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Calle Mayor.

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Format:
Video
Author/Creator:
Bardem, Juan Antonio, film director.
Contributor:
Blair, Betsy, actor.
Suárez, José, actor.
Doll, Dora, actor.
Massard, Yves, actor.
Peña, Luis, actor.
Goda, Alfonso, actor.
Alexandre, Manuel, actor.
Calvo, José, actor.
Martinez, Manuel Jose Goyanes, film producer.
Iberia Films, production company.
Play Art, production company.
Platino Educa, distributor.
Language:
English
French
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Ex-nuns--Spain--Drama.
Ex-nuns.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Genre:
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Streaming video.
Physical Description:
1 streaming video file (99 min.)
Place of Publication:
[Place of publication not identified] : Iberia Films, 1956.
Language Note:
In Spanish with subtitles in Spanish, French, and English.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
digital
streaming video file
Summary:
Una pequeña ciudad, en una provincia cualquiera. Una catedral, un río y una plaza con soportales. Y una calle Mayor. Sobre todo, una calle Mayor. Hay tres cosas que son el diapasón de esta ciudad: las campanas de la catedral, los seminaristas por la alameda, en el crepúsculo, de tres en tres..., y el paseo por la calle Mayor. Isabel tiene ahora treinta y cinco años. Es soltera aún. Eso quiere decir que ha fracasado. Claro. Salió del colegio de las monjas hace dieciocho años. Diez años esperando. Y venga a esperar. Y venga a pasear, arriba y abajo, por la calle Mayor. Juan y sus amigos se aburren. Siempre los mismos lugares, rostros idénticos, días iguales, persiguiéndose. Quizá por eso, ellos han descubierto que el mejor espectáculo es el prójimo. Sobre todo si no se le ama, si uno es ajeno a él. Entonces puede ser la mejor diversión. Si, uno pude jugar con el prójimo. ¿Cuál es el procedimiento? La broma. Juan, de acuerdo con sus amigos, va a decir a Isabel que la ama, que la quiere como novia, que quiere casarse con ella. Los demás, cada noche, después de las entrevistas de Isabel y Juan, van a reír. Y mientras tanto, Isabel va a ser absolutamente feliz. Yo no tendrá que esperar más. Hasta podrá, al fin, bailar en el gran baile de otoño del Casino. ¿Y Juan? Juan es cobarde. Huye de producir dolor al prójimo. No afronta las situaciones y deja que las cosas se estiren, se refuercen, se compliquen. Por eso miente. Y, para tapar la mentira, miente otra vez. La broma sigue. Isabel es feliz, y Juan no sabe qué hacer ya para detener esa enorme bola de nieve que él mismo ha formado. Está a punto de fijarse la fecha de la boda. ¿Qué puede hacer Juan? Sus amigos, los alegres amigos de la broma, quieren llegar hasta el final. Tonia - esa mujer del Café de Pepita, que ama a Juan en silencio - le incita a decir la verdad a Isabel. Federico, su amigo, su único amigo en la realidad, le emplaza a decir esa verdad. La verdad ..., aunque Isabel se destroce el alma. Pero Juan no puede, no es capaz. Piensa un instante en quitarse de en medio. Es cobarde. Huye. Se esconde. Federico dirá a Isabel la verdad en ese gran salón vacío, ya adornado para el baile de esta noche, el gran baile de otoño. Federico quiere que Isabel huya, se escape de allí. Hasta se brinda a acompañarla a Madrid. Todo, antes que "ellos" ganen, que la broma triunfe. Cualquier cosa, antes que la risa de esos hombres. Isabel, en un momento, cree en esa salida. Llega a la estación. El tren está a punto de partir. Federico la espera. El hombre de la taquilla pregunta a Isabel una sola cosa: "¿Dónde? ¿Dónde?"Isabel comprende.
A small town in a small province. A cathedral, a river, a square with arcades and a main street. Above all, the Main Street. The only entertainment to enliven this city are the bells of the cathedral, the seminarians striding the boulevard at twilight in their threes... and the walk along the Main Street. At 35 years old, Isabel is still single, which can only mean she has failed in life. 18 years have passed since she departed from the nun's school. For ten years she has been awaiting the day of her marriage. She waits and waits, walking up and down the Main Street. Juan and his friends are bored: bored of the same places, the same people, the same old routine. Maybe that is why they have decided that the best entertainment is other people. Especially when those people are strangers and you need never have anything to do with them. That's when the fun starts. How? By playing pranks, of course. Juan''s friends dare him to profess his love for Isabel and ask for her hand in marriage. Then every night, after Isabel and Juan''s dates, the gang will reunite to laugh until they cry. Meanwhile, Isabel is happy, thinking her day has finally come. She will even be able to dance at the big autumn ball at the Casino. And Juan? Juan is a coward. He flees from situations that cause pain to others. He does not face up to things, allowing them to get complicated instead. That is why he lies: to cover up one lie, he tells others. Isabel is happy, and Juan does not know how to stop the snowball of lies he has rolled. The date of the wedding is about to be fixed. What can Juan do? His friends want him to go all the way with the trick. Tonia, a woman from the local café, who is secretly in love with Juan, encourages him to do the right thing and come clean to Isabel. Federico, his only real friend, urges him to tell the truth too. The whole truth, even if it leaves Isabel devastated. But Juan cannot bring himself to do it and searches desperately for a way out. He is a coward and runs away. He hides. Federico will tell Isabel the truth in that great empty hall, already decorated for the autumn ball. Federico wants Isabel to run away and even offers to accompany her to Madrid. Anything to stop Juan's friends from winning the bet and their mean joke from triumphing. Anything to stop the laughter of those men in the town. Isabel, in a moment, agrees to take flight. She arrives at the station and the train is about to leave. Federico is waiting for her. The man at the ticket office asks Isabel only one thing: "Where? Where?" Isabel immediately understands.
Credits:
Director, Juan Antonio Bardem ; producers, Iberia Films, Manuel Jose Goyanes Martinez, Play Art ; actors, Betsy Blair, Jose Suarez, Dora Doll, Yves Massard, Luis Peña, Alfonso Goda, Manuel Alexandre, Jose Calvo.
Notes:
Description from landing page (Platino Educa, viewed July 21, 2022).
OCLC:
1371249509
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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