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Placido

Original title: Plácido
  • 1961
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  • 1h 25m
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7.8/10
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Placido (1961)
ComedyDrama

An ill-advised charity campaign encouraging wealthy citizens to break bread with the less fortunate sweeps across a small industrial Spanish town on Christmas Eve.An ill-advised charity campaign encouraging wealthy citizens to break bread with the less fortunate sweeps across a small industrial Spanish town on Christmas Eve.An ill-advised charity campaign encouraging wealthy citizens to break bread with the less fortunate sweeps across a small industrial Spanish town on Christmas Eve.

  • Director
    • Luis García Berlanga
  • Writers
    • Luis García Berlanga
    • Rafael Azcona
    • José Luis Colina
  • Stars
    • Cassen
    • José Luis López Vázquez
    • Elvira Quintillá
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    4K
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    • Director
      • Luis García Berlanga
    • Writers
      • Luis García Berlanga
      • Rafael Azcona
      • José Luis Colina
    • Stars
      • Cassen
      • José Luis López Vázquez
      • Elvira Quintillá
    • 9User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 7 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Cassen
    Cassen
    • Plácido Alonso
    • (as Casto Sendra 'Cassen')
    José Luis López Vázquez
    José Luis López Vázquez
    • Gabino Quintanilla
    Elvira Quintillá
    Elvira Quintillá
    • Emilia
    Manuel Alexandre
    Manuel Alexandre
    • Julián Alonso
    Mario de Bustos
    • Don Rodolfo
    María Francés
    María Francés
    • Hermana de la Caridad
    Mari Carmen Yepes
    • Martita (as Carmen Yepes)
    Jesús Puche
    • Jefe de estación
    Roberto Llamas
    • Damián Olmedo
    Amelia de la Torre
    Amelia de la Torre
    • Doña Encarna de Galán
    Juan G. Medina
    • Don Arturo
    José María Caffarel
    José María Caffarel
    • Zapater
    • (as José Mª Caffarel)
    Xan das Bolas
    Xan das Bolas
    • Rivas
    Fernando Delgado
    Fernando Delgado
    • Representante
    Laura Granados
    Laura Granados
    • Erika
    Juan Manuel Simón
    • Roberto Bonifaz, el joven galán
    Carmen Valencia
    • Maruja Collado
    Gloria Osuna
    • Lali
    • (as Gloria F. Osuna)
    • Director
      • Luis García Berlanga
    • Writers
      • Luis García Berlanga
      • Rafael Azcona
      • José Luis Colina
    • All cast & crew
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    10el_monty_BCN

    The desperation of Spain seen through the looking-glass of black comedy.

    As is almost always the case with the films of Berlanga, this film is a comedy on the surface, which hides a very hard and crude criticism of the situation of Spanish society during the dictatorship. In those years, Spanish filmmakers couldn't speak freely and openly about the dismal state of their country, so they had to pass their message to the audience between the lines. Berlanga was a master at doing this, and Plácido is one of his finest examples. The abysmal differences that existed between the very poor (the majority of the population at the time) and the very rich, who treated the rest with utter contempt and ridiculous condescency, is portrayed with such strength that it can't leave anyone indifferent. But it is done in the form of a comedy, and a very funny one, full of absurd situations and memorable dialogues, but also a very black one, with some scenes, especially near the end of the movie, which are on the edge of the truly macabre. A true masterpiece from one of the greatest Spanish directors.
    7ma-cortes

    Classic Spanish film dealing with a merciless critical to a hypocrite society in a little town masterfully directed by the maestro Berlanga

    A coral comedy with an excellent plethora of Spanish players and an interesting screenplay full of a high level of ingenious humor but in malevolent intention from the same Berlanga and his usual Rafael Azcona along with Jose Luis Colina. Sublime film but with censorship realized by the great maestro Luis Garcia Berlanga . Good film that was beset by difficulties with the censors caused by a relentless critical to useless charity and social hypocrisy . It takes place in a small Spanish town (Manresa , Barcelona) , it deals upon a bunch of motley people , some old ladies (Amelia De La Torre) decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with an aim : each wealthy household of the little town will have a homeless person dining with them that night. The celebrations also include a cavalcade , and in it we find Plácido (Cassen) , the humble owner of a motorcar , whose family , including wife (Elvira Quintilla) , brother (Manuel Alexandre) , grandfather and children are obligated to live in a public lavatory because of the lack of money to pay the rent. Placido is hired by Gabino Quintanilla (Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez) to participate with his three-wheeler in the parade organized for the campaign ; however , there is a problem , he has to pay the second bill of his vehicle before midnight or else he will lose it .

