La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961) (2022)

10/05/2022 (ES) • 1h 34m

Documentary, History

Overview

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.

Top Billed 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

Alfonso Gil

Self - Historian

Vicente Sánchez Biosca

Self - Film Scholar


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Status

Released

Original Language

Spanish

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

cinema on cinema

spanish civil war (1936-39)

franco regime (francoism)

spanish second republic (1931-39)

spanish history

film production

film censorship

spanish cinema

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