Los invitados
| Los invitados | |
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| Directed by | Víctor Barrera |
| Screenplay by | Víctor Barrera |
| Based on | Los invitados by Alfonso Grosso |
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| Cinematography | José G. Galisteo |
| Edited by | María Luisa Soriano |
| Music by | Raúl Alcover |
Production companies |
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| Distributed by | Warner Española |
Release date |
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| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Los invitados is a 1987 Spanish crime drama film written and directed by Víctor Barrera based on the novel by Alfonso Grosso. It stars Amparo Muñoz, Pablo Carbonell, Raúl Fraire, and Lola Flores.
Plot
An Englishman persuades the overseer of a cortijo in Carmona to develop a cannabis plantation in the rural estate. The overseer's wife, corroded by guilt, convinces her husband to set the plantation on fire.[1][2]
Cast
- Amparo Muñoz as La Catalana[3]
- Pablo Carbonell as Tony Mackenzie[4]
- Raúl Fraire as El Capataz[4]
- Pedro Reyes as El Canijo[4]
- Sonia Martínez as Beatriz[4]
- Idilio Cardoso as Pedro[4]
- Antonio Somoza as Ferreira[4]
- María Luisa Borruel as María[4]
- Lola Flores as La Capataza[4]
Production
The film is based on the 1978 novel by Alfonso Grosso which is in turn based on the true-life Los Galindos crimes, consisting on a mass-murder in a cortijo.[5] It is a Víctor Barrera PC and Impala production.[6]
Release
Distributed by Warner Española, the film premiered on 5 March 1987 at Cine Rialto of Madrid.[7] The neighbors of Paradas (the site of the original mass murder of Los Galindos) decried the film and asked for it to be withdrawn of exhibition.[8] The sister of one of the murdered people in the crime of Los Galindos filed criminal charges against the director on the basis of alleged slander or defamation against her brother's memory.[9] It had 165,378 admissions.[10]
Accolades
| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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1988 |
2nd Goya Awards | Best Original Score | Raúl Alcover | Nominated | [11] |
See also
References
- ^ "Centenario Lola Flores: Los invitados". Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. 24 February 2023.
- ^ "Los invitados". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
- ^ Nash, Jay Robert; Ross, Stanley Ralph (1988). The Motion Picture Guide 1988 Annual (The Films of 1987). Evanston: CineBooks, Inc. p. 169. ISBN 0-933997-16-7.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Nash & Ross 1988, p. 169.
- ^ Hart, Patricia. "Crime Fiction since the Spanish Civil War". In Vosburg, Nancy (ed.). Iberian Crime Fiction. University of Wales Press. p. 18. ISBN 9780708323335.
- ^ "Los invitados". Premios Goya. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 31 March 2026.
- ^ "Los invitados · España 1987". Retrieved 31 March 2026.
- ^ "Los vecinos de un pueblo de Sevilla se movilizan contra una película". El País. 27 February 1987.
- ^ "El director de 'Los invitados' declara ante un juzgado de Sevilla". El País. 5 March 1987.
- ^ Trenzado Romero, Manuel (2000). "La construcción de la identidad andaluza y la cultura de masas: el caso del cine andaluz" (PDF). Revista de Estudios Regionales (58): 204.
- ^ Viaje al cine español. 25 años de los Premios Goya (PDF), Lunwerg, 2011, p. 270, ISBN 978-84-9785-791-8