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Elvira Mínguez
Elvira Mínguez (born 23 July 1965) is a Spanish actress. Mínguez has appeared in such films as '' La cacatúa verde'' (1990), '' El carro de heno'' (1991), ''The Lucky Star'', ''Tapas'' (2005) and '' El desconocido'' (2015). Her television credits include '' Abuela de verano'', '' Mar de dudas'', ''Imperium'' and '' El tiempo entre costuras''. Filmography Films * ''La cacatúa verde'' (1990) * ''El carro de heno'' (1991) * ''Días contados'' (1994) - Lourdes * ''Historias del Kronen'' (1995) - Camarera * ''Cachito'' (1996) - Nati * ''Calor... y celos'' (1996) - Gaby * ''The Lucky Star'' (1997) - Ana Mari * ''Em dic Sara'' (1998) - Sara * '' Lágrimas negras'' (1998) - Marta * ''Diario para un cuento'' (1998) - Dolly * '' El invierno de las anjanas'' (2000) - María * ''El portero'' (2000) - Úrsula * '' Sólo mía'' (2001) - Andrea * ''The Dancer Upstairs'' (2002) - Llosa * ''Canícula'' (2002) - Isabel * ''Trece campanadas'' (2002) - Carmen * '' The Reckoning'' (2002) - M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valladolid
Valladolid () is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and de facto capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile and León. It is also the capital of the province of Valladolid, province of the same name. It has a population around 300,000 people (2021 est.). Population figures from 1 January 2013. The city is located roughly in the centre of the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula's Meseta Central, at the confluence of the Pisuerga River, Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers before they join the Duero, surrounded by winegrowing areas. The area was settled in pre-Roman times by the Celtic Vaccaei people, and then by Ancient Rome, Romans themselves. The settlement was purportedly founded after 1072, growing in prominence within the context of the Crown of Castile, being endowed with fairs and different institutions such as a collegiate church, University of Valladolid, University (1241), Court (royal), Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reckoning (2003 Film)
''The Reckoning'', also known as ''Morality Play'' (and as ''El misterio de Wells'' in Spain), is a 2003 British-Spanish murder mystery drama film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe, Tom Hardy, Gina McKee, Brian Cox and Vincent Cassel. It was written by Mark Mills and based on the 1995 novel ''Morality Play'' by Barry Unsworth. Filming was done on location in Spain, Wales, and England. The story, which is set during the medieval period in England, alludes to the evolution of the theatre arts from what was strictly Biblical morality plays in the period to dramas based on real or extra-Biblical fictional subjects. Plot In 1380, in England, the priest Nicholas ( Bettany) flees his village when found in flagrante delicto with a married woman. During flight, he witnesses a group euthanise a member to give him relief from his long-recurring internal pain. He becomes known to the group and is captured. The group is a travelling acting troupe who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Legacy Of The Bones
''The Legacy of the Bones'' ( es, Legado en los huesos, links=no) is a 2019 Spanish supernatural crime-thriller film directed by Fernando González Molina. The film is the second in the Baztán Trilogy and is an adaptation based on the eponymous novel by Dolores Redondo. It is a sequel to the 2017 thriller film '' The Invisible Guardian'' and is followed by '' Offering to the Storm''. Plot Amaia Salazar returns to the Baztán Valley to investigate suicides that have a mysterious and jarring pattern. She believes that the suicide cases are linked to a murder case which she solved in Northern Spain a year before. Salazar, who is pregnant and about to give birth to a baby boy, returns as the detective from The Invisible Guardian and leads the investigation. She also has to confront the challenges of her mentally ill and disturbed mother Rosario. At the City Court, Amaia Salazar and her team await the trial of Jason Medina who has been accused of the rape, mutilation and killing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everybody Knows (film)
