Volker Schlöndorff graduated in Political Science in Sorbonne, while studying cinema at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques where he met Louis Malle, with whom he worked as an assistant director in the Zazie in the Metro, A Very Private Affair, The Fire Within and Viva Maria.
Schlöndorff was also an assistant director of Alain Resnais, in Last year in Marienbad and of Jean- Pierre Melville in Léon Morin, Priest, also working with filmmaker Jean- Daniel Pollet in the documentary Méditerranée.
He filmed his first film in Federal Germany, Wen Kummert's (1965), prohibited short film in France because it was about the war in Algeria.
He directed The young Torless (Der junge Torless, 1966) based on a novel by Robert Musil, which was awarded at the Cannes Festival. His second feature film was Mord und Totschlag (1967). After Ein unheimlicher moment rolled The Rebel (Michael Kolhaas, der rebel, 1969), according to the short novel by the playwright Heinrich von Kleist.
Since 1969, his films were produced by the society he created with Peter Fieischmann, Halleluyah Film.
Volker Schlöndorff worked for television with an adaptation of Baal According to Brecht, in which the main role was played by Fassbinder.
He filmed straw fire (Strohfeuer, 1972), written with which he would be his first wife Margarethe von Trotta. This film was shown in Benalmádena's Author's Film Week.
In 1973, associated with Reinhard Hauff created a new producer, Biokop Film. The first film he made for this society was The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Der verlorene ehre der Katharina Blum, 1975).
Then he filmed Fingerprint (Der fangschuss, 1976) in black and white, based on a book by Marguerite Yourcena. With Axel Engsfeld, Stefan Aust and Heinrich Boll, he performed in 1983 Krieg und frieden.
Su The tin drum (Die blechtrommel, 1979), based on Gunter Grass's homonymous book, was one of the greatest hits of German cinema. The film won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Festival and the Oscar for the best foreign-speaking film.
After Der Kandidat (CO A. Kluge and Stefan Aust), rolled Circle of deceit (Die falschung, 1981) according to the book of Nicolas Born, La forgery.
In 1983, he filmed in France Swann's love (An amour of Swann) and shortly after the telefilms Death of a Traveller (1985), based on the play of Arthur Miller, and The Old Memories of Louisiana (1987), version of the text by Ernest J. Gaynes.
Later, he rolled The Count of the Maid (1990), film of science-fiction with script by Harold Pinter, The Traveller (1991), romantic drama with the leading role of Sam Shepard and Julie Delpy, The Ogre (1996), title on World War II based on a novel by Michel Tournier, Lethal Seduction (1998), with Woody Harrelson and Elisabeth Shue, or El Silence after El Disparo (2000).
Among his work in the last two decades as director are The Ninth Day (2004), drama about the priest Jean Bernard, survivor of the Nazi concentration camp of Duchau, which was projected in the 18th edition of the FICCAB, in 2019, Diplomacy (2014), film set in the occupied France of 1944; and Return to Mountauk (2017), with Stellan Skarsgard and Nina Homs or the documentary The Forest Maker (2021). Schlöndorff is one of the great filmmakers of the history of European cinema.
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Year: 1975
Duration: 101 min.
Country: West Germany (RFA)
Address: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta
Script: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta. Novel: Heinrich Böll
Overview: Enrique and Victor were close friends during their college stage. An absurd setback, associated with immaturity, caused a distance between the two that lasted for years. Enrique has decided to break the ice and has contacted his old friend, quoting him at his house. Victor is enthusiastic about the appointment, although, unfortunately, he ignores the real reason for the meeting.
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Original title: Die Blechtrommel
Year: 1979
Duration: 142 min.
Country: West Germany (RFA)
Address: Volker Schlöndorff
Script: Jean-Claude Carrière, Franz Seitz, Volker Schlöndorff. Novel: Günter Grass
Cast: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler
Based on Günter Grass's novel and internationally acclaimed, awarded the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 1,979 and the Oscar to the Best Foreign Film in 1,980, El Tambor de Hojalata tells the fantastic story of little Oskar framed in a historical reality, becoming one of the most recognized works of the New German Film.
