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14 De Abril. La República
''14 de abril. La República'' () is a Spanish period drama television series. Set in the Second Spanish Republic, it is a spin-off of ''La señora'', featuring a number of characters from the latter show. Produced by RTVE in collaboration with and created by Virginia Yagüe and Jordi Frades, the first season aired on La 1 in 2011. The already produced second season was put in the freeze during the seven years of rule of the People's Party, eventually airing from 2018 to 2019. Premise The fiction starts with Ludi, a female servant, arriving to Madrid from Asturias. In the context of the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic on 14 April 1931, the Spring of 1931 in the Spanish capital is bustling with those celebrating the advent of the Republic, while those against it prepare for armed struggle. The "De la Torre" family, a landowning family representative of the "stagnant, rancid bourgeoisie", is among those opposing the new government. The son of the family, Fernando d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Period Drama
A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in the past, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents history, historical events and characters with varying degrees of fiction such as artistic license, creative dialogue or scenes which compress separate events. The biographical film is a type of historical drama which generally focuses on a single individual or well-defined group. Historical dramas can include romance film, romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. Historical drama can be differentiated from historical fiction, which generally present fictional characters and events against a backdrop of historical events. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages, or a specific period such as the Roaring Twenties, or the recent past. Scholarship In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity, such as the westerns and sword and sandal films that dominated Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álex Angulo
Alejandro Angulo León (12 April 1953 – 20 July 2014), better known as Álex Angulo, was a Spanish actor who performed in over sixty films during his career spanning more than 30 years. Life Born in Erandio, Biscay, Angulo made his feature film debut in Imanol Uribe's ''Escape from Segovia'' (1981), portraying Anot. Angulo died on 20 July 2014 at the age of 61 when the vehicle in which he was travelling veered from a road near Fuenmayor, La Rioja (Spain), La Rioja. At that moment he was going to the filming of ''Bendita calamidad''. Then he was replaced by Luis Varela. The Spanish director Mikel Rueda dedicated his film Hidden Away (2014 film), Hidden Away to Angulo posthumously. Selected filmography Films *1981: ''Escape from Segovia, La fuga de Segovia'' *1987: ''El amor de ahora'' - (uncredited) *1988: ''Tu novia está loca'' - Yuste *1990: ''El anónimo... ¡vaya papelón!'' - Evaristo *1991: ''Anything for Bread'' - Genaro *1991: ''The Dumbfounded King'' - Hombre 1 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Mundo (Spain)
(; ), before , is the second largest printed daily newspaper in Spain. The paper is considered one of the country's newspapers of record along with '' El País'' and '' ABC''. History and profile was first published on 23 October 1989. Perhaps the best known of its founders was Pedro J. Ramírez, who served as editor until 2014. Ramirez had risen to prominence as a journalist during the Spanish transition to democracy. The other founders, Alfonso de Salas, Balbino Fraga and Juan González, shared with Ramírez a background in Grupo 16, the publishers of the newspaper '' Diario 16''. Alfonso de Salas, Juan Gonzales and Gregorio Pena also launched '' El Economista'' in 2006. , along with '' Marca'' and '' Expansión'', is controlled by the Italian publishing company RCS MediaGroup through its Spanish subsidiary company Unidad Editorial S.L. Its former owner was Unedisa which merged with Grupo Recoletos in 2007 to form Unidad Editorial, current owner of the paper. The pape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Héctor Colomé
Hector () is an English, French, Scottish, and Spanish given name. The name is derived from the name of Hektor, a legendary Trojan champion who was killed by the Greek Achilles. The name ''Hektor'' is probably derived from the Greek ''ékhein'', meaning "to have", "to hold", "to check", "restrain". In Scotland, the name ''Hector'' is sometimes an anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic '' Eachann'', and the pet form ''Heckie'' is sometimes used. The name of Sir Ector, the foster father of King Arthur, is also a variant of the same. Etymology In Greek, is a derivative of the verb ἔχειν ''ékhein'', archaic form * ('to have' or 'to hold'), from Proto-Indo-European *''wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/seǵʰ-, seɡ́ʰ-'' ('to hold'). , or as found in Aeolic poetry, is also an epithet of Zeus in his capacity as 'he who holds [everything together]'. Hector's name could thus be taken to mean 'holding fast'. Cognates *Irish language, Irish: ''Eachtar'' *Italian language, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El País
(; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. 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 . 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. also produces a world edition in Madrid that is available online in English and in Spanish (Latin America). History was founded in May 1976 by a team at PRISA which included Jesus de Polanco, José Ortega Spottorno and Carlos Mendo. The paper was designed by Reinhard Gade and Julio Alonso. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Sánchez
