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La vaquilla (The Heifer)

Luis García Berlanga
March 06, 1985

Sinopsis


We are in the front trenches during the Spanish Civil War.
It has been two years since the war began. Weapons are no longer used.

The soldiers doze, write letters or play. But the peace and quiet is interrupted when the speaker of the national area announces that, on the occasion of the feast of “Virgen de Agosto”, will be held in the nearby town several celebrations, among which a delicious dinner, followed by dancing and bullfighting festival.

Five combatants from the Republican side decided to kidnap the heifer that will be used at the party. With this action they will get the food that scarce on their side and will thwart the enemy party.

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MOVIE CLIP La vaquilla (The Heifer)
Luis García Berlanga
1921 - 2010 This magnificent filmmaker is, along with Antonio Bardem, the personification of the renewal of the film in Spain. He was born into a bourgeois family. He decided to study...
José Sacristán
1937 José Sacristán (Chinchón, Madrid, 1937). actor and spanish film director. His beginnings in the interpretation were in the theater. As for the cinema, in...
GUILLERMO MONTESINOS
1948 (Castellón de la Plana, January 10, 1948) is a spanish actor. His beginnings in the interpretation are very early, climbing for the first time on stage at age 12. Later...
Maria Luisa Ponte
1918 – 1996 (Medina de Rioseco, Valladolid, June 21, 1918 - Aranjuez, Madrid, May 2, 1996) is a spanish actress of stage, screen and television. Throughout her career she participated...
Amparo Soler Leal
1933 – 2013 (Madrid, August 23, 1933 - Barcelona, 25 October 2013) was a Spanish actress. She debuted with just 15 years old in the theater with the play No mientas tanto and since...
Agustín González
1930 – 2005 (Linares, Jaén, March 24, 1930 - January 16 2005), was a Spanish film, television and theater actor. He began his work as an actor in the Spanish University Theatre,...
Alfredo Landa Areta
1933 – 2013 (Pamplona, Navarra, March 3, 1933 - Madrid, May 9, 2013) was a Spanish actor known for starring many of the works of the “landismo” Spanish films genre, a series...
Alfredo Matas Salinas
1920 – 1996 (1920 - June 22, 1996, Barcelona, Catalonia) was a producer and distributor of Spanish cinema. He was known as "the czar of Spanish cinema" because of the importance he had...



Technical information

  • PRODUCTION YEAR: 1984
  • RUNTIME: 122m.
  • PRINTED FILM FORMAT: 35mm
  • GENRE: Fiction. Spanish Civil War. Comedy
  • COUNTRY: Spain
  • LANGUAGE: Spanish
  • FINAL GROSS: 250 million pesetas (1.5 million euros)

Technical team

  • WRITTERS: Rafael Azcona
  • DIRECTOR: Luis García Berlanga
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Laureano López
  • STILL PHOTOGRAPHER: Carlos Suárez
  • CAMERA: Eduardo Noé, Laureano López
  • SOUND EDITOR: Francisco Péramos
  • DIRECT SOUND: Jim Willis
  • FILM EDITING: José Luis Matesanz
  • SOUNDTRACK: Miguel Asins Arbó
  • ART DIRECTION: Enrique Alarcón
  • SPECIAL EFFECTS: Reyes Abades

Executive team

  • PRODUCTION COMPANIES: In-Cine Compañía Industrial Cinematográfica, Jet Films
  • EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/S: Alfredo Matas
  • CONTRIBUTORS: Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza and Ayuntamiento de Sos del Rey Católico
  • DISTRIBUTOR COMPANIES: Divisa Home Video, In-Cine Distribuidora Cinematografica S.A.
  • INTERNATIONAL SALES: In-Cine Distribuidora Cinematográfica S.A.

Casting

Alfredo Landa, Guillermo Montesinos, Santiago Ramos, José Sacristán, Carles Velat, Eduardo Calvo, Violeta Cela, Agustín González, María Luisa Ponte, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Amelia de la Torre, Carlos Tristancho, Valeriano Andrés, María Elena Flores, Antonio Gam

Awards/Selections

  • Bronze Awards (Leisure Guide) for best film and best director

Additional information

  • File reviewed: -
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  • Other relevant information: The script of Berlanga and Azcona So many times banned by Francoist censorship that became legend finally was one of the best and most blockbuster works of the director Following the disappearance of censorship in 1977, appears on the one hand, all foreig

Information Sources

  • IMDB
  • FILMAFFINITY
  • WIKIPEDIA
  • ALOHA CRITICON
  • BERLANGA FILM MUSEUM
  • BIOGRAFIAS.ES
  • SOS DEL REY CATÓLICO CITY WEBSITE
  • LA VAQUILLA / SOS DEL REY CATÓLICO (FACEBOOK)
  • RUTA DEL TIEMPO
  • CALADOC PRODUCTIONS
  • RODANDO PRODUCTIONS

 

FILMING



  • ANECTODES OF FILMING : Filmed in summer 1984. People from Sos del Rey Catolico and other nearby towns like Ejea, Castiliscar, Sádaba Luesia, Sofuentes, Uncastillo, Bardenas, Ribas and Tauste arriving every day on the set of filming. There they remained, dresses as foot soldiers
  • FILMING CONTRIBUTORS : The people of Sos is actively involved in the shooting, providing about 500 extras and eliminating television aerials of their homes to provide credibility to the landscape.

FILMING LOCATIONS



Sos del Rey Católico- Aragón


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