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Juan Antonio Bardem

Juan Antonio Bardem

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Biography

Juan Antonio Bardem (2 June 1922 – 30 October 2002) was a Spanish film directorand screen writer. He was best known for “Muerte de un ciclista” (1955) which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, and “El puente” (1977) which won the Golden Prize at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1979 film “Seven Days in January” won the Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1981 he was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1993 he was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. Bardem is the uncle of actor Javier Bardem.

Known For

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975
Varietés
6.3

Spain 1930s. A troupe of performers travel from city to city entertaining audiences and earning a living. The cast includes a magician, a ventriloquist, muscle men, dancers, singers and a full orchestra. The star of the show is Carmen Soler (Trini Alonso) a celebrated singer, now way past her prime, who refuses to retire gracefully and defends her stardom ruthlessly. On her shadow lives and works Ana Marques (Sara Montiel) a younger singer who dreams of the big time and patiently waits for her break.

Varietés

1971
Foul Play
5.1

A workshop employee decides to take advantage of a long weekend to go to Torremolinos to have fun and chat up foreign tourists.

Foul Play

1977
Mysterious Island
6.6

During the American Civil War, five prisoners of war manage to escape in a balloon. They are driven far across the sea to an unknown island, far from civilization. The legendary captain Nemo (world star Omar Sharif), who is trapped in a huge underground cave with his submarine Nautilus, watches the group. When the stranded people are discovered by pirates, Nemo helps them with a host of his super technology...

Mysterious Island

1973
Lorca: Death of a Poet
5.1

Lorca, a great Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Nickolas Grace gives a fabulous interpretation in the title role and he even bears a remarkable resemblance to Lorca.

Lorca: Death of a Poet

1987
The Mysterious Island
5.6

1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in a storm and with the balloon damaged they find themselves 'shipwrecked' on a volcanic desert island somewhere in the Pacific. Just before crash landing their leader, the brilliant engineer Cyrus Smith falls to his apparent death in the raging waters, but later turns up completely unharmed and with no memory of how he was saved. His fellow castaways are: the famous journalist Gedeon Spilett, the salty sailor Bonaventure Pencroff, the orphaned boy Harbert Brown and the black servant of Smith, Nab. The dog Top also joined them in the escape.

The Mysterious Island

1973
La Huella del Crimen
6.0

No description available.

La Huella del Crimen

1985
El joven Picasso
3.8

No description available.

El joven Picasso

1993
A Dog Called... Vengeance
5.5

A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.

A Dog Called... Vengeance

1977
The Last Day of the War
5.5

The war in Europe is ending, but the American troops have to find a scientist on the run who is also chased by some surviving SS forces.

The Last Day of the War

1970
The Warning
6.5

The action takes place in Moscow, Berlin and Vienna in years 1932 and 1933, a time when the great Bulgarian revolutionary and internationalist Georgi Dimitrov was actively involved in establishing a broad alliance of democratic forces against the emerging threat of war and fascism.

The Warning

1982
The Corruption of Chris Miller
6.2

Chris Miller, living with her stepmother in a large secluded mansion, finds her isolation interrupted by the arrival of an unknown scythe-wielding killer.

The Corruption of Chris Miller

1973
Sonatas
5.1

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.

Sonatas

1959
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
7.4

A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waiting for their uncertain arrival.

Welcome Mr. Marshall!

1953
Death of a Cyclist
7.1

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.

Death of a Cyclist

1955
Main Street
6.3

A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters.

Main Street

1956
Confessions of a Congressman
6.1

Roberto, a leader and follower of the ideals of his radical leftist opposition party, can’t resist the cheap beautiful street teenagers that are thrown his way for various pleasures.

Confessions of a Congressman

1978
Revenge
6.5

After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released.

Revenge

1958
Comedians
5.9

Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, plays only minor roles, but she hopes to succeed and prefers the success to the love of Michael. When the company decides to release "Heaven is not far," Ana hopes to be the young protagonist, however, the paper turns to fall on the veteran Carmen. The businessman Charles Marquez offers Ana to be the star in the new play if she becomes his lover

Comedians

1954
Final Result
5.7

While awaiting the results of a medical test, María José reminisces about her university days during the early years of Spain's transition to democracy in the 1970s.

Final Result

1997