lives of three generations of the Paloma family: the grandfather, who is the oldest fisherman of the lake; Tono, his son, who dedicates the major part of his life to acquiring a plot of land by the lake for framing; and Tonet, the grandson, who dishonors his lineage.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cañas y barro | | Director: | Rafael Romero Marchent. | | Format: | 3 videodiscs : (330 min.) sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All, PAL) | | Imprint: | Valladolid : Divisa Home Video, 2003 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue with optional Inglés, Francés, Alemán, Italiano, Portugués
| | Notes: | Videodiscs release of the 1978 television series in 6 episodes (ca. 55 min. each). Adaptation of Blasco Ibañéz' novel Cañas y barro. Aldebarán Films, S.A., para Radiotelevisión Española. Dirigada por Rafael R. Marchant; producida por Eduardo Manzanos; adaptación, guión y diálogos, Manuel Mur Oti; director de producción, Gregorio Manzanos. Actores José Bódalo, Alfredo Mayo, Terele Pávez, Luis Suárez, Manuel Tejada, Victoria Vera. Menús Interactivos, Acceso directo a escenas, Fichas, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Un escritor enamorado de la acción, Blasco Ibañez, El parque natural de Álbufera, 7 enigmas en torno al mundo de Blasco Ibáñez, Imágenes de la Patagonia
| | Plot: | En un pueblo de la Albufera valenciana, en un ambiente de pescadores y arroceros, tres generaciones de la familia “los Paloma” conviven en el lugar: el abuelo, el mejor pescador del lago, Tono, el hijo, que ha consagrado su vida a ganar terreno al agua, en una tarea interminable, acarreando tierra en su barca para conseguir, palmo a palmo, un terreno que poder cultivar; por fin Tonet, el nieto, la oveja negra de la familia, que, con su conducta, causa la deshonra de todos. Como fondo del vivir de la familia se halla la España de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, una época en plena transformación social.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. TV series. Spain. Literary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Caniche | | Director: | Bigas Luna | | Format: | 1 videodisc (85 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All, PAL) | | Imprint: | Valladolid, España : Divisa Home Video, 2005. (Pack Bigas Luna) | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979. Figaro Films ; una película de Bigas Luna. Photography, Pedro Aznar ; written and directed by Bigas Luna. Participants: Angel Jové, Consuelo Tura.
| | Plot: | Bernardo y su hermana Eloisa viven un destartalado chalet, resto de su antigua y pasada prosperidad. Están esperando que muera su anciana y enferma tía Lina para heredar su cuantiosa fortuna y mientras tanto llevan una existencia morbosa, entregados a sus obsesiones y manias.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Las cartas de Alou / Letters from Alou | | Director: | Montxo Armendariz. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (100 min.) ; sd., col.; 1/2 in. VHS Hi-fi. | | Imprint: | Santa Monica, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1994. | | Language: | Spanish, French and Sengalese with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Elias Querejeta, Producciones Cinematograficas, S.L. Title on container: Montxo Armendariz- Letters from Alou. Originally released as a motion picture in 1990. Written and directed by Montxo Armendariz. Cast: Mulie Jarju, Eulalia Ramen, Anmed El-Maaroufi. Winner, Best Film & Best Actor, San Sebastian Film Festival
| | Plot: | Tells the story of Alou, an african immigrant, who works his way to Barcelona, where he is due to meet up with a friend. The exploitation and discrimination he faces are accurately documented.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Barcelona | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Carne Tremula / Live flesh. | | Director: | Pedro Almodóvar | | Format: | 1 videodisc (101 min.) ; sd., col. sd., col. ; 1 2 in. DVD (Region 1), | | Imprint: | Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment Inc., c2001. | | Language: | Spanish language soundtrack with subtitles available in English, French or Spanish.
| | Notes: | MGM ; Goldwyn Films ; El Deseo S.A. presenta una coproducción El Deseo, CIBY 2000 France 3 ; un film de Almodóvar. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997. Based on the novel by Ruth Rendell. Written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar ; executive producer, Agustin Almodóvar ; director of photography, Alfonso Beato ; editor, Jóse Salcedo ; music, Alberto Iglesias. Performers:Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal, Ángela Molina, Jóse Sancho, Pilar Bardem, Penélope Cruz.
| | Plot: | The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.
Set in Madrid, Almodovar-s seductive, subversive comedy stars Liberto Rabal as Victor, a pizza delivery man obsessed with Elena (Francesca Neri), a beautiful Italian junkie he met and slept with a few days ago. When his aggressive courting is mistaken for rape, cops David (Javier Bardem) and Sancho (Jose Sancho) show up at the scene, Victor-s gun accidentally goes off and the younger David is shot and paralyzed. Four years later David is a wheelchair basketball star, now married to Elena. When Victor is released from prison, their destinies begin to cross again. But nothing is what it seems, and only when Victor turns this world upside down do we see the true picture.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Carta de amor de un asesino. | | Director: | Francisco Regueiro. | | Format: | Barcelona : Manga Films, Cine Español, 2001 | | Imprint: | 1 videocassette (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL). | | Language: | Spanish; In Spanish.
| | Notes: | Una producción Elias Querejeta. Director, Francisco Regueiro. Originally released as a motion picture in 1972. Participants: Serena Vergano, Rosa Maria Matéo, José Calvo, José Luis López Vazquez.
| | Plot: | It is Saturday night in a small provincial town. Someone, armed with a pistol, enters a cafeteria, opens fire, and kills four people. Blanca, a young librarian, receives a strange letter, and from that moment forward is haunted by an obsession with the murder.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Carícies / Caresses. | | Director: | Ventura Pons | | Format: | 1 videodisc (96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (Region 1) | | Imprint: | New York, N.Y. : Water Bearer Films, 2002 | | Language: | Catalan; In Catalan with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Una producció de Els Films de la Rambla, S.A. anb la participació de Televisió Espanyola, S.A anb la participació de Televisió de Catalunya, S.A. ; una pel·lícula de Ventura Pons. Producer, Ventura Pons ; screenplay, Sergi Belbel, Ventura Pons ; editor, Pere Abadal ; cinematography, Jesús Escosa ; music, Carles Cases. Based on the play by Sergi Belbel. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997. Letterboxed. Participants: Rosa María Sardà, Sergi López, Laura Conejero, Julieta Serrano, Agustín González, Mercè Pons, David Selvas.
| | Plot: | Set in Barcelona, portrays eleven interlocking stories of intimate encounters, laced with humor.
Fasten your seatbelts for this visually torrid tour through the streets of Barcelona and into the violently emotional world of its love-starved inhabitants. Director Pons proves to be a daring and original filmmaker as he weaves several seemingly unconnected stories into a complex tapestry of people trapped by their sexual desires and who find their passions both ignited and muted – all in an effort for some kind of human tenderness.
The stories begin with a husband and wife’s violent style of dinner preparation. Other stories include an older woman who tries to talk to her long estranged and now homeless brother who is still angry that she and his wife became lovers. It then follows an angry teenage boy who longs for an intimate relationship with his father and looks at a scene where an older man tries to stay young through the oral sexual services of a young male hustler. The cutting is rapid, the images glossy, and the issues lurid and controversial. A drama of human detachment that will excite and mesmerize the viewer.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Catalonia. Barcelona. Literary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Carícies / Caricias / Caresses. | | Director: | Ventura Pons | | Format: | 1 videodisc (96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (Region 2) | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Els Films, 1997 | | Language: | Catalan or Spanish with Spanish or French or English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Una producció de Els Films de la Rambla, S.A. anb la participació de Televisió Espanyola, S.A anb la participació de Televisió de Catalunya, S.A. ; una pel·lícula de Ventura Pons. Producer, Ventura Pons ; screenplay, Sergi Belbel, Ventura Pons ; editor, Pere Abadal ; cinematography, Jesús Escosa ; music, Carles Cases. Based on the play by Sergi Belbel. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997. Letterboxed. Participants: Rosa María Sardà, Sergi López, Laura Conejero, Julieta Serrano, Agustín González, Mercè Pons, David Selvas.
| | Plot: | Set in Barcelona, portrays eleven interlocking stories of intimate encounters, laced with humor.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Catalonia. Barcelona. Literary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Las cartas de Alou / Letters from Alou | | Director: | Montxo Armendariz | | Format: | 1 videodisc (95 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2) | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Cine Español : Manga Films, 2004 | | Language: | Spanish with subtitles in Catalan and French.subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1990. GOLEM presenta una producción Elías Querejeta con la participación de Television Española S.A. ; guión y dirección Montxo Armendariz. Music, L. Mendo, B. Fuster ; photography, Alfredo Mayo. Participants: Mulie Jarju, Eulalia Ramon, Ahmed El-Maaroufi.
| | Plot: | Tells the story of Alou, an African immigrant, who works his way to Barcelona, where he is due to meet up with a friend. The exploitation and discrimination he faces are documented.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Barcelona | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Carmen | | Director: | Carlos Saura | | Format: | 1 videodisc (97 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Suevia Films, 1999, c1983. | | Language: | Spanish dialog with subtitles in Spanish or English.
| | Notes: | Originally released as motion picture in 1983. Inspirada en la novela de Mérimée y la opera de Bizet ; una producción Emiliano Piedra. Performer Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Cristina Hoyos.
