Country: Spain
Year: 1992
Duration: 96'
Vacas is a story of the conflicting and passionate relationships between two Basque families, Irigibel and Mendiluze, throughout three generations. It's set in a small Guipuzcoan valley where both families live close to each other, only separated by a hillside and a small wood. The proximity of the two houses provokes an outbreak of violence and madness between them. The drama begins in 1875, in a trench during the Second Carlist War, and ends sixty years later, in the summer of 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Vacas consists of four periods or tales, with independent structures but which are interrelated: "The Coward Aizkolari" in 1875, "The Axes" in 1905, "The Lit Hole" in 1915 and "War in the Forest" in 1936.
Biography
film director
Julio Medem
at University in the Basque Country. He has worked as cinema critic for the Basque newspaper "La voz de Euskadi", and for specialist publications "Casablanca" and "Cinema 2000". After some films in super 8, Medem has achieved two short 35mm: Legs in the Mind (1985) and Six on the Dot (1987).
FILMOGRAFIA
Legs in the Mind (cm, 1985), Six on the Dot (cm, 1987), Vacas (Cows, 1992).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Julio Medem.
Screenplay: Julio Medem, Michel Gaztambide.
Director of photography: Carles Gusi.
Art director: Rafael Palmero.
Editor: Mª Elena Sainz De Rozas.
Music: Alberto Iglesias.
Cast and characters: Emma Suarez (Cristina), Carmelo Gomez (Manuel-IgnacioPeru), Ana Torrent (Catalina), Txema Blasco (Manuel), Klara Badiola (Madalen), Kandido Uranga (Juan), Karra ElejaIde (IlegorriLucas).
Director of Production: Fernando de Garcillan, Jose Luis Olaizola.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Sogetel S.A., Gran Via 32, 2a, E28013 Madrid, tel. 3415217405, fax 3415232366.
Screenplay: Julio Medem, Michel Gaztambide.
Director of photography: Carles Gusi.
Art director: Rafael Palmero.
Editor: Mª Elena Sainz De Rozas.
Music: Alberto Iglesias.
Cast and characters: Emma Suarez (Cristina), Carmelo Gomez (Manuel-IgnacioPeru), Ana Torrent (Catalina), Txema Blasco (Manuel), Klara Badiola (Madalen), Kandido Uranga (Juan), Karra ElejaIde (IlegorriLucas).
Director of Production: Fernando de Garcillan, Jose Luis Olaizola.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Sogetel S.A., Gran Via 32, 2a, E28013 Madrid, tel. 3415217405, fax 3415232366.
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