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Salvador Calvo
Salvador Calvo (born 1970) is a Spanish film and television director. Biography Calvo was born 1970 in Madrid. He earned a licentiate degree in Information Sciences (Journalism) from the Complutense University of Madrid. Instead of focusing on a career in journalism, Calvo trained as director under the tutoring of Pilar Miró, Juan Carlos Corazza and Pilar Hermida. He took part in several television series such as ''Sin tetas no hay paraíso'' (2007), ''Los misterios de Laura'' (2009), '' Niños robados'' (2012) and '' Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste'' (2013), as well as biopic miniseries such as ''La Duquesa'', ''La Duquesa II'', ''Paquirri'' (2009) and '' Mario Conde. Los días de gloria'' (2013). His debut as director in a feature film came with the 2016 war drama ''1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines'', which earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Director. In March 2021, he won the Goya Award for Best Director for the 2020 drama film ''Adú''. Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
31st Goya Awards
The 31st Goya Awards were presented at the Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel in Madrid on 4 February 2017 to honour the best in Spanish films of 2016. Actor and comedian Dani Rovira was the master of ceremonies for the third time in a row. Nominations were announced on 14 December 2016 by Javier Cámara and Natalia de Molina. ''A Monster Calls (film), A Monster Calls'' received the most nominations with twelve, followed by ''Smoke & Mirrors (2016 film), Smoke & Mirrors'' and ''The Fury of a Patient Man'' with eleven nominations each. ''The Fury of a Patient Man'' won Best Film, as well as Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best New Director, but ''A Monster Calls (film), A Monster Calls'' won the most awards, with nine awards, including Best Director. Actress Emma Suárez won two awards on the same night: Best Actress for ''Julieta (film), Julieta'' and Best Supporting Actress for ''La próxima piel''. Winners and nominees Major awards Other award nominees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goya Award For Best New Director
The Goya Award for Best New Director ( es, Premio Goya a la Mejor Dirección Novel, links=no) is the Goya awarded yearly to the best debuting director. The award was first presented at the fourth edition of the Goya Awards with Ana Díez being the first winner for her film ''Ander eta Yul''. Three directors have won this category and later have received the Best Director award, Alejandro Amenábar won for ''Tesis'' (1996) and went on to win Best Director twice, for '' The Others'' (2001) and ''The Sea Inside'' (2005); Fernando León de Aranoa won for ''Familia'' (1997) and later won Best Director thrice, for ''Barrio'' (1998), ''Mondays in the Sun'' (2002) and '' The Good Boss'' (2022); and Juan Antonio Bayona won for '' The Orphanage'' (2007) and went on to win Best Director twice, for '' The Impossible'' (2012) and ''A Monster Calls'' (2016). Five films have won both this award and Best Film, Agustín Díaz Yanes's ''Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead'' (1995), Alejandro Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Births
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El Confidencial
''El Confidencial'' is a Spanish-language general-information digital newspaper located in Spain, specializing in economic, financial and political news. It was established as an online newspaper in 2001. Its target readership is professional and middle-aged. It has a liberal political orientation. It was one of the news outlets participating in the Panama Papers investigation into material leaked from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca Mossack Fonseca & Co. () was a Panamanian law firm and Corporate services, corporate service provider.2001 establishments in Spain [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Padre De Caín
''El padre de Caín'' is a two-part Spanish television miniseries directed by Salvador Calvo adapting the novel of the same name by Rafael Vera. It stars Quim Gutiérrez, Aura Garrido and Oona Chaplin. Premise Set in the 1980s, the plot follows the story of a Civil Guard agent who requests a transfer to the (in the Basque Country), when ETA was most active. Cast * Quim Gutiérrez as Eloy. * Aura Garrido as Begoña. * Oona Chaplin as Mercedes. * as sargento Delgado. * Luis Bermejo as comandante de Intxaurrondo. * Luis Zahera as Bermejo. * Eduardo Lloveras as Carmelo. * Cristina Plazas as madre de Mercedes. * Ricardo Gómez as Daniel. * Patrick Criado as Ander. Production and release Based on the novel of the same name by , the series was written by Alejandro Hernández and Michel Gaztambide and directed by Salvador Calvo. Produced by Telecinco in collaboration with Boomerang TV, it was filmed in Asturias (including Avilés), the Madrid region and San Sebastián ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lo Que Escondían Sus Ojos
''Lo que escondían sus ojos'' is a Spanish romance television miniseries directed by Salvador Calvo adapting the novel of the same name by Nieves Herrero, which focuses on the adulterous love story between Sonsoles Icaza and Ramón Serrano Suñer. It stars Blanca Suárez and Rubén Cortada. While successful in terms of audience, the miniseries, with limited historical rigor, was decried as a banalization of the Francoist regime and the figure of Serrano Suñer in particular. It aired in 2016 on Telecinco. Premise Set in between Madrid and San Sebastián, the plot concerns the adulterous love story between Ramón Serrano Suñer ( Rubén Cortada) —Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Francoist regime, married to Zita Polo (Loreto Mauleón), and co-brother-in law of Francisco Franco ( Javier Gutiérrez)— and Sonsoles de Icaza (Blanca Suárez) —the Marquise of Llanzol, married to the older Francisco de Paula Díez de Rivera (Emilio Gutiérrez Caba)—, after they meet in 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuéntame Un Cuento (TV Series)
