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Rafael Gil
Rafael Gil (22 May 1913 – 10 July 1986) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film ''La guerra de Dios'' (1953) won the Bronze Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1953 and also won best film and best director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. His film ''La noche del sábado'' (1950) was nominated for the Gold Lion at the 1950 Venice Film Festival and his film ''El beso de Judas'' (1954) was also nominated for the Gold Lion at the 1954 festival in Venice. His film '' Let's Make the Impossible!'' (1958) was nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. He has won nine prizes of the National Syndicate of Spectacle of Spain. Gil was a prominent director of the Franco era. His later works, often in collaboration with the Pro-Franco screenwriter and novelist Fernando Vizcaíno Casas, looked back nostalgically to the years of Franco's rule.Mira p.147 Filmography * ''The Queen's Flower Girl'' (1940) *'' The Man Who Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eloisa Is Under An Almond Tree
''Eloisa Is Under an Almond Tree'' (Spanish:''Eloísa está debajo de un almendro'') is a 1943 Spanish comedy film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Amparo Rivelles and Rafael Durán and Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro.de España p.119 The film's sets were designed by Enrique Alarcón. Plot The film tells the story of Fernando (Rafael Durán) who returns home after the death of his father. In a letter he asks her to solve the crime of a woman that occurred years ago. This leads him to come into contact with the strange inhabitants of a peculiar mansion, among whom he discovers the beautiful Mariana (Amparo Rivelles), with whom he falls madly in love. Cast * Amparo Rivelles as Mariana * Rafael Durán as Fernando * Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro as Clotilde * Juan Espantaleón as Edgardo * Alberto Romea as Ezequiel * Juan Domenech as Leoncio * Joaquín Roa as Fermín * José Prada José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo Theatre (film)
''Apollo Theatre'' (Spanish: ''Teatro Apolo'' is a 1950 Spanish musical film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Jorge Negrete, María de los Ángeles Morales and Juan Espantaleón.Labanyi & Pavlović p.419 It takes its title from the Teatro Apolo in Madrid. Cast * Jorge Negrete as Miguel Velasco * María de los Ángeles Morales as Celia Morales * Juan Espantaleón as Don Antonio * Julia Lajos as Doña Flora * María Asquerino Dulce Nombre de María Urdiaín Muro (25 November 1925 – 27 February 2013), better known as María Asquerino, was a Spanish film actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in ... as Elena Ramos * Luis Hurtado * Rafael Arcos as Miguelito * Manuel Arbó * Francisco Pierrá * Luis Pérez de León * Antonio Riquelme as Aspirante a sustituir References Bibliography * Labanyi, Jo & Pavlović, Tatjana. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. John Wiley & Sons, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Any Woman
''Just Any Woman'' (Spanish: ''Una mujer cualquiera'') is a 1949 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring María Félix, Antonio Vilar and Mary Delgado. Synopsis A woman who is alone tries to get ahead on her own, but precisely her beauty hinders her because all men see her as an instrument of pleasure, and the only way out of her is to "do the street". She then meets Luis, who is going to get her into a big mess, turning her life into a frenetic obstacle course. Cast * María Félix as Nieves Blanco * Antonio Vilar as Luis * Mary Delgado as Isabel * Juan Espantaleón as Comisario * José Nieto as Vecino * Juan de Landa as Padre de Luis * Manolo Morán as Taxista * Eduardo Fajardo as Ricardo * Fernando Fernández de Córdoba as Doctor * Ángel de Andrés as Camionero * Carolina Giménez as Rosa * Ricardo Acero as Viajero tren * Julia Caba Alba as Ofelia * María Isbert as Pasajera tren * Félix Fernández as Julio * Rafael Bardem as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mare Nostrum (1948 Film)
''Mare Nostrum'' (English: ''Our Sea'') is a 1948 Italian-Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring María Félix, Fernando Rey and Guillermo Marín.Bentley p.105 The title refers to a Latin phrase for the Mediterranean Sea. A Spanish sailor becomes mixed up with a mysterious foreign spy at the time of the Second World War. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez which had previously been turned into a 1926 American silent film. Plot German spies, using Freya (María Félix) as bait, convince neutral Spaniard Ulysses Ferragut to navigate a ship to put naval mines around British ports in the Mediterranean, telling him they would never fire on passenger ships. But one mine destroys the ship his son, Esteban, was on, killing him and many others. Searching for revenge, Ulises changes his mind and becomes a friend of the allies. When U.S. troops take over Naples, Ulises chases the boss of the German spies, who is executed later. Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sunless Street
''The Sunless Street'' (Spanish: ''La calle sin sol'') is a 1948 Spanish drama film written by Miguel Mihura and directed by Rafael Gil.Bentley p.109 Cast * Amparo Rivelles as Pilar * Antonio Vilar as Mauricio * Manolo Morán as Manolo * Alberto Romea as Pedro * Fernando Fernández de Córdoba * Ángel de Andrés as José * Irene Caba Alba as Diana * Julia Caba Alba as Flora * Félix Fernández as Basilio * José Prada as Inspector * Rufino Inglés * Juana Mansó as Portera * Casimiro Hurtado as Camarero * Santiago Rivero as Camarero * Chotis * Mary Delgado Mary Delgado (8 October 1916 – 13 April 1984) was a Spanish actress. She worked with director Rafael Gil on ''Light Footprint'' (1941) and with Antonio Casal on ''Heloise Beneath an Almond Tree'' (1943), ''The Ghost and Mrs. Juanita'' (194 ... as Elvira * José Nieto as Luis * Manuel Requena References Bibliography * Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Quixote (1947 Film)
