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Sergio Peris-Mencheta
Luis Sergio Peris-Mencheta Barrio (born 7 April 1975), better known as Sergio Peris-Mencheta, is a Spanish theatre, cinema, and television actor, as well as a theatre director. Life and career Luis Sergio Peris-Mencheta Barrio was born on 7 April 1975 in Madrid, son to a Spanish father and a Moscow-born mother, daughter of Spanish exiles. A Rugby unione, rugby player for the CR Liceo Francés, team of the Lycée Français, he also was part of international teams that won several championships, and was captain of his youth team. After finishing secondary school, he enrolled at the Charles III University of Madrid, but while participating in the university theater group directed by Inés París he discovered a desire to become an actor. In 1998, Peris-Mencheta landed a role in teen drama television series ''Al salir de clase'', which earned him popularity. He played Dani Daroca, one of the students of the Siete Robles school. He made his feature film debut in ''Jara'' (1999), in ... [...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-large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Agents (film)
''Secret Agents'' (french: italic=yes, Agents Secrets), also released as ''Spy Bound'', is a 2004 French crime film directed by Frédéric Schoendoerffer. Plot DGSE field agents plan and execute a mission to Morocco that encounters problems, with one agent imprisoned. Cast * Vincent Cassel - Brisseau * Monica Bellucci - Barbara / Lisa * André Dussollier - Colonel Grasset * Charles Berling - Eugène * Bruno Todeschini - Homme maigre en civil * Sergio Peris-Mencheta - Raymond * Ludovic Schoendoerffer - Loic * Eric Savin - Tony * Najwa Nimri - Maria Menendez * Rosanna Walls - Maria's friend * Beatrice Kessler - Helena Standler * Jo Prestia - Gianni * Serge Avedikian - Igor Lipovsky * Gabriel'e Lazure - Veronique Lipovsky * Simón Andreu Simón Andreu Trobat (born 1 January 1941) is a Spanish actor. He has appeared in more than 180 films and television shows since 1961. In 2013 he was awarded with the Nosferatu Award at the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Capitán Trueno Y El Santo Grial
''El Capitán Trueno y el Santo Grial'' is a Spanish 2011 sword and sorcery film directed by Antonio Hernández and based on the comic books of ''El Capitán Trueno''. Its stars Sergio Peris-Mencheta and Natasha Yarovenko. The film suffered from problems since its development phase and proved to be a box office failure, also earning very poor reviews. Plot The fiction follows the adventures of the Capitán Trueno and his band, formed by Crispín, Goliat and the princess Sigrid. Cast Production Earlier failed attempts to bring the comic book character to a live action film involved Juan Piquer Simón, Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Alejandro Toledo and Daniel Calparsoro as possible directors. None of them came to fruition and, following the entry of in the project (as producer and tentative director), the direction was eventually tasked to Antonio Hernández. At some point Álex González and Elsa Pataky were slated to star as lead characters Capitán Trueno and Sigrid but they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afterlife
The afterlife (also referred to as life after death or the world to come) is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's identity or their stream of consciousness continues to live after the death of their physical body. According to various ideas about the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul or spirit, of an individual, which carries with it and may confer personal identity or, on the contrary nirvana. Belief in an afterlife is in contrast to the belief in oblivion after death. In some views, this continued existence takes place in a spiritual realm, and in other popular views, the individual may be reborn into this world and begin the life cycle over again, likely with no memory of what they have done in the past. In this latter view, such rebirths and deaths may take place over and over again continuously until the individual gains entry to a spiritual realm o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Ranch
''Love Ranch'' is a 2010 American drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Gina Gershon and Bryan Cranston. It was written by Mark Jacobson. The film is based on the lives of Joe Conforte and Sally Conforte, a married couple who operated the first legal brothel in the United States after the widespread criminalization of prostitution in the US earlier in the 20th century, the Mustang Ranch in Storey County, Nevada, Violence results when their marriage is tested by infidelity. The story also alludes to the mysterious circumstances surrounding the assassination of famous Argentinian boxer Ringo Bonavena in the Mustang Ranch. Plot synopsis Charlie Bontempo (sometimes called Charlie "Goodtimes") and his wife, Grace, run a legal brothel known as the Love Ranch on a large, remote property near Reno, Nevada. Grace's mother had been a prostitute, so Grace knew the business, but it was Charlie who persuaded her to open a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18 Meals
''18 Meals'' ( es, 18 comidas) is a 2010 Spanish comedy film directed by Jorge Coira and starring Luis Tosar and Federico Pérez Rey. Cast * Luis Tosar as Edu * as Tuto * as Fran * as Sol * Gael Nodar Fernández as Gael * Pedro Alonso Pedro González Alonso (born 21 June 1971), known as Pedro Alonso, is a Spanish actor, writer, and artist. He is best known for his role of Andrés "Berlin" de Fonollosa in the Spanish heist series ''Money Heist'' (''La casa de papel'') and fo ... as Vladimir Torres * as Teo References External links * 2010 comedy films 2010 films Spanish comedy films Galician-language films 2010s Spanish-language films 2010s Spanish films {{2010s-Spain-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prensa Ibérica
