Faustino Bretaño
Acting
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Known For
The Unruly Girl
Adaptation of the operetta of the same title. Mari Pepa, who works as a laundress, has gone to live in the neighborhood courtyard house, which is also tenant Felipe, who courted.
La Lola se va a los puertos
San Fernando Island, Cádiz, Spain, 1860. Lola embarks for Sanlúcar de Barrameda to go to the estate of Don Diego, a rich landowner who is in love with her.
The Sixth Sense
Carlos and his girlfriend Carmen are a happy and fun couple; however, his friend León and his girlfriend Luisa are quite the opposite; so Carlos recommends León to visit the mysterious Kamus —an artist, a drunkard, a philosopher—, in the hope that he can free him from his depressing and contagious existential pessimism…
¡Viva Madrid, que es mi pueblo!
The bullfighter Marcial Lalanda financed and starred in this film about the rivalry between two bullfighters for the ill-fated love of the same woman. It features scenes of bullfights shot by Enrique Blanco using polychromatic film for the first time in Spain. Considered one of the greatest Spanish silent films.
La Leona de Castilla
Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and emperor of the Hispanic Monarchy. While Juan de Padilla, leader of the uprising, and his captains, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado, fight against the imperial armies, his wife, María de Pacheco, rules the city of Toledo, capital of the rebels.
Currito de la Cruz
Currito, raised in a Seville hospice, ekes out a living while trying to become a bullfighter.
Agustina of Aragon
1808. During the Spanish Independence war the city of Zaragoza is besieged by French troops. Spanish forces under General Palafox are scarce. Brave Agustina doesn't hesitate to lead the battle and even fire a cannon to stop the invaders when others run away. Based on historical facts.
Dawn of America
Kingdom of Castile, the late fifteenth century. The film chronicles the events that Cristóbal Colón lived (Antonio Vilar) from their stay in the Convent of La Rabida, his meeting with the Catholic Monarchs and, above all, the great odyssey that led to cross the Atlantic and reach the shores of America (1492), thus beginning a new era in the history of mankind.
Macarena
The loves of a Sevilian girl living in a patio house at Macarena's quarter and his sweetheart Manolo are troubled by her older and generous housekeeper who is also in love with her.
Tuvo la culpa Adán
Nora leaves the convent where she has been raised to marry a relative. Just arrived she has an accident resulting in total amnesia. Her identity mistaken a new life begins for her, where she will encounter love, adventure and even crime.
Filmography
as Zacarias
as Mensajero que se arrodilla
as Innkeeper
as Vinatero
as Sr. Candelas
as Asaúra
as Chófer
as Carmona, padre de Macarena
as Arcadio Olmedo de Alcaraz
as Don Cristino
as Carmen's Father
as Don Lolo
as Copita