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Dominican Rep. La ciudad de los prodigios
- Original title
- La ciudad de los prodigios
- Year
- 1999
- Running time
- 156 min.
- Country
Spain- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Olivier Martínez
Emma Suárez
François Marthouret
Héctor Colomé
Francesc Garrido
Tony Isbert
Joaquín Díaz
Ramón Langa
Lluís Homar
Montserrat Carulla
Marián Aguilera
Alberto San Juan
José María Sanz "Loquillo"- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Spain-France-Belgium;
- Genre
- Drama
- Movie Groups
- Eduardo Mendoza Adaptations
- Synopsis
- A time and place described through the life of Onofre Bouvila, this film is based on a famous novel exposing the 20 or so year time frame which transformed Barcelona, starting in the late 1880s. Onofre is a youngster down on his luck, abandoned by his fortune seeking father to a life of poverty and misery, alone with his mother. Once an adult, he also decides to seek fortune, and travels to Barcelona on the eve of the Universal Exposition of 1888, which so transformed the city. He immediately falls in love with Delfina, daughter of the owner of the hotel he moves into. Onofre searches for a job in this teeming city full of violence, criminals, sickness and poverty. He finds nothing. Unable to pay the hotel, he accepts a suggestion from Delfina: to produce and distribute pamphlets, during the Exposition, in support of the anarchists - a group she actively promotes, in the defense of the workers. Their relationship quickly turns into passion. But police repression dissuades him from ...
- Awards
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1999: Goya Awards: Nominated for Best Special Effects1999: Montréal World Film Festival: Official Selection
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