Pere Portabella
January 1, 1927 · 99 years old
Pere Portabella (born in 1927) is a Catalan director, producer, and politician. In 1977, he was elected Senator in Spain's first democratic elections and participated in the writing of the Spanish Constitution. As a filmmaker, his style is experimental, reaching new aspects of film language, often w…
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4 titles
Viridiana
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
El cochecito
Seventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.
Warsaw Bridge
A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor -three characters, two couples- attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just won the prize for his book "Warsaw Bridge". The winner answers the journalist's q...
El sopar
Five former political prisoners gather to discuss about the political situation in Spain under Franco ruling.