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Memory is not the same thing as history. Inside Spain as well as outside, many believe-- wrongly-- that under Franco's dictatorship, nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or written or shown. Treglown argues that in recent years the country has begun to make a more public attempt to "reclaim" its modern history, and reveals that despite state censorship, events of the time were vividly recorded. The result is a much-needed reexamination...
3) Viridiana
Series
Criterion collection volume 332
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Español
Description
"Novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism"--Container.
When a young woman who is preparing to become a nun suddenly inherits her wealthy uncle's estate, her attempts to improve the lot of the less fortunate by making her newfound riches available to them backfire.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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Julia, a hard-working real estate agent, finds 300 million pesetas hidden in a dead man's apartment and is forced to face the wrath of a very peculiar community of neighbors led by an unscrupulous administrator.
5) Butterfly
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
Description
A shy young boy is brought out of his cocoon by a wise teacher who shows him the wonder of the natural world around him, amidst the growing tensions and chaos of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia.
Series
Criterion collection volume 840
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Español
Description
A macabre farce about an undertaker who marries an executioner's daughter and reluctantly takes over her father's job so the family can keep their government allotted apartment.
7) Alatriste
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1 videodisc (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
Description
"Viggo Mortensen plays the Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary Captain Alatriste, a heroic figure from the country's 17th century imperial wars."--From Internet Movie Database.
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