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Luis Carrero Blanco

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Luis Carrero Blanco

Born March 4, 1904 · Santoña, Cantabria, Spain

Died December 20, 1973 · aged 69

Luis Carrero Blanco was a Spanish Navy officer and politician. A long-time confidant and right-hand man of dictator Francisco Franco, Carrero served as Prime Minister of Spain. Upon graduating from the naval academy Carrero Blanco participated in the Rif War, and later the Spanish Civil War, in which he supported the Nationalist faction. He became one of the most prominent figures in Francoist Spa…

Known For

Operation OgreOperation Ogre · 1979
Operation Ogre
★ 6.91979
MovieDramaHistory
Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.
Assassinating FrancoAssassinating Franco · 2016
Assassinating Franco
★ 6.02016
MovieDocumentary
Documentary about the attempts to assassinate Franco
Magnicidios PoeMagnicidios Poe · 2017
Magnicidios Poe
★ 2.02017
MovieDocumentaryComedy
The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by five skillful pencil artists. A documentary, a video essay, a collage, a provocative experiment where various pop culture figures and icons perform unexpected cameos. The macabre joke of a jester. Never more.
La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961) · 2022
La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)
★ 4.32022
MovieDocumentaryHistory
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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