The Rocket from Calabuch
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Director Luis Garcia Berlanga Duration Country Spain | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Language Spanish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Leonardo Martin , Florentino Soria , Ennio Flaiano Release date 1 October 1956 Initial release September 28, 1956 (Italy) Music director Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, Guido Guerrini Screenplay Luis Garcia Berlanga, Ennio Flaiano, Leonardo Martin, Florentino Soria Cast Edmund Gwenn (Prof. Jorge Serra Hamilton), Valentina Cortese (Eloisa, the Schoolmistress), Juan Calvo (Matías)Similar movies Directed by Luis Garcia Berlanga, Edmund Gwenn movies, Spanish movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Calabuch (US title: The Rocket From Calabuch) is a 1956 comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga.
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Sinopsys
Calabuch is a little village in the coast of Spain. There arrives Dr. George Hamilton (Edmund Gwenn), a scientist expert in rockets who is tired of his job.
Hamilton decides to help people of Calabuch in a fireworks competition. He wins and his photo appears in the local newspaper and then NASA and the army find him.
Production background
This Spanish-Italian co-production was filmed in Peniscola, Castellón (province), and features an international cast led by British-American actor Edmund Gwenn in his last film role, and Italians Valentina Cortese and Franco Fabrizi. Berlanga won the OCIC Award at the Venice Film Festival.
References
The Rocket from Calabuch Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
The Rocket from Calabuch IMDb The Rocket from Calabuch themoviedb.org