Film · 1987
The Enchanted Forest
Original titleEl bosque animado
Directed by José Luis Cuerda · starring Alfredo Landa, Alejandra Grepi and Tito Valverde
- 1 h 47 min
- Comedy · Fantasy
Spain
- 8.5 Users2 votes
Synopsis
'The Enchanted Forest' embraces the storys of the most rare and extravagant characters, which will be taking form between its woods. In this way, from a bandier to a peter, passing also to a boy who doesn´t want to work, another emigrant girl or a phantom that, away of scaring, only looks for the company of someone. Those are the profiles that José Luis Cuerda presents on one of the 80´s movies most accepted by the critics. On this, also, it is showed two realities completely opposites between them: that one of a world marked by the poverty and that one of a rich environment. This last reality is represented by the people from Madrid who escape of the summer hot of the capital, the misses of the pazo or a woman who explote the children because all her worries have been reduced only to the love for the money, because of her irremediable singleness. Between this diverse atmosphere there is only one nexo that acts uniting all of them, which is the train that circulates over the woods and which only occupies of the transport of the passengers. 'The Enchanted Forest' is a 1987 movie directed by José Luis Cuerda and which adapts the novel of Wenceslao Fernández Florez.It counts with a cast composed by Alfredo Landa, Tito Valverde, Amparo Baró, Alejandra Grepi, Fernando Rey or Miguel Rellán
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The essentials
- Runtime
- 107 min1 hour and 47 minutes
- How long is The Enchanted Forest?
- 1 hour and 47 minutes (107 minutes).
- Who directed The Enchanted Forest?
- José Luis Cuerda.
- Who is in The Enchanted Forest?
- It stars Alfredo Landa, Alejandra Grepi, Tito Valverde and Fernando Rey.
Cast
Full cast (21)-
Alfredo Landa Malvís
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Alejandra Grepi Hermelinda
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Tito Valverde Geraldo
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Fernando Rey Sr. D'Abondo
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Encarna Paso Juanita Arruallo
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José Esteban Alenda Fuco
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Alicia Hermida Gloria Roade
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Amparo Baró Amelia Roade
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Manuel Alexandre Roque Freire
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Paca Gabaldón Sra. D'Abondo
- Director
- José Luis Cuerda
- Writers
- Rafael Azcona
- Producers
- Emiliano Otegui
- Cinematography
- Javier Aguirresarobe
Reviews
Awards
All the awards- Goya Awards 1988 4 of 4 nominations Won: Best Film, Best Actor
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