Fernando Fernán Gómez
Birthday: Born in 1921-08-28 in Lima, Peru
Deathday: 2007-11-21
Fernando Fernán Gómez was a Spanish actor, novelist and screenwriter, film and theater director, and member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
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Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: Venancio
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy....
Ramón y Cajal
Character: Don Justo
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
Character: Don Quijote de la Mancha
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Fortunata y Jacinta
Character: Evaristo Feijoo
The aristocrat Juan de Santa Cruz meets Fortunata, a girl of humble origins, and a passionate love arises between them; but his mother decides to marry him to her niece Jacinta....
Los ladrones van a la oficina
Character: Don Anselmo
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El pícaro
Character: Lucas Trapaza
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Juncal
Character: Domingo Camprecios
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Lo + plus
Character: Self - Guest
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El abuelo
Character: Don Rodrigo
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All About My Mother
Character: Rosa's Father
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun....
Tranvía a la Malvarrosa
Character: Catedrático
The film is based on the autobiography of writer Manuel Vincent. His father doesn't want him to become a writer and sends him to Valencia law school. One day Manuel sees his dream girl and follows her on a trolley car to Malvarossa beach. He then studies in college, meets call girl La China who teaches him love secrets, but still remembers that girl....
Silver-beet Face
Character: Madariaga
On a road in the deep Spain, a wanderer with no fixed course and light luggage awaits someone to take him somewhere. His name is Antonio and this is how he will end up in a small provincial town, where he will be involved in a plan to steal a canvas of incalculable value....
Apaga... y vámonos
Character: Prof. Benjamín Rodero
A somewhat confused and strange young inventor, named Gustavo, is arrested by the police accused of being a terrorist. Through his statements we will know the truth of the facts. During his childhood he discovers that his father wants to escape to a place called Vesta aboard a spaceship made by himself. However, during the journey he loses his life. Now thirty years old, Gustavo, after a series of events, will try to repeat his father's journey....
FFG, el último gran conversador
Character: Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an excellent conversationalist, capable of hypnotizing and seducing those who listened to him....
Belle Époque
Character: Manolo
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love....
The Spirit of the Beehive
Character: Fernando
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn....
The City of No Limits
Character: Max
Victor is a man who gets to Paris to join his family around their seriously ill father, Max. Victor is desperately asked for help by Max. What seems in the beginning mere delusions of an old man losing his mind, begin to show traces of some sort of real 'secret' that is troubling Max's last days. Victor decide to help his father to find that he is searching for....
Butterfly
Character: Don Gregorio
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life....
Journey to Somewhere
Character: Various Roles (archive footage)
A young woman, who has inherited her grandparents' huge house, a fascinating place full of amazing objects, feels overwhelmed by the weight of memories and her new responsibilities. Fortunately, the former inhabitants of the house soon come to her aid. (An account of the life and work of Fernando Fernán Gómez [1921-2007] and his wife Emma Cohen [1946-2016], two singular artists and fundamental figures of contemporary Spanish culture.)...
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
Character: Dios Padre
Matacanes dies and goes to heaven just to discover that it was not as he expected, and everyone there is revolutionized lately. Peter explains that God was concerned about the progress of the world, and decided to send a second son to Earth. However, Jesus hears and does not agree, as they would have to rewrite history....
De profesión, sus labores
Character: Federico
While Ana and Juan are a happy couple, and satisfied with their eight years of married life, María José and Federico, their best friends, have not achieved the desired balance in their marriage. Ana and Juan's happiness makes their friends nervous. María José and Clara, Ana's "good" friends, will try by all means to make Ana believe that her husband is capable of cheating on her if the opportunity arises....
Rebeldía
Character: Federico Lanuza
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Nadie lo sabrá
Character: Pedro Gutiérrez
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Noche fantástica
Character: Enamorado
Due to a rail accident, the passengers of a train had to be housed in a nearby town while awaiting the arrival of a relief convoy. In the train were traveling Alicia and Paul, a couple who will marry soon, along with her mother, and George, a mature man who looks for a woman he loved. Due to the accident, they will have to spend the night there, where chance lead to a series of events that make the passengers no longer be the same....
The Court of the Pharaoh
Character: Roque
In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the regime. They try to stage a Pre-war 'zarzuela' (a sort of Spanish operetta), 'La Corte Del Faraón', which ironically, thirty years later, is too obscene for the regime censorship. They finally manage to perform the 'zarzuela' but end up in the...
The Grandfather
Character: Don Rodrigo de Arista Potestad
After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard....
The Bachelor
Character: Armando
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?...
Mi enemigo y yo
Character: Tony
Two sisters living with their aunt in a mountain village are fond of a writer whom they have the chance to meet, both of them falling in love with him. When he proposes to one sister, not wanting to hurt the other she is ready to renounce....
Un adulterio decente
Character: Doctor Leopoldo Cumberri
Federico is having an affair with Fernanda, which he believes widow, when in fact she is married. When the trick is discovered, a doctor appears very opportunely saying that infidelity is a disease caused by bacteria and has no cure. In his private clinic he applies a treatment that consists of locking up every adulterer with his mistress....