''Don Quixote'' or ''Don Quixote de la Mancha'' (orig. Spanish title ''Don Quijote de la Mancha'') is the first sound film version in Spanish of the great classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It was directed and adapted by Rafael Gil and released in 1947. A huge undertaking for Spanish cinema in its day, it was the longest film version of the novel up to that time (two hours and twelve minutes, plus an intermission), and very likely the most faithful, reverently following the book in its dialogue and order of episodes, unlike G.W. Pabst's 1933 version and the later Russian film version, which scrambled up the order of the adventures as many film versions do. Characters such as Cardenio, Dorotea, and Don Fernando, which are usually omitted because their respective subplots have little to do with the main body of the novel, were kept in this film. The film, which starred Rafael Rivelles as Don Quixote and Juan Calvo as Sancho Panza, featured a young Fernando Rey as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Faith (1947 Film)
''The Faith'' (Spanish:''La fe'') is a 1947 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Amparo Rivelles, Rafael Durán and Guillermo Marín.Bentley p.103 The film's art direction was by Enrique Alarcón. Cast * Amparo Rivelles as Marta Osuna * Rafael Durán as Padre Luis Lastra * Guillermo Marín as Don Álvaro Montesinos * Juan Espantaleón as Padre Miguel Vigil Suárez * Ricardo Calvo as Obispo * Fernando Fernández de Córdoba as Sr. Osuna * Camino Garrigó as Josefa * José Prada as Don Martín * Joaquín Roa as Sacerdote acompañante del P. Miguel * Félix Fernández as Pelegrín * Ángel de Andrés as Dueño casa huéspedes * Carmen Sánchez as Doña Eloísa * Irene Caba Alba as Dueña casa huéspedes * Juan Vázquez as Don Gaspar * Arturo Marín as Ramiro * Manuel Guitián as Juan * Julia Lajos as Teodora * Fernando Aguirre as Maestro * Cándida Losada as Joaquina * Ángel Martinez * Luisa Sala Luisa Sala (7 July 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady In Ermine
''Lady in Ermine'' (Spanish: ''La dama del armiño'') is a 1947 Spanish historical drama film directed by Eusebio Fernández Ardavín and starring Lina Yegros, Jorge Mistral and Alicia Palacios.Mira p.56 It is based on by his brother Luis, which portrays a fictitious relationship between the daughter of the painter El Greco and a young Jewish goldsmith in sixteenth century Toledo. The film was made by Suevia Films, one of the dominant Spanish production companies of the era. It was shot at the Sevilla Film Studios in Madrid, with sets designed by the art director Enrique Alarcón. Plot summary During the reign of Philip II of Spain, Catalina poses in ermine furs for his father, who is painting ''Lady in a Fur Wrap''. Jews Samuel the young, Abraham and Job go to the procession in Toledo, Spain to admire the monstrance. They feign being Christians to be inconspicuous. When the Theotokopouloses go to the windows to venerate the body of Christ, Samuel sees Catalina and falls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Holy Queen
''The Holy Crown'' (Spanish: ''Reina santa'') is a 1947 Spanish-Portuguese historical drama film starring Maruchi Fresno, Antonio Vilar and Luis Peña.Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer, 2008. p. 100. . Separate Spanish and Portuguese versions were filmed with the Spanish directed by Rafael Gil and the Portuguese by Henrique Campos Henrique Campos (9 February 1909 – 18 December 1983) was a Portuguese film director. Selected filmography *''Um Homem do Ribatejo'' (1946) * ''The Holy Queen'' (1947) *''Ribatejo'' (1949) *''Cantiga da Rua'' (1950) *'' Duas Causas'' (1953) *' ... and Aníbal Contreiras. It was part of a popular group of Spanish costume films made in the late 1940s. The film portrays the life of Isabel of Aragon, a Spanish-born Queen of Portugal who played a role of peacemaker between different factions at the Portuguese court as well as between Portugal and Castile. Cast References External links * 1940s historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prodigal Woman (1946 Film)
''The Prodigal Woman'' (Spanish:''La pródiga'') is a 1946 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil Rafael Gil (22 May 1913 – 10 July 1986) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film ''La guerra de Dios'' (1953) won the Bronze Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1953 and also won best film and best director at the San Sebastián ... and starring Rafael Durán, Paola Barbara and Juan Espantaleón. Synopsis Three young candidates for parliament arrive in a town where a bankrupt marchioness is the most influential person. This woman with an adventurous past now lives in ruins because she practices charity with the entire town, hence she is known as "the prodigal". Between her and the idealistic Guillermo a love arises. Cast References Bibliography * de España, Rafael. ''Directory of Spanish and Portuguese film-makers and films''. Greenwood Press, 1994. External links * 1946 films 1946 drama films Spanish drama films 1940s Spanish-language fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirsty Land
''Thirsty Land'' (Spanish:''Tierra sedienta'') is a 1945 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil.de España p.119 The film's sets were designed by Pierre Schild. Cast * Irene Caba Alba * Ana María Campoy * Ángel de Andrés * Mary Delgado * Juan Domenech * Félix Fernández * Casimiro Hurtado * José Jaspe * José María Lado * Luis Martínez * Manuel París * Nicolás D. Perchicot * Julio Peña * José Portes * José Prada * Jacinto Quincoces * Fernando Rey * Santiago Rivero * Joaquín Roa * Alberto Romea Alberto Romea (16 January 1882 – 14 April 1960) was a Spanish actor. Romea appeared in more than fifty films during his career including '' Lola, the Coalgirl'' (1952).Mira p.249 Selected filmography * ''El fantasma del castillo'' (1911) * ''Ga ... References Bibliography * de España, Rafael. ''Directory of Spanish and Portuguese film-makers and films''. Greenwood Press, 1994. External links * 1945 films 1945 drama films Spanish dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
