Gaudí and his work in the cinema. Analysis, considerations and catalog ® Author: Mario Andruet * FundaciónAntonioGaudí

*Architect. President of Fundación Antonio Gaudí

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SUMMARY The work of Gaudí has always aroused passions for and against both among his colleagues and public opinion. That is why it is striking that the fiction film scarcely put its eyes on him. The documentary genre, on the other hand, has an endless list of productions and the architect's work was used profusely as a film setting. This article aims to make a contribution to the knowledge of the figure and the work of Gaudí as it was considered in the cinema. At the end, a catalog of the films dedicated to Gaudí or his work as a stage is included.

The work of Gaudí never went But apparently Gaudí was not caught unnoticed. From the first moment it by that way of life of luxuries. It was drew public attention and aroused architecture that did it, leaving little passions for and against both among room for other concerns. His father his colleagues and in public opinion. and niece were his only family and it is known by diverse references of His uninhibited creations contrast some amorous intents that did not with a personal character marked by succeed. a certain detachment to everything This remarkable imbalance between a but his work that confined his life in a reserved man and his expressive, frame of self-imposed restraint, only intense and exuberant production surpassed by the effervescence of was the subject of all kinds of youth or by the influence of extrovert speculations fueled by the shortage of Eusebi Güell, his patron and friend, writings by Gaudí and the who introduced him to the social life unfortunate fire of his workshop and of bourgeoisie. archive in 1936 that destroyed almost

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all the documentation that could The theme that is to be discussed provide accurate data. here, the life and work of Gaudí in the cinema, will be divided into five Thus we find in his extensive categories: Actuated cinema, bibliography mystical exaltations, documentaries, Gaudí's work as a diverse accusations, insinuations setting for films sets of films that copy about his personal life, exaggerated the works of Gaudí, and finally the apologies or attribution of belonging figure of Gaudí in productions aimed to secret societies, among many at children. It is by no means a closed other statements of which there is no list, since from time to time a finding evidence. The only thing recognized is produced thanks to the incessant by the protagonist was to have bad growing fame of the great architect's reactions in front of those who had work. no real interest in his work. Perhaps he considered that they made him THE FIGURE OF GAUDÍ IN THE waste his time. Everything else is FICTION CINEMA speculation. Referred to fiction films about Gaudí So, it is surprising that the cinema has and his work we find that it was only not put its eyes on Gaudí enough. treated twice in feature films, in one This art that requires the viewer a short film, and in a fourth case it was concentration that abstracts him from a "false documentary" exercise. reality to immerse him for a few "Gaudí" minutes in another world -the one of the actors and their stories-, art that The first we have knowledge of was when is well done can produce deep the film "Gaudí" of 1960, produced emotions, draw psychological and directed by José María Argemí. portraits and show in all its The architect is played by actor Carlos dimensions the characteristics of an Mendi, born uruguayan and based in era or a person, has nevertheless . bypassed such an attractive figure. It is based on the text "Gaudí, una 1 The aforementioned is applicable to novela" by Mario Lacruz, which, fiction films, since the documentary however, was not published until genre has an endless list that would 2004. It centers the story on the topic be impossible to review in the short of the evolution of the architect from space of this article. a youth of dissipated and anticlerical

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life that changes with the passage of example in the famous "Doctor years in a mystic character who in his Zhivago". maturity becomes obsessed with the concretion of his great work: the “Antoni Gaudí, una visión Temple of the Holy Family. inacabada” ("Antoni Gaudí, an unfinished vision")

The second fiction film about the great architect and has a curious history. An American film director, John Alaimo, visited Barcelona in 1960 and was fascinated by Gaudí's buildings.

Since then he put his effort in making a movie that would show his work in depth. He contacted Joan Bergós Massó, who was a disciple of the architect and had published few years before a book with the compilation of the master's sayings.2 Also collaborated a then young admirer of the architect, Joan Bassegoda Nonell. Movie poster of “Gaudí”, by José María Argemí

This movie did not have great Together they gave form to a script diffusion and remained only as a that nevertheless did not get to product that acquired value as a materialize in a film due to lack of curiosity after the explosion of financing until 1974 thanks to the interest in Gaudí in the last two credit provided by a bank. This was decades. however the reason why the film was not shown because the impossibility As remarkable data it should be noted of returning the money led to the that the music was composed by the embargo of the tapes and rights. great author Xavier Montsalvatge, and that one of the performers, José After 35 years the historian Carles María Caffarel, had a long career as a Querol located a copy in the archives supporting actor appearing for of the financial institution, that finally

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was ceded to the Filmoteca de after he suffers the unfortunate Catalunya. accident that ended his life.

