Manuel Fraga

The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova family that managed to dominate the box office during the turbulent times of the Second Spanish Republic, the carnage of the Civil War and the hardships of the long post-war period and Franco's dictatorship — and survive until the sixties, when Spain was timidly beginning to change.

An account of the childhood and youth of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, and how the hard experiences he lived during these formative years led him to write and publish his first major work when he was only 26 years old.

A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it possible to recreate in Spain, mainly in the desert of Almería, hundreds of adventures set in the remote American Far West.

Finally, 33 years later, the whole truth behind the attempted coup d'état that shook Spain on the afternoon of February 23, 1981, is revealed by those who lived through those dreadful hours; a deep look behind the heavy curtain which hides the real mastermind, waiting to be unmasked.

Цирковые обезьяны истошно вопят в своих клетках, а снаружи люди умирают и убивают друг друга. Это еще один цирк — Испанская гражданская война. Против своей воли Рыжий клоун призывается в ряды народного ополчения и принимает участие в кровавой бойне. В бой против солдат Национальной гвардии он идет, вооруженный мачете и одетый в шутовской наряд.Много лет спустя, во времена диктатора Франко, Хавьер, сын того рыжего клоуна, находит работу Белого (печального) клоуна в цирке, населенном удивительными персонажами. Теперь он дружит с человеком-пушечное ядро и сварливой семейной парой дрессировщиков собак, а на арене становится партнером Рыжего клоуна Серхио.

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those who sympathized with its cause. The eventful life of screenwriter Alvah Bessie (1904-1985), one of the Hollywood Ten, serves to analyze this sadness, the tragedy of Spain and its consequences.

A film work made up of two different documentaries based on the same concept, made about and with the participation of Manuel Fraga and Santiago Carrillo.

The films are a critical view of the social, economic, political, cultural and employment situation in Galicia. They have been made through the voluntary work of all the participants, including actors and actresses such as Luis Tosar and Mabel Ribera. People who have something to tell, and have chosen the screen as their medium.

On June 14, 1977, the eve of the first democratic elections after Franco's regime, Llorenç Soler and his crew go out into the street and ask passers-by which party they are going to vote for.