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Montserrat Carulla I Ventura
Montserrat Carulla i Ventura (19 September 1930 – 24 November 2020) was a Spanish actress. Career Coming from the amateur theatre, she completed her training with courses at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona (Barcelona Theatre Institute) at the end of the 1940s. However, it was not until 1960 that she began to work in the professional theatre with ''Soparem a casa'' (''We'll Dine at Home''), by Josep Maria de Sagarra. After two seasons in Madrid, she returned to Barcelona in 1964. Theatre * ''Soparem a casa'' (''We'll Dine at Home''), by Josep Maria de Sagarra * ''El fiscal Recasens'' (''Recasens, the District Attorney'') by Josep Maria de Sagarra * ''Romeo and Juliet'' adaptation by Josep Maria de Sagarra * ''L'enterrament és a les quatre'' (''The Burial is at Four''), by Joan Vila Casas * ''Mort de Dama'' (''Death of a Lady''), by Llorenç Villalonga * ''La filla del mar'' (''Daughter of the Sea''), by Àngel Guimerà * ''Pygmalion'' by Bernard Shaw * ''La viuda trap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Gas
Mario Gas Cabré is a Spanish actor and director. and winner of a Goya Award. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on February 5, 1947, while his actor parents were on tour he has Uruguayan citizenship. He is one of the most important figures of the performing arts of Spain and began his acting career in University and took it up seriously after he failed to complete the law course he was enrolled in. Family He comes from a large acting family. His father, Manuel Gas, was a singer and actor. His mother, Anna Cabré, (sister of actor Mario Cabré), was a dancer. His daughter Miranda Gas is also a well known Spanish actress. He is married to theatrical actress Vicky Peña, and they have two children, Orestes and Miranda Gas. Career Mario Gas, has directed more than fifty plays. He was also a stage Director of Opera productions like '' La Traviata'' and ''Un ballo in maschera'' by Giuseppe Verdi; '' Madama Butterfly'' by Giacomo Puccini and '' L'elisir d'amore'' by Gaetano Donize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josep Maria Benet I Jornet
Josep Maria Benet i Jornet (; 20 June 1940 – 6 April 2020), also known as "Papitu", was one of the most renowned Catalan playwrights, considered one of the main renewers of Catalan theater. Biography He was born in a tiny Barcelona apartment in Ronda de Sant Antoni on June 20, 1940, from parents Concepció Jornet and Pere Benet. Growing up, his love for playwriting emerged from reading comic book strips, in which he made up his own dialogues; and he also learned from popular readings and the world of radiophonic serials. He was an active participant in the fight against the Spanish dictatorship, although he never affiliated with any political parties. He took clandestine Catalan literature lessons with Joaquim Molas, through Joan-Lluís Marfany. He majored in Literature at the University of Barcelona, and in 1962, he enrolled in ''Adrià Gual's'' ''School of Dramatic Arts'', where he came into contact with the most renowned personalities in theater of that time, such as Ricar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furrows (film)
''Furrows'' ( es, Surcos) is a 1951 Spanish film directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde, and written by him in collaboration with Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Eugenio Montes, and Natividad Zaro. It provides an unsettling portrait of post-Civil War Madrid while caudillo Francisco Franco was in power. Plot ''Surcos'' follows the struggles of a Spanish family as it emigrates from the countryside to Madrid circa 1950. Facing difficulties in finding housing and employment, several family members turn to illegal or immoral activities in order to make ends meet, and the traditional family structure disintegrates. The movie begins when the Perez family of country bumpkins arrive from the country at the Madrid train station, disoriented, gawking and loaded down with baggage, including a basket of live chickens. The Perez family consists of a mother (who is never named in the movie), the fiftyish aged father, Manuel, his older son Pepe (who had visited Madrid during the Spanish Civil War), hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Aranda
Vicente Aranda Ezquerra (; 9 November 1926 – 26 May 2015) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and Film producer, producer. Due to his refined and personal style, he was one of the most renowned Spanish filmmakers. He started as a founding member of the Barcelona School of Film and became known for bringing contemporary Spanish novels to life on the big screen. Aranda was also noted for exploring difficult social issues and variations on the theme of desire while using the codes of melodrama. Love as uncontrollable passion, eroticism and cruelty are constant themes in his filmography. The frank examination of sexuality is one of the trademarks of his work, as seen in his most internationally successful film: ''Amantes (film), Amantes'' (1990) ''(Lovers)''. Early life Vicente Aranda Ezquerra was born in Barcelona on 9 November 1926.Vera, ''Vicente Aranda'', p. 13 He was the youngest son in a large and impoverished family who had emigrated from Aragón to Barcelona tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josep Maria Forn
