Country: Spain
Year: 2012
Duration: 104'
Spain, around 1920. The famous torero Antonio Villalta, whose wife died when their daughter Carmen was still small, decides to marry Encarna. But the woman proves to be a terrible stepmother and can only transmit hate to the girl. Carmen grows up to be a beautiful young woman; she runs away from home and joins a troupe of dwarf toreros, finally putting to good use everything her father had taught her about bullfighting when she was still young.
Biography
film director
Pablo Berger
(Bilbao, Spain, 1963) directed his first short, Mama, in 1988; thanks to this film, he received a scholarship from the Basque government to study at the University of New York, where he received a master’s degree in fine arts. He taught film courses at major international universities, including Cambridge, Princeton, Yale and La Sorbonne, before debuting in feature films with Torremolinos 73, which was presented at many national and international festivals, including the Malaga Film Festival, where he received the award for best director. In 2012 with the silent and black and white film Blancanieves, presented at the Turin Film Festival, he achieved extraordinary success, as well as ten Goya awards, including best picture. In 2017 he then directed Abracadabra. Robot Dreams premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mama (cm, 1988), Torremolinos 73 (2003), Blancanieves (2012), Abracadabra (2017), Robot Dreams (anim., 2023).
Declaration
film director
“The viewer must feel rather than think, and be led by a story told only through images and music. A sincere glance can contain all the tension of the boldest action. As Norma Desmond said in Sunset Boulevard, ‘We did not need dialogue. We had faces.’ By the end of the 1920s the language of cinema had been completely developed and great masterpieces had been created. Blancanieves is not a copy but a reinterpretation of the films of that era for today’s audience.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Pablo Berger
soggetto/story ispirato al racconto Biancaneve e i sette nani di/from the tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Jacob e/and Wilhelm Grimm fotografia/cinematography Kiko de la Rica
montaggio/film editing Fernando Franco
scenografia/production design Alain Bainée
costumi/costume design Paco Delgado
musica/music Alfonso de Vilallonga
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Maribel Verdú (Encarna), Daniel Giménez Cacho (Antonio Villalta), Ángela Molina (Doña Concha), Macarena García (Carmen), Pere Ponce (Genaro), Sofía Oria (Carmen da bambina/Carmen as a child), José María Pou (Don Carlos), Inma Cuesta (Carmen De Triana) produttori/producers Ibon Cormenzana, Jérôme Vidal, Pablo Berger produzione/production Arcadia Motion Pictures, Nix Films, Sisifo Films, The Kraken Films, Noodles Production, Arte France Cinéma
vendita all’estero/world sales Dreamcatchers
soggetto/story ispirato al racconto Biancaneve e i sette nani di/from the tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Jacob e/and Wilhelm Grimm fotografia/cinematography Kiko de la Rica
montaggio/film editing Fernando Franco
scenografia/production design Alain Bainée
costumi/costume design Paco Delgado
musica/music Alfonso de Vilallonga
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Maribel Verdú (Encarna), Daniel Giménez Cacho (Antonio Villalta), Ángela Molina (Doña Concha), Macarena García (Carmen), Pere Ponce (Genaro), Sofía Oria (Carmen da bambina/Carmen as a child), José María Pou (Don Carlos), Inma Cuesta (Carmen De Triana) produttori/producers Ibon Cormenzana, Jérôme Vidal, Pablo Berger produzione/production Arcadia Motion Pictures, Nix Films, Sisifo Films, The Kraken Films, Noodles Production, Arte France Cinéma
vendita all’estero/world sales Dreamcatchers