Prensa Ibérica Media, S.L., or simply Prensa Ibérica, is a Spanish mass media company owned by Javier Moll. It primarily owns regional newspapers. History Founded by Javier Moll, the company traces back its origins to 1978, with the creation of Prensa Canaria, the editor of the morning newspaper ''La Provincia'' and the evening newspaper ''Diario de Las Palmas''. Yet the creation of Editorial Prensa Ibérica took place in 1984, following the acquisition in a public auction of ''La Nueva España'' (Asturias), ''Levante-EMV'' (Valencia) and ''Información'' (Alicante) from the , the State-owned media holding liquidated by the Felipe González's government, a renaming of the Francoist Cadena de Prensa del Movimiento. It also purchased the ''Faro de Vigo''. The group consolidated together with its rival Vocento as the two largest regional media holdings in Spain. The company purchased Grupo Zeta in 2019, adding newspapers such as ''El Periódico de Catalunya'', ''El Periódico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Córdoba (newspaper)
''Córdoba'', sometimes called ''Diario Córdoba'', is a Spanish language newspaper from the city of Córdoba and is the major source of news from the province. It has been published continuously since 25 July 1941. History Founded on 25 July 1941, they were the successor of the Falangista newspaper ''Azul'', the official organ of Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS in the province of Córdoba. For this reason, the newspaper belonged to the during Francoist Spain. For almost forty years, it was the only newspaper that existed in the capital of Córdoba, having a modest circulation of about 5,000 copies during the 1940s and 1950s. At the beginning of the 1970s, circulation had increased to 9000 copies. Following the death of Franco, ''Córdoba'' began a period of dependence on the public body, Medios de Comunicación Social del Estado. On February 1, 1984, the State put the newspaper on sale, where it was acquired by a private company with links to Spanish Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vida En Rojo
''La vida en rojo'' is a 2008 Spanish film directed by Andrés Linares based on the novel ''El vano ayer'' by Isaac Rosa. It stars José Luis Gómez, Ingrid Rubio, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Pilar Bardem, and Miguel Ángel Solá. Plot Set in Francoist Spain against the backdrop of the history of ''desaparecidos'' during the dictatorship as well as the regime's expulsion of University of Madrid's professors , García Calvo, and Tierno in the 1960s, the plot tracks the plight of university lecturer Julio Denis and student and Communist Party of Spain member André Sánchez, disappeared after an interrogation at the Dirección General de Seguridad precinct. Cast Production Penned by Andrés Linares and Isaac Rosa, the film's screenplay is an adaptation of Rosa's work ''El vano ayer''. The film is a Producciones Cinematográficas Alea production. Release Distributed by Sagrera TV, the film was released theatrically in Spain on 24 October 2008. See also * List of Spanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Majesty Minor
''His Majesty Minor'' (french: Sa majesté Minor) is a French-Spanish feature film by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is his third film shot entirely in his native language of French since his 1976 Oscar-winning debut ''Black and White in Color'' and his 1978 film ''Coup de tête'' featuring Patrick Dewaere. It is a mythical comedy taking place on an island in the Aegean Sea before the founding of Ancient Greece. It was filmed in 2006 in Benitatxell and Benigembla, basically in the district of the Marina Alta, which is located in the Valencian Community. The film was produced by French companies StudioCanal and Pathé in partnership with Malvarrosa Media and Mediapro in Spain. Despite its originality, the movie was poorly received, both by critics and the audience.Thomas Baurez, « Jean-Jacques Annaud : Sur le gril », dans ''Studio'', n°239 (octobre 2007), p. 68-72 Plot Minor (Garcia) was abandoned by his parents as a child and was raised by a pack of pigs; he speak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesare Borgia
Cesare Borgia (; ca-valencia, Cèsar Borja ; es, link=no, César Borja ; 13 September 1475 – 12 March 1507) was an Italian ex- cardinal and '' condottiero'' (mercenary leader) of Aragonese (Spanish) origin, whose fight for power was a major inspiration for ''The Prince'' by Niccolò Machiavelli. He was an illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and member of the Spanish-Aragonese House of Borgia. After initially entering the Church and becoming a cardinal on his father's election to the Papacy, he became, after the death of his brother in 1498, the first person to resign a . He served as a ''condottiero'' for King Louis XII of France around 1500, and occupied Milan and Naples during the Italian Wars. At the same time he carved out a state for himself in Central Italy, but after his father's death he was unable to retain power for long. According to Machiavelli, this was not due to a lack of foresight, but his error in creating a new pope. Early life Like many aspects of Cesa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Borgia
''The Borgia'' ( es, Los Borgia, links=no) is a 2006 Spanish-Italian biographical film directed by Antonio Hernández. It stars Lluís Homar, Sergio Peris-Mencheta and María Valverde as, respectively, Rodrigo, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia. Cast Release Distributed by DeAPlaneta, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 6 October 2006. See also * List of Spanish films of 2006 A list of Spanish-produced and co-produced feature films released in Spain in 2006. When applicable, the domestic theatrical release date is favoured. Films Box office The ten highest-grossing Spanish films in 2006, by domestic box office ... References External links * * 2000s biographical films 2000s Spanish-language films 2006 films Spanish biographical films Italian biographical films Cultural depictions of Lucrezia Borgia Cultural depictions of Caterina Sforza Cultural depictions of Cesare Borgia Films set in Valencia 2000s Spanish films 2000s Italian films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
