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Feature film — 2022

La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961) (2022)

4.31h 34mDocumentary — History

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.

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A high-signal pick with 3 votes.

TVE / Enrique Cerezo / Sateco Documentalia

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Director: Francisco Rodríguez Fernández

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Cast & crew

Antonio Esquivias as Self - Narrator (voice)

Antonio Esquivias

Self - Narrator (voice)

E

Emeterio Díez Puertas

Self - Film Historian

L

Luis Casanova Iranzo

Self - V. Casanova's Nephew

J

José Luis Castro de Paz

Self - Film Scholar

V

Virginia Guarinos

Self - Film Scholar

J

Jaime Hernández de la Torre

Self - Painter

A

Alfonso Gil

Self - Historian

L

Luis Fernández Gimeno

Self - Fallero

V

Vicente Sánchez Biosca

Self - Film Scholar

F

Fátima Gil Gascón

Self - Scholar

P

Pablo León Aguinaga

Self - Historian

Fernando Fernández de Córdoba as Self - Actor (voice) (archive footage)

Fernando Fernández de Córdoba

Self - Actor (voice) (archive footage)

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