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Madrid
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Madrid is the capital city of the Kingdom of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole. The city has a population of almost 3.2 million with an area population of approximately 6.5 million. It is the third-largest city in the European Union after London and Berlin, the municipality itself covers an area of 604.3 km2. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the centre of both the country and the Community of Madrid, this community is bordered by the communities of Castile and León. As the capital city of Spain, seat of government, and residence of the Spanish monarch, Madrid is also the political, economic, the current mayor is Manuela Carmena from Ahora Madrid. Madrid is home to two football clubs, Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid. Madrid is the 17th most liveable city in the according to Monocle magazine. Madrid organises fairs such as FITUR, ARCO, SIMO TCI, while Madrid possesses modern infrastructure, it has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighbourhoods and streets. Cibeles Palace and Fountain have become one of the monument symbols of the city, the first documented reference of the city originates in Andalusan times as the Arabic مجريط Majrīṭ, which was retained in Medieval Spanish as Magerit. A wider number of theories have been formulated on possible earlier origins, according to legend, Madrid was founded by Ocno Bianor and was named Metragirta or Mantua Carpetana. The most ancient recorded name of the city Magerit comes from the name of a built on the Manzanares River in the 9th century AD. Nevertheless, it is speculated that the origin of the current name of the city comes from the 2nd century BC. The Roman Empire established a settlement on the banks of the Manzanares river, the name of this first village was Matrice. In the 8th century, the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula saw the changed to Mayrit, from the Arabic term ميرا Mayra. The modern Madrid evolved from the Mozarabic Matrit, which is still in the Madrilenian gentilic, after the disintegration of the Caliphate of Córdoba, Madrid was integrated in the Taifa of Toledo. With the surrender of Toledo to Alfonso VI of León and Castile, the city was conquered by Christians in 1085, Christians replaced Muslims in the occupation of the centre of the city, while Muslims and Jews settled in the suburbs. The city was thriving and was given the title of Villa, since 1188, Madrid won the right to be a city with representation in the courts of Castile. In 1202, King Alfonso VIII of Castile gave Madrid its first charter to regulate the municipal council, which was expanded in 1222 by Ferdinand III of Castile
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Javier Bardem
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Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor. Bardem won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in the 2007 Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men. Bardem has also won a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA, five Goya Awards and he is the first Spanish actor to be nominated for an Oscar, as well as the first Spaniard to win one. He received his third Academy Award nomination, and second Best Actor nomination, Bardem was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, Spain. His mother, Pilar Bardem, is an actress, and his father, the two separated shortly after his birth. Both his older brother and sister, Carlos and Mónica, are actors and he also comes from a political background, as his uncle Juan Antonio was imprisoned by Franco for his anti-fascist films. Bardem was brought up in the Roman Catholic faith by his grandmother, as a child, he spent time at theatres and on film sets. At age six, he made his first film appearance, in Fernando Fernán Gómezs El Pícaro and he also played rugby for the junior Spanish National Team. Though he grew up in a full of actors, Bardem did not see himself going into the family business. Actually, painting was his first love and he went on to study painting for four years at Madrids Escuela de Artes y Oficios. In need of money he took acting jobs to support his painting, but he also says he was a bad painter and eventually abandoned that career pursuit. In 1989, for the Spanish comedy show El Día Por Delante, he had to wear a Superman costume for a comedic sketch, Bardem has confessed to having worked as a stripper during his struggling acting career. Bardem came to notice in a role in his first major motion picture, The Ages of Lulu. The film, which starred a teenaged Penélope Cruz, was a major international success. He then starred again in Lunas next film Golden Balls, Bardems talent did not go unnoticed in the English-speaking world. In 1997, John Malkovich was the first to him, then a 27-year-old, for a role in English. His first English-speaking role came that year, in with director Álex de la Iglesias Perdita Durango. After starring in two dozen films in his native country, he gained international recognition in Julian Schnabels Before Night Falls in 2000
