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Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda.
Neruda became known as a poet while still a teenager. He wrote in a variety of styles including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and erotically-charged love poems such as the ones in his 1924 collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language." Neruda always wrote in green ink as it was his personal colour of hope.
On July 15, 1945, at Pacaembu Stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, he read to 100,000 people in honor of Communist revolutionary leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During his lifetime, Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions and served a stint as a senator for the Chilean Communist Party. When Chilean President González Videla outlawed communism in Chile in 1948, a warrant was issued for Neruda's arrest. Friends hid him for months in a house basement in the Chilean port of Valparaíso. Later, Neruda escaped into exile through a mountain pass near Maihue Lake into Argentina. Years later, Neruda was a close collaborator to socialist President Salvador Allende. When Neruda returned to Chile after his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Allende invited him to read at the Estadio Nacional before 70,000 people.
Actors: Clara Jung (costume designer), María José García (producer), Carlos Concha (actor), Jimmy Ray (miscellaneous crew), Diego Granella (writer), Jimmy Ray (composer), Diego Granella (director), Miguel Aguilera (editor), Klaudia Garcia (actress), Jordi Llovet (actor),
Plot: Under the warm lights of a Barcelona's 1934 tavern we attend this casual meeting of two close friends, colossal poets of the 20Th century Spanish literature: Pablo Neruda and Federico Garcia Lorca. In a moody atmosphere, between glasses, tangos and sporadic friends the night will be altered, forcing the poets to deploy their best weapon: Words.
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Short,Actors: Héctor Olivera (director), Héctor Olivera (producer), Marcos Woinsky (actor), Juan Palomino (actor), Bruno Bichir (actor), Héctor Olivera (writer), Mónica Galán (actress), Marcela Sáenz (editor), Ana Celentano (actress), Luis Machín (actor), Regina Lamm (actress), Mónica Lozano (producer), Luis Osvaldo Repetto (producer), Luis B. Carranco (miscellaneous crew), Sergio Boris (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Julie Barzman (actress), Julie Barzman (actress), Thomas C. Gertsch (producer), Mario Mabe (writer), Mario Mabe (actor), Mario Mabe (actor), Mario Mabe (producer), Mario Mabe (director), Liam Gowing (actor), Liam Gowing (actor), Liam Gowing (producer), Brooks Putman (producer), Brooks Putman (editor), Jory Spadea (miscellaneous crew), Kev Smith (actor),
Plot: It's Tuesday morning at Ha-Ha Studios. BF Richards has the studio heads on the war path. Sarge checks in on the comedy troops and Gus Meyer shows up to work with a huge black eye and a tall tale to tell. I Am Not Ignatius Riley is a story about dreams penetrating reality. A comedy who asks 'Who Are You?'
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Víctor Manuel (director), Miguel Bosé (actor), Víctor Manuel (actor), Miguel Ríos (actor), Joaquín Sabina (actor), Joan Manuel Serrat (actor), Ana Belén (actress), Manuel Huerga (director), Julieta Venegas (actress), Soledad Giménez (actress), Julio Jung (actor), Jorge Drexler (actor), Estrella Morente (actress), Rafael Alberti (actor), Miguel Poveda (actor),
Genres: Music,Actors: Mario Cecchi Gori (producer), Vittorio Cecchi Gori (producer), Roberto Perpignani (editor), Luis Bacalov (composer), Furio Scarpelli (writer), Elide Cortesi (miscellaneous crew), Furio Scarpelli (writer), Orazio Stracuzzi (actor), Philippe Noiret (actor), Anna Bonaiuto (actress), Mariano Rigillo (actor), Maria Grazia Cucinotta (actress), Renato Scarpa (actor), David H. Kramer (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Gambale (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island for political reasons. On the island, the unemployed son of a poor fisherman is hired as an extra postman due to the huge increase in mail that this causes. Il Postino is to hand-deliver the celebrity's mail to him. Though poorly educated, the postman learns to love poetry and eventually befriends Neruda. Struggling to grow and express himself more fully, he suddenly falls in love and needs Neruda's help and guidance more than ever.
Keywords: 1950s, based-on-novel, communism, exile, foosball, island, lead-actor's-last-film, living-in-exile, nobel-prize, pablo-nerudaActors: Henrique Espírito Santo (producer), Antonio Skármeta (director), Antonio Skármeta (actor), Antonio Skármeta (writer), Marcela Osorio (actress), Agape von Dorstewitz (editor), Roberto Parada (actor), Radomiro Spotorno (actor), Óscar Castro (actor), Roberto Lecaros (composer), Naldy Hernandez (actress), Miguel Viqueira (actor),
Plot: Based on Skármeta's book, this is the story of a poor postman in Isla Negra who befriends Pablo Neruda and asks his help writing poems to the woman of his dreams.
Keywords: 1970s, based-on-book, chile, communism, exile, island, love, nobel-prize, pablo-neruda, poet