Miguel Delibes, Arturo Espinosa. CC license.
Miguel Delibes placeholder image was born on October 17, 1920 in Valladolid, the centennial of one of the best Spanish storytellers who told stories like no one else. I have to my credit, and sometimes I have told it around here, that my family knew him, from when my grandfather walked through the land of Avila and coincided with him on some hunt. But today I give a review succinct to some of his titles that were adapted to the cinema as The road, The rats o The holy innocents. And I finish with their Five hours with Mario, which is scheduled to return to the theater.
Movies
The road
It was his third novel, which was published in 1950, and was one of the first to be adapted to the big screen. Directed her Anna Marshal en 1963 and in their cast were Julia Cabalba, Mary Delgado and Maruchi Fresno. On 1978 was also adapted for television in a miniseries of five chapters that he starred in Amparo Baró.
Family portrait
De 1976, directed it Antonio Gimenez Rico adapting it from the novel My idolized son Sisi. In the cast are Antonio Ferrandis, Amparo Soler Leal, Miguel Bosé, Encarna Paso, Mónica Randall and Mirta Miller.
The dethroned prince
The remembered director Antonio Mercero he repeated, adapting works by Delibes to the cinema. This was the primera en 1977 and transformed the title into Daddy's war. It was played by the child Lolo Garcia, Héctor Alterio, Verónica Forqué, Queta Claver and Vicente Parra.
The holy innocents
Mario camus led in 1984 this acclaimed and award-winning version of the novel published by Delibes in 1981. It is, without a doubt, his most remembered title and one of the best films in Spanish cinema.
With a cast of bells and in a state of grace, they stand out Alfredo Landa and Paco Rabal, that they took equally the Award for Best Performance Male at the Festival Cannes . But from to Terele Pavez a Juan Diego, all composed the best and harshest portrait of a rural society that is not so far away.
The disputed vote of Senor Cayo
Giménez-Rico repeated in 1986 with this adaptation of another Delibes novel in which he returned to work Paco Rabal. He was joined Juan Luis Galiardo placeholder image, Lydia Bosch, Iñaki Miramón or Eusebio Lázaro among others.
The treasure
Haberdasher returns with Delibes in a version that approached the thriller with this novel, published in 1985, which tells of the discovery of an important celtiberian treasure by a farmer from a small town in Castilla. With script de Jose Luis Garci and they starred in it Jose Coronado, Ana Álvarez and Álvaro de Luna.
The shade of the cypress is elongated
It was released the same year as the previous one, 1990, and directed it Luis Alcoriza placeholder image. In the cast were Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Fiorella Faltoyano, Julián Pastor and María Luisa San José, among others.
The rats
The third by Giménez-Rico, in 1997. Álvaro Monje, José Caride, Juan Jesús Valverde, Francisco Algora, Esperanza Alonso and José Conde worked on it.
Diary of a retiree
The same year this version was released with the title of A perfect couple, a choral comedy that directed Francesc Betriú. In the cast were Antonio Resines, Jose Sazatornil, Kiti Manver, and Mabel Lozano., Chus Lampreave and Luis Ciges.
Documentaries
In addition, Delibes wrote the script of two documentaries for Spanish Television:
- Lands of Valladolid.
- Valladolid and Castilla.
Five hours with Mario
A new theatrical montage is announced at the Fine Arts for this work maybe the most representative and represented of Delibes. And of course with his actress —the actress— who has been so many times Carmen Sotillos placeholder image in this monologue unrepeatable before the corpse of her husband whom she watches.
If conditions allow it, and hopefully it will be totally, Lola Herrera He will take the stage again next year in Madrid from January to March. Will be after more than 50 years of publication of the novel, in 1966, and more than 36 years since Herrera got into the skin of this character who forever changed his career.