In the harsh years of post-war rural Catalonia, Andreu, a youngster relegated to the losers’ side, comes across the bodies of a man and his son in the woods. When the authorities want to pin the blame on his father, the boy decides to try and help him, setting out to discover who killed them. [...]
Archive for the ‘Villaronga- Agustín’ Category
Pan negro
Posted in 13 y. o. and over, 2010, Drama, Spain, Subt. in Catalan, Subt. in English, Subt. in Spanish, Villaronga- Agustín on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
El mar
Posted in 18 y. o. and over, 2000, Drama, Gay & Lesbian, Spain, Subt. in English, Subt. in Spanish, Villaronga- Agustín, War on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Manuel Tur and Andrey Ramallo are 10 when the Civil War arrives in Mallorca. They first encounter with the brutality of war when accidentaly watching the execution of the father of one of their friends by the wall of the cemetery. Then years on they meet again in a nursing home for the treatment of [...]
Aro Tolbukhin: En la mente del asesino
Posted in 15 y. o. and over, 2002, Drama, P.Racine- Isaac, Spain, Subt. in Catalan, Subt. in English, Subt. in French, Subt. in Spanish, Villaronga- Agustín, Zimmermann- Lydia on January 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In 1981 the Hungarian Aro Tolbukhin was arrested for burning seven people alive in the infirmary of the Divino Redentor mission in Guatemala. After his arrest Aro Tolbukhin confessed that he had murdered five women and burnt their bodies. He also declared himself guilty of killing seventeen other women, all pregnant, during the fifteen years [...]
El miedo tiene un número: 99.9
Posted in 1997, all ages, Spain, Thriller, Villaronga- Agustín on November 7, 1997 | Leave a Comment »
Lara (Maria Barranco) is the presenter of 99.9, a radio programme about extraordiary phenomenae which is broadcasted in the early morning hours from Madrid. One night while on call, she finds out that Victor (Gustavo Salmeron), an old friend, has died in strange and mysterious circumstances in the cemetry of a small village. The suspicion that behind [...]
El Pasajero Clandestino
Posted in 07 y. o. and over, 1995, 2. Genres, Drama, Spain, Villaronga- Agustín on October 5, 1995 | Leave a Comment »
A cinema tycoon dies in a big London mansion. The Administrative Adviser of his company discovers that a long lost son, René Maréchal, is to receive all of his extraordinary inheritance. The Adviser is not interested in finding him, but by law has to place an ad in a newspaper, enquiring of his whereabouts and [...]
El niño de la Luna
Posted in 1988, Drama, Spain, Subt. in Spanish, Villaronga- Agustín on May 2, 1989 | Leave a Comment »
Since ancient times, in black Africa, a tribe awaiting the arrival of their god, embodied by a white boy, the son of the Moon. David an orphaned child living in a deranged Europe between the wars, knows this prophecy and infant in his mind thinks the idea that this child is himself, and [...]