Carlos Iglesias

Carlos Iglesias:

Director and film actor

«I have a divided heart between Spain and Switzerland»

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Carlos IglesiasBiography

• Name: Carlos Iglesias Serrano• Date of birth: July 15, 1955 • Place of birth: Madrid, Spain • Nationality: Spanish Carlos Iglesias is an actor, director and screenwriter. His parents emigrated from Quintanar de la Orden in Toledo to Switzerland where he grew up until he was thirteen years old. Later he lived in Madrid and Alicante. By chance, an actor friend fell ill and asked for the favor of replacing him in a small play, which would awaken in him a passion for theater. Years later he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RESAD). The public met him in Esta noche cruzamos el Missisipi and after this series would reach the successful Hands to the work that beat audience records. He is the director of the films Un Franco, 14 pesetas and 2 Francos, 40 pesetas, both realated about the lives of emigrants outside of Spain.

«From Toledo I went to Switzerland with my parents, where I grew up»

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Carlos IglesiasAwards and nominations [featured]

2015 Award for the Best Cinematographic Arts Film of Asturias for 2 Francos, 40 Pesetas.

2015 Audience Award Tarazona Festival for 2 Francos, 40 Pesetas.

2012 Audience Festival of Huelva Award by ISPANSI.

2007 Nominated Un Franco 14 pesetas at the Nantes Spanish Film Festival.

2007 Best Film Award at the XXVII Oporto Film Festival (Portugal) for Un Franco 14 pesetas.

2006 Audience Award for Un Franco 14 pesetas, at the FestCeal-Brussels.

2006 10th ILFF Official Award of the International Latin Film Festival of San Francisco.

2006 Award as Best Novel Writer and Audience Award for Un Franco 14 pesetas, at the 9th Spanish Film Festival of Malaga.

2006 Best Screenplay, Popular Jury Prize for Un Franco 14 pesetas, at the Primavera Cinematográfica de Lorca.

2006 “Ciudad de Tudela” Award for the Best Film for Un Franco 14 pesetas, Tudela Opera Film Festival.

2006 Nominated for the Best Film award, for Un Franco 14 pesetas, from the Circle of Cinematographic Writers.

2006 Nominated as Best Director at the 18th Goya Awards.

2003 Nominated as Best New Actor for his role in the film El Caballero Don Quijote at the XVII edition of the Goya Awards.

«Nominated Best Director at the XVIII Goya Awards»

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Carlos IglesiasFilm director

2 francos, 40 pesetas [Technical details]

• Release date: March 28, 2014 (1h 40 min) • Directed by: Carlos Iglesias • Cast: Carlos Iglesias, Javier Gutiérrez, Eloisa Vargas ... • Genre: Dramatic comedy • Country: Spain

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Carlos IglesiasFilm director

2 francos, 40 pesetas [Plot]

1974. Six years ago Martin’s family left Switzerland to return to Spain, enough time to integrate again in their native country, but not to forget that opportunity that the Swiss territory gave them and transformed their lives. Little Pablo has grown up, now he is 18 years old and with the consent of his parents he has embarked on a long trip of Inter Rail with his friend Juan. After touring several countries, these young adventurers meet in Austria on their way to Switzerland, hitchhiking. But their trip will suffer a small change as a couple of hippies pick them up and take them to a farm in the canton of Appenzell.

Marcos, Martin’s former colegue with whom he emigrated to Switzerland in the 1960s, still lives there, in the small town of Uzwil. Martin calls his friend, to ask about his son, who does not know anything for days. Casually

Mari Carmen, Marcos’ wife, is about to give gives birth thesecond child and proposes them to be the godparents. Martín and his wife Pilar accept and travel to Switzerland to celebrate the baptism. Starting from this moment funny unlikely situations will happen and that is, the celebration will end up with many more guests than expected.

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Carlos IglesiasFilm director

Ispansi (Spanish people) [Technical details]

• Release date: March 4, 2011 (1h 41 min) • Directed by: Carlos Iglesias • Cast: Carlos Iglesias, Esther Díaz Soto, Isabel Blanco ... • Gender: Dramatic, romantic • Country: Spain

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Carlos IglesiasDirector de cine

Ispansi (Spanish people) [Plot]

After the outbreak of the Civil War in Spain, thousands of children, children of the Republicans, were sent to Russia with the intention of saving them from the calamities of the fight and the fury of the enemy side. Beatriz (Esther Regina, ‘The consul of Sodom’) is a young woman belonging to a well-off Francoist family whose father and brother are active members of La Falange.

Desolation comes to her life when she becomes pregnant with her boyfriend and he refuses to marry her. How could a family like yours, so religious and conservative, assume that? Desperate, she sees no other option than to take him to an orphanage, but when she learns that they are taking him to Russia, she realizes what she really wants for her little boy and does not hesitate to steal the identity of a dead republican, Paula, for volunteer to take care of the children.

