Movie places in Spain I

The cities are great espaolas that have been a witness of the shootings of big pelculas of the history of cinema. The southeast espaol, it is one of the ms known in this aspect thanks to the big quantity of Spaguetti Western as “The death tena a price” (Sergio Leone, 1965) and “The good one, the snub and the villain” (Sergio Leone, 1966), or of other gneros like “Indiana Jones and the crossed ltima” (Steven Spielberg, 1989) or “Patton“ (Frankiln J. Schaffner, 1969) that were done in the Almera desert. But, although the area is ms popularly, it is not the nica.

One of the pelculas important ms rolled in Espaa from the point of view cinematogrfico is “The Brave man” (Anthony Man, 1961), led by the winning actors of the Oscar Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren. Aqu narrates the adventures of Rodrigo Daz de Vivar, ms known like The Brave man Warrior, that lleg to dominate prcticamente the whole east of the Pennsula in the XIth century. His life will be the base of “Singing of Mo Cid” and of est big pelcula.

For the shooting one will resort to different places of the Guadarrama and the Castle of Manzanares Real (Madrid), placed in the Pedriza and belonging to the Duke of the Infantado.

To stand out, they are tambin the Castle of Torrelobatn (Valladolid) constructed about 1420-1426 for Alfonso Enrquez, Admiral of Castile; the Castle of Ampudia (Palencia) dated of the XIth century, and finally the Castle of Belmonte (Cuenca), of the XVth century, that I belonged to the family Montijo during the XIXth century.

Adems, the shooting of The Brave man, convirti the Pescola beaches in a plat outdoors, where it is pruned to see Charlton mounting on horseback.

The film director David Lean, I yielded in two occasions to the charm espaol to roll his pelculas. The first time was in the shooting of “Lawrence de Arabia“ (1962), pelcula winner of 7 Oscars of the Academy, which centr in the Almohad architecture of a Seville transformed into Damascus.
The Square of Espaa of the same city, entrusted the architect Anbal Gonzlez for the Latin-American exposicin of 1929, was a witness of many of the scenes of the pelcula, which aos despus was meeting Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen, along with R2-D2, walking along a Square of digital Espaa, which haca of set for the planet Naboo in “Star Wars: the attack of the clones” (2002).

The following visit of David Lean went to Espaa with “Doctor Zhivago” (1965), who in spite of treating on the Russian Revolucin of 1917, was almost ntegramente tire in Espaa.
The places out-standing ms was the estacin of Delights of Madrid, current head office of the Railroad National museum, which disguise of Siberian estacin of train; and the streets of Soria, where the location scenes will be rolled with snow and one of the key scenes of the pelcula: a frozen mansin where the protagonists spend his ltimos you give.
The city was chosen by his covered with snow acquaintances and low temperatures, but exactly this ao not nev prcticamente not at all. The problem solution with the help of glazing, cast, and mrmol dust between other materials.

Although these mammoth productions are of the ms important, there are no nicas.
The secret agent britnico ms known, has been glad of happening for our cities in several occasions.
The ms emphasized it was with the pelcula “The world is never suficient and” (Michael Apted, 1999), with Pierce Brosnan and Denise Richards to the head. The movie begins in the museum Guggenheim of Bilbao and later it has a sequence where a few policas enter the Bond house. As curiosity, these policas, they were autnticos municipal and it seems that the excessive enthusiasm of the bilbanos bothered to Brosnan. It already prunes to worry about being a better actor, anyway.

The team of “The kingdom of the skies” (Ridley Scott, 2005) desplaz up to Huesca to roll some minutes in the Castle of Loarre, constructed by order of the Navarrese King Sancho III in the XIth century. The place I suffered a big transformacin to be able to adapt it to the pelcula, hacindose a pequeo I populate next to the Castle; as the Church of San Pedro that slo turned into a big medieval room to roll a nica scene. Tambin goes out imgenes of vila and Seville.
In the beginning pens in rolling the scenes of the Palace of the King of Jerusaln in the Mosque of Crdoba. Finally the idea rechaz.

But not slo the foreign directors have rolled big pelculas in Espaa with big actors.
Alejandro Amenbar is the director of “others” (2001), which although it is an American produccin, was rolled ntegramente in Madrid and in The Palace of the Stoves (Santander) holiday place of King Alfonso XIII, who in the pelcula, was simulating to be a Victorian casern of the island of Jersey of 1945, after the Second World War, where Nicole Kidman lives imprisoned with his two children and a few somewhat "special" servants.

To end, some other not less important pelculas like “Pride and pasin” (1957) of Stanley Kramer, the director that I appealed to the vila walls with the target to bombard them in the shooting. Lgicamente, his peticin was pushed back.

In “every of the Roman Empire” (Anthony Mann, 1964) we can see to the troops walking along the Valsan forest, Segovia.

And pelculas recent ms as “The perfume” (Tom Tykwer, 2006) which plot develops in the Pars of the XVIIth century, but that rod in the Quarter Gtico of Barcelona. Or “The capitn Alatriste” (Agustn Daz Yanes, 2006) with almost hundred different locations, it is possible to emphasize The Cove, in Cdiz, with his two castles, that of San Sebastin and that of Santa Catalina.