La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)

  • Documentary
  • History
10/5/2022
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Storyline

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.

Director:
Francisco Rodríguez Fernández
Writers:
Francisco Rodríguez Fernández
Manuel Espín
    • cinema on cinema
    • spanish civil war (1936-39)
    • franco regime (francoism)
    • spanish second republic (1931-39)
    • spanish history
    • film production
    • film censorship
    • spanish cinema

    Cast

    • Antonio Esquivias
      Self - Narrator (voice)
    • Emeterio Díez Puertas
      Self - Film Historian
    • Luis Casanova Iranzo
      Self - V. Casanova's Nephew
    • José Luis Castro de Paz
      Self - Film Scholar
    • Virginia Guarinos
      Self - Film Scholar
    • Jaime Hernández de la Torre
      Self - Painter
    • Alfonso Gil
      Self - Historian
    • Luis Fernández Gimeno
      Self - Fallero
    • Vicente Sánchez Biosca
      Self - Film Scholar
    • Fátima Gil Gascón
      Self - Scholar
    • Pablo León Aguinaga
      Self - Historian
    • Fernando Fernández de Córdoba
      Self - Actor (voice) (archive footage)
    • Gonzalo Queipo de Llano
      Self - Spanish Military (archive footage)
    • Francisco Franco
      Self - Politician (archive footage)
    • Rafael Gil
      Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
    • Carmen Polo
      Self - Franco's Wife (archive footage)

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