XXIII edition
10/15 December 2013
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Yo maté
producer
PHOTOGALLERY HIGH RES
Spain, 1955, 71’, DVD, b/n
director
Josep Maria Forn
screenplay
Manuel Bengoa
Josep María Forn
cinematography
Salvador Torres Garriga
editor
Juan Pallejá
music
Domingo Segú
art direction
Ramón Mateu
cast
Pepito Moratalla
Eugenio Testa
Emilio Fábregas
Manuel Gas
Félix Gómez
producer
Alfonso Balcázar
production
Producciones Cinematográficas Balcázar
Jorge, an 11-year-old with a passion for crime novels and comic strips, lives with his widowed mother, who barely makes ends meet running a boarding house. All her earnings go to pay off her debt to old Matias, who threatens to send her to jail if she doesn’t. Jorge dreams of killing the loan shark. Convinced one day that he actually has, he runs away from home and gets lost in the big city.
Josep Maria Forn began working with the Barcelona-based Emisora Films in 1948. He became a production assistant and worked with Antonio Román and Jerónimo Mihura, among other directors. From 1950 to 1953 he worked on two noir classics: Apartado de correos 1001 and Hay un camino a la derecha. In 1953 he co-directed the short film Gaudí with Juan Bosch. His feature debut, Yo mate, came two years later. In 1957 he moved to Madrid and founded Espejo Films, through which he directed La rana verde. In 1959 he returned to Barcelona to direct Muerte al amanecer, based on Mario Lacruz’s crime novel. The following year he made the satirical comedy La vida privada de Fulano de Tal and in 1962 made ¿Pena de muerte?, La ruta de los narcotíco and Los culpables. In 1964 he directed what is considered his masterpiece: La piel quemada. In the 1960s he produced numerous shorts and features on social and political themes, including Antoni Ribas’ La ciutat cremada, one of the most important films made during Spain’s transition to democracy and the affirmation of the Catalan identity. In 1976 he founded the Institut del Cinema Catalá and in 1980 returned behind the camera to make Companys, procés a Catalunya, a reconstruction of the trial and execution by firing squad of Lluís Companys, president of the Generalitat de Catalunya. In 1987 he was chosen to head the Cinema and Video Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya and launched a programme to support emerging directors. Since then he has directed Ho sap el ministre? (1991), Subjudice (1998) and El coronel Macià (2007).
PHOTOGALLERY HIGH RES
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PROGRAM
11/12/2013 h 17:00: PalaNoir 2
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