It is a fiction where the protagonist makes almost a monologue of the sayings that Bergós compiled when he was Gaudi’s assistant, compiled in the aforementioned book.

The film could have been starred by another great actor, Fernando Rey, who finally could not evade other previous commitments and left his place to Lopez Vázquez.

"Gaudí"

Until 1988 we don’t find another approach by the seventh art to the figure of Gaudí. The film "Gaudí" is an exercise in biographical documentary in black and white with false interviews made as if they had been Photograms of “Antoni Gaudí, una visión shot after the death of the architect inacabada”, by John Alaimo by actors who play characters from This film never premiered had the their environment, since as is known participation of the great actor José there are no film images of him. If Luis López Vázquez playing the there were, they were destroyed architect. during the Civil War. The director, Manuel Huerga, explained that he The action takes place during the last was expressly inspired by the film two days of Gaudí’s life when a young "Zelig" by Woody Allen, where an student of architecture from Madrid imaginary documentary with the approaches to ask him about the appearance of reality is filmed. 3 guidelines of his work. The Master accesses and explains him his sources Collaborated in the realization of this of inspiration in nature and his film Albert Gasset i Nicolau, the conceptions from that vision. Shortly cameraman who filmed the funeral of

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Gaudí in 1926, located by a environment of the time are photograph of that event. articulated.

“Güell i Gaudí, un projecte comú” It is filmed in black and white except ("Güell i Gaudí, a common project") for the final sequences that symbolize the accident suffered by Gaudi by a Within the framework of the tram, where in a sort of review of his innumerable events that took place life in the death trance appear during the 2002 Gaudí Year successive color images of some of his (sesquicentennial of the architect's works. birth), the Diputació de Barcelona commissioned the director Joan DOCUMENTARIES ON GAUDÍ Riedweg to make a short film. As it was said the list is vast and there In its 20 minutes of duration this film are of all kinds, although in general shot in Catalan narrates some they repeat topics over and over conversations between Eusebi Güell again. The artistic and the possibilities and Gaudí, performed by Abel Folk of each production makes de and Ramon Madaula respectively. The difference. action takes place during some carriage rides in four different stages Ther is almost no TV channel that has of the relationship between these not produced any, especially since the two great characters. global spread that brought by the 2002 Gaudí Year. They are available to everyone in the web and social networks so here we simply invite to make a search to select the most suitable depending on the interest of each one. We will only refer here four examples that stand out for different reasons.

Fhotogram of “Güell i Gaudí, un projecte comú”, by Joan Riedweg "Antoni Gaudí"

Throughout the film many of the First we’ll mention a rather modest phrases and expressions that are work in front of the wealth of means known or attributed to Gaudí and of so many great productions, but some brushstrokes about the social instead contributes a distinctive seal.

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This is "Antoni Gaudí" by the restorations of the last decades. Japanese director and producer Another noteworthy note is the brief Hiroshi Teshigahara, from 1985. appearance of Isidre Puig Boada, disciple of Gaudí and then co-director In just over an hour this film with of works of the Sagrada Familia, almost no words but suggestive interviewed by the Japanese director music, shows with great sensitivity of the film. details of Gaudí's works that seem to speak about the expressive, formal “Antonio Gaudí” and functional intentions of the Shot in 1961 by director Ken Russell architect and his underlying poetry in for a series of 21 BBC documentaries each corner. about art. His interest lies in being the

Photograms of “Antoni Gaudí”, by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Another interesting aspect is the counterpart of the previous one, with vision of Gaudí's works in those years careful black and white images and a prior to the tourist boom in voiceover that explains Gaudí's Barcelona. For example, the Park theories. Güell when neighborhood residents Faced with the spirituality that and children playing predominated emanates from the Japanese film, there, as Gaudí had thought for the that of Russell, also of careful inhabitants of the urbanization. realization, delves into technical and It is also remarkable the vision of the geometric foundations with a broken ceramic tiles (“trencadis”) of perspective that without ignoring its the type and colors as the architect symbolic background denotes an projected and that in a great analytical western visión far from that percentage disappeared with the one of Teshigahara’s film.

