Emma Cohen

Emma Cohen

Born: November 20, 1946
Died: July 10, 2016
in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Emmanuela Beltrán Rahola (21 November 1946 – 11 July 2016) better known as Emma Cohen was a Spanish actress, director, producer, and writer. She appeared in many Spanish language films. She portrayed Gallina Caponata in Barrio Sésamo, a counterpart to Big Bird in the Spanish version of Sesame Street.

Emma Cohen was married to actor Fernando Fernán Gómez until his death in 2007. She died on 11 July 2016, aged 69, after a battle against cancer.

Trained in theater, her first contact with acting took place at the Teatro Español Universitario while she was studying law, which she abandoned before finishing.

From that moment on, she began to carve out a career as an actress, which led her to perform both on stage (Marat-Sade, with Adolfo Marsillach, Un enemigo del pueblo, 1972, with Fernán Gómez...) and in front of the camera.

She has also dedicated herself to literature, and in addition to writing screenplays, she has published several books.

Movies for Emma Cohen...

Journey to Somewhere
Title: Journey to Somewhere
Character: Various Roles (archive footage)
Released: November 23, 2021
Type: Movie
A young woman, who has inherited her grandparents' huge house, a fascinating place full of amazing objects, feels overwhelmed by the weight of memories and her new responsibilities. Fortunately, the former inhabitants of the house soon come to her aid. (An account of the life and work of Fernando Fernán Gómez [1921-2007] and his wife Emma Cohen [1946-2016], two singular artists and fundamental figures of contemporary Spanish culture.)
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FFG, el último gran conversador
Title: FFG, el último gran conversador
Character: Self - Actress / Various Roles (archive footage)
Released: August 27, 2021
Type: Movie
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an excellent conversationalist, capable of hypnotizing and seducing those who listened to him.
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Do the Dead Speak to Us?
Title: Do the Dead Speak to Us?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 3, 2019
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Helena de Llanos, who lives in the chaotic house, full of memories and treasures, where her grandfather, Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), legendary writer, actor and director; and his wife, the actress and writer Emma Cohen (1946-2016), shared their lives, analyzes the relationship that the living have with the dead through the places and objects they have left behind.
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Bombay Goa Express
Title: Bombay Goa Express
Released: May 13, 2016
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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Zero/infinito
Title: Zero/infinito
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: No sé bailar
Character: Escarlata
Released: July 3, 1999
Type: TV
It is a surrealist comedy where reality and fantasy are mixed, it tells in a humorous tone the daily life and dreams of a 40-year-old film buff, played by Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.
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The Grandfather
Title: The Grandfather
Character: Vicenta, la alcaldesa
Released: October 16, 1998
Type: Movie
After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.
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Our Animal Neighbors!
Title: Our Animal Neighbors!
Character: Mamá Ratón
Released: September 4, 1998
Type: Movie
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Cartas desde Huesca
Title: Cartas desde Huesca
Character: Progreso
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Angy, British publisher specialized in Spanish subjects, and her husband, come to Madrid in search of some manuscripts of the English poet Benton, who died in Huesca during the Civil War. The documents are supposed to be held by Mainar, old anarchist combatant. Contact and subsequent relationship with him, will cause the crisis of the marriage and eventually will trigger a personal drama in Mainar
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The Dumbfounded King
Title: The Dumbfounded King
Character: Duquesa Vda. del Maestrazgo
Released: November 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.
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The Sea and the Weather
Title: The Sea and the Weather
Released: June 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of being the losers of the war, Marcela, before a beautiful young woman, is now an alcoholic, and the youngest can not even understand them. Jesus wants to start a new life in Spain but he feels out of place; Time has turned him into an inhabitant of the other side of the 'puddle'.
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Title: Gatos en el Tejado
Character: Sole
Released: October 7, 1988
Type: TV
This is the story of Manolo Beltra, a mid-aged, unbelieving foul-mouthed but cherished. He is a TV presenter, famous for his participation in a program called "El humor es algo maravilloso". With life more or less settled, a series of events will break this situation and he will have to rethink his way of thinking and deal with his existence.
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El extranger-oh! de la calle Cruz del Sur
Title: El extranger-oh! de la calle Cruz del Sur
Released: August 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Daniel is a man who wants to escape from a reality that overwhelms him. That is why he imagines, invents and lies for pleasure. Such invention will lead him to live strange and unusual adventures, giving rise to a magical comedy about everyday life seen through his eyes.
