Joaquín Jordá — Playwright (10)

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The hunter's commission (1990)
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other title: El encargo del cazador
Reconstruction of the life and work of Jacinto Esteva, architect, painter and adventurer, through the experiences of his daughter and friends. His words and memories also allow a panoramic view of the Barcelona of the sixties. But it is above all Daría, her daughter, who is in charge of recovering her father's memory.

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Monkeys Like Becky (1999)
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other title: Monos como Becky / Mones com la Becky
The first part of this documentary deals with the Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949, one of the first surgeons to apply the technique called lobotomy for the treatment of schizophrenia. The second part deals with the everyday life of people with schizophrenia today: behavior and relationships, and treatment for the disease.

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De nens (2003)
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other title: De niños
The film describes the scandal of pederastria that exploded in the neighborhood of the Raval of Barcelona and the trial that took place some years afterwards. Jordà analyzes the mechanisms of the justice and of the world of the medias.

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The Long Agony of Fish Out of Water (1970)
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other title: La larga agonía de los peces fuera del agua / La llarga agonia dels peixos fora de l’aigua
The singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat plays the role of a young fisherman named Joan from Ibiza (Eivissa) who falls hopelessly in love about a beautiful English tourist and it leaves everything to follow her to London, where he is introduced to the hippie world.

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El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free (1988)
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other title: Demain je serai libre / El Lute II: Mañana seré libre …
This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his mind. Nothing and no-one can stop him. After escaping the Puerto de Santa María prison, the reunion with his family is just the beginning of what will become an endless escape.

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Pau and His Brother (2001)
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other title: Pau et son frère / Pau y su hermano …
A death in the family brings a man back to his family and his hometown in this drama. After his brother Alex goes missing under hazy circumstances, Pau gets the bad news that Alex has died after a successful suicide attempt. Pau travels to the village in Spain's Pyrenees mountains where he was born to break the sad news to his mother Merce; hoping to spare her feelings at a difficult time, he tells her that Alex was killed in an auto accident. As Merce mourns the death of her son, she and Pau set out to find Alex's friends and acquaintances and tell them of his sad fate. In their travels, they encounter Sara, Alex's girlfriend, who planned to move away to the city with him; Emil, an engineer who will be putting a highway through the town; Marta, Emil's daughter; and Toni, one of Emil's co-workers. Circumstances bring Pau and Marta together again when Emil disappears, and Marta finds herself searching for her father.

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The People Who Own the Dark (1976)
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other title: Último deseo / 黑暗拥有者 …
A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents blinded, and soon they discover the existence of a sinister group called The People Who Own The Dark.