''Esquilache'' is a 1989
Spanish film directed by
Josefina Molina. The film stars
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Fernando Fernández Gómez (28 August 1921 – 21 November 2007), better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez, was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director, novelist, and playwright. Prolific and outstanding in all these fiel ...
as
Leopoldo de Gregorio, Marquis of Esquilache. It is based on the play "
Un Soñador Para Un Pueblo" by
Antonio Buero Vallejo. The film was entered into the
39th Berlin International Film Festival.
Plot
The film is about the
Esquilache Riots.
Cast
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Fernando Fernán Gómez
Fernando Fernández Gómez (28 August 1921 – 21 November 2007), better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez, was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director, novelist, and playwright. Prolific and outstanding in all these fiel ...
as
Esquilache
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José Luis López Vázquez as Antonio Campos
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Ángela Molina as Fernanda
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Ángel de Andrés
Ángel de Andrés Miquel was a Spanish theatre actor and director.
Background
In 1938, after the Spanish Civil War broke out, the young Andrés worked as an amateur street actor and then as a "galán cómico" in the Salvador Videgain theatre ...
as
Marqués de la Ensenada
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Concha Velasco as Pastora Patermo
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Adolfo Marsillach
Adolfo Marsillach Soriano (January 25, 1928 – January 21, 2002) was a Spanish actor, playwright and theatre director. He was born in Barcelona.
He was known for his collaborations with playwright Alberto Miralles.
He is the father of a ...
as
Carlos III
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Amparo Rivelles
María Amparo Rivelles Ladrón de Guevara (11 February 1925 – 7 November 2013) was a Spanish actress.
Life and career
Born in Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. ...
as
Isabel de Farnesio
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Alberto Closas
Alberto Closas Lluró (30 October 1921, in Barcelona – 19 September 1994, in Madrid) was a prolific Spanish film actor who appeared in the Cinema of Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s and in Spanish cinema after 1955.
His family emigrated to ...
as Duque de Villasanta
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Tito Valverde as Bernardo
References
External links
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1989 films
1980s Spanish-language films
1980s biographical drama films
Spanish biographical drama films
Films set in the 1760s
Films set in Madrid
Films directed by Josefina Molina
Fiction set in 1766
Cultural depictions of Spanish monarchs
1980s Spanish films
Spanish-language biographical drama films
Films scored by José Nieto
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