Ricardo de Baños

A pro-Republican drama/propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.It tells the story of Manolo, a young worker who, after the military coup, joins the militias to fight for freedom.

Joselito, hijo de un torero muerto en la plaza, decide seguir los pasos de su padre. Lolita, una muchacha ciega, le da un relicario para que le de suerte.

Joselito, hijo de un torero muerto en la plaza, decide seguir los pasos de su padre. Lolita, una muchacha ciega, le da un relicario para que le de suerte.

Director Ricardo de Banos' second second version of the Don Juan Tenorio saga.

Director Ricardo de Banos' second second version of the Don Juan Tenorio saga.

Based on Meller's first screen appearance, "Los Arlequines de Seda y Oro", where two brothers are separated and reunited as adults, he a famed torero (bullfighter) she a singer raised by gypsies. This is a reduced version centered on her character.

Versión reducida de la película Los arlequines de seda y oro, primera aparición de Raquel Meller en la pantalla. La historia original era el relato romántico y épico de dos hermanos separados desde la infancia y que se encuentran cuando él es un famoso torero y ella una cantante gitana. Debido al éxito internacional de la cantante, se creó esta versión más centrada en su personaje.

Since Juan Gallardo was a child wishes to be a bullfighter and he achieves to be come a recognizable figure. He marries Carmen, his childhood friend, but he fall s in love with the widow of a diplomat, a sophisticated woman of the world with whom he starts a relationship that will end up destroying him. While he is recovering be cause he had been severely gored in his sevillian house, Juan receives a visit f rom his great admirer the bandit “Plumitas” who makes him see the parallelism be tween their life experiences. The visit is interrupted with the Civil Guard lying in wait of the bandit. Juan drifts a long time from failure to failure because he is now a fraid of the bull and he is again humiliated by his beloved Mrs. Sol. Finally he gets a bullfight in Madrid and Carmen, his wife, has a bad omen and comes to the bullring.

Pyrenees mountain range, 17th century. Before dying, Diego de Robles, leader of a ruthless gang of highwaymen, has his daughter Carmen, a beautiful young woman full of courage, recognized as the new leader of the gang. (Partially preserved film: with a running time of approximately twenty-five minutes, about nineteen survive. There are doubts about the true identities of those involved in the production, both technical and artistic crew.)

The bastard brothers Fadrique, Enrique and Tello de Trastámara conspire against King Pedro I, who orders Fadrique to be assassinated and who, in turn, dies at the hands of Enrique in the presence of Bertrán Duglesclín.

The very first Spanish full feature-length film is based on musical composed by Enric Morera on a libretto by Francesc Pujols i Morgades, based on a work by Víctor Balaguer premiered on October 7, 1922 at the Tívoli Theater in Barcelona. The action takes place around the Catalan gang in the seventeenth century; it is a story of impossible love between "nyerros" and "cadells" that culminates with the execution of the titled protagonist.

Very early footage of the streets of Barcelona, filmed from a tram.

Don Juan regresa a su Sevilla natal después de un largo destierro. Cuando llega, ve que su padre ha muerto y que le ha dejado en herencia todos sus pertenencias con la condición de que se case con Doña Inés, la hija de un amigo muy querido. Al principio, Don Juan dice que ya está casado, para liberarse de esa carga, pero finalmente le dominan sus impulsos de conquistador.