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Great Books on the Screen

It is not easy to adapt a literary work into film, but sometimes the motion
picture makes true justice to the original written work. Through this cycle,
Instituto Cervantes invites movie-goers to enjoy four great books on screen.

Film Cycle presented with the collaboration of Filmoteca AECI

All the films are in Spanish with English subtitles.
Free Admission


Últimas tardes con Teresa

Director Gonzalo Herralde
Duration: 105 min.
Production: España, 1984

Cast:
Maribel Martín, Ángel Alcázar

In Spanish with English subtitles

Date: April 14
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes

Two distant worlds, of the rich and the poor are related through two
characters; Manolo Reyes, vulgar thief of motorcycles who aspires to leave
the hard life, and Teresa Serrat, university student of the upper-class who
is seduced by the revolutionary cause.


La colmena

Directed by Mario Camus
Duration: 114 min.
Production: España, 1982

Cast: Victoria Abril, Ana Belén, José Bódalo, José Luis López
Vázquez, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba

In Spanish with English subtitles
Date: April 21
Time: 2:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes

Based on the novel of the same title by Camilo José Cela, *La Colmena* is a
heartrending compilation of stories of people in the Madrid of 1942, just
after the Spanish Civil War. The main theme of the film is the contrast
between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and
the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy
money with illegal business. The film received the Golden Bear in the Berlin
Film Festival.


El método

Directed by Marcelo Pyñeiro
Duration: 105 min.
Production: España, 2005

Cast: Eduard Fernández, Eduardo Noriega, Natalia Verbeke,
Carmelo Gómez, Ernesto Alterio, Adriana Ozores

For Adults Only

Date: April 21
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes

Seven candidates compete for an executive position at a multinational
company. Candidates are assembled to be put through the final selection
process for a single high-level position at a multinational corporation.
From the outset, there is a palpably tense, competitive atmosphere among the
group. Feelings of distrust increase when they realize they are aspiring for
the same position. They find themselves pitted against one another in a
contest that elicits fear, suspicion, paranoia and betrayal.


Pantaleón y las visitadoras

Directed by Francisco Lombardi
Duration: 111 min.
Production: España, 2000

Cast: Angie Cepeda, Salvador del Solar, Pilar Bardem

In Spanish with English subtitles

Date: March 24
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes

Strictly for Adults

The Peruvian army captain Pantaleón Pantoja, a very serious and efficient
officer, is chosen by his superiors to set up a special service of
'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote
jungle outposts. At first unhappy about this assignment, he nonetheless puts
his remarkable organizational skills in action and in a short time has his
'unit' running smoothly. In the home front things get complicated though;
his wife dislikes his long hours and the secrecy surrounding his work.



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