Afternoon of the Bulls
1956 film
- 24 February 1956 (1956-02-24)
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Afternoon of the Bulls (Spanish: Tarde de toros) is a 1956 Spanish drama film directed by Ladislao Vajda. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The film was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Plot
In the bullring of Las Ventas, in Madrid, four parallel stories are shown in the film: the senior bullfighter Ricardo Puente breaks up with his lover Paloma; the winner of the day, Juan Carmona is barely hurt by a bull because he is haunted with the notice of a new baby; Rondeño II is afraid of the bulls and afraid of the wedding with his girlfriend Ana María; finally, an innocent amateur torero dies on the sand.
Selected cast
- Manuel Arbó as Vecino de la actriz
- Rafael Bardem as Amigo 1º
- Félix Dafauce as Médico de la plaza
- José Isbert as Don Felipe
- Manolo Morán as Jiménez
- Antonio Prieto as Enterado 1º
- Jesús Tordesillas as Luis Montes
See also
- List of submissions to the 29th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Spanish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Afternoon of the Bulls". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2009.
External links
- Afternoon of the Bulls at IMDb
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Films directed by Ladislao Vajda
- Where Is This Lady? (1932)
- Hello, Budapest! (1935)
- Wings Over Africa (1936)
- The Man Under the Bridge (1936)
- Sensation (1936)
- Three Dragons (1936)
- The Wife of General Ling (1937)
- The Borrowed Castle (1937)
- My Daughter Is Different (1937)
- Black Diamonds (1938)
- Rézi Friday (1938)
- Magda Expelled (1938)
- A Palace for Sale (1942)
- Three Mirrors (1947)
- Call of the Blood (1948)
- Golden Madonna (1949)
- The Woman with No Name (1950)
- The Seventh Page (1951)
- Spanish Serenade (1952)
- Doña Francisquita (1952)
- Condemned to Hang (1953)
- Adventures of the Barber of Seville (1954)
- Miracle of Marcelino (1955)
- Afternoon of the Bulls (1956)
- Uncle Hyacynth (1956)
- The Man Who Wagged His Tail (1957)
- It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
- The Man Who Walked Through the Wall (1959)
- The Shadows Grow Longer (1961)
- The Lightship (1963)
- A Nearly Decent Girl (1963)
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