Angels at the Wheel
Character: Juanito
A group of taxi drivers try to reanimate a young woman who has been close to being run over by one of them. To improve her mood all of them tell her curious anecdotes featured by peculiar customers...
Chechu y familia
Character: Don José
Chechu is a 13 year old boy who lives surrounded by peculiar people: his grandfather, his uncle, and two maids. He falls in love with one of them....
El sistema Pelegrín
Character: Héctor Pelegrín
Hector Pelegrin, an unsuccessful insurance agent is admitted to the prestigious school Ferran as a gym teacher. The only problem is that he completely lacks the necessary skills for the job. He organizes a game between the football team at his school and another center, a historic rival, resulting in a surprise full of humorous criticism to our society. Pelegrin tries to convince everyone that football is just a sport...
El gran Serafín
Character: Padre Bellot
A group of peoples decide to go to relax to a hotel near the sea. He hotel's owner is an enigmatic woman who lives with her distant daughter, a young pianist and a naive waitress. When the media inform about the end of the world only reaction the waitress and one of the guests....
Crimen para recién casados
Character: Antonio
Antonio and Elisa, a newlywed couple, go on honeymoon to a seaside hotel, where he, a crime reporter obsessed with uncovering a major crime, finds his big opportunity....
Mia Sarah
Character: Paul
In the half-light of a an old stately home, Samuel Davila and his grandfather Paul, once a revered writer, create schemes to repel the latest in a long line of psychologists come to cure the grandson of his severe agoraphobia: some delicious biscuits with added spice, a refreshing glass of water with added laxative...
El fenómeno
Character: Claudio Henkel
A professor at the University of Frankfurt is mistaken for a Russian soccer player on his arrival at Madrid airport. There, he is received as a sports figure and the teacher, unaware of the confusion, take it as an extraordinary compliment. However, problems arise when, after discovering the error, the professor has to pretend to be the player until he appears...
Something to Remember Me By
Character: Mateo
Irene lives with Mateo, his father, and her son David, 22 years old. Living together is harmonious and happy, but there is a conflict: David, a brilliant student of architecture, has decided to go and live with his girlfriend Clara, a supermarket cashier. Despite its liberal way of thinking, Irene cannot understand such an unequal relationship. However, David finds in his grandfather the necessary complicity to carry out his plans. Mateo is a old and vital octogenarian despite his tough history:...
Crimen imperfecto
Character: Salomón
Two private detectives called Salomon (Fernando Fernan-Gomez) and Torcuato (Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez), are engaged in questionable conduct research and work reports...
¿Dónde pongo este muerto?
Character: Manuel Carrasco
Elisa and Ramón have just married, they are the winners of "Espumín", a competition sponsored by a famous washing powder. Everything is perfect until their honeymoon someone hide in the girl's trunk the corpse of Papillón, an important sage....
The Shanghai Spell
Character: Capt. Bay
A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old freedom-fighter pits himself against bad types, a pretty cinema-ticket girl takes to the streets at night and a young anarchist dedicates himself to telling tall stories. Far away, in Shanghai, a hero of the Republic meets a beautiful femme fatal with oriental eyes. Reality and fiction become fused in an embrace....
Airport
Character: Luis
Different kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just landed. Fernando is a pilot who he brings a girl for his relatives. Ceferino and his wife have won a contest and will travel soon to Paraguay and they are there because they want to know the airplane. Mr. Beltran is very nervous because he returned to Spain after many years of exile....
Carnival Sunday
Character: Matías
Madrid, Carnival Sunday. A night watchman finds the body of a woman, a rich and greedy moneylender who has apparently been murdered. The prime suspect is a watchmaker who owed her a lot of money....
La venganza de Don Mendo
Character: Don Mendo Salazar - Marqués de Cabra
Don Mendo, Marquess of Cabra, gallant and dashing knight of medieval Castilian, is also a virtuous mandoline player and a specialist in climbing towers. But he has a bad run, all played and all lost at seven-thirty (card game), and lost his honor playing in his latest escalation of love to the apartment of his beloved and beautiful Magdalena. Don Nuño Manso de Jarama, father of Magdalena, has pledged the hand of his daughter to the Duke of Toro, and surprises Don Mendo in the room of Magdalena....
Cartas desde Huesca
Character: Mainar
Angy, British publisher specialized in Spanish subjects, and her husband, come to Madrid in search of some manuscripts of the English poet Benton, who died in Huesca during the Civil War. The documents are supposed to be held by Mainar, old anarchist combatant. Contact and subsequent relationship with him, will cause the crisis of the marriage and eventually will trigger a personal drama in Mainar...
La vida alrededor
Character: Antonio Redondo
Josephine and Antonio have reached a delicate economic balance after marriage. The salary of lawyer from him, and wins her in the hospital, allows them to survive and fantasize about some freak. The situation is complicated by the news that Josephine is pregnant. Ahead of the debacle that may involve having a "child who eats everything, including food," Josephine teaches the baby still in her womb, higher education courses in order to save some money in schools. Meanwhile, Antonio enters the und...
