1953 | Color | 95 min In the 1950s a small Spanish village, Villar del Río, awaits the arrival of U.S Marshall Plan Commissioners, who are expected to deliver large sums of aid money. The village sees that it has an opportunity and all social life begins to revolve around the American visitors. Country: España Direction: García Berlanga; Luis Script: García Berlanga; Luis, Bardem; Juan Antonio, Mihura; Miguel Production: Sempere; Vicente Photography: Berenguer; Manuel Sound: Alonso; Antonio Music: Antonio Ochaíta; José, Valerio; Xandro, Solano Pedrero; Juan, García Leoz; Jesús Cast:Isbert; José, Morán; Manolo, Sevilla; Lolita, Romea; Alberto, Quintillá; Elvira, Pérez De León; Luis, Aguirre; Fernando, Roa; Joaquín, D Perchicot; Nicolás, Fernández; Félix, Franco; José Participation year at FICM: 2011
1953 | Color | 95 min In the 1950s a small Spanish village, Villar del Río, awaits the arrival of U.S Marshall Plan Commissioners, who are expected to deliver large sums of aid money. The village sees that it has an opportunity and all social life begins to revolve around the American visitors. Country: España Direction: García Berlanga; Luis Script: García Berlanga; Luis, Bardem; Juan Antonio, Mihura; Miguel Production: Sempere; Vicente Photography: Berenguer; Manuel Sound: Alonso; Antonio Music: Antonio Ochaíta; José, Valerio; Xandro, Solano Pedrero; Juan, García Leoz; Jesús Cast:Isbert; José, Morán; Manolo, Sevilla; Lolita, Romea; Alberto, Quintillá; Elvira, Pérez De León; Luis, Aguirre; Fernando, Roa; Joaquín, D Perchicot; Nicolás, Fernández; Félix, Franco; José Participation year at FICM: 2011
Plácido In a small provincial town, a few women who are actively involved in an ostentatious charity campaign, invent the Christmas slogan: Have a poor person at your table. Plácido, humble family man and truckdriver, is hired to drive his truck in the parade, but there´s a slight problem which prevents him from dedicating himself to the job: that same Christmas day, he misses the monthly payment on his truck and has not yet gathered all the money necessary to pay for it. See More
The Executioner José Luis works at a funeral home and is thinking of immigrating to Germany to become a good mechanic. He is in love with Carmen, daughter of Amadeo, an ?administrator of justice? who seems to have a solution for everything. Amadeo surprises Carmen and José Luis in a compromising situation, and the couple is forced to get married. José Luis faces economic problems and must find an apartment to start a new homelife. Amadeo, on the verge of retiring, convinces José Luis to apply for the executioner post he is about leave, and which comes with the right to a home. See More
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