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Fernando Sancho
Fernando Sancho Les (7 January 1916 – 31 July 1990) was a Spanish actor. Biography He was born in Zaragoza, in Aragon, Spain on 7 January 1916 and died at Hospital Militar Gómez Ulla in Madrid on 31 July 1990 from a liver failure during or following surgery to remove a malignant tumor in the pancreas. He was interred in Madrid. Fernando Sancho fought in the Spanish Civil War on the rebel side, being wounded several times and achieving the rank of lieutenant in the Legion. Career He was often typecast as a Mexican bandit in Spaghetti Westerns, including ''The Big Gundown'' (directed by Sergio Sollima), ''A Pistol for Ringo'' and ''Return of Ringo'' (directed by Duccio Tessari), ''Arizona Colt'' (directed by Michele Lupo), '' Minnesota Clay'' (directed by Sergio Corbucci), and ''Sartana'' (directed by Gianfranco Parolini). He also appeared in a number of Spanish horror movies in the 1960s and 1970s. One of his better known horror parts was the role of a corrupt small-town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival De San Sebastián
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Awful Dr
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When The Angels Sleep
''When the Angels Sleep'' (Spanish: ''Cuando los ángeles duermen'') is a 1947 Spanish-Italian drama film directed by Ricardo Gascón and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai and Maria Eugénia. In Italian the film's title is '' Quando gli angeli dormono''.Lancia p.102-03 Cast * Amedeo Nazzari as Blin * Clara Calamai as Elena * Maria Eugénia as Bianca * Silvia Morgan as Susana * Ana Farra as Paulina * Mona Tarridas * Gina Montes as Bárbara * Camino Garrigó as Braulia * Pedro Mascaró as Oriol * Alfonso Estela as Lalio * Modesto Cid as Bonifacio * Carlos Agostí as Emilio * Arturo Cámara as Carmona * Rafael Luis Calvo as Ventura * Fernando Sancho as Peral * Jorge Morales as Víctor * César Pombo as Hurtado * Luis Villasiul as Cura Riévana * Enriqueta Villasiul as Dora * Félix Dafauce Félix Dafauce (13 November 1896 – 5 October 1990) was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1925 and 1987. He was born and died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariona Rebull (film)
''Mariona Rebull'' is a 1947 Spanish historical drama film directed by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia and starring José María Seoane, Blanca de Silos and Sara Montiel. The film is an adaptation of the 1943 novel of the same title by Ignasi Agustí. The film is set amongst the high society of late nineteenth century Barcelona. Mariona Rebull is unhappily married, and begins an affair. She is eventually killed on 7 November 1893 when an anarchist Santiago Salvador throws a bomb into the stalls of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona's opera house. This was based on a real-life incident.San Miguel & Hortelano p.20 Cast * José María Seoane as Joaquín Rius * Blanca de Silos as Mariona Rebull * Sara Montiel as Lula * Alberto Romea as Señor Llobet * Tomás Blanco as Ernesto Villar * Carlos Muñoz as Arturo * José María Lado * Adolfo Marsillach as Darío * Fernando Sancho as Señor Roig * Rafael Bardem as Señor Llopis * Mario Berriatúa as Desiderio * Manriqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orosia (film)
''Orosia'' is a 1944 Spanish drama film directed by Florián Rey and starring Blanca de Silos, José Nieto and Nicolás D. Perchicot.Bentley p.84 Synopsis The story begins in 1900 with the imminent wedding between Orosia Garcés de Abarca and Eloy Sancho de Embún. But her happiness will be cut short when the future husband is stabbed to death as a result of the rivalries of the nightly serenades before the bride's balcony. The neighbors suspect the quarrelsome Venancio and Joselón de Urríes, a former suitor of Orosia. Cast * Blanca de Silos as Orosia * José Nieto as Joselón * Nicolás D. Perchicot as Don Pablo * María Brú as Sabel * Delfín Jerez as Gracián * José Sepúlveda as Venancio * José Isbert as Don Cándido * Ángel Belloc as Eloy * Mariana Larrabeiti as Jacinta * Julia Lajos as Rosa * Antonia Plana as Doña Clara * Salvador Videgain as judge Don Alonso * Luis Pérez de León as Calixto * Ana María Quijada as Remigia * Ana de Leyv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Guerrilla
