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The Blind Sunflowers (film)
''The Blind Sunflowers'' ( es, Los girasoles ciegos) is a 2008 Spanish film directed by José Luis Cuerda and written by Rafael Azcona and Cuerda, based on the 2004 novel '' The Blind Sunflowers'' by Alberto Méndez. The film stars Maribel Verdú, Javier Cámara and Raúl Arévalo. This film was Spain's 81st Academy Awards official submission to Foreign Language Film category, but it was not selected. Plot The plot follows the life of a family, former sympathizers of the Spanish Republic, during the early 1940s. Their lives are disrupted when a young priest falls in love with the mother. The film is set in Ourense, 1940 where a disorientated deacon, named Salvador returns to the seminary of Ourense where the Rector delays Salvador's access to priesthood for a year. Salvador begins teaching in a school where he meets with Lorenzo, the son of Elena, whom of which Salvador thinks is widowed. This opportunity multiplies with the deacon becoming obsessed with her, abusing her mentall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luis Cuerda
José Luis Cuerda Martínez (18 February 19474 February 2020) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and Film producer, producer. He was born in Albacete and died on 4 February 2020 at the age of 72 in Madrid from an embolism. He won four Goya Awards: in 2nd Goya Awards, 1987, 3rd Goya Awards, 1988, 14th Goya Awards, 2000 and 23rd Goya Awards, 2009. Filmography as director * 1982 – ''Pares y nones'' * 1983 – ''Total (film), Total (film for TV)'' * 1985 – ''Mala racha (film for TV)'' * 1987 – ''El bosque animado'' * 1989 – ''Amanece, que no es poco'' * 1991 – ''La viuda del capitán Estrada'' * 1992 – ''La marrana'' * 1993 – ''Tocando fondo'' * 1995 – ''Así en el cielo como en la tierra'' * 1999 – ''Butterfly's Tongue'' * 2000 – ''Primer amor (2000 film), Primer amor'' * 2004 – ''¡Hay motivo!'' (episode: "Por el mar corre la liebre") * 2006 – ''The Education of Fairies'' * 2008 – ''The Blind Sunflowers (film), The Blind Sunflowers'' * 2012 – ''To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Antonio Quintana
Juan Antonio Quintana (1939 – 15 February 2022) was a Spanish actor. Biography He was born in Zaragoza in 1939. The only son of Juan, a bank clerk, and Felisa, a housewife, he was fond of cinema and theater from an early age. He studied Philosophy and Letters at the University of Zaragoza and the Complutense University of Madrid, University of Madrid. He made his theatrical debut at the age of seventeen, at the University of Zaragoza, with the play ''The Lesson'' by Eugène Ionesco. He finished this eight-year stage as a university actor, participating in the staging of ''Fuenteovejuna'', by Lope de Vega, directed by Alberto Castilla at the Teatro Nacional Universitario in Madrid, which won the Grand Prix du Festival Mondial de Théâtre de Nancy (France). In 1966 he staged his first production of ''The Maidens' Consent'', by Leandro Fernández de Moratín. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goya Award For Best Actor
The Goya Award for Best Actor (Spanish: ''Premio Goya a la mejor interpretación masculina protagonista'') is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. Actors that won or were nominated for this category have had a significant presence in several film festivals both Spanish and international, Imanol Arias ('' Lute: Run for Your Life''), Fernando Rey (''Winter Diary''), Juan Echanove (''Madregilda''), Luis Tosar (''Take My Eyes''), Juan José Ballesta ('' 7 Virgins''), Juan Diego ('Go Away from Me''), José Sacristán (''The Dead Man and Being Happy''), Javier Gutiérrez (''Marshland''), Ricardo Darín ('' Truman'') and Eduard Fernández ('' Smoke & Mirrors'') received the Silver Shell for Best Actor at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Juan Luis Galiardo (''Goodbye from the Heart''), Javier Cámara (''Torremolinos 73'', ''Chef's Special'') and Alberto San Juan ('' Under the Stars'') received the Best Actor award at the Málaga Film Festival, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goya Award For Best Original Score
The Goya Award for Best Original Score (''Mejor música original'') is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. The category has been presented ever since the first edition of the Goya Awards. Spanish folk band Milladoiro was the first winner of the award for their work in the film ''Half of Heaven'' (1986). Composer Alberto Iglesias holds the record of most wins and nominations for this award, winning eleven times out of seventeen nominations. In the list below the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * References External linksOfficial site {{Goya Awards Original Score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to e ... Film awards for b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goya Award For Best Adapted Screenplay
The Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Spanish ''Premio Goya al mejor guión adaptado'') is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. For the first two editions of the Goya Awards, only one award for screenplays was presented which included both original and adapted screenplays, with both winners being adaptations, ''Voyage to Nowhere'' in 1986 (based on the novel of the same name by Fernando Fernán Gómez) and ''El Bosque animado'' (based on the eponymous novel by Wenceslao Fernández Flórez) in 1987. Since the third edition, two awards are presented separately, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. Rafael Azcona has received this award four times, more than any other nominee, winning for ''¡Ay Carmela!'' (1990) with Carlos Saura, '' Banderas, the Tyrant'' (1993) with José Luis García Sánchez, ''Butterfly's Tongue'' (1999) with Manuel Rivas and José Luis Cuerda and '' The Blind Sunflowers'' (2008) with José Luis Cuerda. Winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goya Award For Best Director
