72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Spanish Cinema from the II Republic
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Robert Florey, Armand Guerra, Florián Rey
Spain
85 min.
Ribera, a singing teacher, is Fernando's neighbor, with whom he has loving relationships Sara, Enrique's wife. A series of misunderstandings mix in their intrigues the neighbors, the doorman of the farm, the aspiring vedette Lulu and singing students.
Jean Gremillón, Luis Buñuel
Spain
80 min.
Candelas is seduced by Arturo, who abandons her leaving her pregnant. The young woman meets two soldiers in maneuvers, Tiburcio Canales and the amateur singer Angelillo, who decide to help her by organizing a recital in the town. Five years later, Angelillo has opened a popular establishment where Candelas and Tiburcio work. Arturo, after leaving prison, tries to cheat again the mother of his daughter.
Antonio Sau Olite
Spain
57 min.
Upon returning from vacation with his family, a worker becomes unemployed. After a determined search for work, Juan feels disappointed and receives some social anxiety. His wife, Marta, is forced to take a humiliating job in order to feed her children. Juan reacts by sending his wife and children to the town while he wanders around the city. Outraged by the conformism of the people, he sets up a rally, while organizing a Hunger March among the unemployed. When he goes with his colleagues to protest before the authorities, and precisely when he passes through the town where his family is, the revolution breaks out. Juan takes the arms with the others and they all march forward, hoping that a better dawn will dawn.
Pedro Puche
Spain
93 min.
Ricardo, a young petit bourgeois, surprises his wife with another man and, caught up in jealousy, kills the lover with a gunshot. He runs away, hiding in a cafeteria where an old friend of his lives, "El Valencia", a sturdy dockworker from the port of Barcelona. "Valencia" welcomes and protects you from the curiosity of Floreal, a dangerous thief dedicated to the trafficking of white
Luis Marquina
Spain
87 min.
Obfuscated by unfounded jealousy, Quentin drives his wife Felisa out of the house and waits for a child. Felisa gives birth to a girl in a charity house and survives by begging. In an attempt to soften Quentin's heart, he leaves the baby at the door, but Quentin, in turn, delivers it to a peasant couple. Over the years, Quentin has become a bitter person who still does not believe in the innocence of his wife or recognizes his daughter Teresa.
Eusebio Fernández Ardavín
Spain
96 min.
An anonymous man writes some verses and sends them to the press slandering a priest of a prosperous family, insinuating that he has relations with a parishioner of his congregation, with the damage that this entails to him and his family, in addition to the parishioner. First Spanish sound feature.
Francisco Camacho
Spain
96 min.
A priest gets sick when he travels to Salamanca and the people of the town take torches to look for him.
Rosario Pi
Spain
89 min.
A man lost in love with his wife is upset when she abandons him for a bullfighter. He then becomes a bandit nicknamed "the wildcat". However, he is still in love with his wife.
Fernando Delgado
Spain
88 min.
Julio, Sevillian gentleman, heir of the Arrayanes, sees his life disrupted by the arrival of his sweet cousin, Consolación.
Ricardo de Baños
Spain
55 min.
Medium-length film
While watching a bullfight on television in which his son Luis participates, the killer Rafael Lucena dies of a heart attack when he discovers Virginia, a woman very similar to Soledad, the great love of his father, who died for his blame after a fuck in the Plaza de Las Ventas. Both Luis and his brother Alejandro meet singer Virginia and falls in love with her. But when Luis suffers a serious injury by a bull, he begins to suspect that Virginia may attract bad luck.
Ernesto Giménez Caballero
Spain
11 min.
Short film
Document in which different visions of the Madrid festivals are offered: San Antonio, San Isidro, San Lorenzo, Carmen, La Paloma ...
José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, Nemesio M. Sobrevila
Spain
88 min.
Angelillo is a singer in love with Carmen, who after being mixed up in a tavern brawl is unfairly blamed for murder. As a curiosity, it is worth mentioning that in this film by Sáenz de Heredia there are political slogans written on the walls of the prison referring to the political revolts of October 1934.
Benito Perojo
Spain
78 min.
Two dresmaker sisters, who live in Mrs. Rita's boarding house, are pretended by the old apothecary Don Hilarion. When the two decide to go to the verbena de la Paloma with the pharmacist, the boyfriend of one of them will try to prevent it. Based on the famous Madrid zarzuela of the same name.
Francisco Elías
Spain
109 min.
A painter and his gypsy wife return to Granada, the city where she was born and where she left due to problems with an old gypsy boyfriend who swore revenge. Now the husband wants to paint a portrait of his wife in the city where they met. But things do not go as expected when Manuel suddenly appears at home. Years later, the daughter of the painter and the gypsy becomes María de la O., an artist of flamenco dance.
Fernando Mignoni
Spain
84 min.
The Randa enters a banker's house to steal some objects and give them away at a wedding. He is surprised by the banker's lover, who lets him escape.
José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
Spain
78 min.
The dependent of a haberdashery lives only by and for the cinema. To such an extent comes his obsession that his platonic love is a star of the screen.
José Buchs
Spain
97 min.
This film, one of the first in Spanish sound cinema, tells of the political and military life of General Prim until his death in an attack in 1870.
León Artola
Spain
75 min.
Rosario lives in a pasture in Salamanca, accompanied by her family. The girl is betrothed to Rafael, mayoral of the farmhouse, but when her cousin Manuel appears, an attractive bullfighter who has triumphed in America, Rosario falls in love with him and despises the mayoral. The young girl escapes with the bullfighter to Seville, but he takes advantage of her and abandons her. Raphael, annoyed, also goes to Seville in search of the two lovers.
Eduardo García Maroto
Spain
45 min.
Medium-length film
Three parodies. The first, a parody of horror films; in which two men and a woman get trapped in their car in the middle of the storm, having to seek refuge in an abandoned house, where horrible and terrible things will happen to them. The second, a parody of the police movies. A film director goes to the municipal criminological museum to be documented for his next film, which will end up as the rosary of the aurora for the work and grace of a salad shot. Finally, a parody of the Tarzan films. A production company gets 3,000 pesetas of budget to shoot a movie in Central Africa, since Alcázar de San Juan is very popular and it is very expensive to travel there.
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