''Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven'' () is a 1980 Spanish

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed and co-written by

Pilar Miró Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero (20 April 1940 – 19 October 1997) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. She was the General Director of RTVE from 1986 to 1989. In the 1990s, she directed the television broadcasts of the weddings of the dau ...

. It was entered into the

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 ...

where

Mercedes Sampietro Mercedes Sampietro Marro (born 24 January 1947) is a Spanish actress. Biography Mercedes Sampietro Marro was born in Barcelona on 24 January 1947. She began her career as a stage actress in 1970. Having performed as a voice actress in a numb ...

won the award for Best Actress.

Cast

as Andrea Soriano *

Jon Finch John Nicholas Finch (2 March 1942 – 28 December 2012) was an English stage and film actor who became well known for his Shakespearean roles. Most notably, he starred in films for directors Roman Polanski (''Macbeth'', 1971) and Alfred Hitchc ...

as Mario *

Carmen Maura María del Carmen García Maura (born 15 September 1945) is a Spanish actress. In a career that has spanned six decades, she has starred in films such as '' Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'', '' ¡Ay Carmela!'', '' Common Wealth'', an ...

as Begoña * Víctor Valverde (as Victor Valverde) * Alicia Hermida as María *

Isabel Mestres Isabel is a female name of Iberian origin. Isabelle is a name that is similar, but it is of French origin. It originates as the medieval Spanish form of '' Elisabeth'' (ultimately Hebrew ''Elisheba''). Arising in the 12th century, it became popul ...

José Manuel Cervino José Manuel Cervino (born 29 October 1940) is a Spanish film and television actor. He won the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007 and was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Actor in 1987. Life and career José Manuel Cervino Almei ...

(as Jose Manuel Cervino) *

Mary Carrillo María Carrillo Moreno (14 October 1919 - 31 July 2009) better known as Mary Carrillo was a Spanish actress. She appeared in more than fifty films from 1937 to 2002. Biography Considered one of the great actresses of the Spanish stage in the 20 ...

as Madre * Agustín González as Álvaro (as Agustin Gonzalez) *

Fernando Delgado Fernando Delgado (1891–1950) was a Spanish actor, screenwriter and film director. Delgado directed a mixture of documentary and feature films, including the 1936 bullfighting drama '' Currito of the Cross''.Labanyi & Pavlović p.302 His son Lui ...

as Bernardo Ortega *

Amparo Soler Leal Amparo Soler Leal (23 August 1933 – 25 October 2013) was a Spanish film actress. She was married to Adolfo Marsillach from 1954 to 1956, and to film producer Alfredo Matas from 1969 until his death in 1996. She worked often with Luis García ...

as Carmen

References

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* 1980 films 1980 drama films Spanish drama films 1980s Spanish-language films Films directed by Pilar Miró 1980s Spanish films Spanish-language drama films {{1980s-Spain-film-stub