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El Gran Wyoming
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José Miguel Monzón Navarro, better known as El Gran Wyoming or Guayo, is a Spanish television presenter, actor, musician, director and humorist. He graduated in Medicine and was a doctor in the town of Buitrago del Lozoya for a period of time. He has hosted several programs such as Silencio se juega, La noche se mueve, the official reason given was low ratings of the program. In 1995 he returned to TV on the private channel Telecinco and he presented Caiga quien caiga from 1996 to 2002. He was firstly critical of the last Felipe Gonzalezs socialist government, in 2004 he obtained another program in Televisión Española, La Azotea de Wyoming. Since 2006 he presents El Intermedio on laSexta, and has been the scourge of PP by systematically reporting all problems of corruption within the ruling party,1990, Un vago, dos vagos, tres vagos. ISBN 84-7880-885-X1993, Te quiero personalmente, ISBN 978-84-339-1494-11997, Las aventuras del mapache. ISBN 84-204-5700-02000, Janos, el niño que soñaba despierto, colección de Cuentos Musicales La mota de polvo ISBN 978-84-95423-10-82013, No estamos locos. ISBN97884081186572014, No estamos solos, ISBN97884081315572016, ¡De rodillas, Monzón
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The Lucky Star (1997 film)
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La Buena Estrella is a 1997 Spanish drama film directed by Ricardo Franco and starring Antonio Resines, Jordi Mollá and Maribel Verdú. Critically acclaimed, the film won five Goya Awards, Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original script, Ricardo Franco made just one more film, he died of a heart attack in 1998. Rafael is a kind, good-hearted butcher and he has a lonely life after accidentally castrating himself while cutting meat several years before, but he longs to have a family life, a dream that seems unattainable for him. One early morning when he is driving his truck to his butcher’s shop, Rafael cannot help but intervene and jumps out of his vehicle to help her. Taking pity on the girl, he takes her to his home and her name is Marina and the man who was beating her was her boyfriend, Daniel. Marina, nicknamed One-Eye, tells Rafael how she and Daniel grew up together in an environment in an orphanage. Marina feels attach to Daniel, as they do not have anybody else, after knowing that Daniel is now in jail, Rafael proposes to Marina to take care of her and the baby. She gladly accepts his offer but warns him that Daniel sooner or later will come back, Marina and Rafael both grab the possibility to fulfill the impossible dream they once had to form a family. Rafael treats the troubled Marina with kindness and she responds by proving there is more than one way to be a man. In this way, the two find healing and happiness raising Marinas daughter, Estrella, that Rafael recognizes as his own, years later, their happiness is threatened by the sudden return of Daniel, fresh out of prison. He knocks on the one night, beaten and bleeding. He only wants a place to live, though he knows that Marina has strong, unresolved feelings for Daniel, Rafael does not want to lose her and reluctantly allows Daniel to stay for a few days that become weeks. With only lifetimes of strife in common, the three lonely, disaffected adults thus form an uneasy family, Marina is reluctant to be left alone with Daniel, is not he who she does not trust but her own feelings. Rafael to see her reaction goes to his house in the countryside. Rafael comes back soon unexpectedly finding Marina and Daniel together in bed and he initially wants them to leave but finally comes to accept an uncommon arrangement and the three of them remain together with their daughter forming an uneasy family. Daniel, who passes as Marina’s brother, helps Rafael in the Butcher’s shop and he finally leaves as Marina has said that he would do eventually. Nevertheless, not much later he is in trouble and Marina leaves to follow him, Rafael is now alone to take care of Estrella, the daughter. Time has gone by and watching the T. V news Rafael finds out that Daniel has been involved in a robbery with a band of criminals and is again in jail
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Antonio Resines
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Antonio Fernández Resines is a Spanish film and television actor. Cómo ser mujer y no morir en el intento, sé infiel y no mires con quién. Cheers Los Serrano Robles Investigador A las once en casa La banda de Pérez Los ladrones van a la oficina Eva y Adán, agencia matrimonial Antonio Resines at the Internet Movie Database
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Cecilia Roth