The free city of Dánzig saw the birth of little Oskar Matzerath in 1924, when aggressive Nazi politics began its influence in eastern Germany. But from the moment Oskar comes out of the womb he experiences a terrible desire to return inside, desire truncated by the cut of the umbilical cord that linked him to his mother. So, Oskar will have to grow up until he reaches the age of three, when his mother promised to give him a tin drum. Once his drum is reached, Oskar will decide to end his growth...
DIPLOMATIA
Original title: Diplomatie
Year: 2014
Duration: 80 min.
Country: France
Address: Volker Schlöndorff
Script: Volker Schlöndorff, Cyril Gely.
Cast: Andre Dussollier, Niels Arestrup, Burghart Klaußner,
Best script adapted in the 2014 Caesar Awards: Best Director and Best Actor (Niels Arestrup) at the Seminci de Valladolid.
August 25, 1944. The allies enter Paris. Shortly before dawn, Dietrich von Choltitz, German military governor, is preparing to execute Hitler's orders to fly the French capital. And yet Paris is not destroyed. Why does von Choltitz refuse to carry out the orders of the Führer, despite his unlimited loyalty to the Third Reich? Was it Raoul Nordling, the Swedish consul general of Paris, who changed his mind to the general?
Actress, film director and Portuguese singer. He enrolled in philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. He studied dramatic art at the Conservatoire National d'Art in the Gala capital, before throwing himself into the field of professional theatre, where he did merit pending an opportunity on the big screen. Maria de Medeiros started his career as an actress in 1982 with a director as emblematic of his country as Joao Cesar Monteiro in Silvestre (1982).
In 1984, he participated in the collective film Paris vu par... vingt ans aprés, and since then he has comed French and Portuguese cinema with enormous success.
He has participated in more than 100 films, including Henry and June (Philip Kaufman, 1990), in which he played Anaïs Nin, The divine comedy (Manoel de Oliveira, 1991) and in 1994, by Quentin Tarantino Pulp Fiction. Then they followed him. Adam and Eve (Joaquim Leitao, 1995). And in more recent times, The country of the last things (Alexander Hahn, 2007) or Chicken with plums (Marjane Sactri, 2011). Also requested in Spain, we have seen it in productions such as Gold eggs (Bigas Luna, 1993), The Detective and Death (Gonzalo Suárez, 1994) or ♪ (Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1997).
In 2007 he released his first solo album, A Little More Blue, an acclaimed musical baptism. However, cinema remains a priority on its agenda, either behind the cameras as a documentalist, or in front of them with tapes like Viagem to Portugal, Pasolini, 100 meters, Black is Beltza u Onyx, the kings of the grail.
As director, Medeiros already shot some short films in the 1980s and in the year 2000 he got his most successful after the camera April Captains, in which it was told that Clavels Revolution that ended the dictatorship that ruled his country for almost 50 years.
The weight of authoritarianism is very present in its new title as a filmmaker, Our childrenin which he portrays a mother, Vera (Marieta Severo) who paid with prison and torture his opposition to the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. Before this film he directed the documentary, 'Repair bem', commissioned by the Commission of Amnesty and Repair in Brazil, under the mandate of Lula da Silva.
He was born in the Malagasy district of La Paz and graduated in the Sciences of Physical Activity and Sport at the University of Granada. After graduating, he gradually referred to the world of comedy, counting monologues in bars and cafés.
His first big opportunity comes in 2007 when he gets a break in the program New comics Paramount Channel.
In 2013 the film's shooting begins ‘Eight Basque surnames‘, along with Clara Lago, Karra Elejalde and Carmen Machi, being their film debut. In March 2014 the film was released Eight Basque surnames, with Rovira as the protagonist, he got a roundabout xito and became the most tapestry film in the history of Spanish cinema. In 2015 he starred in comedy Now or never with Maria Valverde and November 20, 2015 Eight Catalan surnames, the sequel to his first movie.
He was in charge of present the XXIX edition of the Goya Awards, and in 2016 was the driver of the Goya 2016, although as Dani was counting on his Twitter account, 'I was not worth it'. He won a Goya to the Best Actor Revelation for 'Eight Basque Surnames'.