Anna and the Wolves
Character: Fernando
The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family....
Mama Turns 100
Character: Fernando
Ana and her husband Antonio arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch....
Furnished Studio 2.P.
Character: Miguel Aguirreazalaba
Two bank employees use a computer to determine the girls for their sexual affairs in their newly hired flat....
The Mistress
Character: Eduardo
Manuela is a woman unlucky in love. But when she meets Eduardo, a married man, her life will change completely, as his side may start singing career....
Botón de ancla
Character: Enrique Tejada y Sandoval
Marín, Galicia, Spain. Carlos, José Luis and Enrique, three good friends and final year students in the Naval Academy, argue due to love issues....
The Eyes Leave a Trace
Character: Agente Díaz (as Fernando Fernán-Gómez)
Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Robert enlists the help of Martin, because he believes he has killed a man who was about her lover. Martin sees an opportunity ......
El camino de Babel
Character: Marcelino Pastor
On the day that they receive their university diplomas, three young men make a bet: they will marry a rich woman and meet again one year later....
Naked Madrid
Character: Baltasar
Baltasar is a tycoon from Madrid who is forced to invest money in a movie to promote Esmeralda, an actress who sells her body to become a movie star as soon as possible...
El guardián del paraíso
Character: Manuel
A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover....
The Irony of Money
Character: Frasquito
The finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a shoeshine from Seville, a clerk from Salamanca, a bullfighter from Cuenca and a newspapers seller from Paris....
Imposible para una solterona
Character: Manuel
Gina is a single woman with a good job. From very attractive features, its beauty shines it should not because of their excess weight. Her boyfriend decides to leave her and from that moment her life is shrouded in sadness and monotony. Everything changes when he bursts into her life a very handsome young man called Luis. But it's intentions are not clear, Gina must discover the reasons that really move her wooer ......
That Happy Couple
Character: Juan
Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand....
Bombs for Peace
Character: Alfredo
Professor Don Carlos is a scientist who, after much research, discovers a chemical compound that, in the form of bomb, is capable of making people become peaceful beings. Just before his death, Don Carlos reveals to his friend and collaborator Alfredo the secret of his discovery...
La plaza
Character:
All kinds of absurd situations take place in a town square....
I Wanted to Sleep in Peace
Character:
Two night watchmen take a man sleeping on a park bench to the police station....
Yo qué sé
Character:
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Hoy no pasamos lista
Character:
The teacher of a small town becomes blind and is unable to teach his classes. Maria will serve as his guide....
Mambrú se fue a la guerra
Character: Emiliano
The news of the death of Franco has a special resonance in the family of Florentina. Fiorentina communicates to the rest of the family a story far more important than the general's death: her husband Emiliano (Fernando Fernan-Gomez), who had been left for dead in the civil war, is alive. During the Franco dictatorship has remained hidden beneath the pylon is in the courtyard of the house....
Un vampiro para dos
Character: Baron de Rosenthal
A Spanish couple emigrates to Germany looking for employment, in a desperate attempt to reconcile their marriage. The only work they can find, however, is in a castle inhabited by a strange baron, who is actually a vampire....
The Ibéricas Football Club
Character: Federico
The Iberian F.C. is a female football team makes a splash in the world of football, rather than their athletic skills, their physical attraction for the male audience. Each of the components of the whole suffers a different and peculiar relationship status, derived from its new sports....
Moors and Christians
Character: Don Fernando
A peculiar family, which owns a nougat factory, decides to set out on a trip to Madrid in order to advertise its products in a Food Fair. Besides the disapproval from the family head and company founder, events are not as expected....
La mies es mucha
Character: Padre Santiago Hernández
Father Santiago Hernández, a Spanish missionary, arrives in Kattinga, India, to replace Father Daniel, who is seriously ill....
Voyage to Nowhere
Character: Don Arturo
The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to adapt to changes and make decisions, like that of whether or not to continue performing. One day, unexpectedly, a son that he has fathered on his travels presents himself to Carlos Galván....
Mi general
Character: General Mario del Pozo
A group of generals of the army meet for a course about NATO and new weapons. In the beginning everything is normal but as the time passes they behave more and more like school children....
El destino se disculpa
Character: Teófilo Dueñas
Ramiro and Teófilo are great friends and endure their misfortunes together. Their attempts to succeed as artists fail, so they both promise that the first to die will become the guide to the survivor's life....
Parranda
Character: Escribiente
Cebrian, a blast furnace worker Asturian, being held at the Civil Guard barracks. There has to be accountable for the disasters in a day of party with two friends....
The Wicked Carabel
Character: Amaro Carabel
Since he wants get married, the young Carabel, who is employed in a real estate agent, decides to ask their bosses for a raise in order to maintain his future wife. However, all he gets is to be fired. He then realizes that honesty is what has led him to unemployment and decides to change his life and live outside the law. He plots to steal the safe from his former company...
¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón!
Character: Heriberto Promenade
The famous couplet singer Mimi Pompon leaves everything to marry Heriberto Promenade, a wealthy merchant of Limoges with five marriages behind her. Of course Mimi has also been widowed five times. Saintpaul, an astute police, suspicious of so many accidental deaths and closely monitor both the mansion. Gradually, we discover that Heriberto, fearing that their wives may betray him, the killer, always with the complicity of her mother....
The Sea and the Weather
Character: Eusebio
Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of being the losers of the war, Marcela, before a beautiful young woman, is now an alcoholic, and the youngest can not even understand them. Jesus wants to start a new life in Spain but he feels out of place; Time has turned him into an inhabitant of the other side of the 'puddle'....
Living in Shadows
Character: Carlos Durán
The creative and ambitious Carlos, a young Spanish film buff, manages to become a professional camera operator with time and effort, and is also blessed with the love of Anna, which he has longed for; but the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 changes everything for both of them....
The Last Horse
Character: Fernando
Fernando has just finished the military service. It decides to buy Bucéfalo, the horse that has been his partner for this time and returns to Madrid removing with it to the animal. But everything has changed, the city already neither is the same and even he nor finds stables nor has time to attend to it. This way the things remedy will not have any more that to look for any solution....
Life Goes On
Character: Faustino
Madrid, Spain. Eloísa, a self-sacrificing wife and efficient mother, lives in the neighborhood of Maravillas with her husband, a violent policeman; her sanctimonious son, who spends his life studying and praying to atone for the sins of his family; and her two daughters, obsessed with wealth, who hate each other deeply....
Faustina
Character: Mogon
A conquering woman of love, power, and fame is challenged by the devil, as he too wants to conquer all. Even the devil learns that there is no wrath like a woman’s scorn....
Embrujo
Character: Mentor
Love is impossible between Manolo, a flamenco singer, and Lola, a flamenco dancer. She leaves for America to forget him and he gives himself to alcohol. Still, the love between them is so strong that it unites them across the ocean....
Pim, pam, pum… ¡fuego!
Character: Julio
Spain, 1940s. While returning to Madrid by train, Paca, a chorus girl who aspires to join a prestigious company, meets Luis, a young man of helpless appearance....
Stico
Character: Don Leopoldo Contreras de Tejada
Leopoldo Contreras, a professor emeritus of Roman law has serious economic problems. His translations of classical authors do not give enough money to live and had to sell even their floor. To remedy the situation is offered as a slave to a former student in exchange for room and board....
Half of Heaven
Character: Don Pedro
After the civil war, Rosa, a beautiful and hard worker woman falls in love with a sharpener who turns out to be a con man. When she becomes a widow, she emigrates to Madrid with her daughter beginning to work as a nurse in the home of Don Pedro, an influential food manager....
The Pyjama Girl Case
Character: Forensics Detective
Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry attendant, has several lovers and marries one, but continues seeing the others. The police have a suspect in the murder, but the retired inspector is convinced they're wrong; he continues a methodical investigation. Linda and her husband separate, and there are complications. Will the stories cross or are the...
Panthers Eat the Rich
Character: José
In order to access a more important position in the company, Don José, a wealthy bachelor, must get rid of his lover. To try to achieve this, he must get her romantically entangled with his friend Vicente....
¿Por qué pecamos a los 40?
Character: Dr. Alejandro Quesada
Alejandro Quesada (Fernando Fernan Gomez), an eminent doctor successful with women, drives his old friends Federico (Juanjo Menéndez) and Enrique (José Luis López Vázquez) to change their attitude towards life. The death of a common friend, Luis (Jesus Puente), reaffirmed in the attempt to enjoy their existence and seek the association of younger women than their wives....
La silla de Fernando
Character:
Vital reflections of veteran actor and filmmaker Fernando Fernán Gómez....
La becerrada
Character: Francisco Rodríguez 'Juncal'
San Ginés de la Sierra is a small village lost in the mountains in southern Spain. It is known throughout the region for two peculiar characteristics: its "persistent" drought and a "Home of the Vanquished". This "home" is an institution that houses some twenty old people, to whose care are eleven nuns and crosses a distressing economic situation. The nuns are desperately seeking a solution and decide to hold a charity bulls run....
Pesadilla para un rico
Character: Presidente
A mature and successful businessman leads a peaceful life with his family and his lover. However, his life is greatly complicated when found dead in bed a girl who had spent the previous night with him. The first thing that comes to mind to solve the problem is to remove the body, but that's not easy. Still, the case is much worse when someone who seems to know what happened, begins to blackmail....
The Roosters of Dawn
Character:
Only a few months after arriving in a fishing village, Lola, a beautiful woman, is found murdered by the sea....
Vera, a Cruel Tale
Character: Roger
South of France, XIX century. Alfredo de Quiroga, a Spanish gentleman in exile, is reluctant to admit that Vera, his wife, has died. Very concerned, begins to rebuild its surroundings as if she were still alive. The objects, dialogues, gestures ... again everything is back to make sense to him. Even his faithful butler rests on this fiction. But one day, by accident, he meets the daughter of the notary and his world begins to crumble....
