

La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)
2022 · Movie · 1h 34m
DocumentaryHistory
Overview
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.
Ratings
TMDB
4.3/10
Key crew
- Francisco Rodríguez FernándezWriter
- Francisco Rodríguez FernándezDirector
- Manuel EspínWriter
Cast
- Antonio EsquiviasSelf - Narrator (voice)
- Emeterio Díez PuertasSelf - Film Historian
- Luis Casanova IranzoSelf - V. Casanova's Nephew
- José Luis Castro de PazSelf - Film Scholar
- Virginia GuarinosSelf - Film Scholar
- Jaime Hernández de la TorreSelf - Painter
- Alfonso GilSelf - Historian
- Luis Fernández GimenoSelf - Fallero
- Vicente Sánchez BioscaSelf - Film Scholar
- Fátima Gil GascónSelf - Scholar
- Pablo León AguinagaSelf - Historian
- Fernando Fernández de CórdobaSelf - Actor (voice) (archive footage)
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Themes
cinema on cinemaspanish civil war (1936-39)franco regime (francoism)spanish second republic (1931-39)spanish historyfilm productionfilm censorshipspanish cinema






