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Cecilia Roth is an Argentine actress. She is the winner of two Goya Awards and a European Film Award and she is known for being an Almodóvar girl and the muse of Fito Páez during the 1990s. Roths father, Abrasha Rotenberg, is a Ukrainian of Jewish origin who moved in the 1930s to Buenos Aires, where he worked as a writer, editor, cecilias mother, the singer Dina Rot, was born in Mendoza and spent her childhood in Santiago de Chile. Her brother, Argentine musician Ariel Rot, is a member of the band Los Rodríguez. Roth was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina into a Jewish family and she began as an actress in Argentina, until 1976 when she fled the military dictatorship and moved to Spain. Roth has had success in Spanish film since her first appearances in Las verdes praderas, by José Luis Garci, Arrebato, by Iván Zulueta. Roths most prominent movies include Un lugar en el mundo and Martín and she is also well known for her leading role in Todo sobre mi madre, by Almodóvar. Roth won Goya Awards for Best Actress with both directors, Roth has also made noteworthy appearances in numerous television series, including the soap operas Por amor, together with Arnaldo André and Marita Ballesteros, and Nueve lunas. She also appeared in the mini-series Laura y Zoe together with Susú Pecoraro, Epitafios with Julio Chávez and Leonardo Sbaraglia and she was first married to Gonzalo Gil, then later married to Argentine singer-songwriter Fito Páez for some years, with whom she adopted a child, Martín. Joaquin Sabina composed the song Cecilia for Roth and Páez, the song is a passionate love letter to Roth that describes their relationship. Roth also had a relationship with young Argentine actor Gonzalo Heredia until 2010, in addition to her career in film and television, Roth has also worked in theater in Argentina, as well as in Spain. She is currently working, together with Darío Grandinetti, on the Philippe Blasband play, sant Jordi Award for Todo sobre mi madre. Epitafios Cecilia Roth at the Internet Movie Database Cecilia Roth at Cinenacional. com
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Secrets of the Heart (film)
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Secrets of the Heart is a 1997 Spanish film. The film was a Box Office hit in Spain grossing ESP711,092,434 and it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards. During the holidays, Javi and his older brother Juan go to a mountain village, there Javi is attracted by a secret, concealed in the closed room where his father died. The childs curiosity will be satisfied and will lead him to a surprising discovery, armendáriz has had a brief film career and appears in such works as Historias del Kronen, Tasio and Las cartas de Alou. co. uk
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Live Flesh (film)
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Live Flesh is a 1997 Spanish romantic drama thriller film, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Liberto Rabal, Javier Bardem, and Francesca Neri. The film is based on Ruth Rendells book Live Flesh. The Franco regime has declared a state of emergency curtailing civil liberties, a young prostitute, Isabel Plaza Caballero, gives birth on a bus to a son she names Víctor. Twenty years later, Víctor Plaza shows up for a date with Elena, Elena is waiting for her drug dealer to arrive and orders Víctor to leave, eventually threatening him with a gun. Enraged, Víctor wrestles the gun from her, in the process Elena gets knocked out, a neighbour hears the shot and calls the police. Two cops respond to the report, the older cop, Sancho, is an unstable alcoholic who suspects his wife Clara of infidelity. The younger cop, David, more clean-cut and sober, through the window they catch sight of Víctor physically struggling with Elena. Sancho is ready to storm the apartment, while David wants to call for a back-up, when they enter, Víctor holds Elena hostage at gunpoint. David tries to him down and get him to drop his gun. Finally, David puts his gun to Sanchos head and gets first Sancho, Sancho then lunges for Víctor, and as they wrestle for the gun it fires. Two years later, Víctor, in jail, watches a wheelchair basketball match, David, now partially paralyzed from the gunshot two years earlier, is a star player in the 1992 Summer Paralympics. Elena, now his wife, cheers him on from the sidelines, Víctor has made good use of his time in jail, taking a correspondence course in education, working out, and enriching his mind with a variety of subjects, including the Bible. Four years later, he is released and his mother has died, leaving him some money and a house in am area scheduled for demolition. Víctor visits his mothers grave, where he encounters Elena at her fathers burial service, without identifying himself, he briefly offers her his condolences. Before leaving the cemetery he encounters Sanchos wife Clara, who has arrived too late for Elenas service and they leave together and she visits his apartment. Elena, now off drugs and operating an orphanage, tells David of her encounter with Víctor, David stops by Víctors house and warns him not to go near his wife. Víctor challenges him to prevent him doing whatever he wants. David leaves, but he sees Clara arriving and watches from a distance, Clara, drawn by Víctors enthusiasm and good looks, agrees to teach him how to make love while pampering him with gifts and affection