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“Barcelona, Perla del Mediterráneo” attractions of the city the Parc de la ("Barcelona, Pearl of the Ciutadella and its waterfall. Mediterranean") It shares with the previous one the The other case that should be honor of showing the work of Gaudí highlighted is a documentary film for the first time in film scenes. shot by Cabot Films in 1912 for the THE ARCHITECTURE OF GAUDÍ AS A promotion of the city commissioned FILM SCENE by the recently created “Sociedad de Atracción de Forasteros” ("Society of In addition to those already Outsiders Attraction") titled mentioned there are about thirty "Barcelona, Perla del Mediterráneo”. films in which Gaudí's work is part of The waterfall of the Park of the the set. We will comment on the Ciutadella and the then recently most outstanding of them: finished Park Güell can be seen among the main attractions of “La Reina Joven” Barcelona. Also in a shot of a trip ("The Young Queen") along the Passeig de Gràcia can be We start with this silent movie seen the shapes of La Pedrera among production of 1916 with the Catalan the branches of the trees. actress Margarita Xirgu as Its main value is its character as a protagonist. historical document since these are Based on the homonymous work by the first known filmic images of Àngel Guimerà, a large part of it is Gaudí's works. staged in Park Güell. The viaducts are Interestingly, this tape remained the garden of a Royal Palace that in missing until it was found casually in a the film will be ceded to the city, as a flea market, and is now owned by the premonition of what indeed Dutch Film Library of Amsterdam. happened with the Güell Enterprise some years after. The famous stairs Barcelona. Principale ville de are the entrance to the palace. For Catalogne the setting some curious guard posts The same year 1912 the director were added. There are also some Segundo de Chomón filmed another scenes filmed in the colonnade of the documentary about Barcelona of only Hypostyle Hall and in the viaducts of 4 minutes showing among other Park Güell

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Photograms of “La Reina Joven”, by Magín Muriá For todat’s eyes it is a naive movie to Espert and José María Blanco. It is a the point that can produce smiles, psychological drama about the although its argument does not feelings of a woman who seeks the ignore however the social problems remedy for her dissatisfaction. that caused serious events at that The scenes take place in various time such as the tragic week of 1909. buidings by Gaudí: La Pedrera, Park The film is currently accessible thanks Güell, Casa Batlló, Cripta Güell, Finca to the fact that a copy was restored Güell and the Sagrada Familia. Filmed by the IVAM (Valencian Institute of in black and white, the director Art). confers an almost expressionist aesthetic to the scenes on the "Biotaxia" staircase of Casa Batlló or La Pedrera.

It is a film of 1967 scripted and A very interesting fact is that can be directed by José María Nunes. The seen the attic of La Pedrera after the leading roles were in charge of Núria reform of 1953 with apartments built

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by architect Francisco Barba Corsini, These characteristics stand out in according to the taste of the time, films like "Dante no es únicamente especially in a long scene in which the severo" (1967), by Joaquim Jordà and protagonist seems lost in a labyrinth Jacinto Esteva and "Cada vez que ..." formed by the revoked brick arches. (1968), by Carlos Durán. With the restoration of 1996 they disappeared, leaving this film as a The latter contains interesting scenes document that shows that curious shot in Park Güell with a marked intervention. aesthetic influenced by Pop-Art.

Photograms of “Biotaxia”, by José Maria Nunes The film is among the production of “Últimas tardes con Teresa” the "School of Barcelona", current ("Last afternoons with Teresa") film inspired by the French cinema of In this 1984 film directed by Gonzalo the time whose authors saw in the Herralde, a drama about the social work of Gaudí the concretion of contrasts in the Barcelona of the modernity in front of the established, 1950s, there is a brief scene in the which was the flag of this movement, Park Güell and another equally and urban settings as the place to fleeting but very interesting inside show everyday life.4 one of the apartments in the attic of