Life Ahead
Character: Antonio Redondo
Finished their careers of Law and Medicine, respectively, Antonio Redondo and Josefina Castro, a pair of young Spanish newlyweds, are looking for work to buy an apartment and start a life together, but they will face enormous difficulties throughout the process....
Soldados de plomo
Character: Don Dimas
Andrew returns to his hometown after a long absence. His father was a military high society who abandoned his wife to join the mother of Andrew, one cupletista second row. The reason for his return is to take over an old inheritance left him by his father: A semirruinoso house that is about to be declared a historic monument. But his desire to settle the matter soon are broken by the intrusion of his brother Ramon in buying the house. Andrés relationships with his family and with old attorney Do...
Copy Zero
Character:
A film director deals with the frustration of not having achieved anything in his life....
The Carrot Queen
Character: J.J.
Ursula Alejandra Nicholson, the Carrot Queen, an extravagant American millionaire, arrives in Spain. J.J., a suave and ambitious executive, decides to become involved in the American carrot industry. To do so, he will take advantage of an unhappy bookseller, pulling him into a delirious misadventure that serves as a political satire....
Esquilache
Character: Esquilache
In the 18th century in Madrid, the Marquess of Esquilache, King Charles III of Spain's former minister, bans on wearing the popular wide collar with a long coat and brimmed hat. Along with other measures provoke a massive riot in the city....
¡Arriba Hazaña!
Character:
Several inconformities begin to develop at a catholic boys school in the transitional Spain of the seventies. After three students are expelled, a new director arrives with new liberal ideas, but things remain the same way....
With Good Reason
Character: Self (segment "Epílogo")(voice)
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media....
Maravillas
Character: Fernando
A young Catholic girl takes viewers through a changing Spanish political and social landscape as she develops from her confirmation day to adulthood. Her first experience with the real Spain comes when her Jewish godfathers cannot come to her confirmation. One of the godfathers, using a ring, poses an early challenge to her innocence that puts her in danger. He later returns, indirectly introducing her to a new boyfriend. If he is one of the symbols for Jewish life under Franco, or for a Judeo-C...
Ninette and a Gentleman from Murcia
Character: Andrés
Murcia, Spain. Andrés, a bland merchant, owner of a bookshop, decides to take a trip to Paris, where his friend Armando lives....
El capitán Veneno
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In Madrid, under Queen Isabel II reign, rebellions are frequent events. During one of them Captain Jorge de Córdoba, nicknamed Veneno (poison) for his quarrelsome disposition, bad temper and outright misogyny, is hurt and taken to a house where two women, a widow and her daughter, are to take care of him....
La noche del sábado
Character: Conductor
In Rome, a beautiful young model named Donina is hired by a sculptor, Leonardo, inspired her to do a statue he hopes will be his masterpiece. The striking statue of Prince Florencio, heir to the throne of Preslavia, who presented at the banquet in his villa in Rome. Soon their beauty is all the rage across the country, the girl is the feeling of the moment and decides to leave with her prince, leaving behind all his life, including his daughter, who leaves her under the protection of Leonardo....
The First Look
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The foundation in Madrid of the Institute of Investigations and Cinematographic Experiences (IIEC) in 1947, has been the most important event in the history of Spanish cinema. From there would come directors such as Luis García Berlanga, Juan Antonio Bardem, Carlos Saura, Miguel Picazo, José Luis Borau, Mario Camus, Antonio Mercero and Víctor Erice. Through their first film practices, we will learn about the history of the school and an entire country....
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Character: Don Quijote / Alonso Quixano
A new vision of the Knight of the sad figure, which lives obsessed by the chivalry and its codes of honor. Accompanied by his unusual squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote recalls some of the adventures they've shared....
Soledad
Character: Manuel
Italian comedy...
El sueño de los héroes
Character: Taboada
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Más fina que las gallinas
Character: Don Enrique
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127 millones libres de impuestos
Character: Félix
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Gulliver
Character: Martín
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El inquilino
Character: Evaristo González
One unlucky day, a married couple with four children get an eviction notice: the building they live in is to be demolished. The family looks desperately for a new home, which is no easy task in Madrid in the fifties....
Marbella
Character: Germán
Comedy thriller directed by Miguel Hermoso....
Voz
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Mayores con reparos
Character: Fernando
Fernando / Miguel / Manuel are provincial men who go to the cabaret El Sultán, in Madrid (Spain), in search of the company of their hostess girls. Pepita / Patricia / Estrella are more than just prostitutes and when customers who require their services have the opportunity to meet them in the solitude of their apartments their true dimension as human beings emerges in them....
Congress in Seville
Character: Dr. Guillermo Kroll
Carmen is a Spanish emigrant in Stockholm who does not have the money to run her business or buy a ticket back to Spain. Thanks to a misunderstanding she meets Dr. Petersen who has an invitation to a medical congress in Seville and does not plan to attend. Carmen uses the ticket and impersonates the doctor just enough time to get to the city, but then she will be forced to keep the lie....
