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La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)

4.3 94 mins Documentary   History   2022
TVE   Enrique Cerezo   Sateco Documentalia  
Director(s): Francisco Rodríguez Fernández

Release Date: 05 Wed, Oct 2022

The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova family that managed to dominate the box office during the turbulent times of the Second Spanish Republic, the carnage of the Civil War and the hardships of the long post-war period and Franco's dictatorship — and survive until the sixties, when Spain was timidly beginning to change.

Casts of La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)

Antonio Esquivias

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Emeterio Díez Puertas

as Self - Film Historian

Luis Casanova Iranzo

as Self - V. Casanova's Nephew

José Luis Castro de Paz

as Self - Film Scholar

Virginia Guarinos

as Self - Film Scholar

Jaime Hernández de la Torre

as Self - Painter

Alfonso Gil

as Self - Historian

Luis Fernández Gimeno

as Self - Fallero

Vicente Sánchez Biosca

as Self - Film Scholar

Fátima Gil Gascón

as Self - Scholar

Pablo León Aguinaga

as Self - Historian

Fernando Fernández de Córdoba

as Self - Actor (voice) (archive footage)

Gonzalo Queipo de Llano

as Self - Spanish Military (archive footage)

Francisco Franco

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Rafael Gil

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Carmen Polo

as Self - Franco's Wife (archive footage)

Cesáreo González

as Self - Film Producer (archive footage)

Luis Lucia

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Juan de Orduña

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Luis Carrero Blanco

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Vicente Casanova

as Self - Film Producer (archive footage)

Sara Montiel

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Manuel Fraga

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

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