Movie
La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961) (2022)
Documentary · History
Story
The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova family that managed to dominate the box office during the turbulent times of the Second Spanish Republic, the carnage of the Civil War and the hardships of the long post-war period and Franco's dictatorship — and survive until the sixties, when Spain was timidly beginning to change.
Director: Francisco Rodríguez Fernández Starring: Antonio Esquivias, Emeterio Díez Puertas, Luis Casanova Iranzo, José Luis Castro de Paz
La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961) Cast
- Antonio Esquivias as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Emeterio Díez Puertas as Self - Film Historian
- Luis Casanova Iranzo as Self - V. Casanova's Nephew
- José Luis Castro de Paz as Self - Film Scholar
- Virginia Guarinos as Self - Film Scholar
- Jaime Hernández de la Torre as Self - Painter
- Alfonso Gil as Self - Historian
- Luis Fernández Gimeno as Self - Fallero
- Vicente Sánchez Biosca as Self - Film Scholar
- Fátima Gil Gascón as Self - Scholar
- Pablo León Aguinaga as Self - Historian
- Fernando Fernández de Córdoba as Self - Actor (voice) (archive footage)
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