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Voyage to Nowhere
Title: Voyage to Nowhere
Character: Sor Martirio
Released: October 15, 1986
Type: Movie
The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to adapt to changes and make decisions, like that of whether or not to continue performing. One day, unexpectedly, a son that he has fathered on his travels presents himself to Carlos Galván.
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Mambru Went to War
Title: Mambru Went to War
Character: Encarna
Released: May 16, 1986
Type: Movie
The news of the death of Franco has a special resonance in the family of Florentina. Fiorentina communicates to the rest of the family a story far more important than the general's death: her husband Emiliano (Fernando Fernan-Gomez), who had been left for dead in the civil war, is alive. During the Franco dictatorship has remained hidden beneath the pylon is in the courtyard of the house.
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Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado
Title: Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado
Character: Self
Released: November 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunistic, who brought it to a successful conclusion in the tribunes and offices; on the other hand, the citizens who, in the streets, supported it sincerely or fought it with ferocity.
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Femenino singular
Title: Femenino singular
Character: Susi
Released: October 25, 1982
Type: Movie
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Erotic Stories
Title: Erotic Stories
Character: Mujer que pierde el metro / Mujer de Juan (segment "Hierbabuena")
Released: March 13, 1980
Type: Movie
A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.
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Alone in the Dark
Title: Alone in the Dark
Character: Mayte Villalba
Released: April 3, 1978
Type: Movie
Jose, a journalist and radio broadcaster, runs a daily program under the title 'Alone in the wee hours' ('Solos en la madrugada'), which has garnered a huge national audience as a satirical chronicle of Spanish society in the democratic transition of the late 1970s. Married and separated from Elena, Jose has two children, whom he only sees from time to time. Then he meets Maite, younger than him, outgoing and more open-minded than he wants. The emotional shock caused by his relationship with these two women will change his pessimistic view of life.
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Jill
Title: Jill
Character: Julia Olmos
Released: March 5, 1978
Type: Movie
Jill is a young actress in decline who does not do things very well, neither professionally nor personally. Used by all those around her, everything will change for her the moment she meets Luis, a waiter. Now she has something that makes her happy and for which she has a reason to live.
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Celedonio y yo somos así
Title: Celedonio y yo somos así
Character: Araceli Palomeque
Released: July 13, 1977
Type: Movie
Daniel has as the only fortune a stud bull named Celedonio, which he rents for living.
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The Apolitical Man
Title: The Apolitical Man
Character: Alicia
Released: May 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Enrique Tolosa is a boss administrator of a small company which employs 50 workers. There never has gotten into politics, has made ​​himself stood professionally and created a family and no one has asked opinion on how would be the destiny of their country. The story begins whenheI first asked to give their vote at the polls for the election of political parties. With the decision to vote is faced with doubt and decides to investigate on their own to know which political trends that are managed as possible, is the one he goes to his temperament.
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¡Bruja, más que bruja!
Title: ¡Bruja, más que bruja!
Character: Mariana
Released: March 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A small provincial town lives under the caprices of Don Justin, the local cacique. This forces the young Mariana to marry him, taking advantage of the fact that her nephew Juan, the boyfriend of the girl, is far away from military service. Upon his return, Juan is mocked and goes to a witch to assist him in his revenge.
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Title: Curro Jiménez
Character: Concha
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: TV
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
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Nosotros que fuimos tan felices
Title: Nosotros que fuimos tan felices
Released: December 17, 1976
Type: Movie
After a long absence, Ulises, a theatrical author, returns to his home to be with his wife, Carlota, and their son. However, upon arriving in Madrid he discovers that Carlota has become a great theater actress and that she is sentimentally united to Miguel, a renowned playwright who copies the comedies that Ulysses himself had written.
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Mayordomo para todo
Title: Mayordomo para todo
Character: Alicia
Released: March 15, 1976
Type: Movie
Carlos, a young "playboy" who lives on the Costa del Sol, has a servant named German who has made him believe he has a degenerative disease by maintaining many sexual relationships, and that he will die if he continues doing so. But Carlos does not want to lose his playboy reputation, so German, his "faithful" butler, substitutes him in bed while Carlos convinces all his conquests that he prefers to make love with the lights off. But the plan is endangered when Carlos meets a girl and wants to marry her.