Screenplay and choreography, Carlos Saura, Antonio Gades ; photography, Teo Escamilla ; music, Paco de Lucía ; director, Carlos Saura.
| | Plot: | A director-choreographer's search for a fiery, passionate Carmen takes him to flamenco dance schools where he eventually discovers his leading lady in an untried young dancer. As time goes on, they find themselves living the "Carmen" story of love and treachery.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Carne de gallina / Chicken Skin | | Director: | Javier Maqua | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) ; sd., ; 4 3/4 in DVD, (Region 2. PAL). | | Imprint: | Madrid: Cartel 2005 | | Language: | Spanish or Portuguese with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 2002 film. CARTEL (Creativos Asociados de Radio y Televisión) S.A. Directed by Javier Maqua. Writers: Javier Maqua, Maxi Rodriguez. Produced by Eduardo Campoy. Executive producer: José Alberto Tellería . Starring: Amparo Valle, Karra Elejalde, Nathalie Sesena, Anabel Alonso, Txema Blasco.
| | Plot: | Directed by Javier Maqua, this oddball comedy combines bad taste with a political message. A direct jab at the fallacies of Spanish bureaucracy, Carne de Gallina ("Chicken Skin") is a politically incorrect tale of an eccentric yet dignified group of individuals who have refused to accept what they consider to be an unfair lot in life. When ex-miner Luison (Txema Blasco) suddenly dies in the middle of his visit it a local brothel, the family decides to keep the body at their home and hide the death itself until after the following Monday, when they can claim his pension funds. This satirical look at the absurdities of government also features Karra Elejalde, Isabel Ordaz, Anabel Alonso, Nathalie Sesena, Amparo Valle, and Maxi Rodriguez. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Carretera y manta | | Director: | Alfonso Arandia | | Format: | 1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2) PAL | | Imprint: | Spain : FilmArt, S.L. ; Madrid : Distribuido por Sony Pictures Home Entertainmenty CIA, S.R.C ; United States: Columbia Tristar Home Video, 2005. | | Language: | Spanish; optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture 2000. Una comedia dirigida por Alfonso Arandia. Writer, Javier Echaniz; original music, Lucio Godoy; cinematography, Gonzalo F. Berridi. Performer Natalia Verbeke, Jordi Bosch, Eduardo Noriega, Carmen Maura. Awards Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actress (Carmen Maura), 2001.
| | Plot: | An aging chef and her husband, who is out of jail on weekend parole, decide to flee to Rio de Janeiro, where she plans to open her own restaurant. The couple's car breaks down, and so they kidnap a young couple to aid them in their escape.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Carreteras secundarias / Back roads | | Director: | Emilio Martínez-Lázaro. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Coral Gables, FL : Distributed by Venevision International, c2004. | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. Based on the novel by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón. United International Pictures ; una producción Sogetel, et al. ; guión, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón ; [producida por Fernando Trueba] ; dirigida por Emilio Martínez-Lázaro. Editing, Iván Aledo ; music, Roque Baños ; director of photography, Javier Salmones. Performer Antonio Resines, Maribel Verdú, Miriam Díaz Aroca, Fernando Ramallo, Jesus Bonilla, Maite Blasco.
| | Plot: | Near the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1974, a poor yet optimistic salesman travels the Spanish coast with his rebellious teenage son.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El caserío. | | Director: | Juan de Orduña. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [PAL standard]. | | Imprint: | Madrid : RTVE Videoespana, Teatro lírico español; Las Zarzuelas. | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Televisión Española (TVE), Ltd. ; obra original, Federico Romero, Guillermo Fernandez Shaw ; dirección y realización, Juan de Orduna. Originally released as a motion picture in 1969. Cast: Mari Frances, José Moreno, Armando Calvo. Cinematography, Federico G, Larraya ; music, Jesús Guridi.
| | Plot: | Film version of a play about Basque life in which a sensual and amorous drama develops during a family gathering at a country house. Popular songs, typical Basque dances and instruments, together with characteristic Basque speech, are all artfully utilized in this tale of life in a Basque village.
El Caserío es una obra de costumbres vascas, cuya acción se desarrolla alrededor de la casa de campo de Santi, un hombre maduro que vive en su caserío junto a dos sobrinos, Ana Mari y José Miguel. Para conseguir la continuidad familiar que encierra el caserío vasco, Santi busca la solución en la boda entre José Miguel y Ana Marí. A Ana Mari que está enamorada de Jose Miguel, le parece bien, pero este no fija en ella su atención. Entonces Ana Mari se ofrece como futura esposa de su tío, lo que sirve para encender en José Miguel un verdadero amor por ella.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Zarzuelas. Musical films | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cásate comigo, Maribel | | Director: | Angel Blasco | | Format: | 1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Filmayer Internacional : distribuido por Paramount Home Entertainment, 2002 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Released as a motion picture in 2002./ Based on the play by Miguel Mihura "Maribel y la extraña familia". opera prima de Angel Blasco. Angel Blasco, director ; screenplay, Angel Blasco ; original music, Joan Valent ; cinematography by Fernando Arribas ; editor, Angel Blasco, Javier Naya ; produced by Angel Blasco and Mariví de Villanueva. Participants: Carlos Hipólito, Natalia Dicenta, Nathalie Seseña, Mireia Ros, Malena Alterio.
| | Plot: | Provincial businessman, Marcellino, falls in love with Maribel, a "bar hostess" in Madrid. Maribel and her three co-workers fear that he might be a murderer rather than the mild-mannered factory owner that he appears to be.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain Literary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La casa de Bernarda Alba /
House of Bernarda Alba | | Director: | Mario Camus | | Format: | 1 videodisc (103 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Chicago, Ill. : Distributed by Facets Video, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987. Based on the play of the same title by Federico Garcia Lorca. Paraiso Films. Director, Mario Camus; producer, Ricardo Garcia Arrojo. Participants: Irene Gutierrez Caba, Ana Belen, Florinda Chico, Enriqueta Carballeira, Victoria Pena, Aurora Pastor.
| | Plot: | After her husband's death, Bernarda Alba forces her five daughters into eight years of strict mourning. The appearance of Pepe El Romano, a man who wishes to marry the eldest daughter, Angustias, unleashes a series of events which culminate in a tragic denouement.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Litrary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La caza / The hunt | | Director: | Carlos Saura | | Format: | 1 videocassette (93 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. VHS | | Imprint: | United States: Film Forum, 1989 | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966. a presentation of Twyman Films, Inc. ; a Trans-Lux release ; script by Angelino Fons, Carlos Saura ; English adaptation by Jack Dunn Trop ; produced by Elias Querejeta ; directed by Carlos Saura. Photography, Luis Cuadrado; editor, Pablo Gonzales Del Amo; music, Luis de Pablo. Participants: Ismail Merlo, Alfredo Mayo, Jose Maria Prada, Emilio G. Caba. Awards: Berlin Film Festival: Best direction.
| | Plot: | Four men, three of whom are veterans of the Spanish Civil War, go rabbit hunting. As the day progresses, bitterness overwhelms them until they senselessly kill each other.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Veterans. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La caza / The hunt | | Director: | Carlos Saura | | Format: | 1 videocassette (87 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. | | Imprint: | S.l. : VideoMaster, 1989; Redwood City, CA : NTSC transfer by Eurovideo | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videocassette release of the 1965 motion picture. Elias Querejeta Producciones ; director, Carlos Saura. Screenplay, Carlos Saura, Angelino Fons ; music, Luis de Pablo ; photography, Luis Cuadrado. Participants: Ismail Merlo, Alfredo Mayo, Jose Maria Prada, Emilio G. Caba.
| | Plot: | Four men, three of whom are veterans of the Spanish Civil War, go rabbit hunting. As the day progresses, bitterness overwhelms them until they senselessly kill each other.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. History. Civil War, 1936-1939 Veterans. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Celos / Jealousy | | Director: | Vicente Aranda. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (112 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital 5.1. | | Imprint: | Madrid; Sogepaq Video, 2000, 1999. | | Language: | In Spanish with optional Spanish, English and French subtitles available.
| | Notes: | Una película de Vicente Aranda; una película de Sogetel; producida por Calle Cruzada, S.L. Screenplay, Álvaro del Amo, Vicente Aranda; music, José Nieto; cinematography, José Luis Alcaine. More Corp Auth: Sogepaq Video (Firm) ; Sogetel (Firm) ; Calle Cruzada, S.L. Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Special features: bonus trailer, artistic and technical information, selected filmographies, photo album, and proofs from posters. Presented in a format that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio, 1.66:1. Participants: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Daniel Giménez Cacho, María Botto, Luis Tosar
| | Plot: | Carmen and Antonio-s story illustrates how jealousy can tear a couple apart as well as bring them back together. Carmen y Antonio se van a casar, y los preparativos para la boda están yendo sobre ruedas. Todo parece ir bien para esta pareja, hasta que Antonio, accidentalmente, descubre una antigua foto de su prometida con otro hombre. Este hecho, que no parecía tener ninguna importancia en un principio, es la semilla de los celos que irán creciendo dentro del futuro marido, haciendo que cada acción, cada mirada, cada palabra o cada gesto de Carmen sea una sospecha de infidelidad. Antonio acabará cegado por los celos, que le harán olvidar su amor por Carmen, mientras que esta, que creía haber dejado atrás su pasado, deberá confrontarlo nuevamente para intentar salvar su matrimonio. Solamente haciendo frente entre los dos a sus demonios serán capaces de librarse de esa carga que no les permite ser felices.
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| Title: | Celia | | Director: | José Luis Borau | | Format: | 3 videodiscs (360 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (All region, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid : TVE ; Valladolid : Divisa Ediciones, 2001 | | Language: | Spanish, with German, French, English, Italian, or Portuguese subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1992 Televisión Española series. Based on the stories of Elena Fortún. Una producción de El Imán, S.A. para Televisión Española ; guión, Carmen Martín Gaite, José Luis Borau ; director, José Luis Borau. Director of photography, Magi Torruella ; music, Vainica Doble. Participants: Cristian Cruz Minguez (as Celia), Ana Duato, Pedro Díez del Corral, Aurora Redondo, María Isbert, María Luisa Ponte, Silvia Munt, Fernando Valverde, Angel de Andrés López, Mario Maranzána.
| | Plot: | Celia is a seven year-old girl living in Madrid with her middle class family in the early 1930's. Her imagination and energy are the impulse behind numerous adventures which make home life anything but dull, both for Celia and for her parents.
Contents: Soy Celia --; Doña Benita --; El verano --; En el colegio --; Ni santa ni mártir --; Sola.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. TV Series. Literary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cervantes: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | | Director: | Alfonso Ungría | | Format: | 4 videodiscs ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL; REgion All); Dolby Digital 5.1 stereo. | | Imprint: | Valladolid : Divisa Ediciones, 2002 | | Language: | Spanish; optional subtitles in German, French, English, Italian, or Portuguese.
| | Notes: | Videorecording of the 1980 television miniseries in 9 episodes. Radiotelevision Española presenta ; guión, Daniel Sueiro, Manuel Matji, Isaac Montero, Eugenio Martín ; una seria dirigida por Alfonso Ungría ; productor, Faustino Ocaña. Director of photography, Francisco Fraile; music, Antón Garcia Abril. Participants: Julian Mateos, Carmen Maura, Carlos Lucena, Francisco Rabal.
| | Plot: | Friends and enemies of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra share their memories of episodes in the life of the author.
