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José María Sánchez Silva

José María Sánchez Silva

Writing

Biography

José María Sánchez-Silva y García-Morales (Madrid, November 11, 1911 – Madrid, January 13, 2002) was a Spanish writer. Famous as a children's author, he is the only Spaniard to have won the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Known For

Marcelino pan y vino
8.2

This is the magical story of a new-born baby abandoned on the doorstep of a Franciscan monastery, who grows up to become a cheerful and mischievous boy called Marcelino Pan y Vino. Marcelino, who is able to talk with animals, lives very closed to the animals, the trees and plants. He delights in discovering new things, and often asks unusual questions. The friars educate and love the boy.

Marcelino pan y vino

2001
Josephina the Whale
7.0

No description available.

Josephina the Whale

1979
The Miracle of Marcelino
7.4

Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcelino's kindness by granting him one heart-felt wish.

The Miracle of Marcelino

1955
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7.0

Spanish film with a score by Joaquín Rodrigo

El hereje

1958
Sor Ye-yé
5.1

Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.

Sor Ye-yé

1968
Miracle of Marcellino
6.0

In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more.

Miracle of Marcellino

1991
The Miracle of Marcelino
7.8

Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century: one night the monks of the San Francisco Abbey find a baby in front of their gate. They call the boy Marcelino and take care of the little one with devotion...

The Miracle of Marcelino

2010
La patrulla
6.7

Madrid, 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Five infantry soldiers of the victorious side take a photograph of themselves somewhere in the defeated city, promising to meet again ten years later at the same place.

La patrulla

1954
Franco, ese hombre
5.7

A documentary that takes a broad overview of the life of the dictator, which is a review of the history of the twentieth century so far. Thus, the main events of the century are analyzed through the experience of Franco, who starred in many of them in this historic document which brings together, among others, Alfonso XIII, Mussolini, Lenin, Primo de Rivera, Azaña or Roosevelt.

Franco, ese hombre

1964
The Bienvenido's Story
6.0

Marisol tells some children the true story of a donkey that was passed from hand to hand to be the figure of a circus, being loved by all.

The Bienvenido's Story

1964
Spanish Round
8.0

Over a hundred members of the chorus girls and dance groups from the Spanish "Sección Femenina" embark to America to show the richness of their national folklore. The girls have left parked their daily tasks to enjoy this great adventure aboard "Mount Albertia". During the trip, the relationship between the girls and the crew is very lively and in all scenarios where they perform, success always accompanies them.

Spanish Round

1951
¿Por qué morir en Madrid?
4.7

No description available.

¿Por qué morir en Madrid?

1966
Miracle of Marcelino
10.0

Marcelino Pan y Vino is a Filipino TV movie from 1979 directed by Mario O'Hara. The film is a remake of Ladislao Vajda's 1955 film of the same title, about a boy brought up by monks and encountering Divinity. The story revolves around Marcelino, an orphan abandoned as a baby on the steps of a monastery in nineteenth-century Spain. The monks raise the child, and Marcelino grows into a rowdy young boy. He has been warned by the monks not to visit the monastery attic, where a "very big man who will take him away" lives, but he ventures upstairs anyway, sees the man and tears off back down the stairs.

Miracle of Marcelino

1979
Morir en España
N/A

No description available.

Morir en España

1965