1961 | Color | 87 min 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. Country: España Direction: García Berlanga; Luis Script: Font; José Luis, Colina; José Luis, Azcona; Rafael, García Berlanga; Luis Production: Matas; Alfredo Photography: Sempere; Francisco Music: Asins Arbó; Miguel Cast:Cassen; Cassen, Luis López Vázquez; José, Caba Alba; Julia, Soler Leal; Amparo, Alexandre; Manuel, Carmen Yepes; Mari, González; Agustín, Ciges; Luis, Ferrandis; Antonio, Quintillá; Elvira, de la Torre; Amelia Participation year at FICM: 2011
1961 | Color | 87 min 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. Country: España Direction: García Berlanga; Luis Script: Font; José Luis, Colina; José Luis, Azcona; Rafael, García Berlanga; Luis Production: Matas; Alfredo Photography: Sempere; Francisco Music: Asins Arbó; Miguel Cast:Cassen; Cassen, Luis López Vázquez; José, Caba Alba; Julia, Soler Leal; Amparo, Alexandre; Manuel, Carmen Yepes; Mari, González; Agustín, Ciges; Luis, Ferrandis; Antonio, Quintillá; Elvira, de la Torre; Amelia Participation year at FICM: 2011
Welcome Mr. Marshall! 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. 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
The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24
Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