1.; Capítulos 1 y 2.; Una vida de fama e infortunio ; El licenciado Vidriera ; Entrevista con Alfonso Ungria; (ca. 106 min.)
2.; Capítulos 3 y 4.; El trazo de Cdrvantes ; El 12 de octubre de Cervantes; (ca. 106 min.)
3.; Capítulos 4 y 6.; La batalla de Lepanto ; La Mancha de Cervantes; (ca. 105 min.)
4.; Capítulos 7, 8 y 9.; Galería ; Cervantes en 7 enígmas; (ca. 141 min.).
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. TV Series. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Chatarra | | Director: | Félix Rotaeta | | Format: | 1 videocassette (96 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 [PAL] | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Lauren Films Video Hogar; Avanti Films, c1991. | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Director. Félix Rotaeta. Screenwriter: Michel Gaztambide, Félix Rotaeta, Domingo Sánchez, José Antonio Vitoria (Story: Michel Gaztambide). composer: Carlos Miranda. Cast. Carmen Maura, Mario Gas, Rosario Flores, Álex Casanovas, María Orozco, Santi Ricart, Pere Ponce, María Reniu, Walter Vidart. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991.
| | Plot: | Zabu vive con su hija Lola en una pequeña ciudad industrial. Hace doce años que huyó de un policía al que estuvo unida. Vien realquiladas en casa de Lino un pequeño delincuente. Zabu tiene un sueño, huir a Australia donde parece que tiene un hermano pero el policía intentará impedírselo, él quiere retirarla de la mala vida y formar una familia. Una de las mejores interpretaciones de Carmen Maura y dirigida magistralmente por Félix Rotaeta.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cha cha chá | | Director: | Antonio del Real | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Miami, Fla.: Distribuido por Venevision International, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish, with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1998 motion picture. Sogepaq S.A. presenta una producción de César Benítez para Sogetel ; en asociación 5 Telecinco y la participación de Canal+ ; productor ejecutivo, Cesar Benitez ; guión, Fernando Leon y Carlos Asorey Brey ; director, Antonio del Real. Director de fotográfia y camara, Juan Amoros ; director artisitico, Luis Valles ; montador, Miguel A. Santamaria ; música original, Pablo Miyar ; director de producción, Alejandro Vázquez. Participants: Eduardo Noriega, Ana Alvarez, Maria Adánez, Jorge Sanz, Gabino Diego, Marta Belaustegui, Elisa Matilla, Antonio Medina.
| | Plot: | Antonio del Real directed this Spanish romantic comedy focusing on ad-agency career girl Lucia (Ana Alvarez) and her best friend, dance teacher Maria (Maria Adanez). Maria's boyfriend is the sexist Pablo (Jorge Sanz). One night Lucia puts away too much alcohol, sleeps with Pablo, and hatches a plan to have Pablo all to herself by finding a new man for Maria. She chooses unemployed actor Antonio (Eduardo Noriega), a handsome guy but not too bright. Since Antonio's brain in Spain is mainly on the wane, Lucia is forced to do a My Fair Lady upgrade on the raw material -- by educating Antonio during several Pygmalion-styled sessions.
| | Subjects: | Feature films, Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Las chicas de hoy en día. | | Director: | Fernando Colomo | | Format: | 2 videocassettes (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. +; 1 videoguide (24 p. ; 22 cm.). VHS format. | | Imprint: | Iowa City, Iowa : PICS/The University of Iowa,c1990. | | Language: | In Spanish; cass.1 has both unsubtitled and English subtitled versions.
| | Notes: | Videoguide dated: c1990. Videocassette release of previously issued productions. Participants: Carmen Conesa, Diana Peñalver. Una producción el Catalejo P.C. para Television Española ; director de producción Felix Rodriguez ; dirección Fernando Colomo. photography, Javier Salmones.
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1. Se conocen (with & w o subtitles, 60 min.)
2. Buscan la vida (30 min.)
| | Plot: | Two young women travel to Madrid to become actresses.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Spanish language. Study and teaching. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El chocolate Del Loro | | Director: | Ernesto Martín | | Format: | 1 videodiscs : (92 min.) sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid: Columbia Tristar, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish optional subtitles in English, French
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004. Guión: Jaime Miraval, Agustín Poveda, Ernesto Martín y Rafael Gerhard.
Producción: José María Calleja y Enrique Cerezo. Música: Paco Musulén y Luis Elices. Fotografía: Alfonso Postigo.
Montaje: Fernando Guariniello. Interpretación: Borja Elgea (Emilio), Roger Pera (Salvador), Paula Echevarría (Patricia), Jorge Sanz (Javier), Jesús Bonilla (Don Torcuato), Enrique San Francisco (Rafael), Nathalie Seseña (Feli), Miguel Rellán (Don Agustín), María Garralón (Mayte), Rosario Pardo (Gladis), Mario Arias (Olmedo).
| | Plot: | Emilio is a bag of nerves because the date of his selection exam is getting nearer. He’s lost confidence in himself. The library is shut for the holidays and he can’t study at home because there’s no space. He’s only got one friend, Patricia, and he is secretly in love her. Her boyfriend Javier is another candidate for the exams who humiliates Emilio with sarcastic remarks and contempt. Don Torcuato, his tutor, warns him that he’s weak in some subjects and suggests he should concentrate on studying in a quiet place. A sudden turn of fate provides him with a house to take care of while its owner (his Uncle Rafael) is on holiday. The first few days in the house are a blessing but suddenly Salvador, a mate from university, bursts in on the scene disrupting his existence, complicating his life and putting a strain on life with the neighbours.
Emilio (Borja Elgea) representa la figura del “eterno” opositor. Instalado en la treintena, pa-rece que su vida nunca va a salir a flote: “vive en un piso pequeño, lleno de padres, de her-manos y de ruidos” como le recuerda su odio-so preparador don Torcuato (Jesús Bonilla), y Patricia (Paula Eche-varría), la mujer de sus sueños, sale con Javier (Jorge Sanz), un pi-jo repelente que se ríe de él siempre que tiene oportunidad. Ante este panorama Emilio está empezando a perder los nervios, tiene sueños muy extraños y a veces éstos se mezclan con la realidad cotidiana. Cuando parece que todo está a punto de reventar, apare-ce una solución mágica: el tío Rafael (Enrique San Francisco), hombre de buena posición económica, deja libre su chalet todo el verano, y los padres de Emilio deciden que vaya allí una temporada y así preparar en condiciones el último examen. Parece que por fin la paz y el silencio le permitirán a Emilio organizarse su tiempo. Sin embargo, un compañero de carrera llamado Salva (Roger Pera) aparece por sorpresa, y ante lo aparentemente “desesperado” de su situación, Emilio decide invitarle a pasar unos días a cambio de liberarle del trabajo doméstico. La llegada del nuevo inquilino (y su perro Stallone) trae consigo que la tranquilidad que pretendía Emilio se vayan definitivamente al garete: un vecino con un carácter impo-sible, una vidente y su criada, dos perros y un loro son los elemen-tos que formarán parte de la peor de las pesadillas de Emilio. Para colmo, su estratagema para tratar de conquistar a Patricia se ve abortada por el carácter demasiado “extrovertido” de Salva, siempre en el centro de todos los problemas. Mientras el examen final se acerca cada vez más, Patricia parece que se aleja de su vida sin remedio y Salva está pegado como una lapa. ¿Cómo poner fin a to-do esto sin perder la cabeza?
(La Butaca)
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El Cid | | Director: | Anthony Mann | | Format: | 2 videodiscs (183 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1). First half of film plays on 1st disc, film is continued on 2nd disc | | Imprint: | Weinstein Company ; Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by Genius Products, 2008 | | Language: | English dialogue, with optional Spanish subtitles or English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1961. Written by Fredric M. Frank and Philip Yordan ; produced by Samuel Bronston ; directed by Anthony Mann ; a Samuel Bronston production in association with Dear Film Production. Music, Miklos Rozsa ; director of photography, Robert Krasker ; editor, Robert Lawrence. Participants: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Genevieve Page, John Fraser, Gary Raymond, Hurd Hatfield, Massimo Serato, Herbert Lom. Special features: Disc 1: Feature commentary with Bill Bronston and Neal M. Rosendorf; vintage radio interviews with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren; still galleries; filmographies. Disc 2: Hollywood conquers Spain: the making of El Cid; Samuel Bronston: the epic journey of a dreamer; behind the camera: Anthony Mann and El Cid; Miklós Rózsa: maestro of the movies; preserving our legacy: Gerry Byrne on film preservation and restoration; trailer gallery.
| | Plot: | Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, who has been dubbed El Cid by his followers, vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Showing clemency to some emirs, he faces treason charges at court. His accuser, Gomez, father of his fiancee, Chimene, dies in the resulting duel. Chimene's avowed vengeance plot fails and Rodrigo is given her hand. When King Ferdinand dies, his kingdom is divided between his three children. Sancho challenges the decision and imprisons Alfonso, who is released by El Cid. Then Sancho is assassnated by an African war-lord. Alfonso now claims that throne, too, and exiles El Cid. Chimene realizes the nobility of her husband and joins him. The years pass and El Cid becomes a revered warrior, but refuses to aid Alfonso. He lays siege to Valencia, catapulting food into its starving garrison. The Valencians kill their evil ruler and offer the crown to El Cid. He sends it to Alfonso, who rushes to his side. But El Cid has been hit by a stray arrow. Attended by Chimene, he hides the wound from his men and prepares a final bid to drive the Moors from Spain.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. United States | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El cielo abierto / Ten Days Without Love | | Director: | Miguel Albaladejo | | Format: | 1 videodisc (104 min.) : col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, 2004 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue with Spanish, English and French subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videodisc recording of a motion picture made in 2000. Una pelicula de Miguel Albaladejo. Aurum presenta una producción de Bailando en la Luna. Guion: Elvira Lindo & Miguel Albadalejo (Argumento: Elvira Lindo. Musica: Lucio Godoy
Fotografia: Alfonso Sanz. Reparto: Sergi López, Mariola Fuentes, Maria José Alfonso, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Geli Albadalejo, Elvira Lindo, Javier Dorado, Marcela Wallerstein, Mario Aras, Antonio Muñoz Molina.