Juan Soldado
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Asylum
Character: Carlos
Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says....
Plenilune
Character: Padre Orduña
Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade in a small town in Spain, murdering young girls and leaving their bodies in a nearby forest....
For Men Only
Character: Pablo
Spain, late 19th century. When, in a time of great political instability, Flora, a beautiful young woman, starts working in a ministry doing a job that supposedly only a man can do, a great scandal breaks out....
The Remains from the Shipwreck
Character: Maestro
Whatever his reasons or intent, when the young man carrying a cello begins working at the old-folks home, he strikes up an acquaintance with the man known as "the Maestro" (Fernando Fernan Gomez), who is full of plans to produce a play based on a Caribbean love affair and adventure in his youth. As he listens to the old man's reminiscences of love, he thinks of his own girlfriend (both are played by Angela Molina). Eventually, the beloved eccentric's play is produced, accompanied by the boy's ce...
The Most Beautiful Night
Character: Luis
Federico, an executive of national television, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an actress who retired prematurely after marriage, is cheating him with another man. The symptoms are that Elena sighs, looks far into heaven and is aware of the exact time a comet passes. In other words, she expects her most beautiful night....
The Love of Captain Brando
Character: Fernando
During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Aurora, a young and attractive teacher....
Rififi in the City
Character: Sargento Detective Miguel Mora
In an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election, a young police informer working for police officer Miguel Mora bent on uncovering the shady works of popular politician Maurice Leprince is killed. However, thugs working for Leprince began to be killed one by one as well....
Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
Character: Tertuliano
This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives....
Los habitantes de la casa deshabitada
Character: Gregorio
In a dark and stormy night, Raimundo's car suffers a breakdown, so he and Gregorio, his chauffeur, must try to ask for shelter in the only nearby house, a sinister mansion, of those that seem inhabited by ghosts....
Don Quijote de la Mancha
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Visionarios
Character: Gobernador
An aspiring teacher (Eduardo Noriega) falls for a maid (Ingrid Rubio) in a village where people claim they see the Virgin Mary....
The Dumbfounded King
Character: Gran Inquisidor
Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes....
Ferocious
Character: Luis
After Pablo runs away from being shackled in a cabin, he spends the winter in a cave and emerges as a bear. With the help of a writer, Pablo tries to renter human society....
Milagro en el circo
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¡Bruja, más que bruja!
Character: Tío Justino
A small provincial town lives under the caprices of Don Justin, the local cacique. This forces the young Mariana to marry him, taking advantage of the fact that her nephew Juan, the boyfriend of the girl, is far away from military service. Upon his return, Juan is mocked and goes to a witch to assist him in his revenge....
Poor Butterfly
Character:
A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the lef...
Yo soy fulana de tal
Character: Rodolfo Pellejo
The gentle Spanish comedy Yo soy Fulana de Tal (1975) tells the story of a prostitute who rises from the poor side of town to become a revered member of the community. Along the way she befriends an elderly paternalist artist and also gets her revenge on those who mistreated her in her youth....
Chely
Character: Nicolás
A gang of criminals, composed entirely of young people, bases its unique fun on stealing from rich elders with the help of the charms of one of the members of the band, Pepi (Nadiuska). They are misunderstood young people looking for an assimilation of society....
Sensualidad
Character: Carlos Baena
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¡Jo, papá!
Character: Julio
With the purpose of recalling a youthful adventure, Enrique, a well-placed merchant, decides to travel around Spain in the company of his wife Alicia and his two daughters, Pilar and Carmen....
Love Ravings
Character:
In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man....
Viaje de novios
Character: Juan Torregrosa Orózco
Specialized in arranging weddings, Federico arranges marriage by proxy between Ana and Juan, two friends of his who do not know each other. Juan arrives by plane to Spain after spending ten years of safari in Africa, hoping to meet his wife, who arrives the same day from Buenos Aires. At the airport, Fernando receives him and they go to the bar to wait for Ana. But everything starts badly, because during the wait Juan drinks too much and gets drunk. When Ana arrives, she is displeased to meet he...
Juana la Loca… de vez en cuando
Character: Sir Henry
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Bambú
Character: Antonio
Alejandro is a young composer from Madrid who, overwhelmed by a sentimental and artistic failure, decides to enlist as a volunteer soldier and go to war-torn Cuba, where he befriends Antonio, who becomes his best friend....
The Little Triangle
Character: Lázaro López
Lázaro and Sabino, employees of a large furniture store, fall in love with Laura, a new young and naive employee, who accepts their love. The trio lives a happy engagement. In the big store is planned a sensational advertising campaign with the bed "Eternal happiness," to be launched on New Year's Day. Lázaro and Sabino have to give the last touches on New Year's Eve. When they leave, they enter the exhibition truck and lie down on the bed. When they wake up in the morning, they are surrounded b...
