Misplaced Pages

Madregilda

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Spanish film
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (February 2021) Click for important translation instructions.
  • View a machine-translated version of the Spanish article.
  • Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages.
  • Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
  • You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution.
  • You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Madregilda}} to the talk page.
  • For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.
Madregilda
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFrancisco Regueiro
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Ángel Fernández-Santos
  • Francisco Regueiro
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJosé Luis López-Linares
Edited byPedro del Rey
Music byJürgen Knieper
Production
companies
  • Tornasol Films
  • Marea Films
  • Road Movies Dritte Produktionen
  • Gemini Films
Distributed byAlta Films
Release dates
  • September 1993 (1993-09) (SSIFF)
  • 1 October 1993 (1993-10-01) (Spain)
Running time113 minutes
Countries
  • Spain
  • Germany
  • France
LanguageSpanish

Madregilda is a 1993 film directed by Francisco Regueiro which stars Juan Echanove, José Sacristán, and Barbara Auer.

Plot

Set in Madrid in the 1940s in an old neighbourhood tavern, on every first Friday of the month at nightfall moor Hauma organizes a unique and secret card game.

Cast

Production

The film is a Tornasol Films, Marea Films, Road Movies Dritte Produktionen and Gemini Films production.

Release

The film screened at the 41st San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 1993. It was released theatrically in Spain on 1 October 1993.

Reception

Casimiro Torreiro of El País wrote that the film "contains some of the best dialogues that have been written in Spanish cinema in recent years".

Awards

Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
1993 41st San Sebastián International Film Festival Silver Shell for Best Actor Juan Echanove Won
1994 8th Goya Awards Best Original Screenplay Ángel Fernández Santos, Francisco Regueiro Nominated
Best Actor Juan Echanove Won
Best Cinematography José Luis López-Linares Nominated
Best Art Direction Luis "Koldo" Vallés Nominated
Best Costume Design Gumersindo Andrés Nominated
Best Special Effects Reyes Abades Nominated
Best Makeup and Hairstyles María del Mar Paradela, Odile Fourquin Nominated

See also

References

  1. "Trujillo y el veneno del poder". www.noticiasdenavarra.com. 30 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
  2. Altares, Guillermo (27 February 1993). "Franco, Gilda y una partida de mus". El País.
  3. García López, Sonia (2002). "Lágrimas en el lodo. La imagen de Franco en Madregilda" (PDF). Archivos de la Filmoteca. 2 (42–43). ISSN 0214-6606.
  4. Bayon, Miguel (1995). José Sacristán. La memoria de la tribu. Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva. pp. 146–147. ISBN 9788475643625.
  5. Gutiérrez Álvarez, Pepe (8 August 2016). "Quitar a Millán Astray y a otros genocidas del callejero de Madrid". Viento Sur.
  6. ^ Bayon 1995, p. 147.
  7. ^ Bayon 1995, p. 146.
  8. ^ Torreiro, Casimiro (20 September 1993). "Una visión demoledora". El País.
  9. Torreiro, Casimiro (26 September 1993). "La película iraní 'Sara' y el filme mexicano 'Principio y fin' comparten la Concha de Oro". El País.
  10. "Madregilda". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
Stub icon

This article related to a Spanish film of the 1990s is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: