Etiqueta: Rural
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El cocinero (The Cook) – An original TV series project
The culinary genius who won your heart through the senses. Young Alvar’s surprising ability to memorize (due to his hypermnesia) contrasts with his naïve perception of life. That innocence with which he faces each day shows reality from a different angle that is new and fresh. The events, filtered by his peculiar point of view,…
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The Traveller’s Inn (La posada del viajero)
The king is in danger, and a humble family is behind it. During the late 19th century, the catastrophe of the Cabo Machichaco in Santander, an explosion with hundreds of victims, changed the Cantabrian region forever. Among the affected, there was Manuel Abascal, a humble innkeeper of the area. From then on, his…
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Winds From the South (Film)
Victoria has just finished a troublesome relationship with a woman and she decides to leave Paris and return to her native Spain. She arrives in Palomares, a small town in Almería, and there she is employed as a substitute teacher. Everyone is very welcoming there and Victoria focuses her attention on Maria, who, shortly…
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The prodigal woman (La pródiga)
Julia, a beautiful widow of libertine life that squanders her fortune, reconsiders and decides to use her time and money in helping others and the needy. That is the reason why she moves to a house in the countryside, where she starts to get known as "the prodigal woman", due to her generosity with people.…
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Our lady (Nuestra señora)
A magnificent comedy that begins after Madam Pura falls asleep in a train and wakes up six stations past her destination generating a chain of entanglements and misunderstandings with the passenger next to her, Casto Verduguillo. THEMES: Travel, Friendship, Misunderstandings, Social Relations, Society, Survival GENRE: Comedy, Adventure RELEVANT FACTS: It has all the…
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School Boys (Los chicos de la escuela)
In a small town, the school teacher confronts the town’s cacique, Juan Antonio. This last one obliges the teacher to leave the location, which causes a series of complex conflicts. THEMES: Education, Inequality, Revenge, Countryside life, Corruption, Frustration, Rivalry, Society GENRE: Dramedy RELEVANT FACTS: The play was made into a movie in Spain in…
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Quirós’ house (La casa de Quirós)
Mr. Gil de Quirós, the main character of the story, lives in a small town. He is a gentleman of old customs and proud of his lineage. He is a man with a complicated personality who behaves like a tyrant to everyone who is around him. The conflict appears in the story when Sol, Quirós’…
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The insignificant one (El hombrecillo)
This is the story of three brothers. While the two older ones are spending the family’s fortune in the city, the younger one, hunched and uncouth, half-brother of the other two, stays in the family house working at countryside labors. One day, one of the older brothers comes back home and notices a young woman…
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Father Cigarette (El padre pitillo)
Don Froilán is a priest in a small village, in which he is known as “Father Cigarette”, as he always has a lit cigarette in his mouth. Given his good-natured disposition, he sees himself one day taking in a deviant girl called Rosita, kicked from her house by his step-father Aniceto after losing her honor…
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The sin of being pretty (El pecado de ser guapa)
Isabel de Reinoso, elegant woman, educated, rich and sensitive, reaches the provincial town of Villaleona, dazzling men and generating envy among women. Because of this, hostility towards her will be increased more and more, capable of causing Isabel finally have to leave the village. THEMES: Beauty, Jealousy, Competition, Frustration, Intolerance, Power Struggle, Hate, Social…
