In collaboration with the Filmoteca de Murcia, we celebrate the centenary of one of the greatest actors of our cinema, Francisco Rabal. From a filmography of more than two hundred titles, in which he worked with Buñuel, Bardem, Antonioni or Glauber Rocha, we have chosen three of his most remembered and award-winning interpretations. In 1954 stage There is a path to the right, a decisive role in its beginnings, prize for the best actor at the Sant Sebastià festival. In 1999 he resumed a character he had already played, Francisco de Goya, in Goya in Bordeaux, the beautiful film by Carlos Saura that earned him the Goya for best actor. But if there is one character for whom he will always be remembered, it is Azarías, of The holy innocents, extraordinary film by Mario Camus with which he won from the level with his co-star Alfredo Landa the prize for the best male performance at the Cannes festival. The film will be screened in a double program with the documentary Paco, my father, directed by his son Benito Rabal, who will accompany us in this homage to his father.
16.06.26 TUESDAY / 18.30 h Presentation and discussion with Benito Rabal, director of Paco, my father and assistant director of Los santos inocentes.
Paco, my father
BENITO RABAL. Spain. 1992. Color. 30′. Digital.
The filmmaker Benito Rabal takes a journey in his memory to get closer to the endearing figure of the actor Paco Rabal, his father. Through interviews, off narrations, recreations, photographic and film archives of the family, we can discover the humble origins and indisputable career of one of the most important actors in the history of Spanish cinema.
The holy innocents
MARIUS CAMUS. Spain. 1984. Color. 103′. Digital HD.
Int. Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal, Terele Pávez, Belen Ballesteros, Agata Lys, Agustín González, Juan Diego.
Franco's Spain. During the sixties, a family of farmers lives miserably in a farmhouse in Extremadura under the landlord's rule. His life is resignation, sacrifices and obedience. His fate is marked, unless some unforeseen event allows them to break their chains.
