Pájaros de papel

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Pájaros de papel
Directed by Emilio Aragón Álvarez
Written by Emilio Aragón Álvarez
Fernando Castets
Starring Imanol Arias
Lluís Homar
Fernando Cayo
Carmen Machi
Roger Príncep
Javier Coll
Diego Martín
Oriol Vila
Cristina Marcos
José Ángel Egido
Emilio Aragón
Luis Varela
Asunción Balaguer
Pedro Civera
Francisco Merino
Lola Baldrich
Music by Emilio Aragón Álvarez
Edited by José Salcedo
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
March 12, 2010
Running time
110 minutes
Country Spain
LanguageSpanish
Budget3.500.000

Pájaros de papel (English: Paper Birds) is a 2010 Spanish drama film directed by Emilio Aragón Álvarez, starring Imanol Arias. The film tells the story of a group of vaudeville artists in the hard times after the Spanish Civil War.

Emilio Aragón Álvarez Spanish director

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Plot

Jorge and Enrique are two performers in the post Spanish Civil War times that adopt an orphan child called Miguel. With a varieties company that travels around the country, Jorge and Enrique see the horrors left by the war meanwhile the "Nationals" watch Jorge and the rest of the company suspecting that some of them collaborate with the Republicans, opposite to the Franco's regime.

Spanish Civil War War between the Republicans and the Nationalists in Spain from 1936 to 1939

The Spanish Civil War took place from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with the Anarchists and Communists, fought against the Nationalists, an alliance of Falangists, Monarchists, and Catholics, led by General Francisco Franco. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war had many facets, and different views saw it as class struggle, a war of religion, a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, between fascism and anarchism. The Nationalists won the war in early 1939 and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975.

Francoist Spain Period of Spain (1936 to 1975)

Francoist Spain, known in Spain as the Francoist dictatorship, officially known as the Spanish State from 1936 to 1947 and the Kingdom of Spain from 1947 to 1975, is the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain as dictator with the title Caudillo.

Cast

Lluís Homar Spanish actor and theater director

Lluís Homar i Toboso is a Spanish actor and theater director from Barcelona. He is best known for his roles in Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education (2004) and Broken Embraces (2009), in Emilio Aragón's Paper Birds (2010), and for his portrayal of the robot Max in Kike Maíllo's film Eva (2011).

Carmen Machi Spanish actress

María del Carmen Machi Arroyo, professionally known as Carmen Machi is a Spanish actress. She's mostly known for her role as Aída García in 7 vidas and Aída.

José Ángel Egido actor

José Ángel Egido Pérez is a Spanish actor. He won the 2003 Goya award for Best New Actor for his performance as Lino in Mondays in the Sun.

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