In 2016 it premiered The future is not what was a leading player, along with Carmen Maura, and On November 4, 2016, the first dramatic film, 100 meters, directed by Marcel Barrena, where he played a man with multiple sclerosis. -
In 2018 he was one of the protagonists of the comedy Thi Mai, heading to Vietnam. That same year, director Emilio Martínez Lázaro again counted on Dani Rovira for his new romantic comedy, My love lost, also that year starred Superfish.
In 2019 he starred in the film Taxi to Gibraltar of Alejo Flah, that same year also starred in the comedy Japan de Alvaro Díaz Lorenzo.
In 2020 the recording of the American film began Jungle Cruise, distributed and produced by Walt Disney Pictures, In October of the same year he starred in the Spanish dramatic film Mediterraneanand in November the Christmas comedy film Watch what you want., directed by Fernando Colomo. 5
In 2017, Rovira founded the Ochotumbao Foundation together with Clara Lago as a way to assist and collaborate in projects aimed at improving the lives of the most disadvantaged, the conservation of the environment and the defence of animals. Among others, in their first year they carry out campaigns to support 'Save the Children', to research on the Rett Syndrome and different animalist associations.
In short, Dani Rovira is a merit actor who has left a brand unbeatable in the world of cinema. Its versatility, commitment and current skills make it a prominent figure in the Spanish film industry
Ana Belén is unquestionably a living legend of music, theatre and cinema who has taken over all the arts. A figure that has become a icon of elegance, work and majesty.
He was born as Maria Pilar Cuesta in 1948, in Madrid. She is the eldest of three brothers, her father was a cook and her mother regained the doorway where she was raised.
Before the age of 10, he studied solpheus with a music teacher and began to attend radio programs dedicated to those who wanted to start in the world of music, in one of which was discovered by a scout, and at the age of 12 he first entered a studio to record his first album with 4 songs.
The career of this singer and actress is as prolific as it is lasting. In her more than 40 years of profession, Ana Belén has participated in almost half a hundred films, twenty plays and has sold millions of copies of her more than 35 albums. His numerous musical shows have been successful in Spain and Latin America.
In the outstanding song with Spain white shirt, The Piano Man, The pigeon was wrong. or I only ask God. Another success has been The door of Alcalá. In 1990 he debuted as director with the film How to be a woman and not die in the attemptbased on the successful book by Carmen Rico Godoy. The beautiful Helena, a piece with text by Vicente Molina Foix on the work of Offenbach, directed by José Carlos Plaza.
Scenario director Miguel Narros opened up new horizons that conceived performance as a path of preparation and effort. William Layton's avenged alumna and a good connoisseur of the Stanislavski method, there is no genre to resist it. He has worked with great directors of theatre, cinema and television, such as José Carlos Plaza, Lluís Pasqual or Mario Camus, participating in projects that make him leave his comfort zone to measure himself and continue learning.
At only 13 years he starred in the child film Me and Zampo, directed by Luis Lucía and, being one of the main figures of contemporary Spanish cinema, has appeared in numerous films as: Storm (Pedro Olea, 1974), The hive (Mario Camus, 1982), Be unfaithful and don't look with whom (Fernando Trueba, 1985), The house of Bernarda Alba (Camus, 1987), Divine words (García Sánchez, 1987), Rose, rosae (Fernando Colomo, 1993), The Turkish Passion (Vicente Aranda, 1994), Libertarian (Aranda, 1995) Honey taste, The love of Captain Brando, Morbo and Storm, Old My Life the television series Fortunata and Jacinta, The house of Bernarda Alba or Divine Words. Among the distinctions he has received as an interpreter and singer are the Corral Comedias Award of the Classic Theatre Festival of Almagro, the Goya de Honor of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts (2017), the gold medal of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences or the Latin Grammy to Musical Excellence (2015).
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Year: 1985
Duration: 96 min.
Country: Spain
Address: José Luis García Sánchez
Script: José Luis García Sánchez, Rafael Azcona
Cast: Ana Belén, Fernando Fernán-Gomez, Antonio Banderas, Josema Yuste, Agustín González,
In the late 1940s there is an unusual fact: an amateur company dares to start a play without the corresponding permits and censorship visas. It's about the musical work. The Court of Pharaoh, prohibited by their political, erotic and religious challenges. During a long night in a police station, the Commissioner has explained the reasons that have led this group to start such a crazy company. During the interrogations the incidences of the work are described, and the actors represent the musical numbers.
