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Miguel Bardem
Miguel Bardem (born 1964) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. Life Bardem comes from a well-known family of actors. His father was director Juan Antonio Bardem, and his aunt is actress Pilar Bardem. Pilar's children, Javier, Mónica and Carlos are also active in the film industry. Like his father, Bardem chose to work as a director, as well as being a screenwriter and actor. In his films, he often uses members of his family. For example, his aunt Pilar Bardem and his cousin Javier Bardem took on the leading roles in his directorial d''ebut La madre''. His debut work was awarded the Goya Award for Best Fiction Short Film. After this short film, he shot his first feature film with Alfonso Albacete in 1996. ''Más que amor, frenesí'' starred, among others, Nancho Novo, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, and Ingrid Rubio. Carlos Bardem, the youngest cousin of Miguel, directed his acting debut under his direction. The style of the film is reminiscent of works by Pedro Almodóvar, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepal
Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north, and India in the south, east, and west, while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by the Siliguri Corridor, and from Bhutan by the Indian state of Sikkim. Nepal has a diverse geography, including fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural state, with Nepali as the official language. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and the largest city. The name "Nepal" is first recorded in texts from the Vedic period of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goya Award For Best Fictional Short Film
The Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film ( es, Premio Goya a la mejor cortometraje de ficción) is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. From 1989 to 1991 there was only one award for short films under the name ''Best Short Film'' ("Mejor cortometraje"), since 1992 it has been presented under its current for fictional short films. The short films ''Esposados'' (1996), '' That Wasn't Me'' (2012), ''Timecode'' (2016) and ''Mother'' (2017) have received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. At the European Film Awards, the films ''The Runner'' (2015) and ''Suc de Síndria'' (2019) have been nominated to Best Short Film while ''Timecode A timecode (alternatively, time code) is a sequence of numeric codes generated at regular intervals by a timing synchronization system. Timecode is used in video production, show control and other applications which require temporal coordinatio ...'' (2016) won the award. Winners and nomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goya Awards
The Goya Awards ( es, Premios Goya) are Spain's main national annual film awards, commonly referred to as the Academy Awards of Spain. The awards were established in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, and the first awards ceremony took place on March 16, 1987 at the Teatro Lope de Vega, Madrid. The ceremony continues to take place annually at Centro de Congresos Príncipe Felipe, around the end of January/beginning of February, and awards are given to films produced during the previous year. The award itself is a small bronze bust of Francisco Goya created by the sculptor José Luis Fernández, although the original sculpture for the first edition of the Goyas was by Miguel Ortiz Berrocal. History To reward the best Spanish films of each year, the Spanish Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts decided to create the Goya Awards. The Goya Awards are Spain's main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cadena SER
La Cadena SER (the SER Network) is Spain's premier radio network in terms of both seniority (it was created in 1924) and audience share (it had a regular listenership in 2018 of 4,139,000). The acronym SER stands for ''Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión'' (Spanish Broadcasting Company). Cadena SER's programmes – which includes news, sport, talk, entertainment and culture – can be received throughout Spain. The network's main studios are located on the Gran Vía in Madrid; In addition, studios across the country contribute with local and regional news and information, and local programming in each location amounting between 2 and 3.5 hours daily. Cadena SER is owned by Unión Radio, the majority shareholder in which is currently the PRISA group, a major player in the Spanish media market which also controls, music radio stations such as LOS40, Cadena Dial, Radiolé and a number of newspapers (including the influential national daily ''El País''), as well as other media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prim, El Asesinato De La Calle Del Turco
''Prim, el asesinato de la calle del Turco'' is a Spanish television film directed by Miguel Bardem recreating the magnicide of Juan Prim in 1870. It originally aired on 15 December 2014 on La 1. Premise Narrated by Benito Pérez Galdós, a young journalist at the time the events take place, the fiction accounts for the political intrigues and conspiracies in the last year of the life of General Prim, prime minister of Spain, who had to find a suitable candidate to the country's throne. It involves all the prime suspects behind Prim's murder, an unsolved case up to this date. Prim's carriage was shot in the on 28 December 1870. Wounded in the assassination attempt, Prim would die two days later. Cast * Francesc Orella as Juan Prim, Prime Minister of Spain also serving as Minister of War. * Javier Godino as Benito Pérez Galdós, a young Canarian journalist. * Pedro Casablanc as Felipe de Solís y Campuzano, Montpensier's confidant and personal secretary. * Daniel Grao a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Save The Planet
