Etiqueta: Real facts
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Front Page (Primera página)
The birth of a great period in the most turbulent years of the Spanish 20th century. Front Page are Juan Luis Cebrián’s memoirs, the first managing director and co-founder of El País newspaper. It is also the detailed story of the turbulent and bloody years that took Spain from a dictatorship into democracy. Born in…
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The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba) (Film)
8 years of mourning that explodes with the passion of two lovers. After her second husband’s death, matriarch Bernarda Alba imposes an eight-year rigorous and asphyxiating mourning period on her household and prohibits her five daughters from any form of relationship. When Angustias, the eldest daughter, inherits a large sum of money from her…
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Nobody Told Me (Nadie me contó)
And they lived happily ever after? Nobody Told Me (Nadie me contó) could be have been the story of a fulfilled dream, instead it is the story of a crooked dream. Destiny takes Gaelle to meet the man of her life: intelligent, attractive, charismatic, seductive, powerful and rich. So perfect he does not even seem…
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Ghetto Brother
GANGS OF NEW YORK meets WARRIOR. Ghetto Brother tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded the notorious, multiracial gang, the Ghetto Brothers. From the seemingly bombed-out ravages of his neighborhood, wracked by drugs, poverty, and violence, he led the historic Hoe Avenue Peace Meeting, which brought an end to the violent gang…
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Covert Miami – Original Project (TV Series / Film)
Based on the life of undercover agent Izzy Vega. Covert Miami is based on the life of the successful undercover Cuban-American detective Izzy Vega, and his constant struggle against the Cuban mafia in Miami and New Jersey. In 1969, the Medina family runs away from Cuba and settles in New Jersey. Izzy, from childhood, has…
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Aramburu
The crime that divided a country. The origin of Montoneros 29th May 1970, Buenos Aires, plain daylight. A group of men in their twenties dressed in army uniforms show up at the house of the Argentinian President, Mr. Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. One of them, Fernando Abal Medina, tells the President: “General, you are coming with…
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The Doctor (La doctora)
Together they will fight for their dream. A woman's struggle to practice her profession in the Spain of 1950. In the Spain of the 1950s, a first generation of women began to practice medicine. They were the pioneers in a territory still treasured by men and in which they were intruders. Inspired by the actual…
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Alfonsina and the Road (Alfonsina y la carretera)
The first woman who took part in the Tour of Italy. When they reached the finish line, she had overtaken him by a length of an entire bike. She cut the rope with her hands in the air, laughing and crying, free like she had never been. Organizers, little boys, everyone, jumped back and said…
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Nothing, Nobody (Nada, Nadie)
The voices of the Mexico City Earthquake. After the Mexico City earthquakes of September 19th and 20th, 1985, nothing and nobody would ever be the same again. Panic, desperation, anger, impotence, horror, rescues, solidarity, death, the megalopolis completely destroyed. While a child would get out, unharmed, from under huge debris, somewhere else someone would take…
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Born (Film)
The most expensive ransom in Argentinian history. 14th September 1974. Jorge and Juan Born, heirs and main stockholders of Bunge & Born – the most influential corporation in Argentina during the 20th Century- travel by car when, all of a sudden, a group of Montoneros guerrilla stops the vehicle and kidnaps the brothers. A forced…