''The Guerrilla'' (Spanish:''La guerrilla'') is a 1973 French-Spanish historical war film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Francisco Rabal, Jacques Destoop and Julia Saly.Bentley p.205 It is set during the Peninsular War The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain .... Cast References Bibliography * Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer 2008. External links * 1973 films French war drama films Spanish war drama films 1970s Spanish-language films Films directed by Rafael Gil Peninsular War films Films set in the 1810s Films set in Spain Films with screenplays by Rafael J. Salvia Guerrilla warfare in film 1970s Spanish films 1970s historical films French historical films Spanish historical films {{1970s-Spain-film- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Souliotes
The Souliotes were an Orthodox Christian Albanian tribal community in the area of Souli in Epirus from the 16th century to the beginning of the 19th century, who via their participation in the Greek War of Independence came to identify with the Greek nation. They originated from Albanian clans that settled in the highlands of Thesprotia in the Late Middle Ages and established an autonomous confederation dominating a large number of neighboring villages in the mountainous areas of Epirus, where they successfully resisted Ottoman rule for many years. At the height of its power, in the second half of the 18th century, the Souliote confederacy is estimated to have consisted of up to 4,500 inhabitants. After the revolution, they migrated to and settled in newly independent Greece, and assimilated into the Greek people. The Souliotes were followers of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. They spoke the Souliotic dialect of Albanian and learnt Greek through their interactio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek War Of Independence
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. The Greeks were later assisted by the British Empire, Bourbon Restoration in France, Kingdom of France, and the Russian Empire, while the Ottomans were aided by their North African vassals, particularly the eyalet of Egypt Eyalet, Egypt. The war led to the formation of modern Greece. The revolution is Celebration of the Greek Revolution, celebrated by Greeks around the world as Greek Independence Day, independence day on 25 March. Greece, with the exception of the Ionian Islands, came under Ottoman rule in the 15th century, in the decades before and after the fall of Constantinople. During the following centuries, there were sporadic but unsuccessful Ottoman Greece#Uprisings before 1821, Greek uprisings against Ottoman rule. In 1814, a secret organization called Filiki Et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Roupel
Fort Roupel ( el, Οχυρό Ρούπελ) is a fortress at the north border of Central Macedonia, Greece, built-in 1914. It became part of the fortifications of the Metaxas Line in the 1930s and became famous for its defence during the German invasion of Greece in April 1941. The Rupel fortifications are not far from the Serres-Promachonas national road, which leads to the Greek-Bulgarian border. They are just a short distance from the border in the narrow Rupel Gorge, through which the Strymon River flows. This place is strategically important for entry to Greek or Bulgarian territory and was fortified in 1914. During World War I, on 25 May 1916, the royal Greek government of Athens permitted the surrender of the fortress to the Germans and their Bulgarian allies as a counterbalance to the Allied forces that had been established in Thessaloniki. The German-Bulgarian troops then proceeded to occupy most of eastern Macedonia without resistance. This act led to the outbreak of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Crete
The Battle of Crete (german: Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta, el, Μάχη της Κρήτης), codenamed Operation Mercury (german: Unternehmen Merkur), was a major Axis airborne and amphibious operation during World War II to capture the island of Crete. It began on the morning of 20 May 1941, with a multiple German airborne landings on Crete. Greek and other Allied forces, along with Cretan civilians, defended the island. After only one day of fighting, the Germans had suffered heavy casualties and the Allied troops were confident that they would defeat the invasion. The next day, through communication failures, Allied tactical hesitation, and German offensive operations, Maleme Airfield in western Crete fell, enabling the Germans to land reinforcements and overwhelm the defensive positions on the north of the island. Allied forces withdrew to the south coast. More than half were evacuated by the British Royal Navy and the remainder surrendered or joined the Cretan resistance. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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