Rouge Greco Rouge

Year1972 Duration70 min. DirectorJ.M. Berzosa WriterJ.M. Berzosa PhotographyHenri Martin EditorLudmilla d’Artec SoundPaul Granger Production Ángel Celdrán

WithCarlos Semprún, Loleh Bellon and Antoine Chao

The director sets out to find all the paintings by El Greco held in private collections (Urquijo and Marañón families) or in religious buildings (churches in Illescas and El Bonillo). In doing so, he makes a critical portrait of Spain, under the burden of religion and social convention, with a few lines by Juan Del Encina said once and again: ‘Miserable, hopeless Spain,/they must all grieve over you./Deprived of happiness,/to never come back’.

'A film where loyalty to a devastated landscape turns into poetry and bitter love. Professor Torres Martín, the Marquis of Lozoya, Belén Marañón, Iñigo Álvarez de Toledo and painter Antonio Saura feature in this story where El Greco is the pretext and the purpose. A man from El Bonillo, José María Ordóñez, suddenly utters his magic words to trigger the purifying laughter.' – José-Miguel Ullán, Destino, 1973.

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Promoted by
Gobierno de Navarra
Organized by
NICDO
With the aid of
Con la financiación del Gobierno de España. Instituto de la Cinematografía y las Artes Audiovisuales Acción Cultural Española Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia Financiado por la Unión Europea. NexGenerationEU
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