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Whom God Forgives
''Whom God Forgives'' () is a 1957 Spanish action film directed by José María Forqué. At the 7th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury award. Plot Set in Andalusia in the 19th century, it reflects the persecution of some people with blood crimes that they have committed due to forced circumstances. Juan Cuenca, a miner, who has killed the foreman of the mine and his friend, an engineer who, for defending him, has killed the head of the mine. All of them live as refugees in the Andalusian mountains, persecuted by the Civil Guard, and intend to embark for America. The film reflects the tradition of freeing a prisoner during Holy Week in Malaga because of the image of Jesús el Rico. Cast * Francisco Rabal - Juan Cuenca * Luis Peña - Andrés * Alberto Farnese - Pedro * Isabel de Pomés - Rosario * Luisella Boni * José Marco Davó - (as Marco Davo) * José Sepúlveda * Barta Barry * Josefina Serratosa * Santiago Rivero * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José María Forqué
José María Forqué Galindo (8 March 1923 – 17 March 1995) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. Biography He was the father of the actress Verónica Forqué and the director Álvaro Forqué. He died on 17 March 1995 in Madrid at the age of 72 from a liver cancer. He was cremated at Cementerio de la Almudena. He was married to the actress and dramaturge Carmen Vázquez-Vigo, who died on 22 March 2018 at the age of 95. The José María Forqué Awards are named after him. Filmography * 1947 : '' Juventudes de España, bajo una Patria hermosa'' * 1951 : ''María Morena'' * 1951 : '' Fog and Sun'' * 1954 : '' The Devil Plays the Flute'' * 1954 : '' Un Día perdido'' * 1956 : ''The Legion of Silence'' * 1956 : '' Embajadores en el infierno'' * 1957 : '' Whom God Forgives'' * 1958 : '' Un Hecho violento'' * 1958 : '' Night and Dawn'' * 1959 : '' Baila La Chunga'' * 1959 : ''Back to the Door'' * 1960 : '' Maribel and the Strange Family'' * 1960 : '' Police Calling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfonso Sastre
Alfonso Sastre (20 February 1926 – 17 September 2021) was a Spanish playwright, essayist, and critic associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was an outspoken critic of censorship during the reign of General Francisco Franco and the ensuing political regime arising from the 1978 Constitution altogether. His most noteworthy plays include ''Death Squad'' (1953), ''The Gag'' (1954), ''Death Thrust'' (1960), and ''Tragicomedy of the Gypsy Celestina'' (1984). Biography Alfonso Sastre was born in Madrid in February 1926 into a typical middle-class family. He had three siblings (Aurora, Ana and Jose), and received a Catholic upbringing. He survived hunger and bombing during the Spanish Civil War and later received a degree from the Institute Cardinal Cisneros of Madrid. In 1943 he began a career as an aeronautical engineer, which he abandoned after fifteen days. By the end of the 1940s, he began producing existentialist works, either alone or with others in the "New Art" mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Rabal
Francisco Rabal Valera (8 March 1926 – 29 August 2001), popularly known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor. His career spanned more than 200 film and television roles, between 1942 and 2001. He received numerous accolades both in Spain and abroad, the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor Award and the Goya Award for Best Actor. Rabal was best known internationally for his collaborations with director Luis Buñuel, with Ronald Bergan writing "most of his other major roles he carried the heady, perverse whiff of the great surrealist director with him." He worked with many other notable directors, including Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodóvar, William Friedkin, Michelangelo Antonioni, Claude Chabrol, Luchino Visconti, and Gillo Pontecorvo. One of Spain's most-loved and acclaimed actors during his lifetime, he also was known for his commitment to human rights and other social causes. Early life Rabal was born in Águilas, a town in the south-western part of the province of Murcia. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Film
