La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)

1h 34m

Documentary History

4

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.

Cast

Antonio Esquivias

Self - Narrator (voice)

Emeterio Díez Puertas

Self - Film Historian

Luis Casanova Iranzo

Self - V. Casanova's Nephew

José Luis Castro de Paz

Self - Film Scholar

Virginia Guarinos

Self - Film Scholar

Jaime Hernández de la Torre

Self - Historian

Luis Fernández Gimeno

Vicente Sánchez Biosca

Self - Film Scholar

Fátima Gil Gascón

Pablo León Aguinaga

Self - Historian

Fernando Fernández de Córdoba

Self - Actor (voice) (archive footage)

Gonzalo Queipo de Llano

Self - Spanish Military (archive footage)

Francisco Franco

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Self - Franco's Wife (archive footage)

Cesáreo González

Self - Film Producer (archive footage)

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Juan de Orduña

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Luis Carrero Blanco

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Vicente Casanova

Self - Film Producer (archive footage)

Self - Actress (archive footage)

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Crew

Francisco Rodríguez Fernández

Director, Writer

Andrés Torres de Torres

Director of Photography

Asís G. Ayerbe

Director of Photography

Executive Producer

Lourdes Sánchez Serrano

Producer, Production Director

Carlos Bernases

Manuel Rojas Jr.

Sound Mixer, Sound Recordist

Andrés Sánchez Padilla