The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova family that managed to dominate the box office during the turbulent times of the Second Spanish Republic, the carnage of the Civil War and the hardships of the long post-war period and Franco's dictatorship — and survive until the sixties, when Spain was timidly beginning to change.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- TVE, Enrique Cerezo, Sateco Documentalia
Keywords
- cinema on cinema
- spanish civil war (1936-39)
- franco regime (francoism)
- spanish second republic (1931-39)
- spanish history
- film production
- film censorship
- spanish cinema
Top Cast
Antonio Esquivias as Self - Narrator (voice)
Emeterio Díez Puertas as Self - Film Historian
Luis Casanova Iranzo as Self - V. Casanova's Nephew
José Luis Castro de Paz as Self - Film Scholar
Virginia Guarinos as Self - Film Scholar
Jaime Hernández de la Torre as Self - Painter
Alfonso Gil as Self - Historian
Luis Fernández Gimeno as Self - Fallero
Top Crew
Francisco Rodríguez Fernández · Director, Writer
Manuel Espín · Writer
Asís G. Ayerbe · Cinematographer
Andrés Torres de Torres · Cinematographer
Álex Alonso · Editor
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