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Apr 12, 2013 · It is not a claim of the Republic, but it is about recounting some events that occurred during the Republic”. And it is that all this is nothing more than the background of the story of two comedians from the league, “two survivors”, adds Lima for his part: Carmela and Paulino, 'varieties to the fine'.
As if the privations of the Spanish Civil War weren't enough to cope with, husband-and-wife variety artists Paulino (Robert Pickavance) and Carmela (Elizabeth Mansfield) accidentally stray into fascist-held territory - and end up performing for General Franco, a selection of Axis troops and a group of International Brigade prisoners due to be ...
¡Ay, Carmela! is a 1990 Spanish comedy-drama film directed by Carlos Saura and based on the eponymous play by José Sanchís Sinisterra.
¡Ay, Carmela! is a play by José Sanchis Sinisterra, set in the opening months of the Spanish Civil War, which premiered 5 November 1987 in Zaragoza under José Luis Gómez, who also played Paulino. Heavily allegorical, it tells the story of travelling players, Carmela and Paulino, who blunder into the wrong place at the wrong time.
Apr 22, 2021 · Ay, Carmela! by José Sanchis SinisterraDirected by Paula PazTranslated by John LondonCarmela and Paulino, a couple of travelling entertainers, mistakenly cro...
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Ay Carmela. Elizabeth Mansfield is ideally cast as Carmela. As well as giving a wonderfully funny and moving performance she also has a thrilling singing voice... Robert Pickavance gives a tour de force performance as the harassed Paulino, in comparison with whom Basil Fawlty is positively laid back.
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Directed by Tom Wright. Designed by Richard Aylwin. Music and Sound by Christopher Madin. Lighting by Nao Nagai. Performed by Robert Pickavance & Elizabeth Mansfield. Carmela and Paulino, a vaudeville comedy act, have fallen into the hands of Franco's troops during the Spanish Civil War.
