La Casita Blanca. La ciudad oculta (2002)

Director:

Carles Balagué

Writers:

Carles Balagué, José Antonio Pérez Giner

Stars:

Roger Casamajor, Ricard Borràs, Elvira Prado

Cast

Credited cast:
Roger Casamajor	...	Facerías
Ricard Borràs	...	Cliente asesinado
Elvira Prado	...	Muchacha del cliente asesinado
Vicente Gil	...	Pedro
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jaume Abella	...	Himself
David Berga
Jaume Boix	...	Himself
Josep Maria Carandell	...	Himself
Josep Antoni Codina	...	Himself
Jaume Dagués
Carmen de Lirio	...	Herself
Jennifer Domínguez
Pilar Eyre	...	Herself
Pedro Farreras
Francisco Franco	...	Himself (archive footage)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

fascism

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Taglines:

Historias de la Barcelona oculta.

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Spain

Language:

Catalan Spanish

Release Date:

29 November 2002 (Spain)

Also Known As:

La casita blanca

Company Credits

Production Co:

Els Quatre Gats Audiovisuals S.L.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Color:

Black and White Color

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Ángelitos negros"
Performed by Chavela Vargas

User Reviews

The dust below the carpet

This documentary does the admirable job to try to upset the old establishment keeping an eye on some public persons, places and events which are about to be forgotten by all of us in modern Catalonia: 20 years on this people will only exist in film.

The action focuses in post-war Barcelona (40's 50's), old people is interviewed and through their memories, the usual NODO -news and propaganda from Franco's dictatorship- from the times illustrates what they remember. One event in particular is so obscure that the director felt the urge to recreate it with actors to get us an appropriate idea of what went on. The documentary tells us about the double standards, the misery and the hypocrisy of power players of that era. One person in particular -Juan Antonio Samaranch - even got into the top of the International Olympic Committee which concluded that Barcelona hosted the olympics in 1992. But this is not the point, the point is to expose by word-of-mouth from different sources the dirty laundry during the 40s in the not-so-repressed Barcelona.