Harutiun Jacatrian was born on 9 June 1955 in Ajalkalak, son of the military Ruben Jacatrian and his wife Hayastan Jacatrian, housewife. He entered HovhannesbToumanyan public school in 1961 and graduated in 1971. After graduation from 1971 to 1972, he studied at the Department of Electronic Computer Systems Control at the Professional Technical School N13.
He obtained the title of controller in the field of electronic computer devices and was hired by the Institute "Hayelektronajagits" (Armenian Electronic Project). 1973-1975 were the years of his military service, in which he served as a reserve officer.
In 1977, he entered the faculty of film management of the Pedagogical Institute, named after KK.Abovyan, in Yrevan, where he studied in the class of famous film director Yuri Yerznkyan (People's Artist of the R.A). During his studies, Jacatrian received a Lenin scholarship. He graduated in 1981.
Since 1979, he has worked in the study "ArmenFilm" as a management assistant and a camera assistant; later, as a director.
In 1991, he founded the film festival "Debut." In 1994-1994, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia as Head of the Department of Culture and Science. For his movie The Documentalist received a State award from the Republic of Armenia in 2003. In 2004, he founded the International Film Festival GOLDEN APRICOT in Yerevan.
In 2009, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarded the festival the Golden Globe and in 2010 it received the "FICTS Plate D'Honneur 2010" award from the
International Film, Television and Sport.
In 2006, Harutun Jacatrian was awarded the title "Meritorio Artist of Armenia." Since 2006 he has been a member of the European Film Academy. In 2007, Jacatrian received the Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands and in 2008, the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Ministry of Culture).
and Communications of France). In 2008, the Government of the Republic of Armenia awarded him the Movses Jorenatsi medal. In 2010, he was awarded the Rob Nilson Award from the Independent Filmmakers Alliance, USA, and the prestigious Darko Bratina Award from Italy. For his movie BorderJacatrian received a presidential award from the Republic of Armenia in 2010. He has been awarded at numerous international film festivals.
REGRESS TO THE PROMED LAND
Original title: Veradardz Avetyats Erkir
Year: 1991
Duration: 87 min.
Country: Armenia
Address: Harutun Jacatrian
Script: Harutun Jacatrian, Mikayel Stamboltsian
Cast: Razmik Amatrian, Mariam Bozoyan, Surik Zurnachyan, Raya Zurnachyan
For many ages, the Armenian nation, without having its own state, has concentrated all its values on the family, making it the center of the national spirit. The main protagonists of the film arrived in northern Armenia not from paradise, but as refugees who escaped the violence. They're both young, and the woman is pregnant. Together they create a world around them and thus create themselves.
THE REGRESS OF THE POETH
Original title: Poeti Veradardze
Year: 2006
Duration: 84 min
Country: Armenia
Address: Harutun Jacatrian
Script: Harutun Jacatrian, Mikayel Stamboltsian
Cast: Ashugh Jivani
Harutun Jacatrian He chose the 19th-century Armenian poet Ashugh Jivani as the central spirit of his new film. This is far from accidental, as nothing here is prosaic. This is a dazzling alternative view of an essentially poetic, metaphorical and allusive cinema. The film, which nominally describes the creation of a monumental statue of the poet who ends up traveling in the back of a truck through the Armenian field, conjures a transcendental film experience. It uses a sublime fusion of sound, image and music to evoke the soul of the beloved country of the director and his people.
THREE TUMBAS OF THE ARTISTA
Duration: 120 min.
Country: Armenia
Address: Harutun Jacatrian, Ruben Jacatrian
Script: Harutun Jacatrian, Mikayel Stamboltsian
Cast: Vahan Ananyan
The film narrates the history of adventurous life and the artistic legacy of the talented Armenian painter Vahan Ananyan. Vahan, born and raised in Yerevan, but increasingly disappointed with Armenian reality (the earthquake, the war, the collapse of the Soviet Union), moves to Tallin, then to Kiev and Odessa to work there. After his death, Vahan's remains were buried in Tallinn, Odessa and Yerevan. His artistic legacy continues in distant countries.
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