The Love of Captain Brando

1974 film

  • 21 June 1974 (1974-06-21)
[1]
Running time
93 minutesCountrySpainLanguageSpanishBox office141.3 million pesetas[1]

The Love of Captain Brando (Spanish: El amor del capitán Brando) is a 1974 Spanish drama film written and directed by Jaime de Armiñán, starring Ana Belén, Fernando Fernán Gómez, and Jaime Gamboa. It was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.[2] The film was a critical and commercial success and was one of the highest-grossing Spanish films at the time.[3]

Plot

The film follows the relationship of Aurora, a young school teacher, with two men of opposite generations who fall in love with her: Fernando, a middle age republican exile, and Juan, a thirteen-year-old boy who enjoys playing acting in Westerns, and his imitation of Marlon Brando gives the film its title.

Cast

  • Ana Belén as Aurora
  • Fernando Fernán Gómez as Fernando
  • Jaime Gamboa as Juan
  • Antonio Ferrandis as The major
  • Amparo Soler Leal as Amparo, Juan mother
  • Verónica Llimera as Kety, Juan aunt
  • Chus Lampreave as Doña Concha, the major's wife
  • Julieta Serrano as Maria Rosa
  • Fernando Marín as Panta
  • Pilar Muñoz as Sebas
  • Eduardo Calvo as the major secretary
  • Julia Lorente as Visitación
  • Aurora Marquez as Alicia

Production

It was shot in Pedraza, a medieval village in the province of Segovia, renamed Trescabañas in the film.[3]

Reception

By the end of 1975, the film had grossed 122.4 million, which made it the second highest-grossing Spanish film of all time behind Furtivos, released in September 1975, with 130 million.[4] By 1988, the film had grossed 141.3 million pesetas.[1]

Bibliography

  • Deveney, Thomas G: Cain on Screen: Contemporary Spanish Cinema, The Scarecrow Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8108-2707-7

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Boletín informativo del control de taquila. Datos de 1988 (PDF). ICAA. 1989. p. 148.
  2. ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for The Love of Captain Brando". imdb.com. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
  3. ^ a b Deveney, Cain on Screen, p. 172
  4. ^ Boletín informativo del control de taquila. Datos de 1975 (PDF). ICAA. 1976. p. 211.

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