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La Pedrera, which despite being critics, which was nominated for the almost a fixed plan, shows in colors a Palme d'Or at the 1975 Cannes Film wall covered with stone, the arches Festival. plastered in white and a chimney and a spiral staircase that respond fully to "Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona" the "American style" that the Film by Woody Allen of 2008. His architect Barba Corsini gave to these mention here responds to the spaces. interest generated by the vision of Gaudi's work by this famed filmmaker. The film is about the relationships of an artist and two young american tourists, with scenes with the Finca Güell, the Sagrada Familia and the Park Güell as background. Photogram of “Últimas tardes con Teresa”, showing theinterior of one of the apartments in the attic of La Pedrera THE WORK OF GAUDÍ INSPIRING “The passenger” MOVIE SCENERIES It is a 1975 film by Michelangelo Another interesting aspect of the Antonioni about a journalist who relationship between the great changes his identity with a deceased architect of and the seventh art arms dealer, which initiates a series of is the scenography inspired by his events that serve as excuse to baste work. Two cases are related here, reflections on the destiny and the although as in all the categories the illusion of escaping from oneself. lists should not be considered closed since always can occur a new finding. Jack Nicholson plays the leading role and the action takes him through In this section we can see that the many countries. Several scenes were two examples correspond to shot in Barcelona at La Pedrera, Palau entertainment films dedicated mostly Güell and Park Güell, where the to childrens and teenagers, and that a director uses Gaudí’s spaces as curious relationship between Gaudí's asimbolic scenario, specially in the work and extravagant settings where scen at tha terrace of La Pedrera.5 It is singular characters live is set, in a a film considered a masterpiece by biased and superficial view.

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"Casper" As in the previous case, it is a film that fulfills its purpose effectivelly It is an entertaining film of 1995 without other artistic aspirations. In produced among others by the the Santa Claus workshop can be seen famous Steven Spielberg that tells a the windows of the Güell Crypt and story about a tenebrous house other architectural elements inspired inhabited by ghosts: The Whipstaff by that building by Gaudí. There are Mansion, where the film takes place. also recognizable openings frames Among them is the one who gives the that remind those of Casa Batlló. film its name, kind and friendly. THE FIGURE OF GAUDÍ IN In this house many of its rooms PRODUCTIONS FOR CHILDREN literally reproduce elements of Gaudí's works: Windows and doors A separate chapter is the treatment and the spiral ceiling of Casa Batlló, of the figure of Gaudí in productions carpentry of La Pedrera and columns devoted to children. This class of films inspired by Palau Güell and Casa was developed since the Gaudí Year Calvet, as well as parabolic arches 2002, as an effect of the enormous reminiscent of Teresian College. popularization of the figure of Gaudí. There can be pointed out a couple of examples: There are two chapters of the animated series “Las tres mellizas” ("The Three Twins") in which the sisters collaborate with Gaudí and make him an party of their mischief.

Photogram of “Casper” showing the Gaudí also had in 2017 a dedicated reproduction of the ceiling of the living episode of "Los Lunnis", where the room of Casa Batllló famous puppets explain the work of "The Santa Clause 2" the architect to children.

This production of Walt Disney IN CONCLUSION Pictures of 2002 directed by Michael Lembeck is part of a saga in which the From the review of the work of Gaudí famed actor Tim Allen plays the main seen through the cinema some character. remarks can be made. Referred to the

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cinema performed on Gaudí and his concerns that could separate him work, we find that surprisingly, this from his great passion: architecture. figure with an effervescent interior In some cases one new prejudice life materialized in a fascinating work about Gaudí's work is added, such as was only treated directly on three its use as inspiration for extravagant occasions, to which a fourth one is scenographies. added in the form of fiction documentary as a cinematographic Conversely there are magnificent uses experiment. of Gaudí's spaces as a framework to accentuate special situations These approaches focus on the two demanded by scripts. It is remarkable visions that recur cyclically in Gaudí's the vision of the architecture of Gaudí bibliography: On the one hand, those that can be seen in "The passenger" who exalt to an exaggerated level or in "Biotaxia". thisreligiosity, close to holiness in life, and on the other, those who seek to It is remarkable the value granted to undermine the previous image by Gaudí's works by the filmmakers foisting Gaudí an anticlerical and enrolled in the "School of Barcelona", close to anarchism youth that the who identified themselves with their architect sought to redeem in a unprejudiced and free of ties conversion in his maturity expression. consecrated to penance and work.