The arrival of Hitler in the Soviet Union generates a lot of ups and downs in the journey and the arrival to a safe place becomes more and more difficult.

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Carlos IglesiasFilm director

Un Franco, 14 Pesetas [Technical details]

• Release date: May 5, 2006 (1h 41 min) • Directed by: Carlos Iglesias • Cast: Carlos Iglesias, Javier Gutiérrez, Nieve de Medina ... • Genre: Dramatic comedy • Country: Spain

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Carlos IglesiasDirector de cine

Un Franco, 14 Pesetas [Plot]

Spain, 1960. Martín and Marcos are two friends who decide to go to Switzerland looking for a job. They leave their families in Spain to embark on a journey towards a new life in the Europe of progress and freedoms.

There, they will discover a very different mentality they have to adapt to, working as mechanics in a factory and living in a small industrial town. With the arrival of Pilar, Martín’s wife, with her son Pablo, and María del Carmen, Marcos’ fiancee, the life of single men who had been in a country with so much freedom ended. Work continues being the daily round for Martín and Pilar, while the little Pablo starts going to school and integrating. With the death of Martin’s father, they consider that what they had come to look for has already been achieved and it is time to return.

But to their surprise, the return will be more difficult than the first leg.

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Carlos IglesiasActor and screenwriter

Actor

2014 2 Francos, 40 Pesetas

2012 La venta del paraíso

2011 Los muertos no se tocan, nene

2011 Ispansi (Españoles)

2006 Un franco, 14 Pesetas

2005 Sinfín

2005 Torrente 3

2005 Ninette

2002 El caballero Don Quijote

1991 Siempre felices

1986 Dragon Rapide

1984 El caso Almería

Heart-Attack.

El bolso.

Malasaña.

Screenwriter

2011 Ispansi (Spanish people)

2006 Un franco, 14 Pesetas

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Carlos IglesiasTV actor [main roles]

• B&B, de boca en boca, César. (Telecinco, 2014)

• Las chicas de oro... Neighbour of Adelfas. (La 1, 2010)

• Manolo y Benito Corporeision (Antena 3, 2006-2007)

• El club de la comedia, several participations. (Antena 3, 2004)

• Cuentame como paso, episodic character. (Channel 1, 2004)

• Pares y Nines, Estudio 1. (Channel 1, 2004)

• Haz el humor y no la guerra, dedicated to Miguel Gila. (2003)

• 7 vidas, episodic character. (Telecinco, 2002)

• Manos a la obra, Benito Lopera. (Antena 3, 1998-2001)

• The novel of his life, by Blasco Ibañez. (TVE, 1996)

• Este es mi barrio, by Vicente Escriva. (Antena 3, 1996)

• Esta noche cruzamos el Mississippi, Pepelu. (Telecinco, 1995)

• Estamos todos locos, by Pepe Navarro. (Antena 3, 1994)

• El sexologo, by Mariano Ozores. (Channel 1, 1994)

• La forja de un rebelde, by Mario Camus. (Channel 1, 1990)

• Los mundos de Yupi. (Channel 1, 1987)

• Goya, by José Ramon Larraz. (1985)

• Fragmentos de interior, by Francisco Abad.

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Carlos IglesiasTheater actor [main roles]

• La Suite Nupcial, by Carlos Iglesias. Dir. Sigfrid Monleon. (2016)

• Arte (1998)

• Las galas del difunto, by Valle Inclan. Dir. Francisco Muñoz. (1992)

• Ella, by Jean Genet. Dir. Angel Facio. (1990/91)

• El castillo de Lindabrindis. Dir. Juan Pastor. (1989)

• El publico, by Federico García Lorca. Dir. Lluis Pasqual. (1987)

• La muerte alegre, by Nicolas Evreinov. Dir. Heine Mix Toro. (1986)

• Calidoscopios y faros de hoy, by Sergi Belbel. Dir. J. J. Granda. (1986)

• Pablo Iglesias, by Lauro Olmo. Dir. Luis Balaguer. (1983)

• Los cuernos de Don Friolera, by Valle-Inclan. Dir. J. J. Granda. (1983)

• Sueno de libertad, Le Miroir Magique Company of Bruselas. (1983)

• El retablo de Maese Pedro, by Manuel de Falla. Dir. Rafael P. Sierra. (1982)

• Arlequin, by Goldoni. Dir. Angel Gutiérrez. (1982)

• Polinka, by Anton Chéjov. Dir. Angel Gutiérrez. (1982)

• Justo antes de la guerra con los esquimales, by J. D. Salinger. (1982)

• Prometeo (previsor) mal te sienta ese nombre. (1979)

• Tirant lo Blanc, Companyia de Teatre d’Alacant.

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