The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work. The specifics of what constitutes an action film has been in scholarly debate since the 1980s. While some scholars such as David Bordwell suggested they were films that favor spectacle to storytelling, others such as Geoff King stated they allow the scenes of spectacle to be attuned to storytelling. Action films are often hybrid with other genres, mixing into various forms such as comedy film, comedies, science fiction films, and horror films. While the term "action film" or "action adventure film" has been used as early as the 1910s, the contemporary definition usually refers to a film that came with the arrival of New Hollywood and the rise of antihero, anti-heroes appearing in American films of the late 1960s and 1970s drawing from war films, crime films and Western (film), Westerns. These genres were followed by what is referred to as the "classical period" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Berlin International Film Festival
The 7th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1957. The Golden Bear was awarded to '' 12 Angry Men'' directed by Sidney Lumet. The International Federation of Film Critics awarded FIPRESCI Award for the first time this year. Juries The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: Main Competition * Jay Carmody, American theatre critic - Jury President * Jean de Baroncelli, French writer and film critic * John Sutro, British producer * Dalpathal Kothari, Indian * Fernaldo Di Giammatteo, Italian historian and film critic * Bunzaburo Hayashi, Japanese producer (Japan) * Miguel Alemán Jr., Mexican producer * Thorsten Eklann, Swedish journalist * José María Escudero, Spanish director of photography * Edmund Luft, West-German playwright, historian and film critic * Ernst Schröder, West-German actor Documentary and Short Film Competition * Adolf Hübl, Austrian founder of the Bundesstaatliche Hauptstelle für ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Bear
The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europe's " Big Three" film festivals alongside the Venice Film Festival held in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival held in France. Furthermore, it is one of the " Big Five", the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The festival regularly draws tens of thousands of visitors each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Peña (actor)
Luis Peña Martínez-Illescas (20 June 1918, in Santander – 29 March 1977, in Madrid) was a Spanish actor. Peña came from a family of actors and performed in films and theater. His sister was the actress Pastora Peña. In 1946, he married Luchy Soto; the two formed a stage company. He worked on filmed plays for television which were shown on Televisión Española in the 1960s. At the end of his career, he acted for Carlos Saura. Selected filmography * '' The Birth of Salome'' (1940) * '' Follow the Legion'' (1942) * ''Ella, él y sus millones'' (1944) * ''Bamboo'' (1945) * '' The Holy Queen'' (1947) * '' The Maragatan Sphinx'' (1950) * '' Surcos'' (1951) * ''Calle mayor'' (1956) * '' Amanecer en puerta oscura'' (1957) * ''Back to the Door'' (1959) * '' The Red Rose'' (1960) * ''Due mafiosi nel far west'', regia di Giorgio Simonelli (1964) * '' Due mafiosi contro Goldginger'', regia di Giorgio Simonelli (1965) * '' I due parà'', regia di Lucio Fulci (1966) * '' Z7 Opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Farnese
Alberto Farnese (3 June 1926 – 2 June 1996) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows from 1951 to 1989. He starred in the film '' Whom God Forgives'', which won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury award at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Nobody's Children'' (1951) - Poldo * '' Rome 11:00'' (1952) - Augusto * '' Falsehood'' (1952) - Gianni * '' Prisoners of Darkness'' (1952) * ''Legione straniera'' (1953) - Alberto Gherardi * ''Angels of Darkness'' (1954) - The Sportsman * ''Disonorata - Senza colpa'' (1954) - Amedeo Cupiello * '' The Two Orphans'' (1954) * '' The Gold of Naples'' (1954) - Alfredo - l'amante di Sofia (segment "Pizze a credito") * '' Orphan of the Ghetto'' (1954) * '' Disowned'' (1954) - barone Giulio Colizzi * ''Due lacrime'' (1954) - Mario Mancini * '' The White Angel'' (1955) - Poldo * ''The Song of the Heart'' (1955) - Sandro * ''Un palco all'opera'' (1956) * ''Torna pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel De Pomés
