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La escopeta nacional (in English, The National Shotgun) is a 1978 Spanish comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga.The first installment in a critically and commercially successful trilogy, the picture is an indictment of the legacy of Francisco Franco and the business classes upon whom he depended for support.
Nacional III is a Spanish comedy film from 1982 directed by Luis García Berlanga and written by him together with Rafael Azcona, the third part of the trilogy about the Leguineche family after La escopeta nacional (1978) and Patrimonio nacional (1981). [1] [2] [3]
In his latter years he had a relationship with the actress Carmen de la Maza. [87] He amassed a great fortune due to his work in cinema and lived in a duplex of 400 square meters on Paseo de la Castellana of the Spanish capital. [88] López Vázquez died of natural causes in Madrid on 2 November 2009, at the age of 87.
Luis García-Berlanga Martí MMT (12 June 1921 – 13 November 2010) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. Acclaimed as a pioneer of modern Spanish cinema, [1] [2] his films are marked by social satire and acerbic critiques of Spanish culture under the Francoist dictatorship. [3]
The Revolution Trilogy (Spanish: Trilogía de la Revolución) is a series of 1930s movies about the Mexican Revolution by Fernando de Fuentes. The three movies are El prisionero trece (1933), El compadre Mendoza (1934) and Vámonos con Pancho Villa (1936). All three share a disenchanted view of the conflict, as opposed to the more common ...
Ana María Matute Ausejo (26 July 1925 – 25 June 2014) was an internationally acclaimed Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. [1] [2] In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria.
Nosotros los pobres was originally titled Topillos y Planillas (named after two of the characters in the film and before the main character Jose "Pepe el Toro" was created), [4] but later changed after its author Pedro de Urdimalas heard Abel Cureño (who's also in the film and at that time was playing a street vendor selling oranges in the ...
Logo of TelevisaUnivision since 2022.. Grupo Televisa is a Mexican mass media company (or television network) founded in 1951 by Emilio Azcárraga Jean. [1] Previously known as Televisión Independiente de México, Telesistema Mexicano and Televisa, has four stations: FORO, [2] Canal 5, [3] Nueve [4] and Las Estrellas.