''Everybody Knows'' ( es, Todos lo saben, lit=''Everyone Knows It'') is a 2018 Spanish-language mystery/crime drama film written and directed by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, and starring Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz and Ricardo Darín. The film was selected to open the 2018 Cannes Film Festival in competition and was released in Spain on 14 September 2018. It was released in the United States on 8 February 2019. Plot The story follows Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, who returns with her teenage daughter Irene and young son Diego to her small hometown just outside Madrid for her younger sister's wedding. Laura runs into her old friend Paco in the town square while Irene flirts with a local teenage boy named Felipe. After dancing with Felipe at the wedding reception, Irene complains that she does not feel well and goes upstairs to sleep. Later that night, Laura goes to check on Irene only to find she is missing. She receives a text message from kidnappers urging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Invisible Guardian
''The Invisible Guardian'' ( es, El guardián invisible, links=no) is a 2017 Spanish thriller film directed by Fernando González Molina based on the eponymous novel by Dolores Redondo. It was followed by two sequels, ''The Legacy of the Bones'' and '' Offering to the Storm''. Plot Policía Foral inspector Amaia Salazar, a former FBI agent, lives in Pamplona with her American husband, James, an artist. She returns to her hometown of Baztan, in Navarre, to investigate the murder of a young teen, 13-year-old Ainhoa Elizasu. Ainhoa was found naked and posed in the woods, her face scrubbed clean of makeup and her hair neatly arranged, and a cake placed on her shaved pubis. Amaia links this with the death six weeks earlier of Carla Huarte, who was strangled with the same type of rope, and fears a serial killer may be at work. Both bodies were covered with hairs from multiple animals, an oddity as none of the bodies show marks from any animals. Amaia and James move in with her Aunt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Blame The Karma For Being An Idiot
''Don't Blame it on your Karma'' ( es, No culpes al karma de lo que te pasa por gilipollas) is a Spanish romantic comedy film based on a novel by Laura Norton. Plot In 1990's Sara (Verónica Echegui) is a high school unpopular girl. She has a crush on the popular Aarón Humilde ( Álex Garcia), a senior high school who has a band. After Aarón leaves town unannounced they lose contact. Now, 13 years later, she works with feathers, making hats, headdresses, bow ties, dresses and anything else that might require plumage. She is a genuine artist and has a small shop/workshop in a Madrid neighbourhood where she just about manages to make a living. What a shame that her quiet, ordered world is about to collapse around her ears. Somehow, Sara will have to put up with a fleeing mother (Elvira Mínguez), a depressed father ( Jordi Sánchez), a rebellious sister and her eccentric fiancé and, especially, a boyfriend she hasn't seen in ages who's about to make her the most absurd proposal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasaje Al Amanecer
''Pasaje al amanecer'' is a 2016 Spanish drama film directed by Andreu Castro and starred by Nicolás Coronado, Iria Calero and Annette Duran. It is the film debut of Andreu Castro. It is based on the Christmas Eve before the Second Battle of Fallujah in the Iraq War. Cast Release The film was presented at the Valladolid International Film Festival in 2016. Distributed by VerCine, it was released theatrically in Spain on 5 May 2017. See also * List of Christmas films * List of Spanish films of 2017 A list of Spanish-produced and co-produced feature films released in Spain in 2017. When applicable, the domestic theatrical release date is favoured. Films Box office The ten highest-grossing Spanish feature films in 2017, by domestic ... References External links * Films shot in Madrid Spanish Christmas drama films Iraq War films Spanish war drama films 2016 war drama films 2010s Christmas drama films 2010s Spanish-language films 2010s Spanish fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caridad Mercader
Eustacia María Caridad del Río Hernández (29 March 1892 – 1975), better known as Caridad del Río, Caridad Mercader or Caritat Mercader, was a Cuban communist militant and an agent of the Soviet NKVD. She is also known for being the mother of Ramón Mercader, the assassin of Leon Trotsky, and for having personally participated in the operation. Life Caridad Mercader belonged to a wealthy family of ' origin in early 20th-century Barcelona. She married Pablo Mercader, a member of Barcelona's industrial upper class, from whom she took the name, and with whom she had five children. After the end of her marriage to Mercader, she moved away from her family and permanently turned her back on the social class they represented. This decision was motivated in part by an episode of forced institutionalization during which she was subjected to electroshock therapy and her former husband's attempts to change her state of "sexual apathy" through visits to local brothels. Mercader began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chosen (2016 Film)