Pintadas
Character: José
Diego and Clara have met recently and suddenly have the urge to live together. Afterwards, They find a house to live in. However, strange things start to happen....
Pierna creciente, falda menguante
Character: Amadeo - Duque de Daroca
In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous cabaret singer, Rosario "La Criollita", which was a scandal. At that time, it was doubted that decent women had legs - But this mystery was resolved a decade later, when the roaring twenties arrived and, with them, the sensual Lupe Cardoso...
Una chica de opereta
Character: Salvador Viana
A poor composer sells his songs to a music publisher who attributes them to his son, who sells them to a famous singer. Seeking the son, the musician's daughter will unexpectedly find a job as secretary to the singer, disguised as an unattractive and authoritative woman who effectively controls his careless lifestyle....
La chica del gato
Character:
An orphan, taken in at the home of unscrupulous people who intend to use her in a shady business, flees with her cat and her canary. Accustomed by necessity, she enters a dressmaker's house with the intention of stealing, but the treatment she is given makes her give up her efforts. However, when she leaves the object she had stolen, a servant discovers it and denounces her. When Nena knows the situation of the girl, she welcomes her as a maid. The orphan will help the mistress of the house to s...
Offsides
Character: Don Aníbal
Comedy as six pensioners in residence take on the sponsorship of the FOOTBALL team in the neighbouring orphanage with unexpected consequences....
Los zancos
Character: Ángel
After the death of his wife, Angel, a university professor and writer, he falls into a severe depression. He flees to his house in the country, but there the evil is accentuated, which leads him to an attempted suicide that Teresa, his young neighbor, saves him. Angel starts a relationship with her and her partner, Alberto. Soon he falls in love with Teresa and, through a passionate relationship, he frees himself from his torments. Teresa, Alberto and her theater group on stilts ask her to write...
The Other Life of Captain Contreras
Character: Alonso Contreras
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La vil seducción
Character: Ismael Bolante
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Mnemos
Character:
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Cristina Guzmán
Character: Bob
Cristina Guzmán is hired to impersonate the disappeared sister-in-law of a rich man....
La vida privada de Fulano de Tal
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La sirena negra
Character:
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Un marido de ida y vuelta
Character: Pepe López Garcerán
Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him to shave his beloved beard to go to a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter. Its spectrum then begins to walk around the house and the most unexpected cause tangles. When she finally decides to settle definitely get materialize and get his wife, who has meanwhile become a being sweet and understanding....
Luna de verano
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Two French girls, Monique and Colette, come to Spain in their convertible car to attend a summer course at the International University of San Sebastian. The first contact with the country is in Pamplona. Monique considers heroes the boys who run in front of the bulls during the San Fermin festival....
La muralla feliz
Character: Fulgencio Ríos
Filiberto Aguirre abandons his career as captain of the merchant navy because he has well-founded hopes of receiving a great inheritance. But time goes by, the inheritance does not arrive and his family's economic situation worsens every day....
Reckless
Character: Balarrasa
Javier Mendoza a Catholic missionary established in Alaska, recalls, when about to die, the years of his youth and his relationship with his family and friends....
El río que nos lleva
Character: Don Ángel
In 1946, an irishman joins a group of 'gancheros' (wood workers) while they drive wood thru the Tajo river, discovering human solidarity....
Pepe Guindo
Character: Actor
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La gran mentira
Character: Self (uncredited)
César Neira, an almost forgotten Spanish actor, gets involved by chance with Teresa, a teacher from a small village in the province of Cáceres, who has won a radio contest. The prize is a trip to Madrid to experience just for a fortnight the life of the famous and wealthy people....
Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela
Character: Self (archive footage)
The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was one of the best comedy writers of all time, a novelist and newspaper columnist, misunderstood, even censored, both by the Second Republic government and Francoism, an outsider ahead of his time; also a filmmaker and screenwriter in Hollywood, architect of a revolutionary theatrical building and scenographer, cartoonist and illustrator. An implausible genius....
El primer siglo del Prado
Character: Narrator
Documentary on the first hundred years of the history of the Prado Museum. Based on the exhibition "The 19th century in the Prado" (October 2007-April 2008). Study the first year of the Prado Museum, its evolution, the concept of the mentioned exhibition, the Museum Collection, the masterpieces and the restoration work....
Alas de juventud
Character: Rodrigo
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Noventa minutos
Character: Mr. Marchand
London, England, World War II. During a bombing, several people are trapped in the basement of a building where the air will run out in only ninety minutes…...
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
Character: Don Lope
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Erotic Stories
Character: Don Enrique (segment "Tiempos rotos") (voice)
A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality....
Interior roig
Character:
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Zero/infinito
Character: (voice)
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The Anchorite
Character: Fernando Tobajas
Eleven years ago Fernando Tobajas, a man of a certain age, decided to live in the bathroom, in which he created a small apartment, and never leaves it. Tobajas has given up everything except vanity, and his contacts with the world are reduced to visits from friends and messages sent through the toilet inside aspirin tubes in the hope that someone will receive them and know about his existence. Arabel Lee, a beautiful girl, finds one of those messages....