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Deseo
Title: Deseo
Character: Marta
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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Vuelve, querida Nati
Title: Vuelve, querida Nati
Character: Mercedes
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Doña Nati, the owner of a house of prostitutes, takes a little vacation to attend his niece's first communion in the village. She is accompanied on the trip by three of his pupils: Barbara, Mercedes and Eva who pretend to be her friends. But soon, men realize what they are and begin to try to flirt with them. Doña Nati makes a splendid gift to the people and thus wins the favor of its inhabitants.
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Robin Hood nunca muere
Title: Robin Hood nunca muere
Character: Melina
Released: October 5, 1975
Type: Movie
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Strange Love of the Vampires
Title: Strange Love of the Vampires
Character: Catherine
Released: September 30, 1975
Type: Movie
In a 19th century village, a young aristocrat suffering from a terminal disease finds herself being drawn to the underground world of vampires and their strange rituals.
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Cry, Onion!
Title: Cry, Onion!
Character: Mary Ann
Released: August 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
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Cross of the Devil
Title: Cross of the Devil
Character: Beatriz
Released: March 29, 1975
Type: Movie
A British novelist travels to Spain to visit his sister. However, when he arrives he discovers that she has been murdered by a gang of devil-worshiping bandits called the Devil's Cross.
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The Woman with Red Boots
Title: The Woman with Red Boots
Character: Sophie, la femme de Marc
Released: December 11, 1974
Type: Movie
An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.
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Las obsesiones de Armando
Title: Las obsesiones de Armando
Character: Lola / Silvia
Released: November 25, 1974
Type: Movie
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El reprimido
Title: El reprimido
Character: Brigitte
Released: October 28, 1974
Type: Movie
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Title: El pícaro
Character: Manuela
Released: October 16, 1974
Type: TV
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Criminal Abortion
Title: Criminal Abortion
Character: Ana
Released: December 3, 1973
Type: Movie
Barcelona police is following the actions of a pimp. A web of forced illegal abortions on prostitutes is discovered.
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The Obscene Mirror
Title: The Obscene Mirror
Character: Ana Olivera / Annette Whitman
Released: September 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mirror, forcing her to commit a series of violent crimes.
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Horror Rises from the Tomb
Title: Horror Rises from the Tomb
Character: Elvira
Released: April 27, 1973
Type: Movie
In Medieval France a warlock is beheaded and his wife is tortured and executed. Hundreds of years later, an isolated group of people discover his head buried on their property. Soon it comes back to life, possessing people and using them to commit sacrifices and to search for the rest of his body.
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Juan Soldado
Title: Juan Soldado
Released: March 26, 1973
Type: Movie
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Seduction Squad
Title: Seduction Squad
Character: Martine
Released: November 29, 1972
Type: Movie
After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women rooming together notice through their telescope that the stolen loot is in the apartment right across the street. They plan their own burglary of the already stolen loot.
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Cut-Throats Nine
Title: Cut-Throats Nine
Character: Cathy Brown
Released: July 10, 1972
Type: Movie
A wagon load of convicts on their way to prison is being escorted through the mountains by a cavalry troop. They are attacked by a bandit gang, and only a sergeant, his beautiful young daughter and an assortment of seven sadistic, murderous prisoners survive, and they are left without horses or a wagon. The sergeant must find a way to get his prisoners to their destination while protecting his daughter, watching out for the still pursuing bandits and trying to determine which one of the prisoners was the man who raped and murdered his wife.
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Vampir Cuadecuc
Title: Vampir Cuadecuc
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 1972
Type: Movie
An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction and reality.
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The Week of the Killer
Title: The Week of the Killer
Character: Paula
Released: April 13, 1972
Type: Movie
A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house.
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The Legend of Frenchie King
Title: The Legend of Frenchie King
Character: Virginie
Released: December 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.
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Two Males for Alexa
Title: Two Males for Alexa
Character: Catherine
Released: November 29, 1971
Type: Movie
A young girl marries the wealthy father of one of her male friends at college, but she soon finds herself falling for her new husband’s son. The husband finds out about the two, and comes up with what he believes to be a foolproof plan: he will frame his wife and his son for his own murder, then have the pair locked in a room in his remote, isolated estate–with his own dead body.
