Volver A Empezar
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Original title | Volver a Empezar |
Country of production | Spain |
original language | Spanish |
Publishing year | 1982 |
length | 87 minutes or 93 minutes |
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Director | José Luis Garci |
script | Jose Luis Garci Angel Llorente |
production | Jose Luis Garci |
music |
Johann Pachelbel Cole Porter |
camera | Manuel Rojas |
cut | Miguel González Sinde |
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Volver a Empezar is a Spanish film from 1982. José Luis Garci wrote the script and directed . The film tells the story of a Spaniard whoreturns to his homelandafter many years in exile after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature . The title means something like "Back to the beginning". The film was the first Spanish film to win the Oscar for best foreign language filmin 1982. It was not published in German-speaking countries.
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In 1981 the famous writer Antonio Albajara (Antonio Ferrandis) returned to his hometown Gijón . Here he is received with all honors. He has just come from Stockholm , where he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. For 42 years, Albajara was Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Berkeley in California , alternating his teaching activities with his writing, which brought him worldwide fame. Unfortunately, the reason for his return is actually a sad one: he is terminally ill. In his hometown he searches for everything that he left behind in his youth, when he was exiled during the civil war in 1937 and became a well-known author in Mexico and the USA . In doing so, he encounters his past, such as his old friend Roxiu, with whom he once played on the local soccer team. Antonio also gets back together with Elena - his first love, which was also his great love.
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- Oscar for best foreign language film (1982)
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Montreal Film Festival (1982)
Web links
- Volver A Empezar in the Internet Movie Database (English)