La vida perra (2019)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 0M
Director : Pablo Macías
Synopsis
An insight look into the curious life of the spanish novelist Ángel Vázquez with the city of Tangier in the background, as a second character portrayed.
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Christine Jorgensen goes to 1950s Denmark and makes headlines for having the first sex-change operation.
Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.
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The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
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A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
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A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.
The story of the 10-year rocky relationship between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.
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