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PELÍCULAS PARA NO DORMIR

Películas para no dormir are six films about one hour which Chicho Ibáñez Serrador will coordinate and supervise. Participate one of the most prestigious directors in suspense and terror of our country. With this project they recovers the spirit of the great series Historias para no dormir emitted by TV forty years ago.

The titles that will form a part of this project are:

         
PARA ENTRAR A VIVIR

YEAR: 2006
COUNTRY: Spain
PRODUCER: Filmax / Telecinco
DIRECTOR: Jaume Balagueró
SCRIPT: Jaume Balagueró/ Alberto Marini
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Pablo Rosso
MUSIC: Roque Baños
DIRECCIÓ ARTÍSTICA: Alain Bainée
MUNTATGE: Frank Gutièrrez
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Spanish
CAST: Macarena Gòmez, Núria Gonzàlez, Adrià Collado, Ruth Díaz, David Saldaña, Roberto Romero.
GENE: Terror
TIME: 65 minuts

Clara and Mario go on with their car under the rain. They go to see a flat. Another more. Already they take seen dozens. Since they know they ‘ll expect a baby they are searching something bigger. But this time the agency insist that this was special.

The first impression isn’t good. Their flat seams left, empty… And all this remains of manikins in the floor, in the upstairs. The saleswoman of the agency told us that the town hall is rehabilitating the whole zone . In a few months will be a rich zone. In fact there are two families who are living there.

Go up to the third floor and open the door. Never they should have done it… their flat, all the building, is a trap; as a spider web that only know it when you are there.


CUENTO DE NAVIDAD

YEAR: 2005
COUNTRY: Spain
PRODUCER: Filmax
DIRECTOR: Paco Plaza
SCRIPT: Paco Plaza
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Javier Salmones
MUSIC: Miquel Salas
DIRECCIÓ ARTÍSTICA: Gemma Fauría
MUNTATGE: David Gallart
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Spanish
CAST: Maru Valdivielso, Cristian Casas, Roger Babia, Pau Poch, Daniel Casadella, Ivana Baquero
GENE: Terror
TIME: 91 minuts


A Christmas evening in 1985, five friends who lived in a town in the Costa Brava, believe to see somebody in the wood. This person result to be a thief who has fled to the prison and according to the Police, she is for the zone.

After a persecution across the wood they discover that the thief has fallen in a hole. Then the five friends decided to cover the hole with branches and leaves her a lesson.

When they return after a days the thief has died, for this they decided to say it to the authorities. On having come with a policeman to the place they discover that the hole is empty.


         

HISTORIAS PARA NO DORMIR

         
EL PACTO

YEAR: 1966
COUNTRY: Spain
PRODUCER: TVE
DIRECTOR: Chicho Ibàñez Serrador
SCRIPT: Chicho Ibàñez Serrador
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Spanish
CAST: Manuel Galiana, Roberto Llamas, Felix Dafauce, Maria Saavedra, Venancio Deus, Estanis Gonzàlez
GENE: Thriller
TIME: 62 minuts

Based on the Edgar Allan Poe tale El Caso del Sr. Valdemar, In this version by the TV the script is the original, dialogue by dialogue, achieving an appropriate climate and giving the strong plate of the conclusion with Valdemar's corpse.



EL TELEVISOR

YEAR: 1974
COUNTRY: Spain
PRODUCER: TVE
DIRECTOR: Chicho Ibàñez Serrador
SCRIPT: Chicho Ibàñez Serrador
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Spanish
CAST: Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Maria Fernanda D’Ocon, Estanis Gonzalez.
GENE: Thriller
TIME: 72 minuts

Enrique after a lot of years working hard has got a modest home. Enrique believes that is that time to allow a caprice: a colour television. The arrive of the television in his home fills it the pleasure, but all this pleasure will be an obsession. His family doesn’t explain how the television has change so much Enrique. He is incapable to see the fiction and the reality.



LA CABAÑA

YEAR: 1966
COUNTRY: Spain
PRODUCER: TVE
DIRECTOR: Chicho Ibàñez Serrador
SCRIPT: Alejandro Garcia Planas, Antonio Cotandas
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Spanish
CAST: Maria Esperanza Navarro, Elisa Ramirez, Pedro Sempson, Antonio Alcazar
GENE: Thriller
TIME: 31 minuts

Two friends are in excursion and suddenly they remain isolated in a mountain refuge. One of them died and her colleague buries her under the snow. Nevertheless the corpse appears in different places of the refuge.



EL FIN EMPEZÓ AYER

YEAR: 1982
COUNTRY: Spain
PRODUCER: TVE
DIRECTOR: Chicho Ibàñez Serrador
SCRIPT: Chicho Ibàñez Serrador
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Spanish
CAST: Manuel Tejada, Fernando Cebrian, Blanca Estrada, Joaquin Loyola, Jose Maria Caffarel, Natalia Dicenta
GENE: Thriller
TIME: 62 minuts

In an Italian University a teacher detect in one of his pupil a qualities who make them superior.
At the same time in the University happen strange crimes.


         
ANTONIO MERCERO

He was born in Lasarte (Guipuzcoa) on March 7, 1936. The Graduate studies in the College of the Marianistas of San Sebastian. He graduates in Law for the University of Valladolid in 1958. He obtains the Director's degree of Cinema in the year 1962 in the Official School of Cinema of Madrid. His practice of end of course Trotin Troteras is rewarded in the Biennial one of Art of Paris in 1965. His first professional work, the short Lesson of art obtains “La Concha de oro y la Perla del Cantábrico in the San Sebastian Festival (1962), besides the Prize of the National Union of the Spectacle and of a SPECIAL MENTION in Cork's Festival (Ireland). In 1963 he directs his first full-lenght film I know boy needs presented in Bordiguera's Festival (Italy). he directed series so emblematic as: Verano Azul , Turno de Oficio y Farmacia de Guardia.

         
LA CABINA





YEAR: 1972
COUNTRY: Spain
PRODUCER: TVE
DIRECTOR: Antonio Mercero
SCRIPT: José Luis Garci,
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Spanish
CAST: José Luis López Vázquez, Agustín González, Goyo Lebredo, Tito Garcia, Carmen Martínez Sierra, Carmen Luján, María Vico, Felipe Martín Puertas, Jose Montijano, Blaki, Mariano Banderas, Antonio Moreno, José Miguel Aguado, Jose Manuel Hoyos.
GENE: Thriller
TIME: 35 minuts

A normal man remains enclosed inside a telephone booth. When he pretends to go out all his efforts are iseless. The prisoner ,every time more distressed , try to communicate with the people who are outside without get it.


LA HABITACIÓN BLANCA


YEAR: 2000
COUNTRY: Spain
PRODUCER: TVE
DIRECTOR: Antonio Mercero
SCRIPT: Antonio Mercero
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Luis Berraquero
MUSIC: Carmelo A. Bernaola
FILM EDITING: Nieves Martín.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Spanish
CAST: Chete Lera, Fernando Guillen, José Sancho, Núria Hosta, José Ramon Argoitia, Txema Blasco, Toni Sevilla.
GENE: Terror
TIME: 52 Minuts

A citizen obsessed with the television. And that this one obsession will lead him to being dominated by it, for the own television. The device dominating the individual up to devouring it and to annihilate it.


         


     

 

 
 
 

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