| | Plot: | A psychiatrist must take some time off from helping others as he tries to come to term with his own troubles in this subtle comedy-drama. Miguel (Sergi Lope) is an analyst whose wife Sara (Marcela Wallerstein) has left him for another man; to add insult to injury, Miguel learns that his wife's new lover happens to be his father. Meanwhile, Sara's mother Elvira (Maria Jose Alfonso) has arrived in town for a visit, and with Sara out of town, Miguel has to pick her up from the airport and play host at a time when he would prefer not to have any visitors. As Miguel turns to his assistant Carola (Geli Albaladejo) for help, he discovers that Paquito (Javier Dorado), one of his patients, has run off his wallet. Miguel sets out to find Paquito, but reaches a dead end with his sister Jasmina (Mariola Fuentes), who has the wallet but has already spent Miguel's money.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El cielo gira / The Sky Turns | | Director: | Mercedes Álvarez | | Format: | 1 videodisc (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region 2) | | Imprint: | Madrid: 2005 | | Language: | Spanish with optional subtitles in English and French.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004. Dirección: Mercedes Álvarez; Guión: Mercedes Álvarez y Arturo Redín. Fotografía: Alberto Rodríguez. Música: Varios. Montaje: Sol López y Guadalupe Pérez. Intérpretes Antonino Martínez; Silvano García; José Fernández; Cirilo Fernández; Pello Azketa (Pintor).
| | Plot: | En Aldealseñor, un pueblo de los páramos altos de Soria, quedan hoy 14 habitantes. Son la última generación, después de mil años de historia ininterrumpida. Hoy, la vida continúa. Dentro de poco, se extinguirá sin estrépito y sin más testigos. Los vecinos de Aldealseñor y el trabajo del pintor Pello Azketa comparten algo en común: las cosas han comenzado a desaparecer delante de ellos. La narradora vuelve a su origen y asiste a ese final al tiempo que intenta recuperar una imagen primera del mundo, de la infancia.
Located in the most depopulated area of Europe, the province of Soria, where more than 75% of the population is over 75 years old, in the village of Aldeaseñor, there are 14 inhabitants; the youngest is 48 years old, the oldest a woman born in 1900. They are the last generation after an uninterrupted history of more than eight centuries. Nothing now can change the ticking away of time in this world which is folding in upon itself. Nowadays life continues. In a short time it will die out without a sound and without witnesses. For the visitor this landscape of moors and pine woods has been kept strangely intact and virginal without traces of the passing of time. This world forms part of the personal and artistic interests of the 48 year old painter, Pello Azketa who comes to the village along with his wife with the intention of renting a house and spending a short time there..
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La ciudad de los prodigios. | | Director: | Mario Camus. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (146 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital | | Imprint: | Madrid : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1999 | | Language: | Spanish; French, Catalan, and English subtitles available.
| | Notes: | Institut del Cinema Català, S.A. Barcelona Tanaïs Com Paris Continentalfilmes Lisboa En coproducción con Sogedasa (Barcelona), Cartel (Madrid), France 3 Cinéma (París), SFP (París) Con la participación de: TVE Via Digital TVC France 3 Canal + RTP Y el apoyo de: ICAA Eurimages (Consejo de Europa) IPACA . Una película de Mario Camus. Con guión de Gustau Hernandez, Mario Camus, Olivier Rolin. Basada en la novela homónima de Eduardo Mendoza. Producida por Joan Antoni Gonzàlez I Serret. Director de Fotografía Acacio De Almeida. Música De Jean Marie Sénia.
| | Plot: | Onofre Bouvila llega a Barcelona huyendo de un turbio asunto de familia. Allí nadie le conoce. Aunque en la ciudad de los prodigios, los dioses de la venganza nunca olvidan un nombre y los hilos del destino tejen extraños ajustes de cuentas. Con el único afán de construir su nueva vida, Onofre Bouvila descubre una ciudad sometida por los caciques, dominada por mafias enfrentadas en una guerra cruel, desgarrada por los ideales del nuevo siglo, y no tarda en comprender la moral de su tiempo: el rostro de abuso, de la represión y el miedo.El rostro de la corrupción y de la sangre. Y del dinero. Dinero. Grandes sumas de dinero... Ahora, la venganza es su oportunidad. La traición y la muerte, sus armas. Y la ambición puede ser la tumba del amor. De su único amor, Delfina.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Barcelona. Literary adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El clavo.
| | Director: | Rafael Gil. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (87 min.) ; sd., b&w. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL). | | Imprint: | Madrid : Clasico Español : Distribuido por Divisa Ediciones, 1997 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Una producciónn de Cifesa. Director: Rafael Gil, basada en el relato de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón.. Participants: Amparo Rivelles, Milagros Leal, Irene Caba Alba, Rafel Duran. Originally released as a feature film in 1944
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El magistrado Javier Zarco tuvo una aventura de amor que los a;os no logran borrar de su recuerdo. En un viaje en diligencia conoci’o a una enigmatica viajera, Blanca y llegaron a prometerse< pero ella, alegando tener que cumplir ciertos deberes, se ausenta y desaparece. Cierto dia, actuando de juez en un pueblo castellano, Javier entra en el cementerio y halla un craneo atravesado por un clavo. Sospechando un crimen que permanece oculto, decide hacer las averiguaciones necesarias para esclarecerlo y efectivamente, tras tenaces averiguaciones, da con la supuesta autora del crimen, una tal Gabriela Zanara. Marcha a Madrid y durante su ausencia deja encomendado a un empleado del juzgado que siga las averiguaciones. En Madrid encuentra a su antiguo amor. Renace el amor y prometen no separarse nunca.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El cochecito / The little coach | | Director: | Marco Ferreri. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (90 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. VHS. | | Imprint: | New York : Kino on Video, c1985. | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videocassette release of motion picture produced in 1960. [presented by] Jerry Winters ; director, Marco Ferreri ; producida por Pedro Portabella. Based on the novel: El cochecito Rafael Azcona. Screenplay, Rafael Azcona, Marco Ferreri ; music, Miguel Asins Arbo. Cast: Jose Isbert, Jose A. Lepe, Maria Luisa Ponte. Best Film, Venice Film Festival.
| | Plot: | Black comedy about an old man who wants a motorized wheelchair so he can ride through town with his disabled friends.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El coche de pedales / The Pedal Push Car | | Director: | Ramón Barea | | Format: | 1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region 2) | | Imprint: | Madrid: 2005 | | Language: | Spanish or Portuguese with optional subtitles in English and French
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004. Dirección: Ramón Barea. Guión: Ramón Barea; Felipe Loza; Fotografía: Francisco Belda; Música: Joao Gil; Montaje: Julia Juániz. Intérpretes: Álex Angulo (Don Pablo); Rosana Pastor (Estrella); María Pastor (Estrellita); Mikel Losada (Ángel); Isabel Ruth (Abuela).
| | Plot: | Durante la Semana Santa del año 59, en el tragicómico paisaje social de la España franquista, radiofónica y con bombillas de pocos watios, transcurre la fábula de la crónica sentimental de un niño de nueve años: Pablito. Pablito desea el coche de pedales que ve en un escaparate cerca de su casa. Su familia -clase media con mala suerte-, sufre la sorda presión familiar de la otra parte de la familia -clase media con buena suerte y mejores influencias-. El deseo del coche y la esperanza de conseguirlo que le alientan sus padres llevan al niño, hucha en ristre, a un viaje extraño al abigarrado y sorprendente mundo familiar lleno de mentiras y chantajes. Pablito sobrevive sentimentalmente en ese ambiente gracias a su capacidad para obtener en la imaginación las respuestas que sus padres y sus educadores no le brindan. Pablito creará su propio final feliz.
During The Easter Week of 1959, immersed in the tragic comical social milieu of Franco´s Spain, where the radio is still the center of the household, and where the light bulbs continue to work with few watts, the tale of a melodramatic account of the life of a nine-year old boy: Pablito. Pablito dearly wants to get a pedal-push car which he sees in a neighbourhood shop.
His family are lower middle-class, a bit down on their luck - and they are suffering from a stressful comparison with other relatives of the family who have more bourgeoisie pretensions, better luck and some good connections. The desire for the pedal-push car, and with the hopes of attaining it thanks to some stimulation from his parents and with his savings box at the ready, takes him on a strange journey into the colourful and surprising family background full of lies and deceits. Pablito will survive this family melodrama and all its milieu thanks to his capacity for obtaining from his imagination the answers to some questions that his parents and teachers don´t provide for him. Pablito will create his own happy ending..
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La colmena. | | Director: | Mario Camus. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (108 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital 5.1. | | Imprint: | Madrid : Suevia Films. 2000, 1982 | | Language: | In Spanish with optional English, and Spanish subtitles available
| | Notes: | Basada en la novela de Camilo José Cela ; Originally produced as a motion picture in 1982. Agata Films José Luis Dibildos. Adaptation, screenplay, dialogue, José Luis Dibildos ; photography, Hans Burnmann ; director, Mario Camus. More Corp Auth: Agata Films. ; Video Center Internacional. .Adaptation of a 23 actors in alphabetical order from Victoria Abril to Concha Velasco.
| | Plot: | Three days in the lives of numerous persons in Madrid in December, 1943, a period of hardship during the bitter aftermath of the Civil War.