''The Chosen'' ( es, El elegido, link=no) is a 2016 Spanish-Mexican thriller drama film written and directed by Antonio Chavarrías. The film stars Hannah Murray, Alfonso Herrera, Julian Sands and Henry Goodman. The movie was filmed in Coyoacán, Mexico and Barcelona, Spain, and its release was scheduled for the first part of 2016. The film is based on the murder of Leon Trotsky in 1940. Cast *Alfonso Herrera as Ramón Mercader *Hannah Murray as Sylvia Ageloff *Henry Goodman as Leon Trotsky *Julian Sands as Kotov *Frances Barber as Natalia *Emilio Echevarría as Coronel Salazar *Alejandro Calva as David Alfaro Siqueiros *Elvira Mínguez as Caridad del Río *Roger Casamajor as Carles Vidal *Luis Rosales as Conserje Montejo *Javier Godino as Costa *Alexander Holtmann as Sheldon Sheldon may refer to: * Sheldon (name), a given name and a surname, and a list of people with the name Places Australia * Sheldon, Queensland *Sheldon Forest, New South Wales United Kingdom *Sheldon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truman (2015 Film)
''Truman'' is a 2015 comedy-drama film directed by Cesc Gay and co-written by Gay and Tomàs Aragay. The film stars Ricardo Darín, Javier Cámara, and Dolores Fonzi. It won five Goya Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Darín), and Best Supporting Actor (Cámara). Plot Julián, living in Madrid, receives an unexpected visit from his friend, Tomás, a professor living in Canada. Julián is an actor and has had cancer for a year, and his only companion now is Truman, his loyal dog. The friends and Truman share four days together. Julián reveals he is opting for assisted suicide rather than chemotherapy if his health deteriorates. His cousin Paula and Tomás are disturbed by the news and share emotional and meaningful moments during Tomás's visit. They try to cope with Julián's situation. Julián gives his dog to his friend and they bid goodbye after an intense conversation. Cast Production The film was produced by Imposible Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Che (2008 Film)
''Che'' is a two-part 2008 biographical film about Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rather than follow a standard chronological order, the films offer an oblique series of interspersed moments along the overall timeline. ''Part One'' is titled ''The Argentine'' and focuses on the Cuban Revolution from the landing of Fidel Castro, Guevara, and other revolutionaries in Cuba to their successful toppling of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship two years later. ''Part Two'' is titled ''Guerrilla'' and focuses on Guevara's attempt to bring revolution to Bolivia and his demise. Both parts are shot in a cinéma vérité style, but each has different approaches to linear narrative, camerawork and the visual look. It stars Benicio del Toro as Guevara, with an ensemble cast that includes Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Santiago Cabrera, Franka Potente, Julia Ormond, Vladimir Cruz, Marc-André Grondin, Lou Diamond Phillips, Joaquim de Almei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modesty (film)
''Modesty'' ( es, Pudor, links=no) is a 2007 Spanish drama film directed by David Ulloa and Tristán Ulloa, based on the novel by Santiago Roncagliolo. Its cast features Nancho Novo, Elvira Mínguez, Natalia Rodríguez Arroyo, Celso Bugallo, Carolina Román, and Marcos Ruiz, among others. Plot Set in Gijón and dealing with the theme of family isolation, the plot tracks the plight and secrets of a number of characters, including lonely boy Sergio (inclined to talk to the dead), dying father Alfredo (diagnosed with brain tumour), anonimously sexted adoptive mother Julia, self-hating lesbian sister Marisa, and the widowed grandfather. Cast Production Penned by Tristán Ulloa, the screenplay is an adaptation of the novel ''Pudor'' by Santiago Roncagliolo. The film was produced by Tesela PC (), with the participation of TVE and Canal+. Shooting locations included Gijón. Release The film was presented at the 10th Málaga Film Festival in March 2007. Distributed by Soge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
