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El abuelo

  • 19251925
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El abuelo (1925)
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Literary adaptation: a Spanish count tries to learn, as a matter of family honor, which of his putative grand daughters resulted from an affair by his daughter in law with a Parisian painter... Read allLiterary adaptation: a Spanish count tries to learn, as a matter of family honor, which of his putative grand daughters resulted from an affair by his daughter in law with a Parisian painter.Literary adaptation: a Spanish count tries to learn, as a matter of family honor, which of his putative grand daughters resulted from an affair by his daughter in law with a Parisian painter.
IMDb RATING
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27
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POPULARITY
572,118
780,284
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    • Director
      • José Buchs
    • Writers
      • José Buchs
      • Benito Pérez Galdós(novel)
    • Stars
      • Modesto Rivas
      • Doris Wilton
      • Celia Escudero
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    • Director
      • José Buchs
    • Writers
      • José Buchs
      • Benito Pérez Galdós(novel)
    • Stars
      • Modesto Rivas
      • Doris Wilton
      • Celia Escudero
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    • 1User review
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    Modesto Rivas
    • Conde de Albrit
    Doris Wilton
    • Veraneante
    • (as Josefina Ochoa)
    Celia Escudero
    Celia Escudero
    • Nelly
    Arturo de la Riva
    • Pío Coronado
    María Comendador
    María Comendador
    • Gregoria
    Ana de Leyva
    Ana de Leyva
    • Condesa Lucrecia de Ritchmon
    Alejandro Navarro
    • Venancio
    Juan Francés
    • Amigo del conde
    Francisco Martí
    • Prior del convento
    Cecilio Rodríguez de la Vega
    • Cura
    Emilio Ruiz Santiago
    • Senén
    Enrique Ponte
    • Alcalde de Jerusa
    Fernando Roldán
    • Carlos Erasiel y Cura
    • Director
      • José Buchs
    • Writers
      • José Buchs
      • Benito Pérez Galdós(novel)
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      Version of Adulterio (1945)

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    2/10
    Spanish Soap-Opera
    Don Rodrigo de Arista Y Potestad, Conde de Albrit is a Spanish Count with a long name and a long line of disgraces. He lived in Peru trying to recover a gold mine that belonged to his ancestors. However, this was in vain; ruined, he returns to Spain. There he will come to know that his son is very ill due to the suffering inflicted by his North Amerikan wife, an impudent woman who lives a frivolous life, a usual custom among those frauleins from such savage land.

    When the Conde de Albrit's son dies, the old man reads in a letter written by his son that one of his beloved granddaughters don't belong to the Albrit stock. Since that infant is the result of the dissipated life of his daughter-in-love, from that moment on, Conde de Albrit only will have one aim. That's to find out which one of his granddaughters are real Albrit descendents and which are not.

    As usual in Herr José Buchs career, "El Abuelo" was an adaptation of a novel of a reputed Spanish writer, Herr Benito Pérez Galdós. Due to those literary roots, the film has a lot of intertitles ( a characteristic not exclusive of Herr Buchs films but also Spanish silent films ). The images depend on literary quotes. This is a strange and silent habit in the Spanish silent era in where the technical experimentations were nonexistent and the films were a consecutive and illustrative show of images.

    The film is also full of performances as stiff as Conde de Albrit's beard. In order to get the full old story about dishonour and other bizarre Spanish behaviours included, the film is a long, dull two hours ( another habit of the Spanish silent era and probably inherited from the Inquisition's times… that is to say, to extend the pain to the victim). It is a film that any longhaired forgets easily due to its lack of artistic interest and showy story.

    And now, if you'll allow me, I must temporarily take my leave because this German Count must know which one of his fat heiresses is the richest one… without any regard to ancestry.
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    • Dec 15, 2006

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    • Release date
      • December 7, 1925 (Spain)
    • Country of origin
      • Spain
    • Language
      • None
    • Filming locations
      • Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
    • Production company
      • Film Linares
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    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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