The Goya Award for Best Director (Spanish: ''Premio Goya a la mejor dirección'') is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. The category has been presented ever since the first edition of the Goya Awards. Fernando Fernán Gómez was the first winner of this award for his film ''Voyage to Nowhere''. Pedro Almodóvar holds the record of most wins and nominations for this category, with three wins out of eleven nominations, winning for ''All About My Mother'' (1999), ''Volver'' (2006) and ''Pain and Glory'' (2019). Fernando León de Aranoa shares the record of most wins, having won three times out of four nominations, winning for ''Barrio'' (1998), ''Mondays in the Sun'' (2002) and ''The Good Boss'' (2021). Directors Fernando Trueba, Alejandro Amenábar, Isabel Coixet, and Juan Antonio Bayona have received this award twice. In the list below the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. Winners and nominees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premios Goya
The Goya Awards ( es, Premios Goya) are Spain's main national annual film awards, commonly referred to as the Academy Awards of Spain. The awards were established in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, and the first awards ceremony took place on March 16, 1987 at the Teatro Lope de Vega, Madrid. The ceremony continues to take place annually at Centro de Congresos Príncipe Felipe, around the end of January/beginning of February, and awards are given to films produced during the previous year. The award itself is a small bronze bust of Francisco Goya created by the sculptor José Luis Fernández, although the original sculpture for the first edition of the Goyas was by Miguel Ortiz Berrocal. History To reward the best Spanish films of each year, the Spanish Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts decided to create the Goya Awards. The Goya Awards are Spain's main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goya Award For Best Film
The Goya Award for Best Picture ( es, Premio Goya a la mejor película) is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. The category was first awarded in 1986 to Fernando Fernán Gómez's drama film ''Voyage to Nowhere''. Several films that won or were nominated for this category also were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film representing Spain, ''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'', '' Secrets of the Heart'', '' The Grandfather'' and ''Pain and Glory'' were nominated while ''Belle Époque'', ''All About My Mother'' and ''The Sea Inside'' won. Argentine-Spanish productions ''The Secret in Their Eyes'' and '' Wild Tales'' also received a nomination in the category but representing Argentina, with the former winning. Mexican-Spanish film ''Pan's Labyrinth'' was nominated representing Mexico. In the list below the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
23rd Goya Awards
The 23rd Goya Awards honouring the best in Spanish filmmaking of 2008 were presented on 1 February 2009 at the Madrid's Palacio Municipal de Congresos. The gala was hosted by Carmen Machi, also featuring Muchachada Nui. '' Camino'' was the big winner of the night, winning 6 awards out 7 nominations, including Best Film, Actress, Director and Original Screenplay. Winners and nominees The winners and nominees are listed as follows: Major awards Other award nominees Honorary Goya * Jesús Franco Jesús Franco Manera (12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013) was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, known as a prolific director of low-budget exploitation film, exploitation and B-movies. In a career spanning from 1959 to 2013, he wrote, directe ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Goya Awards 23 2008 film awards 2008 in Spanish cinema 2009 in Madrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Giner
Silvia Giner Vergara (born in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, 31 December 1980) is a Spanish actress. Background Vergara's education include drama studies with Ramon Guzman Resino, and Management Information Systems at university. In 2005, she made her first foray into Latin American cinema in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in ''Space of appearances'' (El espacio de las apariencias), which launched her career in films. The cinema website ''Cineando'' referred to her as, "The Wonderful future of Spanish cinema". In 2011 she had her first and only daughter. In 2012, to recover from injuries caused by an illness in her uterus, she began practicing Pole Dance. She then fell in love with this sporting discipline and decided to begin her studies in Catalonia (Spain) to become a Pole Sports instructor and be able to found her own school. In 2015 he founded his own school called ''Aerial Dreams''. In this school he would train athletes and create the first federated competitions, some attached ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Callejo
Luis Callejo Martínez (born 1 August 1970) is a Spanish actor. Biography Luis Callejo Martínez was born in Segovia on 1 August 1970. He trained his acting chops at the local Municipal Theatre Workshop, later joining the Madrid's RESAD. His performance in the 2005 film ''Princesses'' earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actor. In 2016, he won a Sant Jordi Awards The Sant Jordi Awards ( ca, Premis Sant Jordi, links=no; es, Premios Sant Jordi, links=no) are film prizes awarded annually by the Catalan Catalan may refer to: Catalonia From, or related to Catalonia: * Catalan language, a Romance language ... for '' Tarde para la ira''. Selected filmography References External links * 1970 births Living people Spanish male film actors 21st-century Spanish male actors Male actors from Castile and León People from Segovia {{Spain-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camilo Rodríguez
Camilo Bryan Rodríguez Pedraza (born 4 March 1995) is a Chilean footballer that currently plays for Primera B de Chile club Universidad de Concepción as a right-back. Career Rodríguez is a product of Colo-Colo. In 2024, he signed with Universidad de Concepción from Deportes La Serena. Honours ;Colo-Colo * Torneo Clausura (1): 2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ... References External links * Rodríguez at Football-Lineups 1995 births Living people Footballers from Santiago Chilean men's footballers Chile men's under-20 international footballers Men's association football defenders Colo-Colo B footballers Colo-Colo footballers Everton de Viña del Mar footballers C.D. Antofagasta footballers Deportes La Serena footballers C.D. Universidad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
