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Tomàs Pladevall
Born November 25, 1946 · Sabadell, Spain (age 79)
Tomàs Pladevall Fontanet (Sabadell, Barcelona, November 25, 1946) is a director of Catalan photography. He studied Industrial Technical Engineering and Design and is a Photography Director from the Official School of Cinematography of Madrid in 1972. He has been the director of photography, and often also a camera operator, in 56 feature films, and in addition to four hundred documentaries, adver…
Known For
L’orgia · 1978L’orgia
★ 4.21978
MovieComedy
A group of boys and girls are locked up a weekend in a friends house in which they do a party that little to little is converted in an orgy. But not everything is sex, there are also cinematographic digressions, chocolate and churros, and good humor.
Subjúdice · 1998Subjúdice
★ 7.51998
MovieComedy
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons · 2005Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
★ 6.82005
MovieDocumentary
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)
Filmmakers in Action · 2006Filmmakers in Action
★ 7.22006
MovieDocumentary
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)
Night of the Howling Beast · 1975Night of the Howling Beast
★ 5.11975
MovieHorrorAdventure
Waldemar, the renowned adventurer, joins an expedition to find the Yeti in the Himalayas. While hiking the mountains, he's captured by two cannibalistic demon nymphets guarding a remote Buddhist temple and becomes their sex-slave. They transform him into a werewolf setting him loose to roam the mountain where he encounters a sadistic bandit.
The Pianist · 1998The Pianist
★ 7.81998
MovieDrama
This music-themed drama is set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past, where the younger Rossell rejoins Teresa after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.
La silla · 2006La silla
★ 10.02006
MovieDrama
A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.
Actresses · 1997Actresses
★ 6.71997
MovieDrama
In order to prepare for her role as a certain well-known actress, a young woman has lengthy conversations with three different actresses who were good friends with the famous star. Emerging from these conversations are three equally different versions of the past and the events that shaped their lives and careers. This cinematic adaptation of a theatrical work is true to the original, but does not stray far from a theatrical rendering of the story.
Filmography
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Subjúdice · 1998Subjúdice
★ 7.51998
MovieComedy
Director of Photography
La silla · 2006La silla
★ 10.02006
MovieDrama
A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.
Director of Photography
Robin Hood nunca muere · 1975Robin Hood nunca muere
★ 6.51975
MovieAdventure
Director of Photography
Iconockaut · 1976Iconockaut
★ 5.21976
MovieDrama
Two lovers, a man and a woman, meet and separate in a timeless space.
Cinematography
forty years without sex · 1979forty years without sex
★ 4.01979
MovieComedy
Through various episodes we are shown sexual repression and desire at the same time, in the Spanish of yesteryear.
Director of Photography
Sexy... amor y fantasía · 1977Sexy... amor y fantasía
★ 4.31977
MovieDrama
Director of Photography
Train of Shadows · 1997Train of Shadows
★ 6.71997
MovieDrama
Experimental silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s.
Director of Photography
El gènere femení · 2011El gènere femení
2011
MovieDrama
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