Marcos Zurinaga
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Marcos Zurinaga is a cinematographer born and raised in Puerto Rico
. Among the several movies that he has directed is "La Gran Fiesta", a movie about the last grand party at the old "Casino de Puerto Rico" building in Old San Juan before it was turned over to military use as the United States was drawn into World War Two.
Synopsis: During the year 1936 as civil war is beginning to brew in Spain, teenagers Ricardo Fernandez and Jorge Aquirre have come to idolize the poet Federico Garcia Lorca. They attend the premiere of his play "Yerma" and actually go back stage to meet the man. Soon after their meeting, Lorca is arrested by the fascists and subsequently disappears. Fifteen years after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Ricardo returns to his native Granada as an established journalist to ponder what really happened to the famed, murdered Spanish poet. Knowing that he will never be able to find peace until he finds Lorca's killer, Ricardo returns to Franco's Spain, a country still rife with enemies of the poet and dangers waiting for one who would discover the murderer.
Cast:
Andy Garcia http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000412/bio, Federico Garcia Lorca;
Esai Morales, Ricardo;
Edward James Olmos, Lozano;
Jeroen Krabbe, Colonel Aguirre;
Giancarlo Giannini, Taxi;
Miguel Ferrer, Centeno;
Marcela Walerstein, Maria Eugenia;
Jill Ramez, Carlota;
William Marquez, Lorca's Father;
Carmen Zapata, Lorca's Mother
and several others.
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
. Among the several movies that he has directed is "La Gran Fiesta", a movie about the last grand party at the old "Casino de Puerto Rico" building in Old San Juan before it was turned over to military use as the United States was drawn into World War Two.
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
Another unusual movie in the thriller/mystery category is The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca.Synopsis: During the year 1936 as civil war is beginning to brew in Spain, teenagers Ricardo Fernandez and Jorge Aquirre have come to idolize the poet Federico Garcia Lorca. They attend the premiere of his play "Yerma" and actually go back stage to meet the man. Soon after their meeting, Lorca is arrested by the fascists and subsequently disappears. Fifteen years after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Ricardo returns to his native Granada as an established journalist to ponder what really happened to the famed, murdered Spanish poet. Knowing that he will never be able to find peace until he finds Lorca's killer, Ricardo returns to Franco's Spain, a country still rife with enemies of the poet and dangers waiting for one who would discover the murderer.
Cast:
Andy Garcia http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000412/bio, Federico Garcia Lorca;
Esai Morales, Ricardo;
Edward James Olmos, Lozano;
Jeroen Krabbe, Colonel Aguirre;
Giancarlo Giannini, Taxi;
Miguel Ferrer, Centeno;
Marcela Walerstein, Maria Eugenia;
Jill Ramez, Carlota;
William Marquez, Lorca's Father;
Carmen Zapata, Lorca's Mother
and several others.
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