Josep Maria Forn i Costa (; April 4, 1928 – October 3, 2021 ) was a Spanish , film producer and film director. He was born in , and began making movies in the 1950s with the short-film ''Gaudí'' (1954) and some commercial movies. His film, ''La piel quemada'' (''Burnt Skin'') (1967), dealt with the migration to Catalonia from other parts of |
Companys, Procés A Catalunya
''Companys, procés a Catalunya'' ( es, Companys, proceso a Cataluña) is a 1979 Spanish Catalan drama film directed by Josep Maria Forn, based on the last months of the life of the President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, in which he shows his detention by the Nazis and his subsequent execution by the Spanish Francoists. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Luis Iriondo - Lluís Companys * Marta Angelat - Àngela * Montserrat Carulla - Ramona Companys * Xabier Elorriaga - Fortuny * Pau Garsaball - Miquel * Agustín González - Miembro del Tribunal * Alfred Lucchetti - Juez instructor * Marta May - Carme Ballester * Biel Moll - Urraca Pastor * Ovidi Montllor Ovidi Montllor (; 4 February 1942 in Alcoi, Spain – 10 March 1995 in Barcelona, Spain) was a Spanish singer-songwriter and actor. Career A native of Alcoi, at the age of 24 Montllor moved to Barcelona, where he was a member of various independ ... - Jordi * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ventura Pons
Ventura Pons Sala (; born 25 July 1945, in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish movie director. He mainly directs films in Catalan but also in Spanish and English. Pons has directed 32 feature films and is one of the best-known Catalan film directors. His films are continuously programmed in the most prestigious international festivals, almost 810 up to now, and distributed in many countries around the world. He has been vice-president of the Spanish Film Academy and the subject of more than 34 international homages and retrospectives: London's ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), New York's Lincoln Center and in the world's foremost cinematheques, such as those in Los Angeles, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Caracas, Belgrade, Istanbul, Warsaw, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, among many others. Pons has also received international "Lifetime Achievement Awards" at film festivals in Chicago, Galway, Piešťany, Lima, Turin, and Montpellier. In Spain, he has received the Catalan Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Orphanage (2007 Film)
''The Orphanage'' ( es, link=no, El orfanato) is a 2007 Spanish-Mexican gothic supernatural horror film and the debut feature of Spanish filmmaker J. A. Bayona. The film stars Belén Rueda as Laura, Fernando Cayo as her husband, Carlos, and Roger Príncep as their adopted son Simón. The plot centers on Laura, who returns to her childhood home, an orphanage. Laura plans to turn the house into a home for disabled children, but after an argument with Simón, he goes missing. The film's script was written by Sergio G. Sánchez in 1996 and brought to the attention of Bayona in 2004. Bayona asked his long-time friend, director Guillermo del Toro, to help produce the film and to double its budget and filming time. The Orphanage is an international co-production between Spain and Mexico. Bayona wanted the film to capture the feel of 1970s Spanish cinema; he cast Geraldine Chaplin and Belén Rueda, who were later praised for their roles in the film. The film opened at the Cannes F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Plaça Del Diamant
''The Time Of The Doves'' (also translated as ''The Pigeon Girl'' or ''In Diamond Square''; original Catalan-language: ''La plaça del Diamant'', that is ''Diamond Square'') is a 1962 novel written by exiled Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda. The book is named after a square in Barcelona's Gràcia district. It is featured in Harold Bloom's ''The Western Canon'' as part of a list of canonical books of the "Chaotic Age". Arguably the author's most accomplished work, the novel has been translated into more than thirty languages and is regarded as one of the most important pieces of fiction in contemporary Catalan literature. It is also a staple of the curriculum in secondary school programs across Catalonia. Set in Barcelona during the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War, the novel pictures a young woman, Natalia, and her struggles in life as well as her relationships with two men: Quimet, her first husband, who dies in the war; and Antoni, her second husband. It is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (; March 22, 1930November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. One of the most important figures in twentieth-century musical theater, Sondheim is credited for having "reinvented the American musical" with shows that tackle "unexpected themes that range far beyond the enre'straditional subjects" with "music and lyrics of unprecedented complexity and sophistication." His shows address "darker, more harrowing elements of the human experience," with songs often tinged with "ambivalence" about various aspects of life. He was known for his frequent collaborations with Hal Prince and James Lapine on the Broadway stage. Sondheim's interest in musical theater began at a young age, and he was mentored by Oscar Hammerstein II. He began his career by writing the lyrics for ''West Side Story'' (1957) and ''Gypsy'' (1959). He transitioned to writing both music and lyrics for the theater, with his best-known works including '' A Funny Thing Happened on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