These topics are found in the writings about Gaudí even in the architect's lifetime, tinged with the ideas of those who drove them and with time far from moderating they are frequently rekindled. The somewhat exalted positioning does not reveal the reality of a man concentrated in his work, undoubtedly religious, with the contradictions of any human being, perhaps a little frustrated in his personal aspirations to have a family Photograms of “Cada Vez que…”, by Carlos life and alien to politics and other Durán

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They adopted Gaudís spaces as a 1 Lacruz, Mario (2004): Gaudí, la novela de una setting for films that tried to portray vida. Ediciones B. ISBN: 9788466615532. Edited the renovating spirit and the in 2014 by Funambulista. ISBN: 9788496601895 explosion of creativity that was 2 Bergós Massó, Joan. Antoni Gaudí. L’home i expanding in Barcelona in the 1960s l’obra. Ed. Aedos. 1953 as a reflection of what was happening . in the rest of the world.6 3 http://manuelhuerga.com/gaudi/article/sobre- el-film-79 On the other hand, his work seems 4 “The ability of the Nouvelle Vague to create less understood when trying to mythical places is reproduced in the filmmakers typecast it as a paradigm of a of the School of Barcelona. Thus, the bar Les Deux Magots or the avenue of the Champs 7 Barcelona for tourists. The mass of Elysées are in Barcelona the Tuset bar or the tourism in the city exploded from the Park Güell, scenes of the daily life of the youth to which the Catalan artists belong.(….) spaces 1992 Olympic Games and Gaudí's of a new youth that seeks in the creation of main works became iconic images in these emblematic sites the distancing of their parents' generation”. (Translation of the films where a happy and aseptic Author). Miguel, Lucía. (2011) Barcelona is drawn. The success of 5 the "Gaudí Year 2002" contributed “Antonioni reduces that visionary space into an almost trivial, incongruous arabesque, an urban impulse to that tendency and it was maze” Martí-Olivella, Jaume. “Textual Screens not alien to the phenomenon a and City Landscapes: Barcelona and the Touristic Gaze.” Chasqui, vol. 34, 2005, p. 84 certain vocation to prioritize that 6 model of city,8 but that is a subject This vision of Gaudí's work is very remarkable at a time when the dominant architectural trend that escapes what is here: Gaudí and was the "International Style", the result of his work in the cinema. stereotyping and reducing some principles of the "Modern Movement" to a dogma, although an opening towards other currents could The cinema owes Gaudí what the already be perceived. In this context, Gaudí's great architect gave to the history of work was far from having the current unanimous recognition. In the 1970s art: a work that portrays the human Postmodernism in architecture will emerge as a being that was able to gather in a result of the crystallization of the renovating ideas conceived in previous years. It is unique architectonic synthesis the interesting to note that among the members of arts and the scientific knowledge of the "School of Barcelona" was Ricardo Bofill, who then made some films, and as an architect his time, all impregnated in a deep will be one of the world leaders of respect and an inexhaustible ability to Postmodernism.

inspire in nature seeking to learn 7 Carrasco, Cristina. (2012), pp. 100-101 about the laws that govern it, in an 8 Andruet, Mario. Ciutat espectacle. Butlletí de la attitude noticeably anticipated to its Cambra de la Propietat Urbana de Barcelona time. núm. 442. July 2006.

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LIST OF FILMS ABOUT GAUDÍ OR La reina joven WITH ITS ARCHITECTURE AS STAGE (The young queen) Spain, 1916 Below is a list in chronological order Director: Magín Muriá of the films in which the figure of Actors: Margarita Xirgú, Ricardo Puga Gaudí is dramatized or its Script: Magín Muriá architecture is used as a set, whether Based on the homonymous novel by real or inspired. The list can not be Àngel Guimerà. considered exhaustive, since a new 53 minutes finding often happens. As for the Spanish subtitles documentaries, of the long list only The film is staged in Park Güell as a those that are specially highlighted garden and entrance to a Royal are mentioned. Palace

Barcelona, perla del Mediterráneo Barcelona (Barcelona, pearl of the Spain, 1926 Mediterranean) Director: Josep Gerard Spain, 1912 Documentary showing the tram trip Cabot Films through La Rambla and Passeig de 8:29 minutes Gràcia, where can be seen works by Documentary film for tourist Gaudí, especially Casa Milà promotion of the city in which Park Güell and the Cascade of the Parc de Gaudí la Ciutadella appear Spain, 1960 Director: José María Argemí Barcelona. Principale ville de Actors: José María Caffarel , Mario Catalogne Beut , Rafael Anglada Spain, 1912 Script: José María Argemí, Mario Director: Segundo de Chomón Lacruz 4 minutes 93 minutes Documentary that shows a trip from Language: Spanish the Columbus monument to the Parc Fiction about the life of Gaudí based de la Ciutadella, where among other on "Gaudí, una novela", by Mario views is seen the waterfall Lacruz