Subjects: Feature films. Spain, Literary Adaptation
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain, Literary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Colegas / Pals. | | Director: | Eloy de la Iglesia | | Format: | 1 videocassette (117 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in VHS Format | | Imprint: | Los Angeles, CA : Award Films, 1982 | | Language: | In Spanish with English subtitles
| | Notes: | Guión cinematográfico escrito por Gonzalo Goicoechea y Eloy de la Iglesia ; productor ejecutivo, José A. Pérez Giner ; director, Eloy de la Iglesia. Photography, Hans Burman, Antonio Cuevas ; editor, José Salcedo ; music, Miguel Botafogo.Participants: Antonio, Rosario González, José Luis Manzano, José Manuel Cervino, Queta Ariel, Enrique San Francisco.
| | Plot: | Portrays three young members of present day Madrid-s lost generation. When Antonio-s sister becomes pregnant by José, his best friend, they band together to deal with the situation
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Columbus on trial | | Director: | Lourdes Portillo | | Format: | 1 videocassette (18 min., 3 sec.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. | | Imprint: | San Francisco : Xochitl Films, | | Language: | English
| | Notes: | Originally produced in 1992. Producer and director, Lourdes Portillo ; screenplay, Richard Montoya, et al.. Cinematography, Kyle Kibbe ; art director, Alessandro Moruzzi ; editor, Vivien Hillgrove ; music, Perez Prado, Danda Taurina de Genaro Nunez. Participants: Herbert Siguenza, Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, Roberta Delgado, Terry Delgado, Terry Coleman, Charo Toledo, Xochitl Perales, Carlos Scarlata, Maimonides Herrero, Andy Serrano, Jessica Jojola, Beatriz Flores, Maria Luna, Lupe Saavedra, Eric Martinez, Tad Anderson.
| | Plot: | A satire on the controversy surrounding Christopher Columbus as to whether he, indeed, did discover America and introduce European civilization and Christianity to the native populations there, or if he (from the Native American point of view) invaded their territories and began the systematic destruction of their cultures that has continued for the following 500 years. Set in the context of a trial presided over by a woman judge of Hispano-American descent.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Short films. America Discovery and exploration. Humor. Columbus, Christopher. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El color de las nubes / Color of the clouds | | Director: | Mario Camus | | Format: | 1 videodisc (109 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Coral Gables, FL : Distributed by Venevision International, c2004. | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Released as a motion picture in 1997. Based on a story by Mario Camus. Una producción de Urbana Films con la colaboración de Sogepac ; productor, Pilar Ruiz ; guión, Miguel Rubio y Mario Camus ; director, Mario Camus. Director of photography, Jaume Peracaula ; music, Sebastián Mariné ; film editing, José María Biurrun.
| | Plot: | A small Spanish town in the extreme west of Spain's northern Cantabria shoreline, an old carpenter and furtive fisherman who finds smuggled drugs, a young girl who sells environmental products, a lawyer who falls in the girl's snares, a Spanish boy who pretends he is from Bosnia, and a drug trafficking gang ... What seems like several unrelated stories in reality reveal themselves as an intertwined series of adventures, where the solidarity of some against the greed of others leads to an unexpected end.
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| Title: | Como ser mujer y no morir en el intento / How to be a woman and not die in the process | | Director: | Ana Belén | | Format: | 1 videocassette (96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS Format | | Imprint: | S.l.] : Iberoamericana Films ; United States: First Look Pictures (dist.), 1998 | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles
| | Notes: | Una producción Iberoamericana Films en asociación con Atrium Productions, S.A. y I.D.E.A., S.A. y Televisión Española, S.A. Director, Ana Belen ; story and streenplay, Carmen Rico Godoy ; director of photography, Juan Amoros ; editor, Carmen Frias ; music, Antonio García, Pancho Varona, Mariano Diaz. Originally released as a motion picture in 1991. Participants: Carmen Maura, Antonio Resines, Tina Sainz, Juan Diego Botto, Olaya Aguirre, Victor García, Enriqueta Carballeira, Asunción Balaguer, Carmen Conesa, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Miguel Rellán. The directorial debut of veteran actress Ana Belen.
| | Plot: | Carmen-s life is complicated. At 42 she is married to her third husband, Antonio, and has two children from previous marriages. She tries to carry on her professional career, without neglecting her relationship with Antonio, the house, her friends, or the emotional needs of the children.
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| Title: | La comunidad. | | Director: | Alex de la Iglesia. | | Format: | 2 videodiscs (ca. 112 min.) . sd., col. 4 3 4 in.. DVD (Region 2), | | Imprint: | Barcelona . Manga Films, 2000 | | Language: | Spanish; In Spanish with English subtitles available.
| | Notes: | Una pelicula de Alex de la Iglesia; Lolafilms, S.A. Director, Alex de la Iglesia; screenplay, Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Alex de la Iglesia; music, Roque Baños; cinematography, Kiko de la Rica. Videodisc release of the 2000 motion picture. Special features include: filmographies, theatrical trailer, photo gallery, and featurette on the making of the film. Participants: Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuña, María Asquerino, Jesús Bonilla.
Contents: Disc 1. Película -- Disc 2. Extras.
| | Plot: | Julia, a hard-working real estate agent, finds 300 million pesetas hidden in a dead man-s apartment, and is forced to face the wrath of a very peculiar community of neighbors led by an unscrupulous administrator.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cómicos. | | Director: | Juan Antonio Bardem | | Format: | 1 videocassette (88 m.) . sd., col. VHS | | Imprint: | Valladolid : Divisa Ediciones, 1999, Series: Clásico español; | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videocassette release of the 1954 motion picture. Interpretación: Christian Galvé, Fernando Rey, Emma Penella, Mariano Asquerino, Carlos Casaravilla, Rosario García Ortega, Rafael Alonso, Manuel Alexandre, Matilde Muñoz Sampedro. Argumento: Juan Antonio Bardem. Guión: Juan Antonio Bardem. Fotografía: Ricardo Torres. Música: Isidro B. Maiztegui. Montaje: Antonio Gimeno. Producción: Ricardo Sanz Unión Films.
| | Plot: | Una modesta compañía de teatro recorre la geografía española en unas condiciones bastante precarias, pero con la ilusión de triunfar algún día en la profesión. Una joven meritoria de la compañía, con una especial ambición de éxito, se ve en la disyuntiva de elegir entre seguir con las relaciones sentimentales con su novio o aceptar las proposiciones que le hace un personaje influyente que le promete lanzarla en la profesión. Estupenda película sobre el mundo del teatro.
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| Title: | Contra el viento / Against the wind. | | Director: | Paco Perinan | | Format: | 1 videocassette (89 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS, Hi-fi, mono. | | Imprint: | [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Meridian Video Corp. : Mirada, 1995, c1990. | | Language: | In Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Title on cassette label: Paco Perinan-s Against the wind. Directed by Paco Perinan, screenplay by Paco Perinan ; produced by Eduardo Campoy and Antonio Perez. 1995 videocassette release of a 1990 film. Cinematography by Gerard De Battista ; music by Ramon Farran. Cast: Antonio Banderas, Emma Suarez, Rosario Flores.
| | Plot: | Juan and Ana are involved in an incestuous relationship. To escape Juan flees to a virtually uninhabited area of Andalucia. After a year-s separation, Ana decides to visit him and to move into his house. To defend himself Juan tries to return the love of Rosario, but only finds himself becoming more and more involved with Ana.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La Corte de faraón | | Director: | José Luis García Sánchez | | Format: | 1 videodisc (98 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Suevia films, 2003 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue with optional Spanish and English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985. Luis Sanz presenta ; de Perrín y Palcios ; versión, Rafael Azcona, J.L. García Sánchez ; una produccíon Lince Filmes en colaboración con T.V.E., S.A. ; une película de José Luis García Sánchez. Director of photography, José Luis Alcaine; music, V. Lleo; musical director, Luis Cobos; editor, Pablo G. del Amo. Participants: Ana Belén, Fernando Fernán Gomez, Antonio Banderas, Josema Yuste, Agustín González, Quique Camoiras, Mary Carmen Ramírez.
| | Plot: | A Spanish theatre company in the late 1940s presents a politically controversial zarzuela and runs afowl of government censors, with hilarious results.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Corazón de bombón | | Director: | Alvaro Sáenz de Heredia | | Format: | 1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | | Imprint: | Coral Gables, Fla. : Venevision International, 2003 | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. Un film de Alvaro Sáenz de Heredia. Editing, Alberto G. Triguero ; writing, Marga Mareo ; music, Mario de Benito. Editing, Alberto G. Triguero ; writing, Marga Mareo ; music, Mario de Benito.
| | Plot: | "Luis is a very lucky guy. He is handsome and nice, and has managed to make people believe he is a writer though in fact, he does not do much of it. He is very successful with women and right now is being kept by Marga, a rich lady in her forties who has promised him to mediate with her husband, a book editor, so he will publish Luis' novel. As a result of one of his predicaments, he has to run away disguised as a woman and here a funny adventure begins"--Container.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El corazón del guerrero / Heart of the warrior | | Director: | Daniel Monzón. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.20:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo. | | Imprint: | Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2006 | | Language: | Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Warner Home Video ; written and directed by Daniel Monzón. Una produccion de Tornasol Films S.A. En asociacion con Cartel y una colaboración especial de Adria Collado. Guion y direccion, Daniel Monzon ; producida por Gerardo Herrero. Performer Fernando Ramallo, Neus Asensi, Joel Joan, Javier Aller, Santiago Segura.
| | Plot: | Sixteen-year-old Ramon escapes the boredom of his dull life by daydreaming he is a warrior in a fantasy world. When the fantasy realm begins to mix with his real life, the serious trouble begins.
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| Title: | Cosas que dejé en la Habana / Things I Left in Havana | | Director: | Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | | Format: | 1 videodisc (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. System Info: DVD (Region 2), PAL standard, Dolby Digital 5.1. | | Imprint: | Madrid; Sogepaq Video, 1999, 1997 | | Language: | Spanish; In Spanish with optional English and French subtitles available.
| | Notes: | Sogetel y Tornasol Films; con la participación de Canal+ (España) Director writer, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón; music, José María Vitier; screenplay, Senel Paz; cinematograph, Teo Escamilla. More Corp Auth: Sogepaq Video (Firm) ; Sogetel (Firm) ; Tornasol Films. ; Studio Canal+ Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. Special features: bonus trailer, filmographies and proofs from posters. Presented in a format that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio, 1.85:1. Participants: Jorge Perugorría, Violeta Rodríguez, Kiti Manver
| | Plot: | Three young, charming and beautiful sisters leave Cuba in search for the good life in Spain. Once in Madrid, they move in with their aunt who owns a sweatshop that makes fur coats. Since they lack work permits, their aunt plans to marry them off to suit her own interests. But a friend of their aunt-s decides to protect the girls from these manipulations. That is until the friend and one of the sisters ends up falling in love with the same man.
