Fernando Méndez-Leite

Fernando Méndez-Leite

Born: May 6, 1944
in Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Movies for Fernando Méndez-Leite...

Marisol, llámame Pepa
Title: Marisol, llámame Pepa
Character: Self
Released: May 10, 2024
Type: Movie
The child prodigy Marisol was immortalized almost daily, in an overexposure that ended up erasing the limits between the character and her own life. This is the first rigorous approach to the figure and myth of Marisol that includes her international successes with unpublished images from her tours in Japan, Angola, the USA, Argentina and Peru.
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The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
Title: The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
Character: Self - Filmmaker
Released: November 10, 2023
Type: Movie
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances.
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Icónica Chamorro
Title: Icónica Chamorro
Released: February 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Journalist Paloma Chamorro symbolized openness and modernity in Spain in the early 1980s. Her personality and her shows on TVE (then the only TV channel in the country) made her an influential transgressive icon.
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Stories of Our Cinema
Title: Stories of Our Cinema
Character: Himself - Filmmaker
Released: November 22, 2019
Type: Movie
In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor Antonio Resines intends to compile a series of anecdotes to shape the amazing history of Spanish cinema, holding several conversations with prominent figures of the Spanish film industry.
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El Quijote desde la platea
Title: El Quijote desde la platea
Character: Self - Filmmaker
Released: April 22, 2019
Type: Movie
How Don Quixote de la Mancha, the immortal character created by Miguel de Cervantes in 1605, has been depicted in cinema, television, cartoons, theater, opera, ballet and other artistic disciplines. An adventure that began more than four hundred years ago in the pages of a book and is far from coming to an end.
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Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
Title: Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
Character: Self
Released: May 15, 2015
Type: Movie
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Por la gracia de Luis
Title: Por la gracia de Luis
Character: Himself
Released: October 17, 2009
Type: Movie
A walk through the work of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) that is neither a documentary nor a narrative movie, but a tribute to one of the greatest directors of Spanish cinema. Anything can happen: the performers are not themselves, but their characters; there are no interviews, but greetings; a series of entrances and exits. A joyful reunion, a celebration of life.
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La extraña pareja: Pajares y Esteso
Title: La extraña pareja: Pajares y Esteso
Character: Self
Released: September 17, 2008
Type: Movie