Portabella’s first feature, co-scripted by poet Joan Brossa, became one of the most influential works of the Barcelona avant-garde, although like all his early films, it circulated only in an underground fashion. Eschewing dialogue, the director constructs a non-narrative story in fragments that reveal the daily lives of an adulterous couple interspersed with a cryptic stream of unrelated imagery. The title of this homage to directors including Eisenstein, Antonioni, Bergman, and Buñuel refers to the 29 “black years” of the Franco dictatorship. — chicago.cervantes.es
Editing | Teresa Alcocer | Editor |
Directing | Pere Portabella | Director |
Camera | Luis Cuadrado | Director of Photography |
Writing | Joan Brossa | Dialogue |
Writing | Joan Brossa | Screenplay |
Writing | Pere Portabella | Screenplay |
Writing | Pere Portabella | Story |
Production | Jacques Levy | Associate Producer |
Production | Anne Settimó | Associate Producer |
Sound | Josep M. Mestres Quadreny | Original Music Composer |
Production | Jaime Fernández-Cid | Production Manager |
Directing | José Luis Ruiz Marcos | Assistant Director |
Sound | Jordi Sangenís | Sound |
Camera | Teo Escamilla | Camera Operator |
Camera | Santiago Rodríguez | Focus Puller |
Camera | Luis Cuadrado | Camera Operator |
Editing | Margarita Bernet | Assistant Editor |
Sound | Carles Santos | Musician |
Directing | Anne Settimó | Script Supervisor |