Crónica de nueve meses

Several stories about couples who receive the news that they are going to be parents. Mercedes (María José Alfonso) and Alejandro (Alfredo Landa) are recently married and receive the news with enthusiasm. Margarita (Carmen Bernardos) and Juan (Franco Ressel) have been married for a long time but it will also be their first child for them. But the pregnant situation for Enrique (Alberto Bonucci) and Ines (Gracita Morales) does not come as a surprise to them because this is the eighth time for them. Leopoldo (José Luis Lopez Vazquez) and Luisa (Julieta Serrano) have been in this situation several times, but this is the first time that the pregnancy is real. The reaction of the parents, the cravings of the pregnant women, the search for the name of the children, everything is always the same, and always different. None of the couples look like the others, but when the moment of delivery arrives, the nerves will be the same.

A traditional film about new parents and the nervous tension and sentimental incidents that they entail for parents eager to have children. This is a run-of-the-mill in the sixties and seventies style with the usual modest means and dealing with ordinary couples with their desires, concerns and peculiar situations that arise for ordinary Spanish couples when the stork is about to arrive with their babies. There are some gags and likeable set pieces as when Alfredo Landa, at the whim of his wife Maria José Alfonso, goes out to buy some snails and ends up in a brothel where he ends up involved with a prostitute, Perla Cristal. And when Gracita Morales, in order to not have more children, she goes to the fortune teller Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro requesting spells or some magic to stop her from having more children because the one who will be born will be the eighth.

There are two main distractions in the film, the first is the cartoon baby who usually appears to the couples while making nice and sarcastic comments. This cartoon was drawn by the brothers Santiago and José Luis Moro from the Moro studios that created the famous Telerin Family. The second interest in the film is to guess which supporting actor will appear in the next frame, these include the following: Julieta Serrano, Perla Cristal, Luchy Soto, Rafael Arcos, Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro, Luis Morris, Venacio Muro, José Orjas, María Luisa Ponte, Alfonso del Real, Mariano Ozores Francés, Lola Lemos, Fernando Sanchez Polack.

This Spanish/Italian motion picture was regularly directed by Mariano Ozores. And even won an award: 1967 Prize of the National Syndicate of Spectacle Best Film, rank: 3rd place, but it results to be very mediocre , though it failed at boxoffice. Mariano directed a large number of comedies and in 1964 shot a Sci-fi flick : La hora incognita . As Mariano Ozores wrote , produced and directed the former movie, but was a real flop and he was bankrupt. Then Mariano promised at the future only to make comedies . Although it won prize of the National Syndicate of Spectacle to best actor José Luis Ozores and Best artistic Achievement . Mariano recently won a Goya Award (2016) to his long and fruitful career . Ozores made with two famous comedians , -Fernando Esteso and Andres Pajares- several successful films , as they had various years partnership between the two leads , such as ¨Agitese Antes Usarla¨ , ¨Al Este Del Oeste¨, ¨Los Liantes¨, ¨Los Energeticos¨, ¨La Lola Lleva Al Huerto¨ , ¨El Currante¨ , ¨El Hijo Del Cura¨...these films are filled with humor that still holds up , especially for those not easily offended . Mariano directed 93 films , most of them were comedies , though made some dramas as "Alegre Juventud" and "Las Dos y Media y veneno" with José Luis Ozores. Mariano directed a lot of comedies for the greatest Spanish comedians as Paco Martinez Soria , José Luis López Vázquez , Lina Morgan , Alfredo Landa , Jose Sacristán and the successful duo : Fernando Esteso and Andrés Pajares.