La buena nueva

Summary A young priest arrives in his first assignment to a small parish serving a working-class village in the north of Spain in 1936. He is a witness of the military uprising that precipitates the Spanish Civil War and, moved by his faith, he stands up to defend his people. From the beginning of the war, the village where the young protagonist arrives remains within the area of the Francoist military insubordinates. It soon becomes a top target of repression for being considered as a "red village". Based on a real story, the film portrays how the young priest commits himself to stand by his parishioners and how he denounces from the pulpit and before the Catholic Hierarchy the atrocities being committed on behalf of the Gospel (written of as a Holy Crusade) to the extent that he will risk his own life in the name of Christ. The loneliness haunting him brings Miguel close to Margari, a young schoolteacher, whose husband was killed by the fascists. Margari becomes the only shelter in the path of Miguel's helpless fight, as well as the only aid to offset his deep disappointment. View more details

La buena nueva

Directed : Helena Taberna

Written : Helena Taberna Andrés Martorell

Stars : Guillermo Toledo Bárbara Goenaga Unax Ugalde Gorka Aguinagalde

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Genres : Drama

Release date : Nov 13, 2008

Countries of origin : Spain

Official sites : Official site

Language : Spanish

Filming locations : Aldatz, Navarra, Spain

Production companies : Lamia Producciones

Summary A young priest arrives in his first assignment to a small parish serving a working-class village in the north of Spain in 1936. He is a witness of the military uprising that precipitates the Spanish Civil War and, moved by his faith, he stands up to defend his people. From the beginning of the war, the village where the young protagonist arrives remains within the area of the Francoist military insubordinates. It soon becomes a top target of repression for being considered as a "red village". Based on a real story, the film portrays how the young priest commits himself to stand by his parishioners and how he denounces from the pulpit and before the Catholic Hierarchy the atrocities being committed on behalf of the Gospel (written of as a Holy Crusade) to the extent that he will risk his own life in the name of Christ. The loneliness haunting him brings Miguel close to Margari, a young schoolteacher, whose husband was killed by the fascists. Margari becomes the only shelter in the path of Miguel's helpless fight, as well as the only aid to offset his deep disappointment. View more details

Details

Genres : Drama

Release date : Nov 13, 2008

Countries of origin : Spain

Official sites : Official site

Language : Spanish

Filming locations : Aldatz, Navarra, Spain

Production companies : Lamia Producciones

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Savage Connection

Savage Connection

To a remote desert wasteland with a million dollars in heroin come David and Tis, to make a Savage Connection for the drug syndicate. Hiding enormous amounts of syndicate money from drug collections in phony expenses for movies which are never released, David encounters the movie's producer, Jan, who has sworn to kill David and regain the tender love he once shared with Tis before the cancerous power of David and his heroin displaced her need for him. Bernie, jaded overlord of the drug syndicate, discharges an ambitious underling, Clay, and his motorcycle stormtroopers to insure the heroin drop. In the midst of this brewing violence, Cynthia Corde and her husband, Alec, a small time cowboy actor, play out their rolls in the bizarre phony movies. Flaunting her voluptuous body at any man she encounters, Cynthia promises passions which her frigid body cannot deliver. Passion, tension and violence erupt when a storm trooper is destroyed by an accidental rifle discharge. Daphne is made to pay the cruel penalty of sodomy at the hand of the storm-op leader, Clay. She is spared from further mob indignities by the bold stand of cowboy actor Alec. Together they dig a grave for the slain trooper, and passions flare. The grave becomes their couch of love in a bizarre sensuous orgy. As Cynthia Cordes frigidity is tested in her dressing trailer by a menage-a-trois between a storm trooper and a good-time girl whose "bag is women-," Tis and Jan are secretly meeting to consummate the white heat of their burning passions in an adagio ballet of tenderness and sensuous lovemaking. The FLASH POINT of the violence erupts during a wild orgy of the storm troops and their ladies when David discovers Jan and Tis ', "making it." The film moves quickly now in one explosive surprise after another, as the greed, ambitions and sexual needs of each person makes its own Savage Connection.

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