Francisco Bernal
1900 - 1963
Calabuch
Luis García Berlanga
Edmund Gwenn, Valentina Cortese
Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions. He hides in Calabuch, a beautiful seaside town where people still believe in humor and friendship.
The Rocket from Calabuch
Historias de la radio
José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
Carlos Acevedo, Margarita Andrey
Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need money, a thief who answers a phone call while robbing and a child who needs to go to Sweden for an operation are the protagonists of these stories around the radio.
Radio Stories
El inquilino
José Antonio Nieves Conde
María Rosa Salgado, José Marco Davó
One unlucky day, a married couple with four children get an eviction notice: the building they live in is to be demolished. The family looks desperately for a new home, which is no easy task in Madrid in the fifties.
The Tenant
La vida por delante
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Analía Gadé, Fernando Fernán Gómez
Finished their careers of Law and Medicine, respectively, Antonio Redondo and Josefina Castro, a pair of young Spanish newlyweds, are looking for work to buy an apartment and start a life together, but they will face enormous difficulties throughout the process.
Life Ahead
La vida alrededor
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Analía Gadé, Fernando Fernán Gómez
Josephine and Antonio have reached a delicate economic balance after marriage. The salary of lawyer from him, and wins her in the hospital, allows them to survive and fantasize about some freak. The situation is complicated by the news that Josephine is pregnant. Ahead of the debacle that may involve having a "child who eats everything, including food," Josephine teaches the baby still in her womb, higher education courses in order to save some money in schools. Meanwhile, Antonio enters the underworld scene, looking for customers who offer their services as a lawyer.
La vida alrededor
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Rafael Gil
Rafael Rivelles, Juan Calvo
The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.
Don Quixote
Don Lucio and Brother Pío
José Antonio Nieves Conde
Tony Leblanc, José Isbert
Brother Pío, intending to collect charity for a group of nuns who run an orphanage, travels to Madrid with a statue of the Baby Jesus. On the train ride there, he meets Lucio, a slick-talking small-time thief, who steals the statue from him in order to collect the donations for himself.
Don Lucio and Brother Pío
Esa pareja feliz
Luis García Berlanga, Juan Antonio Bardem
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Elvira Quintillá
Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand.
That Happy Couple
Los golfos
Carlos Saura
Manuel Zarzo, Luis Marín
Three restless slum boys are turned to a life of petty thievery, but when one of them expresses a hopeful desire to become a bullfighter, the others pool their energies to pull one big heist in order to finance their pal's dream.
The Crooks
