''Holy Camp!'' () is a 2017 Spanish

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directed by

Javier Ambrossi Francisco Javier García de la Camacha Gutiérrez-Ambrossi (born 24 June 1984), better known as Javier Ambrossi, is a Spanish writer, producer, director and actor. He is best known for forming a creative duo with Javier Calvo, with whom he has ...

and Javier Calvo. It is the film adaptation of the

of the same name, which was also written and directed by Ambrossi and Calvo and has been running for several seasons in the Madrid theater Teatro Lara.

Plot

Sister Milagros and Mother Bernarda are two

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s in charge at the Catholic

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La Brújula in

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. Mother Bernarda is seeking to modernize and reach out to youth through music, while Sister Milagros is full of self doubt. The main characters are María and Susana, two 17-year-old girls who are spending the summer at the camp which they have attended since they were little. They both love

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and "Electro Latino" music; but God's apparitions to and calling of María begin to change all their lives.

Cast

Production

The co-director Javier Ambrossi and the lead actress Macarena García are brother and sister. The film was produced by Apache Films, Sábado Películas and Lo hacemos y ya vemos AIE and it had the participation of TVE and

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. The 'Alto del León' camp in the

province of Segovia Segovia () is a province of central/northern Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the province of Burgos in the north, Soria in the northeast, Guadalajara in the east, Madrid in the south, ...

served to portray the fictional Christian 'Campamento La Brújula'.

Accolades

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5th Feroz Awards The 5th award ceremony of the Feroz Awards was held at Polideportivo Antonio Magariños, in Madrid, on January 22, 2018. It was hosted by Julián López and aired on #0. Winners and nominees The nominees were announced on December 5, 2017. The ...

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32nd Goya Awards The 32nd Goya Awards were presented at the Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel in Madrid on 3 February 2018, to honour the best in Spanish films of 2017. Joaquín Reyes (Spanish actor), Joaquín Reyes and Ernesto Sevilla hosted the awards ceremony. ...

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27th Actors and Actresses Union Awards The 27th Actors and Actresses Union Awards were held on 12 March 2018 at the Circo Price in Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitan ...

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