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Spanish Film Week: The Court of the Pharaoh

La Corte del Faraon
comedy/musical, Spain, 96 min, 1985
in Spanish with English and Hungarian subtitles

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Director: José Luis García Sánchez

written by: Guillermo Perrín, Miguel de Palacios
stars: Ana Belén, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Antonio Banderas

In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players  try to stage a Pre-war 'zarzuela' (a sort of Spanish operetta), 'La Corte Del Faraón', which ironically, thirty years later, is too obscene for the regime censorship. They finally manage to perform the 'zarzuela' but end up in the police station...

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