Joan Dalmau

Joan Dalmau

Born: February 19, 1927
Died: February 5, 2013
in Montcada i Reixac, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Movies for Joan Dalmau...

Julia's Eyes
Title: Julia's Eyes
Character: Créspulo
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.
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Moon in a Bottle
Title: Moon in a Bottle
Character: Professor Kalina
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
Zeta has a month to hand in a novel she has been commissioned to write and every day she searches for inspiration among the strange customers who are regulars at the Café Rossignol. There she becomes close to Alicia, a pretty waitress who doesn't want to fall in love; she gets to know Pascal, the owner of the bar and a cabaret artist who is nervously waiting for the arrival of his old friends and lovers Irene and Kurt. Or she leaves with Don José another regular who is tormented by a letter he doesn't dare to open. They all want to change their lives. The moment has come to be brave and try to do the impossible. Can they put the moon in a bottle..?
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The Suicide Club
Title: The Suicide Club
Character: Pedro
Released: August 24, 2007
Type: Movie
What should you do if you are young, handsome but your life is terribly boring? Of course to die! Who can help you? Of course, two your best friends. But what if assisted suicide becomes an original way to earn? When a business plan comes to mind to the three adventurers they are no longer up to the death!
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The Wooden Box
Title: The Wooden Box
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
After the death of don Lucio, his widow Eloísa asks one of her neighbours to use the latter's house in order to hold the dead man's wake, since Eloísa's own house is too small for that. From then on, a series of strange happenings take place during a single day.
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Vida y color
Title: Vida y color
Character: Abuelo
Released: December 30, 2005
Type: Movie
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The Night of the Brother
Title: The Night of the Brother
Character: Abuelo
Released: August 26, 2005
Type: Movie
The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from darkness to light through the thin line between love and fear. Because the events of life are often less astonishing than the way they are shown to us.
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15 días contigo
Title: 15 días contigo
Released: April 22, 2005
Type: Movie
The star-crossed romance between an ex-jailbird and a junkie.
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The Sea Inside
Title: The Sea Inside
Character: Joaquín
Released: September 3, 2004
Type: Movie
The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. It is the story of Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living.
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Soldiers of Salamina
Title: Soldiers of Salamina
Character: Miralles
Released: March 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Professor Lola Sánchez investigates the truth behind the events experienced by Rafael Sánchez Mazas, one of the founders of the Falange Española party, during the Spanish Civil War.
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En camas separadas
Title: En camas separadas
Character: Hombre viejo
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
People taking the last subways in working days always wear crumpled clothes. Sitting in a nearly empty car, they look at each other, they get a glimpse of each other. After another day with lost chances, they only expect to arrive home. Tomorrow will be another day.
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Wiped-Out Footprints
Title: Wiped-Out Footprints
Character: Don Paulino
Released: November 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Manuel is a Spanish writer who has emigrated to Argentina. He hears that his childhood village in Spain is to be turned into a reservoir, and returns for one last trip. There he meets widow Virginia, an old love, and begins to hope that he might reignite the flame between them. As old secrets are revealed, the villagers must come to terms with their imminent loss and the drowning of their home.
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The Pianist
Title: The Pianist
Character: Oviedo
Released: September 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.
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El crimen del cine Oriente
Title: El crimen del cine Oriente
Character: Asensi
Released: May 15, 1997
Type: Movie
Valencia, Spain, in the early 1950s. Salvador and María, two unfortunate people, meet by chance when she takes shelter from the rain at the Oriente Cinema, where he works as a manager.
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Secrets of the Heart
Title: Secrets of the Heart
Character: Benito
Released: March 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the room where his father was found dead). He is so interested in these mysteries that he starts to investigate all the secrets of these dead people and their stories.
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Susanna
Title: Susanna
Character: Fouces
Released: September 20, 1996
Type: Movie
An irresponsible young Spaniard having spent 6 months in jail for embezzlement gets a job as a waiter in a bar restaurant and becomes involved in a stolen goods racket.
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Havanera 1820
Title: Havanera 1820
Character: Pol
Released: May 21, 1993
Type: Movie
The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that were shipped, in some cases, they simply arrive "lumps" or "coal". As it appears in the logbooks of the ships. 'Havanera 1820' is a film that tells stories of love and adventure in a time when Cuba confronts the Spanish colonizers.
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Maldita suerte
Title: Maldita suerte
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
In an isolated mountain gas station bar, an old customer loses a lottery ticket. The action has a fatal outcome.
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Angels
Title: Angels
Character: Enrico
Released: February 7, 1990
Type: Movie
The American musician Rickie falls in love with the prostitute Sara, who pretends to be a princess. As they escape together, Rickie gets into a dangerous adventure.
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If They Tell You I Fell
Title: If They Tell You I Fell
Released: September 19, 1989
Type: Movie
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
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El complot dels anells
Title: El complot dels anells
Released: April 22, 1988
Type: Movie
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Mi general
Title: Mi general
Character: Vicealmirante Céspedes
Released: May 7, 1987
Type: Movie
A group of generals of the army meet for a course about NATO and new weapons. In the beginning everything is normal but as the time passes they behave more and more like school children.
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Últimas tardes con Teresa
Title: Últimas tardes con Teresa
Character: Jardinero
Released: April 2, 1984
Type: Movie
Adapted from the novel by Juan Marse, the film shows two distant worlds in the Spain of the 50's, the suburban and the bourgeois, which are related through two characters, Manolo Reyes, vulgar motorcycle thief who aspires to escape poverty and Teresa Serrat, university student of bourgeois extraction seduced by the revolutionary cause.
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Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
Title: Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
Released: February 3, 1984
Type: Movie
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Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
Title: Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
Released: December 6, 1983
Type: Movie
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Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
Title: Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
Released: September 9, 1983
Type: Movie
In the middle of the first world war, Barcelona is the center of multiple operations related to war, although Spain is a neutral country.