Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa

Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa

Nascimento : 1940-01-01, La Felguera, Asturias, Spain

Morte : 2015-09-23

História

Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa Sánchez (born 1940 in La Felguera – 23 September 2015) was a Spanish theatre director, writer, actor and lecturer. He won the 2000 Goya award for Best New Actor for his performance as Vecino.

Perfil

Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa

Filmes

La noche de todos los santos
Abuelo
La novia
Father
Noiva, uma mulher mantém um relacionamento extraconjugal com outro homem, tornando a relação deles em um triângulo amoroso. Os dois amantes carregam sua paixão desafiando todas as regras morais e sociais, inclusive desafiando seus próprios julgamentos. No dia do seu casamento, ela decide fugir com o amante em um cavalo para que possam viver seu amor. Uma decisão que terá consequências devastadoras.
The Nudist
Raúl anciano
Raúl olha absorto para um casal nu na praia. Com apenas dez anos e isento de todo tipo de preconceito, ele entende a simbiose entre o corpo humano e a natureza. O tabu que a nudez representa torna-se um fardo para Raúl, que deve abandonar a visão sórdida que lhe foi incutida para alcançar seu objetivo: ser nudista.
El violín de piedra
Innocent Killers
Garralda's Father
Garralda is a troubled college student who only has to pass one last subject to obtain his academic degree. When his teacher catches him copying on a test, he requires him to perform a very unethical task in exchange for passing and thus achieving his goal.
Cuento de verano
Director of Photography
After four years of living together, Léa dumps Mario. He is going to have to spend the loneliest summer of his life locked up in his Madrid apartment, with multiple broken bones. But this summer promises to be a journey in search of happiness, without leaving the downtown district. This trip will change the life of Mario, Chica, a mysterious young woman who appears on his doorstep, and Olmo the young and sassy neighbor, in love with Mario.
La luz con el tiempo dentro
Juan Ramón Jiménez
The Horsemen of Death
Adolfo
Sometimes it is not easy to know who you are...
Love Is Not What It Used to Be
Albert
To the Other Side
Pivoting around a novelist's fascinating story of a magic mirror--the extra-dimensional gate to a haunting realm--a Literature student locates her house, intent on crossing over. Will he ever find out what lurks hidden on the other side?
Zombi
Flesh Memories
Paco
After a fifteen-year exile, Thomas come back home to bury his father, a Republican fighter thrown in jail by Franco's regime who died without ever regaining his freedom.
Los muertos no se tocan, nene
Don Mariano
Logroño, 1959. The death of a local authority creates a double expectation in his family, the coming of the TV set the deceased bought and the mayor to attend the funeral. His grandson (Airas Brispo) will witness the grotesque situations.
From Your Window to Mine
Uncle Fernando
Três mulheres, três épocas, um destino. Em 1923, Violeta se enamora de um jovem que deseja fugir para a França. Em 1941, Inês vive em um deserto esperando seu amante perdido, Paco. Em 1975, Luísa se dá conta que teve medo de amar durante toda a vida.
In Memoriam
The Waves
Miguel
After the death of his wife, Miguel decides to take a trip, postponed for many years, Argeles-sur-Mer, a small town in southern France, where thousands of refugees are concentrated for some time.
Amarillo Limón
Anciano
In a quiet store the sound of the door announces the arrival of a customer.
70 m2
Julio
Ivan is heading his girlfriend's place decided to propose to her. But in his way, a series of unfortunate coincidences push him into a loop of catastrophic events that never seems to end.
Socarrat
Abuelo
We all have secrets. We all have family. We all search for happiness. What if we share our secrets and search for happiness together?
El vuelo del guirre
Benigno
Elsa & Fred
Juan
When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.
A falta de pan
Afilador
A short by Martín Rosete.
Nudos
Pep Grau
