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- Behold a pale horse
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1983
Physical description: 1 videocassette (121 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A Spanish guerrilla goes into exile at the end of the Civil War. Twenty years later he is persuaded to return and kill a brutal police chief
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Belle epoque
- Publication information: [Burbank, Calif.] : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [1994]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish Civil War deserter who befriends a free-thinking artist, finds himself in a romantic dilemma when the artist's four beautiful daughters return to their country home. Which woman should he love?
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Butterfly
- Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2000], c1999
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A shy young boy is brought out of his cocoon by a wise teacher who shows him the wonder of the natural world around him, amidst the growing tensions and chaos of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- The devil is a woman
- Publication information: Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2006
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: Film told in flashbacks of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. The backdrop is SternbergÍs surreal and fantastic Carnaval in Spain. In a cafe the older man details his encounters with the heartbreaker that his younger friend has only just met at the parade.Forewarned, the young man swears he will avoid the fate of his friend,but rushes all the same to his evening rendevous
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- The disappearance of Garcia Lorca
- Publication information: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1997
Physical description: 1 videocassette (114 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: An epic about the Spanish Civil War and the murder of Federico Garcia Lorca. Years later, a young journalist is determined to discover who pulled the trigger and one of the facists is still willing to do anything to hide the truth
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- El espinazo del diablo: Devil's backbone
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Goya
- Publication information: [New York, N.Y.] : Sony Pictures Classics Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [2000]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: In Bordeaux, France, in the early 1800's, Goya suffers from strange visions and nightmares. Goya reflects on his tumultuous career: a love affair with the beautiful Duchess of Alba and the evil crusade of Napoleon's French army
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- La guerre est finie
- Publication information: [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, 1995?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (120 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A Spanish revolutionary maintains his ideals even though he is warned he will be sold out. Aging, tired leftist Montand travels from Spain to Paris, reports to his political associates, and visits mistress Thulin
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- The hunt
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Film Forum, 1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (93 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Four men, three of whom are veterans of the Spanish Civil War, go rabbit hunting. As the day progresses, bitterness overwhelms them until they senselessly kill each other
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- El laberinto del fauno: Pan's labyrinth
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : New Line Home Entertainment, c2007
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (119 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. A young girl goes to live with her mother and her new stepfather on a rural military outpost. Following her discovery of a labyrinth and the local group of resistance fighters, she is involved in a series of strange encounters
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- Man of la mancha
- Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, 2004
Physical description: 1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: While jailed and awaiting trial during the Spanish Inquisition, writer Miguel de Cervantes spins a tale for his fellow inmates, bringing to life Don Quixote, an eccentric, self-appointed knight with delusions of grandeur
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
- The Pride and the passion
- Publication information: Farmington Hills, MI : CBS/FOX Video, c1983
Physical description: 1 videocassette (132 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A small group of resistance fighters battle for Spanish independence in 1810. The main problem our heroes must overcome is to haul a mighty six ton cannon across the wide expanse of Spain's mountains, villages, rivers and towns swiftly and most importantly, undetected
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Tristana
- Publication information: Las Cruces, N.M. : Hen's Tooth Video, [1992]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (98 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A scathing examination of moral decay set in 1920's Spain. Tristana, a victim of her own captivating beauty, is desired by two men. One is her lecherous guardian whose physical advances repulse her and cause her to have nightmares of his death by decapitation. The other is a young artist who wants to marry her but lacks the courage
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
- Vecente Blasco Ibáñez' blood and sand
- Publication information: Itasca, IL : Critics' Choice Video, [1997], c1971
Physical description: 1 videocassette (80 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A romantic tragedy about the rise and fall of a matador. Juan Gallardo, Spain's most idolized matador, returns to his home town and meets his childhood sweetheart Carmen
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: VHS
Marianne Berger
Reference Librarian
630.942.2338
berger@cod.edu
15 December 2008
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