Io, Don Giovanni

Lorenzo Da Ponte’s life was the stuff of opera itself. Forced to convert from his Jewish faith to Christianity for the sake of a good marriage, he was trained as a priest, then took a mistress and fathered a child. Reprimanded by the authorities, he opened a brothel, which led to his banishment from Venice. [...]

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Fados

After “Flamenco” and “Tango”, Carlos Saura completes his trilogy of modern, urban song with “Fados”. After more than two years research on the Fado, Carlos Saura makes an important change in his approach to musical films. In his previous musical films Iberia, Flamenco and Tango he used dance but in Fados he has worked on [...]

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El 7º día = The 7th day

For many years two families have been arguing over the boundaries of their properties which are located in a village in the centre of the Spain. Much blood had already been shed over these quarrels when Isabel, an adolescent and firstborn child of one of the families, decides to find out the real origins of such [...]

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Salomé

Aída Gómez is rehearsing a new ballet. The choreography, the music, the set and the costumes start to take shape.Suddenly we notice a silhouette in a wheelchair…It is Herod, Tetrach of Galilea. We are at his birthday party.  Herod wants his step-daughter to dance for him, and is willing to pay any price. But the [...]

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Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón

Luis Buñuel, the most important Spanish film maker of all times, imagines the film that he would have liked to shoot about his youth in Toledo in company of his friends Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí. Together they set out on a fantastic adventure in search of the mythical table of King Salomón. Whoever gets [...]

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Goya en Burdeos

Brilliant painter Francisco de Goya, considered by many to be the most important artist of the modern era, reflects on his turbulent career and tempestuous relationships during the decline of Spain and the bloody war of independence, while living out his final days in exile. check availability Desde su exilio de Burdeos, donde vive sus últimos [...]

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