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Antonio Gaudi Psychological drama about the United Kingdom, 1961 feelings of a woman who seeks in an Director: Ken Russell old love the remedy to her Producer: BBC dissatisfaction. Language: English Appear La Pedrera, the Park Güell, Documentary for the series Molitor- Casa Batlló, Güell Crypt, Finca Güell Artes of the BBC that shows and the Sagrada Familia magnificent black and white images of the work of Gaudí Dante no es únicamente severo (Dante is not only severe) No temas a la ley Spain, 1967 (Do not fear the law) Directors: Joaquim Jordà-Jacinto Spain-France, 1963 Esteva Director: Víctor Merenda Actors: Serena Vergano, Enrique Actors: Marisa Prado, Frank Villard, Irazoqui Arturo Fernández Script: Joaquim Jordà-Jacinto Esteva Script: Yvan Noé, Víctor Merenda, Producer: Filmscontacto José Antonio de la Loma, Salvador 78 minutes Arias Language: Spanish 75 minutes Film considered the maximum Language: Spanish expression of the "School of Based on a novel by Yvan Noé, this Barcelona", represents a style of film with little commercial success is cinema faced against the traditional a drama about a strange relationship conception of narrating a story, with marked by a murder the work of Gaudí as a background of Appears La Pedrera several scenes

Biotaxia L’inconnu de Shandigor Spain, 1967 Switzerland, 1967 Director: José María Nunes Director: Jean-Louis Roy Actors: Núria Espert, José María Actors: Marie-France Boyer, Ben Blanco, Carmen Romero Carruthers, Daniel Emilfork Script: José María Nunes Script: Jean-Louis Roy, Gabriel Arout 94 minutes y Pierre Koralnik Language: Spanish 97 minutes

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Language: French Nominated for the Palme d'Or (best Parody of spy movies, it is a fantastic film) at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival spy film, according to its creator Appears La Pedrera Appears La Pedrera Cada vez que… Tuset Street (Everytime that…) Spain, 1968 Spain, 1968 Director: Luis Marquina Director: Carlos Durán Actors: Sara Montiel, Patrick Actors: Luis Ciges, Jaap Guyt, Serena Bauchau, Teresa Gimpera Vergano Script: Rafael Azcona, Jorge Grau Script: Carlos Durán, Joaquim Jordà Producer: Cesáreo González P.C / Producer: Filmscontacto Proesa 85 minutes 92 minutes Language: Spanish Language: Spanish Another emblematic film of the Portrait of the life of rich young "School of Barcelona" that in this people in Barcelona in the 60s, with case shows the concerns of young the famous Sara Montiel acting and people of that time with the singing, and the work of Gaudí as an disjointed style typical of that icon of modernity for the filmmakers current. of the "School of Barcelona" Scenes with a marked "Pop-art" character filmed in Park Güell. España, otra vez (Spain, again) Antoni Gaudí, an unfinished vision Spain, 1968 (Antoni Gaudí, una visión Director: Jaime Camino inacabada) Actors: Manuela Vargas, Mark Spain, 1974 Stevens, Marianne Koch Director: John Alaimo Script: Jaime Camino, Roman Actors: José Luis López Vázquez, José Gubern, Alba Bessie María Lana 107 minutes Script: John Alaimo, Joan Bassegoda Language: Spanish Nonell Drama about a doctor who returns to 45 minutes Barcelona after 30 years Language: Spanish/English

