Marisol Carnicero

How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person behind, his family, his friends, his collaborators, as well as prestigious filmmakers and actors trace a collective portrait of a creator as singular as he is universal.

Remigio, a man abandoned by his lover, walks his lonely existence through the night of the city. Fate sets him up a date with Julia. As in fairy tales, the enchantment lasts until dawn. The presence of the moon gives us the measure of time and reinforces the feminine ideal.

A look at the Aragonese countryside, star of the movie screen, accompanied by various trades of cinema.

Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar Miró, returns to the various locations where the shooting of the mythical film, narrating the infamous Grimaldos case (1910), took place.