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El diablo Cojuelo
Title: El diablo Cojuelo
Character: Doña Flor
Released: July 19, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Glass Ceiling
Title: The Glass Ceiling
Character: Rosa
Released: May 3, 1971
Type: Movie
A housewife is frequently left alone by her husband in their apartment, as his business requires him to travel. The woman who lives upstairs is also minus her husband, but Sevilla begins to catch occasional lies and half-truths from her upstairs neighbor, which leads Sevilla to think that Shepard has murdered her husband. Sevilla can't quite keep her mouth shut about the matter, however, and despite the fact that her friends think her imagination is running wild, she does not really begin to suspect the danger until it is too late
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Spaniards in Paris
Title: Spaniards in Paris
Character: Katy
Released: April 26, 1971
Type: Movie
Four Spanish women of very different origins and motivations work in Paris as handmaids.
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Story of a Girl Alone
Title: Story of a Girl Alone
Character: Chica de tienda
Released: January 17, 1971
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the different reactions of a girl when she finds that her boyfriend decides to end their relationship.
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Pierna creciente, falda menguante
Title: Pierna creciente, falda menguante
Character: Rosario 'La criollita'
Released: December 25, 1970
Type: Movie
In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous cabaret singer, Rosario "La Criollita", which was a scandal. At that time, it was doubted that decent women had legs - But this mystery was resolved a decade later, when the roaring twenties arrived and, with them, the sensual Lupe Cardoso
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Hembra
Title: Hembra
Released: December 10, 1970
Type: Movie
A woman takes a man home for shelter after a robbery
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Cutting Heads
Title: Cutting Heads
Character: Gypsy Dancer
Released: October 16, 1970
Type: Movie
In a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in Eldorado, while oppressing the indians, workers and peasants. He is well aware of the menace his old victims represent, while a miracle-making shepherd fascinates and frightens him. Diaz finds a countrywoman, symbol of purity, and prepares a ceremony in his castle resembling his own funeral.
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El certificado
Title: El certificado
Released: July 31, 1970
Type: Movie
Silvia travels to the big city where she meets a married man, with whom she ends up having a romantic relationship.
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Count Dracula
Title: Count Dracula
Character: Vampire Woman (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.
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The Long Agony of Fish Out of Water
Title: The Long Agony of Fish Out of Water
Character: María
Released: March 29, 1970
Type: Movie
The singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat plays the role of a young fisherman named Joan from Ibiza (Eivissa) who falls hopelessly in love about a beautiful English tourist and it leaves everything to follow her to London, where he is introduced to the hippie world.
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The Strange Case of Doctor Faust
Title: The Strange Case of Doctor Faust
Character: Mujer de la botella
Released: December 27, 1969
Type: Movie
Doctor Fausto is observed by unknown creatures in outer space. All of a sudden, a strange woman appears in his life. Her strange behavior leads his life down the path to insanity.
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Title: The Earl of Montecristo
Released: October 1, 1969
Type: TV
Television adaptation of the literary classic by Alexandre Dumas. After being unjustly arrested and convicted of treason, Edmundo Dantés manages to escape from the Château d'If prison after 14 years of captivity. During his stay in this place, another prisoner of Italian origin, Abbe Faria, entrusted him with the secret of a treasure. When Edmundo manages to find it and dig it up, he decides to start a revenge against those who ruined his life, for which he assumes the identity of the powerful Count of Monte Cristo.
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Hortensia/Béance
Title: Hortensia/Béance
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A film by Antonio Maenza Blasco.
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BiBici Story
Title: BiBici Story
Character: Mujer Desnuda
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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Tuset Street
Title: Tuset Street
Character: Mariona
Released: September 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drinking, dancing and daydreaming about Tuset Street, an effort to develop a popular street in the newer section of Barcelona after the models of Haight Ashbury Street in San Francisco and Carnaby Street in London. Jordi and his gang represent the new Barcelona, wealthy, artificial and striving for imported sophistication. On the older side of the city is El Paralelo, the theater district. At El Molino, one of its many music halls, performs Violeta (Sara Montiel), a showgirl in the old style tradition who supplements her singing income with prostitution. Somehow Violeta represents the old values, the "real world" living along side an artificial creation such as Tuset.