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José Luis Sáenz de Heredia

José Luis Sáenz de Heredia

For years the critics reproached his involvement with the franco regime and his relationship with José Antonio Primo de Rivera. In fact, he directed Race, a film whose script he wrote based on a text of Francisco Franco, and the documentary Franco, that man, a documentary that tried not to direct but was virtually forced by the Leader.

Sáenz de Heredia began his career of a film director under the auspices of Luis Buñuel, when he was responsible for maximum production of the company Filmófono. After the triumph of the nationalists in the Civil War, Sáenz de Heredia became one of the most important directors in Spain.

Franco's committed, he held several official positions during the regime of general Franco, among them the director of the Official School of Cinema.

He is the author of the libretto of the journal Yola, premiered by Celia Gámez in 1941.

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Movies Made By José Luis Sáenz de Heredia (40)

Proceso a Jesús (1974)

A group of Sephardic perform the "Trial of Jesus" in an ancient temple and before a baffled audience. The purpose of the play is to understand whether the condemnation of Jesus was justified or not, since they are not resigned to accept that history found ...

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The Roosters of Dawn (1971)

Only a few months after arriving in a fishing village, Lola, a beautiful woman, is found murdered by the sea. ...

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Don erre que erre (1970)

Don Rodrigo goes to the bank and when he is going to take his money there is a robbery. Then the bank refuses to give him his money back (257 pesetas, a small amount of money) with the argument that the money was robbed to him, not to the bank. He will fig ...

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¡Se armó el belén! (1969)

An old priest, who has old ideas, is intended to exercise the apostolate in a neighborhood in the suburbs of Madrid. There the revolutionary climate and anti-religious character of the congregation thwarts all his attempts to attract them. The Archbishop a ...

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Juicio de faldas (1969)

When truck driver Manolo is accused of a grave crime by a young woman from a nearby town, his fate hangs in the balance. Enter Marta—a sharp, determined lawyer whose brilliance quickly shatters his initial mistrust. As she digs through layers of small-to ...

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El taxi de los conflictos (1969)

Taxi driver Tadeo is about to encounter a busy shift. Throughout the day heterogeneous characters get into his taxi and the most varied situations arise. One of them leaves a baby in the taxi and Tadeo must find out where the little one belongs. He tackles ...

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Pero… ¡en qué país vivimos! (1967)

Antonio Torres, a serious singer of Spanish popular music, and Bárbara, a vivacious yé-yé singer, face off in a chaotic contest promoted by Rodolfo Sicilia, an overworked publicist. ...

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Historias de la televisión (1965)

Film divided into two stories: 1. Cuando los gorilas hablan por teléfono 2. ...

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Franco, ese hombre (1964)

A documentary that takes a broad overview of the life of the dictator, which is a review of the history of the twentieth century so far. Thus, the main events of the century are analyzed through the experience of Franco, who starred in many of them in this ...

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The Fair of the Dove (1963)

In Madrid, Spain, an omniscient narrator transforms Mari Loli and Merche, two beautiful sales clerks, into Susana and Casta, who flirt with Don Hilarión, an old apothecary, which arouses the jealousy of Julián, who is in love with Susana. ...

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Los derechos de la mujer (1963)

Juan marries prestigious lawyer María José. As she won't give up her career to become a housewife, during their wedding night Juan pretends to leave his job and acts out the role of a traditional housewife himself. ...

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El grano de mostaza (1962)

Evelino Galindo, the serious owner of a porcelain store, argues with the womanizer jeweler Orcajo for an insignificant game of dominoes. Evelino, enraged, challenges him the next day to a duel in the gym. But after meditating a bit he starts to get scared. ...

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El indulto (1960)

Spain, 1906: in a small village and pregnant after having been raped, Antonia is forced to marry the brutal Lucas to save her honor. But the mother of the girl pays Lucas 20,000 reales so that the man will never get any closer to Antonia or the child to be ...

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Diez fusiles esperan (1959)

During the first Carlist war in the 1830s in Spain a lieutenant falls into the enemy's hands and is arrested. When condemned, he claims he only wanted to see his newborn baby. ...

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Faustina (1957)

A conquering woman of love, power, and fame is challenged by the devil, as he too wants to conquer all. Even the devil learns that there is no wrath like a woman's scorn. ...

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Radio Stories (1955)

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 ...

