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Joaquim Jordà i Català

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Joaquim Jordà i Català ( Santa Coloma de Farners , August 9 , 1935 - Barcelona , ​​June 8 , 2006 ) was a Catalan film director , screenwriter and translator . He belongs to the School of Barcelona where he stands out for his film Dante is not only severe (1967) directed together with Jacinto Esteva . He is also recognized for his documentary film work with titles such as the cooperative film Numax presents... (1980), the award-winning Mones com la Becky (1999) or De Nens (2003). In 2000 he was awarded the National Cinema Award , granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya and in 2006 with the National Cinematography Award , granted by the Ministry of Culture of Spain . In 2004 he resumed Numax presents... , a film he had shot in 1979 at the initiative of the Workers' Assembly of the Númax appliance factory in Barcelona's Eixample . Twenty years are nothing , a new film that reunites those workers who self-managed the factory.

09-08-1935

Birthday

Leo

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

11

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Santa Coloma de Farners, Catalunya

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

11 Works

producer

1 Works

director

39 Works

writer

22 Works

other

3 Works

Dante Is Not Only Severe

Dante Is Not Only Severe

A woman uselessly insists on entertaining a man by telling him stories that don’t interest him as much as his works. A film about the impossibility of telling a story that, to this end, concentrates on the story of two people who have a relationship that is destined to fail.
5.2

Year:

1967

Deixa’m en Pau

Deixa’m en Pau

6.0

Year:

2006

Más allá del espejo

Más allá del espejo

Beyond the mirror it is a documentary film that tries to get in the world of the agnosias and the alexias, cerebral diseases that carry substantial differences at the moment of perceiving it that we are called "a" 'reality'. The beginning of all this history is an article that appeared in the counter front page of the newspaper El País. The writing was narrating Esther Chumillas's case, a girl of 18 years and agnósica from the 15 as consequence of a meningitis badly diagnosed. The director of cinema Joaquín Jordá, alexico and agnosico visual immediately after a cerebral heart attack, put in touch with her. And they began a relation of friendship. Soon the third personage would appear, attracted also by the same article.
7.0

Year:

2006

La doble vida del faquir

La doble vida del faquir

La doble vida del faquir (The magicians) returns to the scene of a school in the Catalan town of Sant Julià de Vilatorta where, in 1937, in the midst of civil war, a film-maker in hiding and a group of orphaned children dressed up as sultans and explorers shot an exotic adventure film. The films protagonists relive those childhood days when they were able to switch their school smocks for oriental turbans, while reality imposed its own fancy dress ball with military uniforms and priests dressed in civilian garb.
6.0

Year:

2005

Monkeys Like Becky

Monkeys Like Becky

The first part of this documentary deals with the Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949, one of the first surgeons to apply the technique called lobotomy for the treatment of schizophrenia. The second part deals with the everyday life of people with schizophrenia today: behavior and relationships, and treatment for the disease.
6.5

Year:

1999

The Happy Sixties

The Happy Sixties

Monica, a wife and mother, is dissatisfied with his routine, conventional life. Her husband, Pablo, decides that the best thing for her and her children is to spend the summer in Cadaqués.
0.0

Year:

1969

Maria Aurèlia Capmany parla d'Un lloc entre els morts'

Maria Aurèlia Capmany parla d'Un lloc entre els morts'

Documentary by Joaquím Jordá, part of the Barcelona School.
0.0

Year:

1969

Biotaxia

Biotaxia

A successful actress with three children takes an artist lover to fill a void in her life. This avant garde feature illustrates the alienation of an individual who is lonely despite the wealth and fame her career has brought to her. Jose Maria Nunes wrote the screenplay which relies heavily on verbiage and philosophical symbolism.
5.0

Year:

1968

Bahía de Palma

Bahía de Palma

Mario starts working as a pianist in a party hall in Palma de Mallorca, where he finds two girls, an old pupil, and Clara, who will get to conquer him.
0.0

Year:

1962

Sonatas

Sonatas

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
4.6

Year:

1959