Etiqueta: Secrets
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Secret dialogue (Diálogo secreto)
This story is about the drama of an art critic, who is constantly trying to hide a secret: he is colour-blind. If this secret is revealed, his brilliant career will come to an end. Things get more complicated when his daughter discovers the truth, after a friend of hers committed suicide: he was a painter…
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Judges in the night (Jueces en la noche)
Juan Luis Palacios was a minister during the Franco Regime but has known how to adapt in the democratic era, turning into a respectable member of the Parliament, married to Julia. However, the phantom of the past atrocities is always around and his marriage is in crisis. In this context, Juan Luis discovers that Ginés Pardo,…
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The double story of Doctor Valmy (La doble historia del doctor Valmy)
The double story of Doctor Valmy exposes the case of Daniel Barnes, a torturer who, by castrating a detainee, self-punishes, despite himself, falling into sexual impotence. In this state, he comes to the consultation of Doctor Valmy, a psychologist. For her part, Daniel's wife, Mary, who until now lived in ignorance of her husband's activities and…
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The face-down cards (Las cartas boca abajo)
The work reflects the relationships and tensions that are lived in the bosom of a family formed by the brothers Mauro, Anita and Adela, the husband of the last one, Juan and their son, Juanito. The behavior of Adela before life and with those who surround her causes the unhappiness of the whole family. To…
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Maror: the rules of gender (Maror: las reglas del género)
The romantic novel becomes a crime novel It's winter and in an isolated summer sea house some family members get together to spend a few days: Isabel, famous best-selling fiction author, her husband, Pablo; their daughter, Esperanza, and Pilar, Isabel’s sister. The breaking news is that the protagonist wants to abandon her career as a…
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Doctor Moraleda’s Murder (El asesinato del doctor Moraleda)
This play is set in the colonial era. In 1890, the Portuguese militarily advance on Angola and Mozambique with the excuse of the death of Dr. Moraleda, a scientist who was studying aboriginal people in the area. The Portuguese State officially appoints a fact-finding commission, although, at the same time, puts in charge Colonel da…
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The key in the attic (La llave en el desván)
A Premonitory Nightmare Mario is a scientist who is absolutely ruined because they have stolen the formula of his big discovery. Besides, he has not overcome the death of his parents, even when he was a child when it happened. To make matters worse, his wife has left with her lover, Alfredo, the same person…
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Trees Die Standing Tall (Los árboles mueren de pie)
"Do not see me fall. Dead inside, but standing tall. Like a tree." A married old couple spends their days regretting that their beloved grandson left. Mr. Balboa, in order to help with his wife’s sadness, fakes letters and pretends they are written by their grandson. One day, a real letter saying he is coming…
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Our Natacha (Nuestra Natacha)
Amongst a series of students, most of them serious, hardworking and committed (except Lalo, whose only ambition is to never pass exams and enjoy university life), Natalia Valdés, Natacha, the first woman to become a Doctor in Pedagogy in Spain. She hides her story to her companions, for she is an orphan and abandoned, and…
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The House with Seven Balconies (La casa de los siete balcones)
An ode to hope, love, innocence and illusion. The house with seven balconies is a mansion in a small countryside town where the inhabitants go to mass every Sunday. Ramón lives in it. He is a widower, a gambler and a womanizer who spent away the fortune his wife left him. He lives with Genoveva (his…
