Pere Portabella

Pere Portabella

Born: January 1, 1927
in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
Pere Portabella (born in 1927) is a Catalan director, producer, and politician. In 1977, he was elected Senator in Spain's first democratic elections and participated in the writing of the Spanish Constitution. As a filmmaker, his style is experimental, reaching new aspects of film language, often with a poetic tone and social content. Portabella is hailed as an essential figure in the political and cultural history of Spain.

Movies for Pere Portabella...

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni: filmbiografía de Antonio Maenza
Title: In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni: filmbiografía de Antonio Maenza
Character: Himself
Released: June 19, 2012
Type: Movie
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Materialista, idealista, cinematógrafo, magnetófono, buen chico y sádico
Title: Materialista, idealista, cinematógrafo, magnetófono, buen chico y sádico
Released: June 13, 2012
Type: Movie
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Filmmakers in Action
Title: Filmmakers in Action
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2006
Type: Movie
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)
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Olímpicament mort
Title: Olímpicament mort
Released: October 15, 1986
Type: Movie
A Pepe Carvalho adventure.
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General Report
Title: General Report
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 1977
Type: Movie
How does a country go from a dictatorship to a democracy? A detailed report on the political representation in the heart of the Spanish Transition, only a few months after General Franco’s death, when the sincere democratic vocation of Spanish people must effort to destroy, one heavy brick after another, the wall that those who supported the dictatorship and those who fought it from the exile built with resentment, hatred and prejudices.
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Spain Again
Title: Spain Again
Character: Dr. Sanpona
Released: June 7, 1969
Type: Movie
David (Mark Stevens) is a physician who returns to Spain 30 years after his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Now a member of a medical convention, he looks up old friends and finds his former lover, now a married woman with a flamenco-dancing daughter. He and the daughter (Manuela Vargas) have an immediate and mutual attraction to each other. He considers running away with the exotic beauty before asking his wife to join him for an extended vacation after the convention .
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Marquis de Sade: Justine
Title: Marquis de Sade: Justine
Released: April 3, 1969
Type: Movie
Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who will claim not only her treasured virtue but also her life.
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BiBici Story
Title: BiBici Story
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
While waiting to get started on the production of his feature Liberxina 90 (1970), Carlos Duran shot this short (with very expressive support by several Escuela de Barcelona professors): a grimly colourful satire on modern society as such, and on its fascist Spanish variety in particular. "The intrusion into the private life of a human being, of the distinct tendencies that exist in the society we live in, until they fall into chaos." Carlos Durán
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PRELUDI DE CHOPIN, OPUS 28, NÚM. 7
Title: PRELUDI DE CHOPIN, OPUS 28, NÚM. 7
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie