Fernando Méndez-Leite
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Birthday: May 06, 1944
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Male
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Icónica Chamorro
Overview: Journalist Paloma Chamorro symbolized openness and modernity in Spain in the early 1980s. Her personality and her shows on TVE (then the only TV channel in the country) made her an influential transgressive icon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-02-26
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The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
Overview: A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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Howard Hawks, San Sebastián 1972
Overview: In 1972, the American film director Howard Hawks travelled to San Sebastian to preside over the jury of the Film Festival. Two young film buffs, Jesús Martínez León and José Luis Cuerda, came from Madrid in the hope of interviewing him. After thirty years of life and films we recover that unpublished interview.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Por la gracia de Luis
Overview: A walk through the work of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) that is neither a documentary nor a narrative movie, but a tribute to one of the greatest directors of Spanish cinema. Anything can happen: the performers are not themselves, but their characters; there are no interviews, but greetings; a series of entrances and exits. A joyful reunion, a celebration of life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-10-17
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El Quijote desde la platea
Overview: How Don Quixote de la Mancha, the immortal character created by Miguel de Cervantes in 1605, has been depicted in cinema, television, cartoons, theater, opera, ballet and other artistic disciplines. An adventure that began more than four hundred years ago in the pages of a book and is far from coming to an end.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-04-22
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Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-05-15
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La extraña pareja: Pajares y Esteso
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-09-17
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Stories of Our Cinema
Overview: In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor Antonio Resines intends to compile a series of anecdotes to shape the amazing history of Spanish cinema, holding several conversations with prominent figures of the Spanish film industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-11-22
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Marisol: llámame Pepa
Overview: A portrait of the actress and singer Pepa Flores, an incarnation of the recent history of Spain, who, in just twenty-five years of intense career, went from being Marisol, child prodigy of the Franco dictatorship, to being one of the first communist militants, icon of the Transition; an idol of the masses who became a discreet person after having claimed her right to remain silent.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-05-10
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The Tunnel
Overview: Adaptation of Ernesto Sábato's work, directed by José Luis Cuerda Juan Pablo Castel, a moderately famous painter, visits Larrea's office to tell him how he met María Iribarne at a painting exhibition. He recounts why he followed her upon realizing she understood his painting, and why he killed her after months of searching, finally establishing contact with her and experiencing a passionate and tumultuous love affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-06-24
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