''Cuéntame un cuento'' (English: ''Tell me a story'') is a Spanish anthology television series. It consists of twisted remakes of traditional fairy tales in a modern-day setting. In 2018, the American television series ''Tell Me a Story'', based on ''Cuéntame un cuento'', premiered''.'' Premise The series attempted to retell old fairy tales "to show its relevance in the 21st century with a new approach". Cast ;Los tres cerditos * Víctor Clavijo as Andrés. * as Chino. * Arturo Valls as Nano. * as Rulo. * Elena Ballesteros as Elena. * Luis Zahera as Ramírez. ;Blancanieves * Blanca Suárez as Nieves. * Mar Saura as Eva. * as Diego. * Félix Gómez as Marko. ;Caperucita roja * Laia Costa as Claudia. * Lola Cordón as Claudia's grand mother. * as Joaquín. * Sonia Almarcha as Claudia's mother. * Sara Mata as Claudia's cousin. * Susana Abaitua as Claudia's friend. * Javier Godino as Antonio. * as Fran. ;Hansel y Gretel * Blanca Portillo as Sara Morgade (la bruja) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El País
''El País'' (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. ''El País'' is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . ''El País'' is the most read newspaper in Spanish online and one of the Madrid dailies considered to be a national newspaper of record for Spain (along with '' El Mundo'' and ''ABC)''. In 2018, its number of daily sales were 138,000. Its headquarters and central editorial staff are located in Madrid, although there are regional offices in the principal Spanish cities (Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Bilbao, and Santiago de Compostela) where regional editions were produced until 2015. ''El País'' also produces a world edition in Madrid that is available online in English and in Spanish (Latin America). History ''El País'' was founded in May 1976 by a team at PRISA which included Jesus de Polanco, José Ortega Spottorno and Carlos Mendo. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermanos (TV Series)
''Hermanos'' is a Spanish drama television series. Produced by Mediaset España in collaboration with Multipark Ficción, the 6-episode series aired on Telecinco from September to October 2014. Starring Antonio Velázquez, Álvaro Cervantes and María Valverde, the series—a generational story set in the 1980s and the 1990s— tracks the lives of three childhood friends. Plot Starting in the mid 1980s in a working-class neighborhood of Madrid, two brothers—Juan (Antonio Velázquez) and Alberto (Álvaro Cervantes)—are in love with the same girl, their friend Virginia (María Valverde). Life takes each character to a singular path: the older brother, the brash Juan, puts aside his childhood dream of becoming a boxer and leaves Madrid for the shipyards of Vigo, becoming a trade union leader. Meanwhile, Alberto becomes a priced businessman, whereas Virginia attains her childhood goal of becoming a renowned journalist, entering the elite cultural circles, while also becoming a mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cadena SER
La Cadena SER (the SER Network) is Spain's premier radio network in terms of both seniority (it was created in 1924) and audience share (it had a regular listenership in 2018 of 4,139,000). The acronym SER stands for ''Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión'' (Spanish Broadcasting Company). Cadena SER's programmes – which includes news, sport, talk, entertainment and culture – can be received throughout Spain. The network's main studios are located on the Gran Vía in Madrid; In addition, studios across the country contribute with local and regional news and information, and local programming in each location amounting between 2 and 3.5 hours daily. Cadena SER is owned by Unión Radio, the majority shareholder in which is currently the PRISA group, a major player in the Spanish media market which also controls, music radio stations such as LOS40, Cadena Dial, Radiolé and a number of newspapers (including the influential national daily '' El País''), as well as other media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los últimos De Filipinas
''Last Stand in the Philippines'' () is a 1945 Spanish biographical war film directed by Antonio Román. It is based on a radio script by Enrique Llovet, ''Los Héroes de Baler,'' and novel, ''El Fuerte de Baler,'' by Enrique Alfonso Barcones and Rafael Sánchez Campoy. The movie theme song "", composed by Llovet (lyrics) and Jorge Halpern (music), became very popular. It was lip synced by actress Nani Fernández and sang by Maria Teresa Valcárcel. Historical facts "The Last Ones of the Philippines" is the name given to the Spanish soldiers who fought in the Siege of Baler against Filipino revolutionaries and against the US Army during the Spanish–American War (in Spain also called "The Disaster of 98"). The Siege of Baler lasted from 1 July 1898 to 2 June 1899. During these 11 months, the Spaniards were isolated in a church that became their fortified position. The Spanish troops were a small garrison of 50 soldiers from the "2º de Cazadores" under the charge of Lieuten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