Barcelona, 2002. A coffin is carried to the cemetery of Montjuïc in a chariot drawn by horses. The lifeless is Pep Grau, an old fisherman found drowned and subject to his boat by a complicated knot sailor. The Pep voiceover Grau, portrayed with affection and humor the curious characters he met in life, recounts the difficult moments of his childhood during the Civil War, and finally, we are introduced to Lola, the woman of his life , which has a fish stall in the Boqueria Market beautiful and, after the death of Pep, begins receiving anonymous gifts. Silvia, a teenage ambitious and attractive, is the attorney for the insurance company. Mario, her boss and lover, asked to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding the death of the fisherman. Silvia's inquiries aa allow us to know other characters, like the maverick Dr. Cipriano Mera, Pep old comrade, and his son Gabino Mera.
Una pasión singular
Grandpa Ignacio
Spain, August 1936, the first days of the Spanish Civil War. During the painful pilgrimage of the Andalusian writer Blas Infante (1885-1936) from prison to prison, always on the verge of death, various images cross his mind: people, dreams, remnants of his past.
Lucía, Lucía
Félix
Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the police, gets a ransom note, and makes friends with the old dude downstairs and the young dude upstairs as she tries to find him. Things take a bit of a twist as she realized the kidnapping may not be as simple as it seems on the surface.
La biblia negra
Padre Genaro
After the death of his parents in a car accident, orphan Simon goes to live with relative Maria Bayona in the Spanish countryside. Soon after, Simon begins to suspect that Maria is practicing black magic.
O Filho da Noiva
Paciente
Aos 42 anos Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darín) está em crise, pois assumiu muitas responsabilidades e não tem mais tempo para qualquer tipo de diversão. Boa parte de seu tempo é gasto no gerenciamento do restaurante fundado por seu pai, no qual até tem um relativo sucesso, mas sem nunca conseguir escapar da sombra de seu pai. Rafael raramente visita sua mãe, Norma (Norma Aleandro), que está perdendo a memória, pois ela sempre implica com suas acompanhantes. Sua ex-esposa o acusa de não dar a devida atenção ao filho e ainda há Naty (Natalia Verbeke), atual namorada de Rafael, que sempre lhe exige atenção e comprometimento. Em meio a todas estas responsabilidades Rafael sofre um ataque cardíaco, que faz com que se encontre novamente com Juan Carlos (Eduardo Blanco), um amigo de infância, que o ajuda a reconstruir seu passado e ver o presente com outros olhos.
La vida es sueño
Basilio
A philosophical allegory regarding the human situation and the mystery of life. The story focuses on the fictional Segismundo, Prince of Poland, who has been imprisoned in a tower by his father, King Basilio, following a dire prophecy that the prince would bring disaster to the country and death to the King. Basilio briefly frees Segismundo, but when the prince goes on a rampage, the king imprisons him again, persuading him that it was all a dream.
Alone
Vecino
Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the fact that her boyfriend has abandoned her does not help matters. When her father goes to the hospital for an operation, her mother comes to stay with her. Her neighbor, an old recluse whose only friend is his dog, begins to come out of his shell and these three lost souls try to give each other the strength to start over.
Ojos verdes
Diplomático
The longing and critical review of the copla is lived through the history of the marqués de Almodóvar, a passionate ambassador who organized Franco's folkloric festivals; generous, womanizer, excessive, wasteful, himself the protagonist of his own copla. In love in his youth with a Concha Piquer chorus girl, he dedicated his life to collecting fetishes and memories of all the cante divas with which to organize a sentimental museum in his decaying castle, filling it with showcases where he could store his longings. When he died, destitute, in the pension of his last mistress, also a cupletist, she disputes her legacy with the housekeeper who took care of him and her picturesque collections all her life. family castle. A dear diplomatic friend recalls his fanciful existence emotionally. An aesthetic that is part of the feeling of the Andalusian people. And as a common thread "Ojos Verdes", the most beautiful song of songs of his rich songbook.