Berlanga

Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel are back with an sensational album. It's been 30 years they recorded their last album “Para la ternura siempre hay tiempo / There is always time for tenderness”. Now, they come back with confidence and strength with “Canciones regaladas / Gift songs”, 12 beautiful and extraordinary songs written by Rubén Blades, Leonard Cohen, José Alfredo Jiménez, Carlos Berlanga, Chico Buarque, Astor Piazzolla, Billy Joel or José Alfonso.

Michel is a middle aged man with a troubled marriage. He feels lonely, has been unfaithful to his wife Isabelle in various occasions, and despite she seems to accept this situation, they both grow apart. Eventually Michel falls in love with the most unexpected "perfect woman": a mannequin.

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The history starts with the main character (an old executioner in the Spain of early 60's) approaching retirement age. As his profession is not exactly what you could call "popular", he (a very gentle and nice man, caring, and proud of traditions) begins to worry about who might take his place when he retires. He has a daughter, but, unfortunately, she seems doomed to perpetual "spinsterhood": as soon as any prospective groom learns about her dad and her dad's "trade", he runs away from her, scared. A sad life… However, a new character enters: the local undertaker, a handsome and young man who has exactly the same problem… No girl wants him given his profession. So, you have the woman whom almost nobody would marry and the man whom almost nobody would marry. Obviously, they are meant for each other. But here the old executioner has something to say: He does not object to her daughter marrying the young undertaker; he seems a decent man…

Corre implacable 1947, undécimo año triunfal del glorioso Alzamiento Nacional. Tras cumplir de cabo a rabo su condena en el último campo de concentración para prisioneros de la República, Pepe Gazuza sale como transeúnte a un país tomado por el que campan los fantasmas del hambre, la picaresca del estraperlo y la humanidad de los pobres. Sin oficio ni beneficio, Gazuza vagará por las calles de una España yerma donde todo son secundarios buscándose las habichuelas. Entre ellos Ingrid, una rutilante fatale que guarda ausencia a su misterioso marido; Petro, criada multitarea que ha dejado el pueblo para servir en la capital, donde se dejará cortejar por el fascista Alfredi o, o Prosapio Pérez, viajante de lo inverosímil y mientras, los americanos, los rusos y hasta los andorranos, acechan.

La bella Margarita se debate entre sus dos pretendientes: el Duque de Sifón y el Marqués de Peñafloja. Cuando este último decide raptarla para influir en su decisión, desencadena una serie de acontecimientos que durante una extraña y mística noche sumirán a todo un pueblo en el desconcierto.