Save, SAVE, or Saved may refer to: Places *Save (Garonne), a river in southern France *Save River (Africa), a river in Zimbabwe and Mozambique *Sava, a river in Eastern Europe also known as Save *Savè, Benin, a commune and city * Save, Govuro District, Mozambique, a posto in Govuro District, Mozambique * Save, Machaze District, Mozambique, a posto and locality in Machaze District, Mozambique *Save, Rwanda, a settlement *Säve, a locality in Göteborg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden **Säve Airport * Esquel Airport (ICAO airport code: SAVE; IATA airport code: EQS), Esquel, Chubut Province, Argentina Organizations, groups, companies *Society Against Violence in Education, a non-profit organization working against ragging in India *Save Britain's Heritage (''SAVE''), a historic building conservation group in the United Kingdom *Spirit Airlines (NASDAQ stockticker: SAVE), a U.S. airline In technology *Saved game, saved progress of a player in a video game *Computer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swindled (2004 Film)
''Swindled'' or ''Taken In'' ( es, Incautos, links=no) is a 2004 Spanish-French thriller film directed by Miguel Bardem which stars Ernesto Alterio, Victoria Abril, and Federico Luppi. Plot After a time learning the ropes with aging Manco, swindler Ernesto ends up teaming up with alpha conman Federico. Federico's former lover Pilar persuades the former to pull a large-scale scam. Cast Production The screenplay was written by Carlos Martín and Miguel Bardem. A Spanish-French co-production, the film was produced by Alquimia Cinema and Mandarin Films in association with Telemadrid, Canal 9, Canal+, and TVE. Shooting locations included Madrid, and the province of Segovia. Release The film was presented in the official selection of the 7th Málaga Film Festival in April 2004. Distributed by Hispano Foxfilm, it was theatrically released in Spain on 9 July 2004. Reception Todd Brown of ''ScreenAnarchy'' pointed out that even if the film would have benefited from giv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Not Love, Just Frenzy
''Not Love Just Frenzy'' (or ''Más que amor, frenesí'' in Spanish) is a 1996 adventure and drama film, directed by a triumvirate of Alfonso Albacete, Miguel Bardem and David Menkes. They have a collective name of ''Peliculas Freneticas'' (Frenetic Films). It is Miguel Bardem's first feature film with Alfonso Albacete, using Carlos Bardem, the youngest cousin of Miguel, in his acting debut. The style of the film is reminiscent of works by Pedro Almodóvar, according to a New York Times review. ''Más que amor, frenesí'' brought Bardem, Albacete and Menkes a Goya Award nomination for Best Newcomer Director. The cast also includes many of Spain's top young actors, including early appearances by Penélope Cruz (Vanilla Sky), Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls) and Bibi Andersen (Kika) as a high-class lesbian pimp. It is set in Madrid.Santiago Fouz-Hernández and Alfredo Martinez-Expósito David Alderson and Linda R. Anderson (Editors) The film is similar in plot to ''Perdona bonita, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secun De La Rosa
Secundino de la Rosa Márquez (born 23 December 1969), artistically known as Secun de la Rosa, is a Spanish actor and theatre author and director. Biography Secundino Benjamín Juan de la Rosa Márquez Ailagas de Carvajal was born in Barcelona on 23 December 1969. he studied drama in Cristina Rota's atelier, and although he owes his popularity to his film and television comedy roles, he has worked as author-director in several stage plays. He has been awarded and nominated for these plays and he has also received the 2003 ''Premio al mejor actor de la Unión de Actores'' as an actor. His filmmaking debut was the musical romcom '' The Cover'', released in 2021. Filmography Feature film * '' La pequeña Suiza'' (2019) as Don Anselmo * '' El Bar'', by Álex de la Iglesia (2017) *'' Pieles'', by Eduardo Casanova (2017) *'' El tiempo de los monstruos'', by Félix Sabroso (2015) *'' Negociador (El problema número uno)'', by Borja Cobeaga (2014) *'' Pancho, el perro millonario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort & Phil
''Mort & Phil'' ( es, Mortadelo y Filemón) is a Spanish comic series, published in more than a dozen languages. It appeared for the first time in 1958 in the children's comic-book magazine drawn by Francisco Ibáñez. The series features Mort ( es, Mortadelo, links=no), the tall, bald master of disguise named after mortadella sausage, and his bossy partner, the shorter, pudgier Phil ( es, Filemón, links=no) Pi. Initially, they were private detectives operating as , but now both serve as secret agents in the T.I.A. (a spoof on CIA), the (Aeroterrestrial Investigation Technicians). is the Spanish word for "aunt". The series frequently uses slapstick humour whereby the characters constantly suffer mishaps - such as falls from heights, explosions, and being crushed by heavy objects. Thanks to cartoon physics, the effects rarely last more than one panel. Overview Mort and Phil are a pair of idiots, and no matter what kind of mission they are assigned they always manage to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Luppi
Federico Luppi (; February 23, 1936 – October 20, 2017) was an Argentine-Spanish film, TV, radio and theatre actor. He won numerous awards throughout his acting career, including a Concha de Plata at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Biography Luppi worked mostly in Argentine cinema, but also worked in Chile, Mexico, Spain, and the United States. He acted in almost 100 films and 50 television series from the time of his debut in 1964. His first films were Pajarito Gómez and Psique y sexo in 1965. In 2004, he directed his first film, '' Pasos'' (''Steps''), made in Spain. His English-language films (and his work with international directors) include John Sayles' '' Men with Guns'' and ''Los pasos perdidos'', among others. He was one of Guillermo del Toro's favorite actors, and they worked together in three of del Toro's films: '' Cronos'', ''The Devil's Backbone'' Scott, A. O. (November 21, 2001). ''The New York Times''The Devil's Backbone (review overview). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