Enrique Herreros
Character: Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, actor, producer and filmmaker, and the most daring of mountaineers; the man who, along with his companions from the so-called “other Generation of '27,” brought Hollywood to Madrid's Gran Vía, turning a grey and sinister post-war city into the capital of an incipient and ambitious cultural industry....
I Saw Her First
Character: Doctor
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Miracle of Marcellino
Character: The prior
In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more....
Morena clara
Character: Don Lope de Baena y Carrasco / Don Enrique de Baena Rodríguez
Trini, a gipsy girl, and her uncle Regalito are tried for the theft of several hams. Some time later, she presents herself, disguised as a maid, at the house of her former prosecutor, who ends up falling in love with her....
Bésame, tonta
Character: Director general
A young bank clerk is transferred, in view of his special way of being, to a branch for misfits, where he will meet a whole series of very strange characters....
Air Lashings
Character: Zanahoria
Alberto, "Zanahoria" and "Jabato" are three students of the Parachute School. They are the "lashing the air," friends, good partners but rivals and competitive in love. When they see Nati, a beautiful woman who falls in love with Alberto, jealousy will lead to situations that jeopardize their great friendship....
Benigno, hermano mío
Character:
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Réquiem por un campesino español
Character: Don Valeriano
Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoverished. Paco's life is told in flashbacks by a priest (Antonio Ferrandis) who is seen officiating at an anniversary mass attended by three wealthy landowners and no one else. The priest recalls Paco's baptism, his communion, his marriage ceremony ...
Cómo casarse en siete días
Character:
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Carola de día, Carola de noche
Character: Hombre del motocarro
Carola is a princess in a land far far away that had to run away after revolution in her country. She goes to Spain and has to disguise herself to save her life, because the revolution wants her to die. But Carola doesn't like to be imprisoned and secretly goes out by night to find out how spaniards live. What she didn't expect, was that she would fall in love with a man she meets in a restaurant, a man who works in a cabaret where she decides to start working as a singer because money is runnin...
La hermana
Character: Don Julián
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Do the Dead Speak to Us?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Filmmaker Helena de Llanos, who lives in the chaotic house, full of memories and treasures, where her grandfather, Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), legendary writer, actor and director; and his wife, the actress and writer Emma Cohen (1946-2016), shared their lives, analyzes the relationship that the living have with the dead through the places and objects they have left behind....
Noche sin cielo
Character: Emilio
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Fin de curso
Character: Self (uncredited)
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Viviendo al revés
Character:
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Turbante blanco
Character:
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El mensaje
Character:
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Los maridos no cenan en casa
Character: Ramírez (uncredited)
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Facultad de Letras
Character: Fernando
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Las muchachas de azul
Character: Juan Ferrandis
Serving the customers of a department store, the salesgirls in their blue uniform go out of their way to serve them. But in their young minds, one idea surpasses all: the hunt for a husband. Ana is in love with Juan, who seems to be very well in his condition of single. Olga has aspirations of the highest level, as her boyfriend must own a great car. Pilar aims to win a radio contest. And there is also Álvaro, the lawyer whose only cause capable of defending, and even with a resounding failure, ...
De hombre a hombre
Character: Silvestre
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El noveno mandamiento
Character: Andres Cortazar
The reunion of two old friends, married to two beautiful women who without knowing will start a crossed adventure....
Autumn Roses
Character: Adolfo Barona
Isabel and Gonzalo, a marriage of high society, see how their happiness is endangered due to the frequent love affairs of the husband, that will eventually lead them to interact with a pair of cynical thieves dedicated to blackmail Isabel and to defraud Gonzalo in his business...
Pototo, Boliche y Compañía
Character:
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Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Character: Le guérillo Lorenzo
In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who have countless demands and wishes....
Tiempos felices
Character:
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Anna Said Yes
Character: Juan
Juan does not have a cent but lives beautifully. His nights of revelry and cabaret are famous in the night city environments. As heir to his old and very rich uncle Don Patricio, lives subsidized by creditors on account of his future inheritance. But John keeps a terrible secret: he has long been disinherited. When a telegram arrives announcing the death of the uncle, Juan returns to the family home in the Costa Brava. There he meets Anna, a wonderful woman who is the current heir to the family ...
La mujer perdida
Character:
A woman is lost....
Las mujeres de mi vida
Character:
The women of my life....
El séptimo día del sol
Character: Sun (voice)
The Sun rises and greets Clea, a sleeping beauty, a goddess, the spirit of the earth, but she is frightened and flees, pursued by the mighty star, infatuated with her....
Voice of Silence
Character: Fernando Layer
Voice of Silence is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, written by Giuseppe Berto, starring Aldo Fabrizi and Jean Marais....
Empezó en boda
Character:
In-laws and relatives begin to settle in the house of two newlyweds. Even though their intention is to contribute to marital peace, they actually complicate their lives....
FFG: un retrato
Character: Self (voice)
An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time....
Me quiero casar contigo
Character: Ramón
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