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Unpublished fiction film that Jugando con la muerte describes the last 48 hours of Gaudí’s (Playing with the death) life Mexico-Spain, 1982 Director: José Antonio de la Loma The passenger Actors: George Rivero, Max von (Professione: reporter) Sydow, George Peppard, Chuck Italy, 1975 Connors Director: Michelangelo Antonioni Script: José Antonio de la Loma Actors: Jack Nicholson, Maria 100 minutes Schneider, Jenny Runacre Language: Spanish Script: Michelangelo Antonioni, Mark Action film on anti-drug agents Peploe, Peter Wollen Appears La Pedrera 119 minutes Language: English Action film about a journalist who La plaza el Diamante changes his identity for an (La plaça del Diamant) investigation, which weaves Spain, 1982 reflections on destiny Director: Francesc Bertriu Appear La Pedrera, Palau Güell and Actors: Silvia Munt, Lluís Homar, the Park Güell Joaquim Cardona Script: Francesc Bertriu Jet Lag 116 minutes Spain-USA, 1980 Language: Spanish Director: Gonzalo Herralde Based on the homonymous novel by Actors: Jeanine Mestre, Robert Mercè Rodoreda Drama that tells a Fields, Norman Brisky story of love in the Barcelona of pre Script: Gonzalo Herralde, Aldo and post war Vigliarolo Appear La Sagrada Familia and the 103 minutes Park Güell Language: Spanish Filmed in Barcelona and New York Últimas tardes con Teresa it’sabout a woman who travels in (Last afternoons with Teresa) search of her former partner Spain, 1984 Appears La Pedrera Director: Gonzalo Herralde

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Actors: Maribel Martín, Ángel Los mares del sur Alcázar, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Alberto (The southern seas) Closas Spain, 1990 Script: Gonzalo Herralde, Juan Director: Manel Esteban Marquilles Marsé, Ramón de España Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo, Jean 105 minutes. Pierre Aumont, Silvia Tortosa Language: Spanish Script: Manel Esteban Marquilles, Based on the homonymous novel by Gustau Hernández Juan Marsé, social drama about the 90 minutes social contrasts in the Barcelona of Language: Spanish 1950 Based on the homonymous novel by Appear briefly Park Güell and the Manuel Vázquez Montalbán tells the dissapeared attic apartments of La story of an architect who fled his Pedrera family and will be found by the famous detective crated by this Antonio Gaudi autor, Pepe Carvalho. Japan, 1985 Appears La Pedrera Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara 73 minutes Documentary film that shows Unveiled without words the work of Gaudí USA, 1994 Director: William Cole Gaudí Actors: Lisa Zane, Nick Chinlund, Spain, 1988 Whip Hubley Director: Manuel Huerga Script: Jerome Cohen-Olivar, Michael Actors: Carles Sabater, Elisabeth Diamond Escayola, Jesús Orús Producer: Olivar Entertainment/ Script: Gonzalo Herralde, Dolors PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Pallás 103 minutes 57 minutes Language: English Language: Catalan Action movie where one of the Documentary fiction in black and protagonists lives in an apartment in white on the figure of Gaudí Casa Batlló

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Gaudí and his work in the cinema.

Analysis, considerations and catalog FundaciónAntonioGaudí ® Author: Mario Andruet

Souvenir Producer: Westerly Films Spain, 1994 101 minutes Director: Rosa Vergés Language: English Intérpretes: Futoshi Kasagawa, Comedy shot in Barcelona where Emma Suárez, Anna Lizarán Gaudí's work is used fleetingly as Script: Rosa Vergés, Jordi Beltrán background for some scenes 85 minutes Language: Spanish Costa Brava Comedy about a Japanese tourist (Family album) that meets a stewardess at the Spain, 1995 airport of Barcelona, where there is a Director: Marta Balletbó-Coll confusion with his suitcase Actors: Marta Balletbó-Coll, Desi del Appears La Pedrera Valle, Sergio Schaaff Script: Marta Balletbó-Coll, Ana Uncovered Simón Cerezo United Kingdom-France-DSpain, 1994 96 minutes Director: Jim McBride Language: English Actors: Kate Beckinsale, John Wood, Story about a romance between a Sinead Cusack tourist guide of Barcelona and an Script: Michael Hirst, Jim McBride, american girl Jakc Baran Appear The sagrada Familia and La Producer: CiBy 2000 Pedrera 101 minutes Language: English Casper Based on the novel by writer Arturo USA, 1995 Pérez-Reverte that narrates an Director: Brad Silberling intrigue around an antiquity, the plot Actors: Christina Ricci, Malachi involves Casa Batlló and Park Güell Pearson, Bill Pullman Script: Deanna Oliver, Sherri Stoner Barcelona 95 minutes USA, 1994 Language: English Director: Whit Stillman Entertainment film produced by Actors: Taylor Nichols, Chris Steven Spielberg and others in which Eigeman, Mira Sorvino a house full of ghosts includes Script: Whit Stillman elements taken from buildings by

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Gaudí and his work in the cinema.

