Category: Spain
Asaltar los Cielos / Storm The Skies
The documentary is about Jacques Monard/Ramón Mercader, the KGB agent who assassinated León Trotsky in Mexico. It is an account from the people who knew him during his childhood, and up to and after the crime. This film reconstructs his motivations and his destiny. Starring Elena Poniatowska, Carlos Moniváis, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
History, Mexico, Politics/Human Rights, Social Movements/Resistance, SpainBodas de Sangre
An adaptation for ballet by Antonio Gades, Spain's leading ballet and flamenco star, of Federico Garcia Lorca's famous folk tragedy, performed in full costume in a bare Madrid rehearsal hall.
Drama, SpainCarmen
A modern dance company rehearses a flamenco-ballet version of the Bizet opera, and the principal performers commence living out the scenario in the reality of their own daily lives. It is passionate, pulsating and beautifully danced: Gades is one of Spain's most famous flamenco dancers the former director of the National Ballet.
Drama, SpainCosas Que Deje En La Habana
Nena, Rosa and Ludmilla are three Cuban sisters that arrive in Madrid looking for a better life than the one they left behind in Havana. Their aunt, Maria, has lived in Spain for many years and has a business in which she intents to exploit her nieces for a roof to live in. A whole world of conflicts, deceits and comical situations face them, soon realizing that Madrid is not the paradise they intended to find.
Drama, SpainEl
The psychological study of a man who pursues and marries a young woman only to become obsessed with insane jealously over her supposed infidelity. As in other Buñuel films, beneath the calm and predictable world presented is the surreal logic of a dream which becomes a nightmare.
SpainHombre Muy Viejo Con Alas Enormas, Un (A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings)
Amid the debris of a Colombian cyclone lands an old man with enormous wings, whose seemingly miraculous anatomy attracts the curious and devout from around the world. Silent and disheveled, this fantastical "creature" is housed in a chicken coop as his host and the onlookers wait for his heavenly message, which turns out to be a mixed blessing. Original story by Gabriel García Márquez, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Part of the film series Amores Difíciles.
Drama, Literature, SpainSin Dejar Huella
Sin Dejar Huella uses drama and comedy in equal measure to tell the story of two women--one Spanish and the other Mexican--fleeing from their respective pasts. Ana, a con artist, and Aurelia, a young mother escaping from her drug-dealing husband, meet on the road by chance. Protecting one another from the dangers that pursue them, they travel from northern Mexico to Chiapas. Along the way they gradually learn the truth about one another.
Comedy, Country/Region, Drama, Mexico, Spain, Subject, Travel