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has served as Prime Minister of Spain since 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since July 2017, having previously held that office from 2014 to 2016, and has also been serving as the ninth Socialist International#Presidents, president of the Socialist International in 2022. Sánchez began his political career in August 2004 as a city councillor in Madrid, before being elected to the Congress of Deputies in 2009. In 2014, he was elected Secretary-General of the PSOE, becoming Leader of the Opposition (Spain), Leader of the Opposition. He led the party through the inconclusive 2015 Spanish general election, 2015 and 2016 Spanish general election, 2016 general elections, but resigned as Secretary-General shortly after the latter, following 2016 PSOE crisis, public disagreements with the party's executive. He was re-elected in a 2017 Spanish Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vanguardia
' (; , ) is a Spanish daily newspaper founded in 1881. It is printed in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, also in Catalan. It has its headquarters in Barcelona and is Catalonia's leading newspaper. Despite being mostly distributed in Catalonia, ' is Spain's fourth-highest circulation among general-interest newspapers, trailing only the three main Madrid-based ones – ', ' and '' ABC'' – all of which are national newspapers with offices and local editions throughout the country. The newspaper's editorial line leans to the centre of politics and is moderate in its opinions, but Francoist Spain, it followed Francoist ideology. It retains Catholic sensibilities and strong ties to the Spanish nobility through the Godó family. History and profile Beginnings On 1 February 1881 in Barcelona, two businessmen from Igualada, Carlos and Bartolomé Godó, first published the paper. It was defined as a ''Diario político de avisos y notícias'' (Political Newspaper of Announcements and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariano Rajoy
Mariano Rajoy Brey (, ; born 27 March 1955) is a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018, when a 2018 vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy, vote of no confidence ousted his government. A member of the People's Party (Spain), People's Party, he served as the president of the People's Party from 2004 to 2018. Rajoy became prime minister in 2011 following the his party's landslide victory in that year's 2011 Spanish general election, general election, becoming the sixth president of the Spanish Government since Spanish transition to democracy, the restoration of democracy. The party lost its majority in the 2015 Spanish general election, 2015 general election, but after that election ended in deadlock, a 2016 Spanish general election, second election in 2016 enabled Rajoy to be reelected prime minister as head of a minority government. Rajoy was a minister under the José María Aznar administration, occupying different leadin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliffhanger
A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious situation, facing a difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction or before a commercial break in a television programme. A cliffhanger is intended to incentivize the audience to return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma. Some serials end with the caveat, "To Be Continued" or "The End?" In serial films and Television show, television series, the following episode sometimes begins with a recap sequence. Cliffhangers were used as literary devices in several works of the Middle Ages with ''One Thousand and One Nights'' ending on a cliffhanger each night. Cliffhangers appeared as an element of the Victorian era serial novel that emerged in the 1840s, with many associating the form with Charles Dickens, a pioneer of the serial publication of narrative fiction.Grossman, Jonathan H. (2012). ''Charles Dick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Cotiello
María Cotiello Pérez (born 21 November 1982) is a Spanish actress. She is also a visible campaigner for the officialization of the Asturianu, asturian language in Asturias. Biography María Cotiello Pérez was born on 21 November 1982 either in Mieres or Gijón, depending on sources. She began to perform as an actress when she was 15 years old, moving to Madrid in 2001 to train at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático (RESAD). She starred in the feature film ''13 Roses'' playing one of the 13 roses, Elena. She performed in multiple television series, including, ''SMS, sin miedo a soñar'', ''Amar en tiempos revueltos'', ''Ascensores'', ''Hay alguien ahí'', ''Los protegidos (Spanish TV series), Los Protegidos'', ''Centro médico'', ''El ministerio del tiempo'', ''Bajo sospecha'', ''Bandolera'', ''14 de abril. La República'', and stage plays such as ''La danza de la muerte'', ''Dios de Woddy Allen'' and ''Presas''. Also graduated in Spanish Language (specialisation in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Mur
Sergio Mur López (born 23 May 1977 in Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain), is a Spanish television actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. .... Filmography Films Television roles References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mur, Sergio 1977 births Living people 21st-century Spanish male actors Male actors from Madrid Spanish male film actors Spanish male telenovela actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víctor Clavijo
Víctor Clavijo Cobos (born 28 September 1973) is a Spanish actor. He earned early public recognition in Spain for his performance in the serial '' Al salir de clase''. Biography Víctor Clavijo Cobos was born in Algeciras on 28 September 1973. He studied law at the University of Granada but he eventually dropped out and moved instead to Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ..., graduating in Drama from the RESAD. Besides his theatrical performances, his first non-stage role came in 1995 with a performance in the short film ''David''. He landed one of his first television roles in the series '' Menudo es mi padre'', where Clavijo played the son of El Fary's second wife. Clavijo landed his big screen debut in '' Un buen novio'' (1998). He became popular in Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