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All Is Possible in Granada (1954)

Following meetings between Spain and the United States a delegation of a mining company arrives to Granada in search of uranium. The company contacted with the landowners, who agree to sell less of them. Such owner refuses because his ground a treasure sup ...

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The Eyes Leave a Trace (1952)

Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Robert enlists the help of Martin, because he believes he has killed a man who was about her lover. Martin se ...

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Don Juan (1950)

Don Juan leaves Venice and gets back to Seville, his home city. When he arrives there, he learns that his father is dead and has left all his properties to him, on codition that he marries Doña Inés. Don Juan makes up a former marriage, but when he meets ...

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Las aguas bajan negras (1948)

During the first Carlist war, Beatriz, daughter of an Isabeline colonel, secretly marries a Carlist captain who gets killed. Years later she returns to Rubiercos, an Asturian lost hamlet where she left her daughter, to find a troubled village where traditi ...

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La mies es mucha (1948)

Father Santiago Hernández, a Spanish missionary, arrives in Kattinga, India, to replace Father Daniel, who is seriously ill. ...

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Mariona Rebull (1947)

Barcelona, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. Joaquín Rius, a prominent businessman, marries the young Mariona Rebull. Their apparent happiness is overshadowed by the arrival of Ernesto Villar, Joaquín's friend and Mariona's former lover. ...

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Bambú (1945)

Alejandro is a young composer from Madrid who, overwhelmed by a sentimental and artistic failure, decides to enlist as a volunteer soldier and go to war-torn Cuba, where he befriends Antonio, who becomes his best friend. ...

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El destino se disculpa (1945)

Ramiro and Teófilo are great friends and endure their misfortunes together. Their attempts to succeed as artists fail, so they both promise that the first to die will become the guide to the survivor's life. ...

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El escándalo (1943)

In 1860s Madrid, Fabián Conde is a dissolute young man who drives his dishonored identity into a life of seduction and dueling. When he eventually falls in love, changes for good and finds the truth about his family, his two opposite friends give him cont ...

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Raza (1942)

The troubled story of the Churruca family, a noble lineage of brave seamen, descendants of Cosme Damián Churruca, the Spanish hero of the Battle of Trafalgar; from the Spanish-American War (1898) to the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). (In 1950, a ...

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¡A mí no me mire usted! (1941)

Anselmo is a teacher who, for his love to hypnotize people is fired from his job. When going through these bad times, he receives an inheritance from America and travels there to collect it. Although not much money, at least in America he gets an employmen ...

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Vía Crucis del Señor en las tierras de España (1940)

A expressive documentary and one of the earliest works of José Luis Sáenz de Heredia. ...

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Who Loves Me? (1936)

In order to save her marriage, the famous soprano Marta Vélez decides to retire from the stage. ...

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The Daughter of Juan Simón (1935)

Carmen and Ángel are in love but her mother does not approve their relationship. ...

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Movies Starring José Luis Sáenz de Heredia (8)

Buñuel (1984)

Completed a year after his death in 1983, this program presents the definitive biography of Spain's renowned Surrealist film maker and iconoclast, Luis Buñuel. Using photographs, film excerpts, and numerous interviews with Bunuel, the video chronicles his ...

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La boda o la vida (1974)

Elena is pregnant and Carlos, the future father does not have financial means to marry her. The solution is in a game show that offers substantial rewards to those who can correctly answer questions about the forties. Patricia, Elena's older sister, mobili ...

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El grano de mostaza (1962)

Evelino Galindo, the serious owner of a porcelain store, argues with the womanizer jeweler Orcajo for an insignificant game of dominoes. Evelino, enraged, challenges him the next day to a duel in the gym. But after meditating a bit he starts to get scared. ...

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Diez fusiles esperan (1959)

During the first Carlist war in the 1830s in Spain a lieutenant falls into the enemy's hands and is arrested. When condemned, he claims he only wanted to see his newborn baby. ...

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La gran mentira (1956)

César Neira, an almost forgotten Spanish actor, gets involved by chance with Teresa, a teacher from a small village in the province of Cáceres, who has won a radio contest. The prize is a trip to Madrid to experience just for a fortnight the life of the ...

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All Is Possible in Granada (1954)

Following meetings between Spain and the United States a delegation of a mining company arrives to Granada in search of uranium. The company contacted with the landowners, who agree to sell less of them. Such owner refuses because his ground a treasure sup ...

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Don Quintín, el amargao (1935)

A chronicle about the misadventures of Don Quintin, a character with a miserable life and a lot of bad humor. ...

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