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Octavio Cortázar
Octavio Cortázar Jiménez (19 January 1935 – 27 February 2008) was a Cuban film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1961 and 2005. His 1977 film ''The Teacher (1977 film), The Teacher'' was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear, Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution. His 1981 film ''Guardafronteras'' was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. Cortázar died of a heart attack while visiting Madrid on 27 February 2008 at the age of 73. (in Spanish) Selected filmography * ''For the First Time (1967 film), For the First Time'' (1967) * ''The Teacher (1977 film), The Teacher'' (1977) * ''Guardafronteras'' (1981) * ''L ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba ''The World Factbook''. Central Intelligence Agency. It is the most populous city, the largest by area, and the List of metropolitan areas in the West Indies, second largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region. The population in 2012 was 2,106,146 inhabitants, and its area is for the capital city side and 8,475.57 km2 for the metropolitan zone. Its official population was 1,814,207 inhabitants in 2023. Havana was founded by the Spanish Empire, Spanish in the 16th century. It served as a springboard for the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish conquest of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guardafronteras
''Guardafronteras'' is a 1981 Cuban drama film directed by Octavio Cortázar. It was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival, where Tito Junco won the award for Best Actor. Cast * Javier González * Tito Junco * Alberto Pujol * Maribel Rodríguez * Mara Roque * Patricio Wood See also * List of Cuban films This is an incomplete list of films produced in Cuba in chronological order. For an A-Z list of films currently on Wikipedia see :Cuban films. 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 200 ... References External links * 1981 films 1981 drama films 1980s Spanish-language films Films directed by Octavio Cortázar Cuban drama films Spanish-language drama films {{Cuba-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuban Film Directors
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2008 Deaths
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1935 Births
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's Colonial empire, colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of . * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Saar (League of Nations), Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly (game), Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Ultima Rumba De Papa Montero
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For The First Time (1967 Film)
''For the First Time'' () is a 1967 Cuban documentary short film. It chronicles the events of April 12, 1967 in the village of Los Munos, in the Baracoa municipality of Cuba, where a mobile cinema truck shows the villagers moving pictures for the first time. Overview The entire film was shot on April 12, 1967 in the village itself, and shows the cinema truck traveling to the village, as well as interviews with both the projectionists and several villagers. The film shown was the Chaplin feature, '' Modern Times'', on a portable 16 mm projector in the back of the truck. As it happened, the film screening was well received. The 10-minute film was made available in recent years for an international audience with it being included as a special feature in a MK2 DVD release of ''Modern Times'', distributed by Warner Brothers, as well as on the Criterion Collection release. Cast See also * List of Cuban films This is an incomplete list of films produced in Cuba in chronological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12th Moscow International Film Festival
The 12th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 7 to 21 July 1981. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Brazilian film '' O Homem que Virou Suco'' directed by João Batista de Andrade, the Vietnamese film '' The Abandoned Field: Free Fire Zone'' directed by Nguyễn Hồng Sến and the Soviet-French-Swiss film ''Teheran 43'' directed by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov. Jury * Stanislav Rostotsky (USSR – President of the Jury) * Juan Antonio Bardem (Spain) * Basu Bhattacharya (India) * Jerzy Hoffman (Poland) * Jacques Duqeau-Rupp (France) * Bata Živojinović (Yugoslavia) * Komaki Kurihara (Japan) * Jay Leyda (USA) * Miguel Littín (Chile) * László Lugossy (Hungary) * Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Brazil) * Gian Luigi Rondi (Italy) * Olzhas Suleimenov (USSR) * Med Hondo (Mauritania) * Lyudmila Chursina (USSR) * Marcela Fernandez Violante (Mexico) Films in competition The following films were selected for the main competition: Awards * Golden Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Bear
The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europe's " Big Three" film festivals alongside the Venice Film Festival held in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival held in France. Furthermore, it is one of the " Big Five", the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The festival regularly draws tens of thousands of visitors each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits, second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its wikt:monocentric, monocentric Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area is the List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, second-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 Manzanares (river), River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding Community of Madrid, autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
28th Berlin International Film Festival
The 28th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 February to 5 March 1978. Director Wolf Donner successfully managed to shift the festival's date from June to February, a change which has remained ever since. This was the first year the festival was held in February. The festival opened with '' Opening Night'' by John Cassavetes and closed with Steven Spielberg's out of competition film ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind''. The jury awarded the Golden Bear to Spain for its contribution to the festival. The three Spanish films which were screened at the festival and won it were short film '' Ascensor'' directed by Tomás Muñoz and feature films '' What Max Said'' by Emilio Martínez Lázaro and ''Las truchas'' by José Luis García Sánchez. A new section for children was introduced at the festival. The ''Part 2'' of the retrospective dedicated to West German actress Marlene Dietrich was shown at the festival, as well as the retrospective called "Censorship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Teacher (1977 Film)
''The Teacher'' () is a 1977 Cuban drama film directed by Octavio Cortázar. The film, set in the early years of the Cuban Revolution, tells the story of a young urban teacher going to poor, rural areas to teach peasants how to read and write. He must overcome the initial resistance of some inhabitants due to his youth, get used to a totally unknown environment and confront the bandits who support the mercenary invasion. The screenplay was written by Luis Rogelio Nogueras and Octavio Cortázar and starred René de la Cruz. The film was produced by the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution. Cast * René de la Cruz * Javier González * Adela Legrá * Luis Rielo * Maribel Rodríguez * Patricio Wood * Salvador Wood See also * List of Cuban films This is an incomplete list of films produced in Cuba in chronological order. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
