Pere Portabella
Also Known As: Pedro Portabella
Biography: Pere Portabella (born in 1927) is a Catalan director, producer, and politician. In 1977, he was elected Senator in Spain's first democratic elections and participated in the writing of the Spanish Constitution. As a filmmaker, his style is experimental, reaching new aspects of film language, often with a poetic tone and social content. Portabella is hailed as an essential figure in the political and cultural history of Spain.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1927
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
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Olímpicament mort
Overview: A Pepe Carvalho adventure.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1986-10-15
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General Report
Overview: How does a country go from a dictatorship to a democracy? A detailed report on the political representation in the heart of the Spanish Transition, only a few months after General Franco’s death, when the sincere democratic vocation of Spanish people must effort to destroy, one heavy brick after another, the wall that those who supported the dictatorship and those who fought it from the exile built with resentment, hatred and prejudices.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-12-07
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BiBici Story
Overview: While waiting to get started on the production of his feature Liberxina 90 (1970), Carlos Duran shot this short (with very expressive support by several Escuela de Barcelona professors): a grimly colourful satire on modern society as such, and on its fascist Spanish variety in particular. "The intrusion into the private life of a human being, of the distinct tendencies that exist in the society we live in, until they fall into chaos." Carlos Durán
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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PRELUDI DE CHOPIN, OPUS 28, NÚM. 7
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Original Language: es
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Marquis de Sade: Justine
Overview: Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who will claim not only her treasured virtue but also her life.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-03
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Constel·lació Portabella
Overview: Constel·lació Portabella traces the exciting life of the great Catalan film director and artist Pere Portabella , which traverses the cultural and political history of the country and the last seventy years, letting us be carried away by the passion, the intellect intelligence and curiosity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2024-08-28
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Els tapissos de Miró
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2023-01-19
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In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni: filmbiografía de Antonio Maenza
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-06-19
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Materialista, idealista, cinematógrafo, magnetófono, buen chico y sádico
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-06-13
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Spain Again
Overview: David (Mark Stevens) is a physician who returns to Spain 30 years after his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Now a member of a medical convention, he looks up old friends and finds his former lover, now a married woman with a flamenco-dancing daughter. He and the daughter (Manuela Vargas) have an immediate and mutual attraction to each other. He considers running away with the exotic beauty before asking his wife to join him for an extended vacation after the convention .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-06-07
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Filmmakers in Action
Overview: What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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Speaking of Buñuel
Overview: Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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