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| Title: | Cosas que nunca te dije /
Things I never told you | | Director: | Isabel Coixet | | Format: | 1 videodisc (93 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Barcelona, Spain : DeAPlaneta, 2004 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1995 motion picture. A film by Isabel Coixet in association with Carbo Films. Writer/director, Isabel Coixet ; producers, Dora Medrano, Javier Carbo, Eddie Saeta ; music, Alfonso Vilallonga ; executive producer, Luis Minarro. Participants: Andrew McCarthy, Lili Taylor, Debi Mazar, Alexis Arquette, Leslie Mann, Richard Edson, Seymour Cassel.
| | Plot: | Ann's boyfriend calls her from Prague. 25 days after leaving her at the airport he confess that he does not love her any more and that he is with another girl. Ann calls a phone line for desperate people finding Don at the other side of the line, a guy that seems unable to understand her problems. They meet by chance...
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| Title: | Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena | | Director: | Manuel Gómez Pereira | | Format: | 1 videodisc (84 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region 2) | | Imprint: | Madrid: 2005 | | Language: | Spanish with optional subtitles in English and Portuguese
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004. Dirección Manuel Gómez
Pereira.
Producción: César Benítez.
Guión: Yolanda García Serrano;
Carlos Molinero;
Joaquín Oristrell;
Luis Piedrahita;
Alberto Alonso.
Música: Bingen Mendizábal.
Fotografía: Juan Amorós.
Montaje: José Salcedo.
Vestuario: Margaret Watty.
Efectos especiales:
Nike Alonso.
Reparto: Ana Belén;
Eduard Fernández;
María Pujalte;
José Sacristán;
Rosario Pardo;
Zoe Berriatúa;
Carlos Wu;
Julen Kaniowski;
Carmen Balagué;
Carlos Kaniowsky.
| | Plot: | Hortensia is a bored office worker in the INEM (National Employment Office). She’s divorced and hasn’t had a relationship since her husband left her for a younger woman. She spends all her time looking after her son or at work and doesn’t pay any attention to the advice from América, her best friend, who tries to get her to live in the present. Now! Jorge, an ordinary guy, separated and optimistic is going to be the person in charge of changing her life. Convinced fate has decided to give him another chance he thinks Hortensia is the key to finding happiness. The relationships and affairs between Jorge, Hortensia, her best friend, Hortensia’s ex-husband, the new Chinese boyfriend of Jorge’s ex-wife, Jorge’s father and Hortensia’s son bring a acid, humoristic touch to this story..
Hortensia Ocaña Yebra (Ana Belén) es una cuarentona que trabaja en el INEM, divorciada y con dos hijos (uno pequeño que comparte con su ex y uno mayor que vive fuera de casa ya). Jorge (Eduard Fernandez) es otro cuarentón que ha perdido la ilusión. También divorciado, con una niña y en paro. Antes era profesor de autoescuela. El padre de Jorge (José Sacristán) es un tipo gruñón y que piensa que su hijo no vale para nada. Odia al novio de la ex de su hijo: un chino. La ex mujer de Jorge (María Pujalte) tiene la custodia de la niña y vive con un chino. Es peluquera.
Jorge y Hortensia se conocen cuando él va a buscar trabajo a la oficina del INEM, donde ella trabaja. A partir de ahí todo se enreda y se complica por casualidades que tanto Hortensia como Jorge se empeñan en buscar.
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| Title: | Cosa de brujas / The witch affair | | Director: | José Miguel Juárez. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Maverick Entertainment, 2004 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003. Alma Ata ; Buena Vista International y Buena Vista Home Entertainment (T.W.D.C.I., S.L.) ; Taznia Media ; en coproducción con Lusomundo Audiovisuais, S.A. ; guión, Amalio Cuevas, Agustín Poveda ; producida por José Ma. Calleja, et al. ; dirigida por José Miguel Juárez. Cinematography, José David Gonzalo ; editing, Guillermo Represa ; music, Mario de Benito. Participants: José Sancho, Manuela Arcuri, Antonio Hortelano, Alberto San Juan, Manuel Manquiña, Lidia San José, Agatha Fresco, Aitor Mazo, Valentín Paredes, Pilar Bardem, Jorge Sanz, Blaca Marsillach, Saturnino García, Susana Segorbe.
| | Plot: | One midsummer's eve in 1980, Miguel Gironza sets off a remote control detonator and blows up the car of his partner. Two strange old women have witnessed the murder. The next day, together with a young girl, they appear at the funeral. Gironza is completely taken aback when they tell him that from that day on, all his dreams will come true."--Container.
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| Title: | Cria cuervos. | | Director: | Carlos Saura. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (107 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS. | | Imprint: | Chicago, IL : Home Vision Cinema ; [Wilmette, Ill.] : Public Media Inc., c1998. | | Language: | In Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Producciones Cinematograficas, S.L. ; producer, Elias Querejeta ; writer and director, Carlos Saura Videocassette release of a 1975 motion picture. Letterboxed, digitally remastered. Includes original theatrical trailer. Teo Escamilla, cinematographer ; Federico Mompoll, music director. Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Monica Randall, Ana Torrent, Florinda Chico, Conchita Perez. Cannes Film Festival, Special Jury Prize.
| | Plot: | Surrounded by tragedy and death, a nine-year old girl comes to believe that she has the power of life and death over those close to her.
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| Title: | El Crimen de Cuenca. | | Director: | Pilar Miro. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL). | | Imprint: | Madrid : PolyGram, c1982. | | Language: | In Spanish
| | Notes: | Alfredo Matas ; una produccion de INCINE, Compa~nia Industrial Cinematografica, S.A., y Jet Films, S.A. Director, Pilar Miro ; executive producer, Alfredo Matas ; screenwriters, Salvador Maldonado, Pilar Miro ; music, Anton Garcia Abril. Videocassette release of the 1979 motion picture. Cast: Amparo Soler Leal, Hector Alterio, Daniel Dicenta, Jose Manuel Cervino, Fernando Rey.
| | Plot: | A realistically detailed film based on a true event in which two men were accused of killing a priest who disappeared from their town in the early 1900s. The men are tortured to elicit confessions in scenes which graphically portray the methods of the Guardia Civil. The film is a plea to end police brutality and provincial ignorance. Banned in Spain until 1982.
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| Title: | Un crisantemo estalla en Cincoesquinas / A Chrysanthemum burst in Cincoesquinas. | | Director: | Daniel Burman. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. | | Imprint: | New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Latin American Video Archives, 1997 | | Language: | In Spanish, with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a 1997 motion picture.
Burman Dubcovsky Cine, Planete Spots ; dirección, Daniel S. Burman ; libro cinematográfico, Daniel S. Burman con la colaboración de Pascual Massarelli ; productor ejecutivo, Diego Dubcovsky. " Con la participacion du Fonds Sud Cinema Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres ; producora asociada Unaine S.l. y Oficina de Imagem Cinema e TV"--Credits.
Credits: Editor, Veronica Chen ; director of photography, Esteban Sapir ; music, Antonio Tarragó Ros.
Performer: José Luis Alfonzo, Pastora Vega, Martín Kalwill, Valentina Bassi.
| | Plot: | As a child, Erasmo was left with a wet-nurse by his parents, who were obliged to escape a civil war. After his wet-nurse is murdered, he sets off in search of revenge. On his journey he meets the poor Jew Saul, who helps him in his undertaking. Throughout his mission he makes a friend, meets a first love, and confronts an enemy.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Argentina. Spain. Jews -- Latin America. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cria cuervos / Cría! the secret of Anna | | Director: | Carlos Saura | | Format: | 1 videodisc (107 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid: DVD Movie, 2003 | | Language: | Spanish; with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released in 1976 as a motion picture entitled Cría cuervos. Miracle Pictures presents. Larry Gordon presents a production of Elías Querejeta ; released by Jason Allyn ; written, produced, directed by Carlos Saura. Participants: Ana Torrent, Conchi Pérez, Maite Sánchez, Geraldine Chaplin, Monica Randall, Florinda Chico, Josefina Diaz, German Cobos, Hector Alterio, Mirta Miller.
| | Plot: | In haunting memories, a woman relives the disturbing summer of her father´s death. Outside her father´s bedroom door, the nine-year-old Ana hears him making love to his best friend´s wife, then take his last gasp of breath. When, years earlier, her mother died of cancer, Ana blamed her father; now she blames herself for his demise. In Saura´s compelling vision of the child´s world, past and present blend imperceptibly. Fantasy and reality become one as dead characters take their place beside the living. Cria! is graced by two remarkable actresses: Ana Torrent (The Spirit of the Beehive) as the guilt-ridden girl and Geraldine Chaplin (Peppermint Frappe) as both the grown-up Ana and her deceased mother.
Anna Torrent is a 9-year-old Spanish girl going on 35 in Cria! The story, both written and directed in quasi-autobiographical fashion by Carlos Saura, is told from her viewpoint. Torrent must contend with a passel of alleged grown-ups, whose grasp of the realities of life aren't nearly as solid as Torrent's. Foremost among these arrested adolescents is Geraldine Chaplin,. Originally titled Cria cuervos, this film won a special jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It has been released to some English-speaking countries as Raise Ravens..
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| Title: | Cria Cuervos | | Director: | | | Format: | 2 videodiscs (109 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet. | | Imprint: | Irvington, N.Y. : The Criterion Collection, 2007 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English subtitles
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1976. Janus Films ; Video Mercury Films, S.A. ; una produccion Elias Querejeta ; producers, Elías Querejeta, Carlos Saura ; argumento, guion, direccion, Carlos Saura. Cinematographer, Teodoro Escamilla ; editor, Pablo González del Amo ; original music, Federico Mompou ; costume designer, Maiki Marin ; set decorator, Rafael Palmero.
Disc 1: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; original theatrical trailer ; Disc 2: "Portrait of Carlos Saura:" a documentary on the life and career of the Spanish auteur; new interviews with actress Geraldine Chaplin and Ana Torrent. Accompanying booklet features a new essay by film scholar Paul Julian Smith.
| | Plot: | Eight-year-old Ana lives in Madrid with her two sisters. They are mourning the death of her mother, whom Ana conjures as a ghost. Evokes both the complex feelings of childhood and the struggles of a nation emerging from the shadows of Fascism.
