La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)
Francisco Rodríguez Fernández | Spain
October 5, 2022 | 94m
Documentary
History
Overview:
The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova family that managed to dominate the box office during the turbulent times of the Second Spanish Republic, the carnage of the Civil War and the hardships of the long post-war period and Franco's dictatorship — and survive until the sixties, when Spain was timidly beginning to change.
Credits
| Antonio Esquivias | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| Emeterio Díez Puertas | Self - Film Historian |
| Luis Casanova Iranzo | Self - V. Casanova's Nephew |
| José Luis Castro de Paz | Self - Film Scholar |
| Virginia Guarinos | Self - Film Scholar |
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Keywords
cinema on cinemaspanish civil war (1936-39)franco regime (francoism)spanish second republic (1931-39)spanish historyfilm productionfilm censorshipspanish cinema
