Pablo Casals
Also Known As: Pau Casals
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: El Vendrell, Catalonia, Spain
Birthday: December 29, 1876
Deathday: October 22, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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A Visit with Pablo Casals
Overview: Robert Snyder's acclaimed 26-minute short following Pablo Casals in Prades during his self-imposed exile from Franco's dictatorship in Spain. In this film, Casals performs his only solo recording of the Bach Suite No. 1. The film was recorded in 1955 and beautifully filmed in 35mm black and white within the walls of the town's abbey.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Pablo Casals in Puerto Rico
Overview: Documentary on Pablo Casals first visit to Puerto Rico.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich
Overview: Windjammer, the first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, to New York and back home again.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-08
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Casals Conducts: 1964
Overview: While at his workshop in Puerto Rico, Pablo Casals prepares to conduct a Bach suite for a concert performance. Oscar Winner for the category "Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Everybody Rides the Carousel
Overview: Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-08
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Public Speaking
Overview: A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous monologues with archival footage and the effect is a portrait of Fran's worldview and experiences.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-22
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Festival in Puerto Rico
Overview: This short documentary features Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as she sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the great Spanish cellist and conductor Pablo Casals and sponsored annually by the Puerto Rican government. Part concert film, part tourism film, Festival in Puerto Rico offers viewers candid glimpses of mid-20th century Puerto Rico intercut with performance footage of Forrester and her husband, violinist-conductor Eugene Kash.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-07
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Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-08
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Dix-huit heures d'escale
Overview: Out of love for a beautiful passenger he met on a crossing, journalist Robert Vitrac agrees to deliver a letter to a man named Pablo. A dangerous mission, since the beautiful Manuela has had in her possession the proceeds of a robbery, which she must forward to the fence. In this game, Vitrac would lose his honor and perhaps his life if Inspector Berio's friendship didn't protect him. Manuela, who seemed sincerely in love with the journalist, falls victim to the bandits.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-05-27
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El mundo de Pau Casals
Overview: The great Catalonian cellist tells of his life and work, and of his long exile between the year of the Franco takeover (1939) and the the death of that Fascist dictator (1976).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-26
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