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| Title: | Crimen ferpecto
| | Director: | Alex de la Iglesia. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (104 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2, PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Sogepaq ; 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004. Sogepaq ; une pelicula de Alex de la Iglesia. Producers, Roberto Di Girolamo, Gustavo Ferrada, Alex de la Iglesia; screenplay, Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Alex de la Iglesia; original music by Roque Baños. Participants: Guillermo Toledo, Mónica Cervera, Luis Varela, Enrique Vuillén, Fernando Tejero, Javier Gutierrez, Kira Miró, Rosario Pardo, Gracia Olayo. Special features include original theatrical trailer, cut scenes, director's commentary and filmographies.
| | Plot: | Black comedy thriller about a self-obsessed department store employee and ladies' man whose definition of the perfect life is thwarted by another employee.
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| Title: | Cronica del alba. | | Director: | Antonio J. Betancor. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (ca. 82 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS. | | Imprint: | [Culver City, CA] : Condor Video : distributed by Media Home Entertainment, c1987. | | Language: | Spanish, subtitled in English.
| | Notes: | Productor, Javier Moro, Carlos Escobedo ; director, Antonio J. Betancor ; guion, Lautaro Murua, et al. Based on: Cronica del alba Ramon J. Sender. Originally produced as motion picture in 1983. Photography, Juan A. Ruiz Anchia ; music, Riz Ortolani. Cast: Miguel Molina, Cristina Marsillach, Walter Vidarte.
| | Plot: | The story of Jose Garces during the year in which the anarchist rebellion takes place in Zaragoza, Spain. Adolescence and adulthood is marked by the conflict between his bourgeois background and revolutionary ideals, between his love for Valentina and his attraction for Isabelita.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cuando Vuelvas a mi Lado / By my side again / | | Director: | Gracia Querejeta | | Format: | 1 videodisc (97 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Spain: Urban Vision, 2003 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Albares Production, Blue Cinematografica, Continental Filmes, et al. ; producer, Elías Querejeta ; writers, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Elías Querejeta, Gracia Querejeta ; director, Gracia Querejeta. Director of photography, Alfredo F. Mayo ; art director, Llorenç Miquel ; editor, Nacho Ruiz Capillas ; original music, Ángel Illarramendi ; costume designer, Maiki Marín.Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Participants: Mercedes Sampietro, Jorge Perugorría, Julieta Serrano, Marta Belaustegui, Adriana Ozores, Rosa Mariscal, Ramon Barea, François Dunoyer, Giovanna Munoz
| | Plot: | Three estranged sisters meet up after the death of their mother to carry out her last wishes. She requested that her ashes be divided and given to three different people, one of which is their father who mysteriously disappeared in the 1960's.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Sisters -- Family relationships. Mothers -- Death. Funeral rites and ceremonies. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cuarteto de La Habana | | Director: | Fernando Colomo | | Format: | 1 videodisc (104 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2), PAL | | Imprint: | Madrid : Distribuido por Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2003 | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles available.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Una película de Fernando Colomo ; una producción de Aurum. Screenplay, Julio Carrillo; music, José María Vitier; cinematography, Livio Delgado. Participants: Ernesto Alterio, Mirtha Ibarra, Javier Cámara, Laura Ramos.
| | Plot: | Walter, a musician from Madrid, has many problems. After finding a videotape, he learns that something will change his whole life and put his Madrid trouble on hold.
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| Title: | Cuentame como paso / Tell Me How It Happened. | | Director: | Vicente Aranda | | Format: | 6 videocasetes (60 min each.); VHS, PAL. | | Imprint: | Madrid: Manga Films, 2002 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Spanish TV serie. When Televisión Española (TVE),bought the pilot episode’s script, it budgeted for three episodes. It ended up shooting 32, which are currently popular in reruns.
| | Plot: | (General): Cuentame Como Paso translates as Tell Me How It Happened, the story of a middle-class family, the Alcantaras; Dad Antonio, Mum Merche, and their three children, Inés, Toni and Carlitos. It-s 1968 and General Franco-s dictatorship is still alive and well. But things are starting to change (Franco died in 1975). The Alcantaras- 22-year-old daughter Ines returns from a London holiday wearing a miniskirt and with a long-haired English boyfriend. The series is told through the youngest son, eight year old Carlitos, and backed by the ubiquitous 60s soundtrack. With a global backdrop of the May 1968 Paris student riots and the Vietnam War, we get a glimpse of Spain in the midst of rampant police brutality and authoritarian rule.
Contents:
Vol. 1: El regreso del fugitivo.
Vol. 2: Un cielo lleno de futbolines
Vol. 3: A lo lejos el mar
Vol. 4: Las invasoras
Vol. 5: Paz, amor y fantasia
Vol. 11: Educación y mundologia
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. TV series. Francoism, 1939-1975. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cuentame como paso / Tell Me How It Happened. | | Director: | Vicente Aranda | | Format: | 6 videodiscs (ca. 16 hr.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD, PAL (Region 2.) | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Manga Films, 2001. | | Language: | In Spanish with Spanish subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of a Spanish television program that first aired in 2001.
TVE ; directors, Agustín Crespi, Ramón Fernández ; writers, Verónica Fernández, Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara. Performers : Imanol Arias, Ana Duato, María Galiana, Ricardo Gómez, Irene Visedo, Pablo Rivero.
| | Plot: | (General): Cuentame Como Paso translates as Tell Me How It Happened, the story of a middle-class family, the Alcantaras; Dad Antonio, Mum Merche, and their three children, Inés, Toni and Carlitos. It-s 1968 and General Franco-s dictatorship is still alive and well. But things are starting to change (Franco died in 1975). The Alcantaras- 22-year-old daughter Ines returns from a London holiday wearing a miniskirt and with a long-haired English boyfriend. The series is told through the youngest son, eight year old Carlitos, and backed by the ubiquitous 60s soundtrack. With a global backdrop of the May 1968 Paris student riots and the Vietnam War, we get a glimpse of Spain in the midst of rampant police brutality and authoritarian rule.
Contents:
Vol. 1: El regreso del fugitivo.
Vol. 2: Un cielo lleno de futbolines.
Vol. 3: A lo lejos el mar.
Vol. 4: Las invasoras
Vol. 5: Paz, amor y fantasia.
Vol. 6: El dia de la Raza.
Vol. 7: Amistades peligrosas.
Vol. 8: Las mejores huelgas de nuestra vida.
Vol. 9: Non Plus ultra
Vol. 10: Un hombre sin corazon.
Vol. 11: Educación y mundologia
Vol. 12: Un dia es un dia.
Vol. 13: Una nochebuena
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. TV series. Francoism, 1939-1975. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cuestión de suerte / Question of luck | | Director: | Rafael Moleon. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (102 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | United States : Tanelorn Films ; New York, NY : Distributed by New Yorker Video, 2003 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1996. Mate Production & Tornasol Films presentan con la colaboración de Sogapaq en associación con Fit Productions (Jean-Pierre Ramsay-Levi) ; producers, Mate Cantero, Gerardo Herreo, Javier Lopes Blanco, Stephane Sorlat ; writers, Carlos Perez Merinero, Luis Marias ; director, Rafael Moleon. Director of photography, Jean-Claude Larrieu ; art director, Gabriel Carrascal Manero ; editor, Jose Salcedo ; music, Bernardo Bonezzi. Participants: Anna Galiena, Eduardo Noriega, Marta Belaustegui, Leire Berrocal, Simon Andreu, Ion Gabella.
| | Plot: | On his way to meet his girlfriend, Julio comes across a car that appears to be abandoned. Upon a closer look he discovers a dead body and a cache of jewels. He gets rid of the car and body, taking the jewels back to his apartment. When the jewels go missing, Julio confronts his girlfriend Maria, who admits she took them.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Curso de verano | | Director: | Ernesto Martin. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo. | | Imprint: | United States : Distributed by Venevision International, 2006. | | Language: | Spanish; optional subtitles in English.
| | Notes: | Originally produced in 2004. Alma Alta International Picturess; director, Ernesto Martin. Director of photography, Alfonso Postigo ; editor, Fernando Guariniello ; writers, Ernesto Martin, Agustin Póveda ; original music, Luis Elices, Francisco Musulén. Performer Borja Elgea, Roger Pera, Paula Echevarria.
| | Plot: | Emilio's life isn't going too well. He has to spend all summer cramming for a test, he's in love with someone's girlfriend, and he has lost his confidence. He goes to a quiet summer house to study ... until the girl of his dreams arrives.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Dali | | Director: | Antonio Ribas | | Format: | 1 videodisc (106 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region 2) | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Manga Films, S.A. 2003 | | Language: | Spanish or English with optional subtitles in English and Spanish
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990. Director: Antonio Ribas. Writer: Screenplay: Enric Goma; Temistocles Lopez; Antonio Ribas; Miquel Sanz. Cast: Michael Catlin; Sarah Douglas; Francisco Guijar; Boris Lukanof; Rosa Novell; Emma Quer; Lorenzo Quinn; Katherine Wallach;
Dir of Photography: Macari Golferichs;
| | Plot: | Biography of famed artist Salvador Dali, focusing mainly on his relationship with girlfriend Gala and the time they spent in New York City in 1940 and his early days in Spain collaborating with filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
Not to be confused with a 1986 documentary film of the same name directed by Adam Low, this is a biographical film on the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Young Dali, already famous in Europe, arrives in New York in the 1940s because that's where the money is, and the war isn't. He and his companion Gala begin meeting with an American reporter for interviews, and in the process tell the story of Dali's life and early career. The ensuing flashbacks portray some famous artists that he met, worked with, and had conflicts with, for example Pablo Picasso, Garcia-Lorca, Luis Bunuel, or Jean Cocteau. The premier of Dali and Bunuel's groundbreaking 1929 surrealist film `Un chien andalou' is briefly depicted, showing snippets of the actual film and the audience's mixture of amazement and disgust at it. There is some recreation of surreal imagery from Dali's work, in the form of dream sequences or the distorted imaginings of Dali's fertile mind. The famous image of the `limp watches' from one of his best-known paintings appears as a sculpture in an imagined scene of Spanish Civil War refugees, the watches actually hanging from the trees and flapping in the wind. More sculpturally-rendered images from his paintings are in this scene as well. Other surrealist touches include some very odd costumes, and a scary, bizarre dream sequence at the start of the film. There is a fair amount of nudity in this film, none of which one would consider gratuitous, but consistent with the bohemian lifestyles and surreal visions that are its subject. (,i>From DaaVeeDee
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. Dali | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Dama de porto pim | | Director: | José Antonio Salgot. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (85 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2 PAL) | | Imprint: | Madrid: 2005 | | Language: | In Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of a 2001 motion picture. Basado en un cuento de Antonio Tabucchi. Guión: Toni Salgot y Jacobo López-Vilasaló; Producción: Eduardo Campoy y Juan Gona. Música: Mario de Benito. Fotografía: Javier Salmones. Montaje: José Mª Biurrum. Dirección de producción: Salvador Ginés. Dirección artística: Gil Parrondo. Interpretación: Emma Suárez (Lucía), Sergio Peris-Mencheta (Lucas), Antonio Resines (Español), Ismael Martínez (Miguel), Beatriz Segura (María), José Manuel Cervino (Eduino), May Heatherly (Mrs. Burnes), Denis Rafter (Mr. Perrin), Mayte Blasco (Madame Perrin), Oleg Federov (Pierre), José Antonio Izaguirre (Xofre V), Oriana Bonet (Mercedes), Armando del Río (Hans), Pep Guinyol (Mr. Dufour), Patricia Mendy (Fernanda).
