Ernesto Halffter

Movies

Los gallos de la madrugada
Music
Bewitched Love
Music
This tragic drama is based on the ballet by famed composer Manuel De Falla. A young woman is caught between the violent struggle of two rival suitors who love her passionately. Candelas (La Polaca) is pursued by kind-hearted Antonio (Antonio Gades) and the evil diablo Diego (Rafael Cordova). Lucia (Morucha) is the cryptic gypsy fortune teller, with Fernando Sanchez Polack as Caldelas' beloved father.
También hay cielo sobre el mar
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During the absence of her husband, who is fishing at sea, a woman is persecuted by the owner and unjustly convicted of a crime she has not committed.
Radio Stories
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Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need money, a thief who answers a phone call while robbing and a child who needs to go to Sweden for an operation are the protagonists of these stories around the radio.
La señora de Fátima
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The story of the 1917 miracle of Fatima, in which the Virgin Mary appeared to three children--two girls and one boy..
Don Quixote
Original Music Composer
The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.
Bambú
Original Music Composer
Alejandro is a young composer from Madrid who, overwhelmed by a sentimental and artistic failure, decides to enlist as a volunteer soldier and go to war-torn Cuba, where he befriends Antonio, who becomes his best friend.