Érase un vez Juan Marsé (2010)

6.0/10 • 58 min • Documentary

Overview

On the occasion of awarding the Cervantes Prize to the Catalan writer Juan Marsé on 23 April 2009, family members, friends and writers offer a sincere portrait of the best chronicler of life in Barcelona, Catalonia, during the post-war period and the worst days of the General Franco dictatorship, in the forties and fifties, and during the economic development and the hard conquest of freedom, in the sixties and seventies.

Cast

Mercè Montalà

Self - Narrator (voice)

Ramon Canals

Literary Censor (voice)

Juan Marsé

Self - Writer

Javier Cercas

Self - Writer

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