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Antonio José Betancor
Born January 1, 1942 · Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Islas Canarias, España
Died October 3, 2006 · aged 64
No biography available.
Known For
Los días del pasado · 1977Los días del pasado
★ 6.51977
MovieDrama
A woman arrives in town to work as a teacher. It is the time of the 'maquis', the anti-Franco guerrilla that fights with little hope in some regions of Spain just after the end of the civil war. She has a love affair with one of the guerrillas, but their relationship will have an impossible future because of the past.
Valentina · 1982Valentina
★ 6.11982
MovieDrama
In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.
With Good Reason · 2004With Good Reason
★ 4.72004
MovieDramaComedy
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media.
1919, Chronicle of Dawn · 19831919, Chronicle of Dawn
★ 6.21983
MovieDrama
In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt.
Mararía · 1998Mararía
★ 4.41998
MovieDrama
A tempestuous love triangle forms between beautiful local girl Mararía, an Englishman and a Basque doctor in the island of Lanzarote in the 1930s.
Man in Hiding · 1971Man in Hiding
★ 5.21971
MovieDrama
Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.
Días de viejo color · 1968Días de viejo color
★ 4.61968
MovieDramaRomance
In the Easter holidays of 1967, three friends come to Torremolinos willing to flirt and experience strong emotions. Contact with a new environment, in which while some find the lies that hide behind the luxury and splendor and dangers that accompany life easier, others find true love.
Sentados al borde de la mañana con los pies colgando · 1978Sentados al borde de la mañana con los pies colgando
★ 10.01978
MovieDrama
A group of friends finds a dilapidated place and decide to repair it, paint it and live in it in communal plan. The problem is the bank, owner of the premises, does not want them occupied so they threaten to call the police to evict them.
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