Analysis, considerations and catalog FundaciónAntonioGaudí ® Author: Mario Andruet

Gaudí, such as Casa Batlló, La La ciudad de los prodigios Pedrera, Casa Calvet and Colegio (The city of prodigies) Teresiano. Portugal, Spain, France, 1999 Director: Mario Camus Marius et Jeannette Actors: Olivier Martínez, Emma (Marius and Jeannette) Suárez, François Marthouret France, 1997 Script: Mario Camus, Gustau Director: Robert Guédiguian Hernández, Esther Cases, Olivier Actors: Arianne Ascaride, Gérard Rollin Meylan, Pascale Roberts 156 minutes Script: Robert Guédiguian, Jean-Louis Language: Spanish Milesi Based on a novel by Eduardo 105 minutes Mendoza, it’s about the social and Language: French political tensions of Barcelona at the Melodramatic film about a couple of beginning of the 20th century losers who unexpectedly find a Appears La Pedrera reason to fight Appears La Pedrera Amic/Amat (Friend/Beloved) Todo sobre mi madre Spain, 1999 (All about my mother) Director: Ventura Pons Spain-France, 1999 Actors: Josep María Pou, Rosa María Director: Pedro Almodóvar Sardà, Mario Gas Actors: Cecilia Roth, Penélope Cruz, Script: Josep María Benet Marisa Paredes 90 minutes Script: Pedro Almodóvar Language: Catalan 101 minutes Based on the play "Testament" is an Language: Spanish existential drama set in Barcelona The famous Spanish director tells a Appears La Pedrera story where some works by Gaudí stage the counterpoint to the dramas Gaudí’s afternoon of the protagonists of the film. Oscar USA-Spain, 2001 winning for the best foreign language Director: Susan Seidelman film Actors: Judy Davis, Marcela Gay Appears The Sagrada Familia Harden, María Barranco

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Gaudí and his work in the cinema.

Analysis, considerations and catalog FundaciónAntonioGaudí ® Author: Mario Andruet

Script: James Myhre, Joaquín Language: English Oristrell Walt Disney Pictures produced this 93 minutes comedy without any other Language: English pretension than entertainment that Based on the novel "Gaudí" by includes in its scenography elements Bárbara Wilson that tells a story of inspired by the Crypt Güell and the intrigue with Barcelona as a stage. Casa Batlló Appear La Pedrera, Casa Batlló and Park Güell L’auberge espagnole (The spanish hostel) Güell i Gaudí, un projecte comú France-Spain, 2002 (Güell and Gaudí, a common Director: Cédric Klapisch project) Actors: Roman Duris, Judith Godrèche, Audrey Tatou Spain, 2002 Script: Cédric Klapisch Director: Joan Riedweg 120 minutes Actors: Abel Folk as Güell and Ramon Language: French. Versions in italian, Madaula as Gaudí german, spanish and catalan. Script: Francesc Orteu Comedy about the experiences of a 20 minutes group of students in Barcelona Language: Catalan Appears Park Güell Short film produced for the 2002 Gaudí Year that narrates the Food of love relationship between Gaudí and his Spain, Germany, 2002 friend and patron, Eusebi Güell Director: Ventura Pons Actors: Juliet Stevenson, Paul Rhys, The Santa Clause 2 Allan Corduner USA, 2002 Script: Ventura Pons Director: Michael Lembeck 112 minutes Actors: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Language: English Eric Lloyd Based on a novel by David Leavitt, it’s Script: Don Rhymer, Cinco Paul, Ken about the doubts of a young music Daurio, Ed Decter, John J. Strauss student in Barcelona 105 minutes Appears La Pedrera

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Gaudí and his work in the cinema.

Analysis, considerations and catalog FundaciónAntonioGaudí ® Author: Mario Andruet

Una peli (A movie) Language: English Spain, 2004 Story of two young american tourists Director: Ricardo Coral-Dorado in Barcelona who meet an artist Actors: Marta Lecuona, Laia Falp, Appear La Sagrada Familia, Finca Silvia Fiestas Güell and Park Güell Script: Ricardo Coral-Dorado, Carlos Aguilar EXTERNAL REFERENCES 72 minutes

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Gaudí and his work in the cinema.

Analysis, considerations and catalog FundaciónAntonioGaudí ® Author: Mario Andruet

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