Isabel de Pomés (10 April 1924 – 31 May 2007) was a classic Spanish film actress and one of the leading ladies in Spanish cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. She appeared in over 30 films between 1941 and 1965. Her father was the actor and sportsman Félix de Pomés. Selected filmography *''El Puente de la Ilusion'' (1965) *''Salto a la Gloria'' 1959 * '' Night and Dawn'' (1958) *'' Amanecer en Puerta Oscura''1957 *''Un ángel Paso por Brooklyn'' 1957 *'' Marcelino Pan y Vino'' 1954 * '' The Mayor of Zalamea'' (1954) * '' The King's Mail'' (1951) *''Luna de Sangre'' (1950) *''Vida en Sombras'' (1948) *''Botón de Ancla'' (1947) * '' The Black Siren'' (1947) *''Cancion de Medianoche'' 1947 *'' The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks'' 1944 by Edgar Neville Edgar Neville Romrée, Count of Berlanga de Duero (28 December 1899 – 23 April 1967) was a Spanish playwright and film director, a member of the Generation of '27. Biography Neville was born in Madrid but lived in Hollywood, Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisella Boni
Luisella Boni (born 24 July 1935) is an Italian actress. Born as Luisa Angela Bozzo, Boni debuted in 1952 in Bernard Vorhaus' film ''Finishing School''. One of the most active actresses in Italian cinema between the early fifties and mid-sixies, she slowed her activity after her marriage to television director Daniele D'Anza in 1965. In the 1960s she was sometimes credited as Brigitte Corey. She was also active on television and on stage. Selected filmography * ''Finishing School'' (1953) * '' Cavalcade of Song '' (1953) * '' Frine, Courtesan of Orient'' (1953) - Touni * '' The Treasure of Bengal'' (1953) - Karma * '' Love in the City'' (1953) * '' A Slice of Life'' (1954) - (segment "Scena all'aperto") * '' Papà Pacifico'' (1954) - Maria Grazia - Luisa's friend * '' Orphan of the Ghetto'' (1954) - Viola * '' Eighteen Year Olds'' (1955) - Luisa * '' Land of the Pharaohs'' (1955) - Kyra * '' Nana'' (1955) - Estelle * ''Il piccolo vetraio'' (1955) - Gisella * '' La trovatel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barta Barry
Barta Barri (16 August 1911 – 7 December 2003) was a Hungarian-born Spanish film actor.Pitts p. 121 Selected filmography * ''The Vila Family'' (1950) * '' Criminal Brigade'' (1950) - Mario * ''Verónica'' (1950) * ''Spanish Serenade'' (1952) - Jefe de los saboteadores * ''Dulce nombre'' (1952) * ''Almas en peligro'' (1952) * ''Persecution in Madrid'' (1952) - Pacheco * ''The Dance of the Heart'' (1953) - Don Pablo * ''Bronce y luna'' (1953) * ''La montaña sin ley'' (1953) * ''Fantasía española'' (1953) - Toscanelli * ''El presidio'' (1954) - Pedro Ramírez * ''The Louts'' (1954) * ''Sor Angélica'' (1954) * ''One Bullet Is Enough'' (1954) - Patorni * ''El ceniciento'' (1955) - Clara's father * ''Los agentes del quinto grupo'' (1955) - Barrier * ''El indiano'' (1955) * ''El golfo que vio una estrella'' (1955) * ''El puente del diablo'' (1956) - Inspector * ''Ha pasado un hombre'' (1956) - Valdés * ''La pecadora'' (1956) - Francisco, el alcalde * ''Sitiados en la ciudad'' (195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Canales (actor)
Ricardo Gabriel Canales Lanza (born 30 May 1982) is a Honduran former footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. A Honduran international since 2009, he represented his nation for two Gold Cups and Fifa World Cup 2010. Club career Nicknamed ''el Gato'' (The Cat), Canales made his debut in league on 16 May 2001 playing for Victoria against Real España. He was released from Motagua just after he returned from playing with the Honduras national football team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and he returned to Victoria. In July 2011 he signed for Atlético Choloma, and after two years of participation the club was regulated to Liga Nacional de Ascenso de Honduras. In the year 2013 he rejoined F.C. Motagua on a one-year contract in which he only completed the Apertura tournament. He signed for C.D.S. Vida at the start of the Clausura tournament after lack of playing time with F.C. Motagua, and was brought in to help the club fight regulation. International career He made h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
