Antonio Gades
Also Known As: Antonio Esteve Ródenas, Antonio Esteve Rodeñas
Biography: Spanish-born actor Antonio Gades was born on November 14, 1936. He is best known for his work on Carmen (1983), Blood Wedding (1981) and Los tarantos (1963).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Elda, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
Birthday: November 14, 1936
Deathday: July 20, 2004
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Carmen
Overview: While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just like Don José in the original opera, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-05-06
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Blood Wedding
Overview: A dance troupe prepares for and completes a dress rehearsal of Federico García Lorca's tragic play "Blood Wedding," which is about a bride who runs away from her wedding with a former boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-03-09
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El amor brujo
Overview: In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since he was a boy, is arrested while helping José and unfairly sent to prison. Four years later he is released and declares his love for Candela. However, the woman is cursed by a bewitched love and every night she goes to the place where José died to dance with his ghost.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-03-23
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With the East Wind
Overview: The life of Sebastián (Antonio Gades), a 28-year-old gypsy, changes drastically after he kills a man. From that moment, he must flee, experiencing the torments of loneliness, guilt, and the rejection of his people.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-07-17
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Los Tarantos
Overview: Gypsy Romeo and Juliet: A boy and a girl from rival families fall in love.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-11-04
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Far from the Trees
Overview: An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate relationship with atavism and superstition, with violence and pain, with blood and death; a story of terror, a journey to the most sinister and ancestral Spain; the one that lived far from the most visited tourist destinations, from the economic miracle and unstoppable progress, relentlessly promoted by the Franco regime during the sixties.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-05-19
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The Pleasure Seekers
Overview: A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary Maggie Williams falls hard for a married newsman named Paul Barton while fighting off the advances of one of his employees. Singer Fran Hobson sets her sights on a handsome European doctor. And coed Susie Higgins receives an unexpected proposal from smooth-talking womanizer Emilio Lacaya.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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Los días del pasado
Overview: A woman arrives in town to work as a teacher. It is the time of the 'maquis', the anti-Franco guerrilla that fights with little hope in some regions of Spain just after the end of the civil war. She has a love affair with one of the guerrillas, but their relationship will have an impossible future because of the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-12
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Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-03-18
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The Last Meeting
Overview: A flamenco dancer (Antonio Gades) reflects on his life and career when he is surprised to be honored on a television show telling his life story. The memories stir up controversy, and an old friend seeks retribution as Antonio had once stolen his girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-06-08
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Bewitched Love
Overview: This tragic drama is based on the ballet by famed composer Manuel De Falla. A young woman is caught between the violent struggle of two rival suitors who love her passionately. Candelas (La Polaca) is pursued by kind-hearted Antonio (Antonio Gades) and the evil diablo Diego (Rafael Cordova). Lucia (Morucha) is the cryptic gypsy fortune teller, with Fernando Sanchez Polack as Candela's beloved father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-06-22
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Fortunata y Jacinta
Overview: Shows the unfailing love of two women for the same man, one as his mistress, the other as his wife. The lives of these characters intertwine and are determined by the variegated fabric of delicate tradition and established vices shaky politics and intrigue of the society they live in. Based on the major novel (1877) by Benito Perez Galdos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-03-12
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Canciones de nuestra vida
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Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-11-24
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