Joan Potau

Joan Potau

출생 : 1945-02-03, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

사망 : 2015-02-03

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Joan Potau was born in 1945 in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain) as Joan Potau Martínez. He was a writer and actor, known for El rey pasmado (1991), No respires: El amor está en el aire (1999) and Belle Epoque (1992). He was married to the actress Carme Elias. He died on February 3, 2015 in Barcelona.

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Joan Potau

참여 작품

Haz conmigo lo que quieras
Cura
Do all men want the same thing? Nestor, recently widowed, runs a bakery near Barcelona, has a bank account and a bad heart, and swims in the sea every day. He also has a daughter and a two-timing son-in-law. Nestor's maid asks him to hire her 20-something daughter, Maribel, as a shop assistant.
Manolito Four Eyes: The Mischievous Holidays
Writer
This is a hilarious look at contemporary Madrid from the point of view of ten year old Manolito. Witty, funny and moving, the film has crossed-over from Spain to become a classic family entertainment.On this particular occasion, Manolito is in the middle of Chrismas break and ready to celebrate the holidays with his nutty family: his mother, Cata, his father, Manolo, Grandpa and Imbecile. This year holds a big surprise: Uncle Nico, his mother's brother who lives an works in Oslo as a waiter. Uncle Nico shows up in an unbelieveable motor home to spend Christmas Eve with the family. He is accompanied by his flashy Norwegian fiancée, Trudi Bergenkoklass, who is something like part fairy, part Viking and part Pippi Long Stocking. This lady immediately catches Manolito's eye.
Manolito Four Eyes: The Mischievous Holidays
Director
This is a hilarious look at contemporary Madrid from the point of view of ten year old Manolito. Witty, funny and moving, the film has crossed-over from Spain to become a classic family entertainment.On this particular occasion, Manolito is in the middle of Chrismas break and ready to celebrate the holidays with his nutty family: his mother, Cata, his father, Manolo, Grandpa and Imbecile. This year holds a big surprise: Uncle Nico, his mother's brother who lives an works in Oslo as a waiter. Uncle Nico shows up in an unbelieveable motor home to spend Christmas Eve with the family. He is accompanied by his flashy Norwegian fiancée, Trudi Bergenkoklass, who is something like part fairy, part Viking and part Pippi Long Stocking. This lady immediately catches Manolito's eye.
San Bernardo
Writer
San Bernardo
Director
No respires, el amor está en el aire
Writer
No respires, el amor está en el aire
Director
당신의 다리 사이
Hombre Crock
Miranda, a sex addict, works for a radio station and is married to a cop. She signs up for therapy in order to deal with her sex addiction. Also in the group is Javier, a sex-phone junkie. The two misfits hit it off and a torid affair ensues. But things get a little complicated when Javier finds out that his phone sex trysts have been secretly taped and being distributed all over Madrid and that his ex-wife is living with his business partner. Elsewhere, while investigating a murder case, Felix discovers Miranda's affair with Javier.
Those Who Love
Screenplay
A secret and deep passion marks the life of a young doctor, and threatens the existence of those around him.
Spanish Fly
Interviewee
A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But that's exactly what she does when she heads off to Spain to write about its men and their macho take (as she sees it) on relationships. As she tries to prove her thesis, she soon realizes that she doesn't know as much about the male sex as she thought. She also finds herself involved in relationships with the wrong men.
Soul Ache
César
Aitor is a director making a film about a lonely man looking for love, called “Soul Ache.” While he uses his auditions to meet women, he really longs to cast actress Myriam Mezieres in the film.
Airbag
Dos Barros
Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends femme fatale Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs.
What Makes Women Laugh?
Álvaro
