Long Vacations of 36 (Spanish: Las largas vacaciones del 36) is a 1976 Spanish drama film directed by Jaime Camino dealing with the effects of Spanish Civil War on a bourgeois family trapped by the conflict in a tourist village near Barcelona.
| Long Vacations of 36 | |
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 Spanish film poster | |
| Directed by | Jaime Camino |
| Written by | Jaime Camino Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón |
| Produced by | José Frade |
| Starring | Concha Velasco José Sacristán Francisco Rabal Ángela Molina |
| Cinematography | Fernando Arribas |
| Edited by | Teresa Alcocer |
| Music by | Xavier Montsalvatge |
Release date |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
The film won three awards at the 26th Berlin International Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize, Interfilm Award - Recommendation, and UNICRIT Award - Honorable Mention.[1]
The original ending (Franco's cavalry entry in the village, intentionally showed as a blurred image) was cut by Spanish censorship of that time. The film ends with all the Republicans marching to exile, and the fascist couple waiting at home.
Plot
editIn the summer of 1936, the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, a bourgeois family with many children, spending their holiday near Barcelona, tries to remain neutral between the Republicans and the supporters of General Francisco Franco. But the war change the lives of all.
Cast
edit- Analía Gadé as Virginia
- Ismael Merlo as El Abuelo
- Ángela Molina as Encarna
- Vicente Parra as Paco
- Francisco Rabal as El Maestro
- José Sacristán as Jorge
- Charo Soriano as Rosita
- Concha Velasco as Mercedes
- José Vivó as Alberto
References
edit- ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for Long Vacations of 36". imdb.com. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
External links
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