| | Plot: | The movie tells the story of a rich woman who arrives at a little Portuguese island while her husband is in the II World War; there, a humble fisherman, promised to marry a girl of the town, falls in love with her, and she will also fall in love with him, but his husband could come back.
En 1944, al filo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, llega a la pequeña isla de Porto Pim Lucía (Emma Suárez), mujer madura y sofisticada acostumbrada a los lujos parisinos. Allí espera a Pierre, con el cual piensa establecerse en Buenos Aires, pero éste tiene dificultades para salir de Francia y se retrasa una y otra vez. En su tediosa espera Lucía conoce a Lucas (Sergio Peris-Mencheta), un joven cazador de ballenas en el que descubre cosas que nunca había encontrado en su sofisticado mundo y del cual se enamora perdidamente. Pero su apasionada historia de amor está atenazada por la inminente llegada de Pierre y el rechazo de la pequeña comunidad de la isla hacia Lucía.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La dama del alba | | Director: | Francisco Rovira Beleta. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region All) | | Imprint: | Valladolid: Divisa Home Video, 2004 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Originally issued as a motion picture in 1963. From the book with the same title by Alejandro Casona. Radiotelevisión Española presenta ; producción, Andres Gándara ; adaptación, dirección y realizacion, Gustavo Perez Puig. Cameras, Angel Prieto. Participants: Antonio Ferrandis, Encarna Paso, Ana Marzoa.
| | Plot: | "Una misteriosa peregrina, de paso para Santiago, aparece en una aldea asturiana. Esta mujer es albergada por una familia, cuyo abuelo, que cree reconocerla, teme por los posibles riesgos que puedan correr sus nietos"--
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Literary Adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La dama Boba | | Director: | Manuel Iborra. | | Format: | 1 videodiscs (98 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (PAL, Region 2). | | Imprint: | Valencia: S.A.V. , 2006 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006. Guión: Manuel Iborra; basado en la obra de Lope de Vega.
Producción: Álvaro Zapata, Belén Gómez y Edmundo Gil Casas.
Música: Luis Ivars.
Fotografía: Juan Molina Temboury.
Montaje: Iván Aledo. Dirección artística: Miguel Chicharro.
Vestuario: Lorenzo Caprile. Participantes: Silvia Abascal, Jose Coronado, Macarena Gomez, Roberto Sanmartín, Maria Vazquez
| | Plot: | "La dama boba" está ambientada en el siglo XVII y centra la trama en dos hermanas que se evaden de la sociedad machista de la época de dos formas muy distintas. Una, a través de los libros, y la otra, haciéndose la tonta. Pero la llegada de dos pretendientes las pone en competencia. La rivali-dad y el amor les harán descubrir sus verdaderas personalidades y la más boba resultará ser la más lista.
In Manuel Iborra's period-dress comedy La Dama Boba (aka Lady Nitwit, 2006), two 17th century sisters actively flee the patriarchal chauvinism and insensitivity that plagues their era. Each woman opts for a different route to get away from her suitors: one becomes a bibliophile and thus evades social interaction, the other disguises her intelligence by pretending to be the titular nitwit. But soon, two prospective lovers turn their heads, and ignite a feisty, funny competition between the girls that neither woman could have foreseen. In time, the sister widely perceived as ignorant reveals herself as the far more ingenious and cunning of the two siblings. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Demasiado corazón. | | Director: | Eduardo Campoy. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [PAL] | | Imprint: | Madrid : Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1993?] | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Videocassette release of a 1992 motion picture by Sociedad General de TV, S.A., and Flamenco Films Cartel. Executive producers, Edmundo Gil Casas, Fernando Garcillan ;director, Eduardo Campoy ; screenplay, Agustin Diaz Yanes ; music, Mario de Benito ; photography, Alfredo Mayo. Cast: Victoria Abril, Manuel Bandera, Pastora Vega, Monica Molina, Manuel Gil.
| | Plot: | Victoria Abril plays two sisters--cold and calculating Clara has married a rich man whom she does not love, and timid and sentimental Ana has decided to go to Cadiz. After the strange death of Clara-s husband, Ana returns. The police are investigating the death of Clara-s husband; an autopsy could mean jail for her. Clara must find a solution, and for this there is Ana. Just a slight change of appearance, and after an accident, nobody will be able to tell who has survived and who has died....
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Deprisa, deprisa / Faster faster. | | Director: | Carlos Saura. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (98 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format | | Imprint: | Chicago, IL : Home Vision Cinema ; [Wilmette, Ill.] : Public Media, c1998. | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Una produccion Elias Querejeta ; script, Blanca Astiasu ; escrita y dirigida, Carlos Saura ; producciones Cinematograficas, S.L., Consortium Pathe, Les Films Moliere. Originally released as a motion picture in 1981. Letterboxed, digitally remastered version with new subtitles. Credits Director of photography, Teo Escamilla ; editor, Pablo G. Del Amo. Performer Berta Socuellamos Zarco, José Antonio Valdelomar, Jesus Arias Aranzeque, José Ma Hervas Roldan.
This drama won the Golden Bear award as Best Movie in the 1981 Berlin Film Festival.
| | Plot: | Writer and director Carlos Saura here dramatizes the downward slide of four young people who started out with many strikes against them. Their maladjustment to poverty and the broken homes of their childhood results in stealing and serious crime as a way of life. As their dangerous exploits unfold, one of the young men falls in love with the lone female of the four. They take this as it is, without their romance having any effect on their lifestyle. Eventually, all four hit a bad scene when a robbery goes wrong. One is killed, the boyfriend is fatally wounded, and the remaining youth is put in jail. Suddenly, the young woman finds herself alone, with no friends and no support. Saura may be making a broader commentary on the ills of Spanish society here, especially since his earlier films had significant symbolic overtones. This drama won the Golden Bear award as Best Movie in the 1981 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Deprisa, deprisa / Faster faster. | | Director: | Carlos Saura. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2) PAL, Dolby digital. | | Imprint: | Barcelona : Manga Films S.L., c2002. | | Language: | Spanish.
| | Notes: | Una produccion Elias Querejeta ; script, Blanca Astiasu ; escrita y dirigida, Carlos Saura ; producciones Cinematograficas, S.L., Consortium Pathe, Les Films Moliere. Originally released as a motion picture in 1981. Credits Director of photography, Teo Escamilla ; editor, Pablo G. Del Amo. Performer Berta Socuellamos Zarco, José Antonio Valdelomar, Jesus Arias Aranzeque, José Ma Hervas Roldan. This drama won the Golden Bear award as Best Movie in the 1981 Berlin Film Festival.
| | Plot: | Writer and director Carlos Saura here dramatizes the downward slide of four young people who started out with many strikes against them. Their maladjustment to poverty and the broken homes of their childhood results in stealing and serious crime as a way of life. As their dangerous exploits unfold, one of the young men falls in love with the lone female of the four. They take this as it is, without their romance having any effect on their lifestyle. Eventually, all four hit a bad scene when a robbery goes wrong. One is killed, the boyfriend is fatally wounded, and the remaining youth is put in jail. Suddenly, the young woman finds herself alone, with no friends and no support. Saura may be making a broader commentary on the ills of Spanish society here, especially since his earlier films had significant symbolic overtones. This drama won the Golden Bear award as Best Movie in the 1981 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
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| Title: | Despues del sueño. | | Director: | Mario Camus | | Format: | 1 videocassette (106 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [PAL] | | Imprint: | [Madrid] : Sogetel, S.A. : Antea Films, S.A. : Distribuido por Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1993 | | Language: | Spanish .
| | Notes: | Una produccion Sogetel, S.A., Antea Films, S.A. ; en colaboracion con I.D.E.A. S.A. Una historia escrita para el cine por Mario Camus. Carmelo Gomez, Antonio Valero, Lluis Homar, Eulalia Ramon, Judith Masco, Jose Jorda, Vaclav Vodak, Ana Belen. Director, Mario Camus ; producer, Ricardo G. Arrojo ; story, Mario Camus ; screenplay, Luisa Ibarra ; photography, Jaume Peracaula ; muic, Carl PhilippEmanuel Bach.
| | Plot: | After many years of exile in Russia, Antonio Lanza returns to Spain. He visits his old brother, but he dies of a stroke the next day. His nephew Amos knows he had something of great value with him, but nobody can find it. The action unfold as a mixture of a detective, mystery and passion story. Eventually the treasure turns out to be a painting by Picasso dedicated to his uncle. At the end the painting finally hangs rightly on the wall of the old brother-s living room.
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| Title: | Los desafios / Challenges.
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