Luci, Graci and Mar­, three sisters that make a comedy trio, go to the wedding of their father with a woman who is 45 years younger than him. During the feast Luci's husband dies in an accident. Despite the tragedy, the trio have to fulfill their commitment acting during August in Benidorm. The widow discovers thanks to a notebook that her husband cheated on her, so she decides to flirt with everyone.
Bwana
Writer
Antonio, a taxi driver, his wife, and two chidren arrive one fine afternoon at a solitary beach, looking for sea-shells. However, they will find more than expected: namely, Ombasi and Yambo, two illegal African immigrants, apparently thrown back to the ocean from where they came, in search of a better life in Spain. The sun sets, and the evening, night and morning which follow see other bizarre characters entering the scene, before the Africans' and the other characters' fates are finally decided.
La mujer gafe
Writer
A woman brings ill luck to the man that loves her.
La mujer duende
Writer
The goblin woman.
All Men Are the Same
Three divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.
Tales of the Stinking Military Service
Writer
¡Semos peligrosos! (Uséase Makinavaja 2)
As soon as he is released from prison, Maki goes to look for his friend Popeye. Together they rescue the grandfather from a dangerous form of "Russian roulette" played in the asylum, and decide to take a vacation at the beach.
아름다운 시절
Paco
스페인의 군주제가 공화제로 바뀌던 1930년대, 반군국주의 반란에 참가했던 젊은이 페르난도(Fernando: 조르지 산즈 분)는 탈영을 하고 어느 마을로 흘러 들어온다. 그는 우연찮게 마놀로 씨(Manolo: 페르난도 페르난 고메즈 분)의 집에서 네 명의 딸들과 함께 지내게 된다. 일년 전에 남편을 잃은 첫째 클라라(Clara: 미리암 미아즈 아로카 분), 남자같은 면이 강한 둘째 비올레타(Violeta: 아리아드나 길 분), 셋째 로시오(Rocio: 마리벨 베르두 분), 막내 루스(Luz: 페네로프 크루즈 분) 등 네 딸과, 요리를 잘하는 페르난도는 화목하고 즐겁게 보낸다. 서로 가까워지게 되면서 페르난도는 세 딸을 차례로 사랑하게 되지만 지나치게 자유로운 여자들에게 회의를 느끼게 되고 결국 막내딸 루스와 사랑을 이뤄 결혼하고 새로운 삶을 찾아 기회의 땅 미국으로 떠난다.
Makinavaja, el último choriso
A movie based on the Spanish comic strip of the same name.
The Dumbfounded King
Secundino Mirambel
Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.
Don Juan in Hell
Fraile
While the last remnants of the Empire are extinguishing and King Philip II (1559-1598) is dying in the shadow of lost splendor, a man, defying the divine and human justice, turns his passions into fate and his will into law. His fame is as great as his pride. His conviction, eternal. His name, a legend: Don Juan. Free adaptation of "Don Juan" by Moliere.
Too Old to Die Young
Two friends just find any temporary jobs to get by. One of them quits his job as a waiter to move to work as a messenger; the other is working as a taxi driver. The messenger, in his comings and goings at night, go through many offices, private homes and bars and will be in the most varied situations: some of them dark, sometimes sinister and pathetic and some even pleasant.
Barrios altos
Story
Veronica, divorced with a son, begins to organize her life and adapt to the new situation. Her problems are relegated to a second term when Carlos, her masseur, is murdered. Knowing himself in danger, Carlos left a message on Veronica's answering machine: she had to pick up a package hidden in the toilets of a railway station. From that moment, Veronica will not know the calm.
Stico
Jaume Velat (uncredited)
Leopoldo Contreras, a professor emeritus of Roman law has serious economic problems. His translations of classical authors do not give enough money to live and had to sell even their floor. To remedy the situation is offered as a slave to a former student in exchange for room and board.
Epilogue
Screenplay
The film tells the story of two writers in love with the same woman. For years, they have worked together. One day they separate. Ten years later and Ditirambo meets up with Rocabruno, at the very least to tell him his latest story. An epilogue that closes what they together have opened.
Barcelona sur
Traficante de armas
Obsessed with finding her old boyfriend, Gumer, a 25-year-old girl, is released from jail in Barcelona, one of Europe's most sought-after port cities for drug trafficking and prostitution. Charo, her best friend, tries to help her, although she is not free, since depends on her pimp "Toni". But Gumer will persuade Charo to abandon Toni and form, along with other friends, a band to start businesses on their own.