The Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports celebrated this Saturday the 20th anniversary of the Film Library of the Region of Murcia Francisco Rabal with the release of the film 'Always in my memory', a feature film directed by Silvio Fernández Balbuena and Manuel Caño in 1962.
The film has been recovered by the Regional Film Library with the collaboration of the Spanish Film Library and represents “a great example of our memory and film heritage, which we recover, preserve and make known from this center, through whose seats it has passed in these twenty years one and a half million spectators,” indicated the Minister of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports.
This film joins other works of film heritage such as all the NO-DO films filmed in the Region -donated by the Spanish Film Archive-, the recovery of practically the entire filmography of Murcian amateur filmmakers -one of the most important cultural expressions of the 20th century in Murcia -, the restoration of the 'Alegría de la Huerta' (Ramón Quadreny, 1940), the rearrangement and restoration of 'La Cruz de Caravaca' (1924), 'María del Carmen or In the Gardens of Murcia' (Marcel Gras and Max Joly, 1936) and the documents of the Pedagogical Missions filmed in Murcia during the Republic by Val del Omar and other missionaries.
The celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Filmoteca was attended by the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, the actors Fiorella Faltoyano, Ginés García Millán and Mary Paz Pondal, relatives of Francisco Rabal – such as his son Benito – and Margarita Lozano, the director Chumilla Carbajosa, representatives of the regional audiovisual sector, as well as collaborators and institutions that have participated in the activities of the center, directed by Ángel Cruz and dependent on the Institute of Cultural Industries and the Arts since it opened its doors two years ago. decades.
The film takes place in Murcia and captures the urban landscape of the time in the city center, as well as a parade of the Burial of the Sardine.
THE TRUTH has a prominent presence in this film, since many of the scenes take place in the newspaper's editorial office, when it was located in the emblematic San Leandro building, in the Plaza de los Apóstoles, next to the Murcia Cathedral. . The professor of Film History at the University of Murcia Joaquín Cánovas, also present this Saturday at the re-release of the film, recalls that there is extensive documentation on the production, since the filming had a great presence in the local press.
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