Basilio Martín Patino Movies

A particular reading of the forties and fifties in Spain, the hard years of famine and repression after the massacre of the Civil War, through...

The longing and critical review of the copla is lived through the history of the marqués de Almodóvar, a passionate ambassador who...

Lorenzo is a young man who has just returned to Salamanca (Spain) from England, where he fell in love with Berta, a girl daughter of exiled parents...

An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in the...

July, 1936. The terrible Spanish Civil War begins. When the streets are taken by the working class, the social revolution begins as well. The public...

Hans, a German director, is in Madrid to film a television production about the capital and the Civil War, 50 years after it occurred. Accompanied by...

Caudillo is a documentary film by Spanish film director Basilio Martín Patino. It follows the military and political career of Francisco...

Documentary on the bull fights in Salamanca that commemorate the ending of the payment of tribute to the Duke of Alba in 1852.

This documentary, filmed clandestinely, is based on several interviews with the executioners who worked in Spain during the early 1970s, as well as...

María belongs to the upper bourgeoisie and has always had everything in life, even a brilliant, educated husband; in short, an intellectual to...

This literary film is imbued with the disenchantment of Spanish exiles who left their homes to protest Franco's fascist regime and then returned...

A travelogue through the diverse neighborhoods of Madrid, its picturesque streets and its history; and an approach, with a sense of humor, to the...

Images and verses to Christmas

Rodrigo returns to his childhood home of Salamanca after a four-decade absence and a career as a guerrilla in Latin America, a secret agent in the...

This short film "Torerillos 61" is one of the first works of the master Patino, which tries to portray the Spanish society of the time outside the...