Fructuós Gelabert
2021El mundo de Fructuoso Gelabert
Juan Francisco de Lasa
Fructuós Gelabert
Documentary by Juan Francisco de Lasa about a pioneer of Spanish cinema. Gelabert attended one of the first sessions of the Lumière's cinématographe in Barcelona. Briefly after, he built a contraption based on this invention. He produced his first picture, "Dorotea", in 1897. His film "Riña en un café" is considered the first Spanish film to feature a plot.
El mundo de Fructuoso Gelabert
La Dolores
Enric Giménez i Lloberas, Fructuós Gelabert
Dolores Marsal, Enric Giménez i Lloberas
A small village in Aragón, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. After being caught by her father fooling around with Melchor, an unscrupulous womanizer, being disgraced and losing everything, young Dolores is forced to take to the roads in search of work.
La Dolores
Riña en un café
Fructuós Gelabert
José Amigo, Antonio Fino
Lost film in which two men discuss in a cafe for the love of a woman. Discussion becomes more heated until they start fist-fighting. Widely considered to be the first fiction film made in Spain, the director made a new version reconstructing it in 1952.
Cafe Brawl
Alma torturada
Fructuós Gelabert, Magín Murià
Celia Ortiz, Ricardo Puga
Emilia and Villalba (Margarita Xirgu and Ricardo Puga) have had a happy marriage until the murder of the prostitute Lilí casted a shadow over it. Her brother, Augusto, is accused of the crime and sentenced to prison. Emilia receives the terrible news by letter through Doctor Morales, who has received a mail from Augusto in which he pleads not guilty and implores help. Request that faces Villalba’s firm opposition to get involved with a matter related to a courtier.
Tortured Soul
El beso de la muerte
Alberto Marro, Fructuós Gelabert
Señor Alonso, Josep Balaguer
Clara, widow duchess of Santauro, has confined her daughter Margarita, of great beauty, in the Royal Boarding School, where she goes to take her out and to make her debut already. So that it does not affect the reputation of her daughter, she breaks off her affair with Luis de Castro, a “don Juan of today”, blackmailer an d a drunkard. The duchess decides to celebrate a party, where Luis meets Margarita and seduces her. Clara receives Luis at home in order to ask him for her letters. Margarita, who sees him arriving, thinks he is coming to ask for her hand to her mother, an d hidden listens the conversation. Such is the disillusion that Margarita falls ill and goes mad.
The Kiss of Death
