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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.
Manuscript of Trafalgar, 1873. Biblioteca Nacional de España. Manuscript of La familia de Carlos IV, 1873. Biblioteca Nacional de España.. With the exception of Gerona, all the episodes follow the adventures of the boy Gabriel de Araceli, beginning in French-dominated Spain through the war of Independence, from the battle of Trafalgar to the defeat of the French armies (1805–1814).
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]
Los mitos de la Guerra Civil (Myths of the Civil War) La sociedad homosexual y otros ensayos (Homosexual society and other essays) Años de hierro. España en la posguerra. 1939–1945" (Iron years, Post-war Spain 1939–1945) De un tiempo y de un país, La izquierda violenta (1968–1978) (About a time and a country. The violent left 1968–1978)
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 ...
Among the jewels of Radio Nacional de España was an adaptation of the novel El viaje a ninguna parte , a radionovela which was recorded and broadcast in 1983. [ 12 ] The last radio drama to be regularly broadcast nationally was Historias [ es ] , on RNE's Radio 1, beginning in September 2003.
Some of the theatrical productions for which he created costume designs in the 1940s and 1950s are Don Juan Tenorio, where he met Salvador Dalí in 1949, The Phantom Lady, The Village of Stepanchikovo, El caballero de Olmedo, La guardia cuidadosa, a drawing of Don Gil of the Green Breeches, and five sketches for the sets of Life Is a Dream, Y ...
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 ...