    In the flick there are especially comedy , humor , joy , satire and social critical which tended not to be very well received by the censor . At the beginning the story was titled "Sit a poor man at your table" ; however of ridiculous problems with censors resulted to be changed the title . The main and support actors stand out under perfect direction of Berlanga very far from the tenderness that carried out in previous works , including a bitter , pessimistic mirror on the Spanish society by that time . The movie displays a Spanish star-studded such as : Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez , Manuel Alexandre, Jose Orjas , Erasmo Pascual , Julia Caba Alba , Agustin Gonzalez , Amparo Soler Leal , Felix Fernandez , Xan Das Bolas , Luis Ciges : Berlanga's usual , and Cassen film debut . Berlanga's conceptual and political audacity, so evident in this film that achieved a big success . Plácido¨ (1961) is the film debut for the great producer Alfredo Matas and turns out to be a nice picture plenty of diverting situations as well as black humor , however, his strong portrait of Spanish society didn't please the pro-Franco authorities, although the film was well-received at the International Festival and received an Oscar nomination in 1963.

    Direction by Luis Garcia Berlanga is pretty good , he shows his skill for edition , realizing long shots with crowd who moves easily and shows the miseries of an amoral society . Fine cinematography in white and black by Francisco Sempere . Atmospheric and lively musical score by Miguel Asins Arbo . Berlanga filmed several polemic movies during the 50s as ¨Bienvenido Mister Marshall¨ (1953) and considered to be one of the best Spanish films of the history . His next joint venture was ¨Los Jueves, Milagro¨ (1957), was modified by the censors and was delayed for several years before its eventual release . ¨That same year, Berlanga made one of his best films: ¨El Verdugo¨ (1963), one of the undisputed masterpieces and fundamental in filmography of Luis Garcia Berlanga and shot at the height of his creativity, in a period cultural difficult, where the enormous censorship of the political regime, exacerbated the ingenuity and imagination of the scriptwriters . He continued filming other interesting pictures as in 1973 he went to Paris to begin filming ¨Grandeur nature¨ , another problematic film , focusing this time on the fetishism of a man who falls in love with a doll . Several years later, after Franco's death, he filmed a trilogy comprising ¨La Escopeta Nacional¨ (1978), ¨Patrimonio Nacional¨ (1981) and ¨Nacional III¨ (1982), where he clarified the disorders evident in the Spanish upper middle-class upon being confronted with a new political status quo . Following the same theme he filmed a peculiar comedy titled ¨La Vaquilla¨ (1985), set in the Spanish Civil War . He went on filming coral films such as ¨Moros and Cristianos¨, ¨ Todos a Carcel¨, and his final film : ¨Paris Tombuctu¨. Rating ,Placido : 7 , above average . Essential and indispensable watching for Berlanga aficionados . Well worth seeing .
    7lasttimeisaw

    an interminably garrulous talkie

    Venerable Spanish director Luis García Berlanga's hyperbolically frenetic social satire PLACIDO is an Oscar nominee for BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM and Palme d'or contestant, and guilefully circumvents the censor of Franco's government by subsuming his trenchant sideswipes into the pandemonium of a farcical dynamo.

    The story takes place exclusively on the day before Christmas, in a small Spanish town, to celebrate the festival, each of the wealthy families will invite one poor citizen to each one's Christmas Eve dinner, to be a Good Samaritan for one day, (but even that, would be too big a challenge for many of them, Berlanga makes sure that the acerbic irony doesn't lose itself in the swamp of shameless plugging) . And Placido (comedian Cassen in his film debut) is an unassuming man who must pay his bill before midnight, otherwise he will lose his motor-vehicle (and his family stays in the public lavatory because they cannot afford the rent). He is hired by Gabino Quintanilla (Vázquez, a masterful nexus in the convoluted morass), the photographer of the so-called "set a poor man at your table" charity event, to participate the Christmas parade in the afternoon with his vehicle, after he picks up a band of film stars in the train stations, who will participate in the charity auction afterwards.

    Rambunctious from A to Z, this comedy distinguishes itself as an interminably garrulous talkie, which sets a built-in hindrance to those subtitle-dependent first-time viewers, it could be an excruciatingly daunting experience since the devil is in the details, and it is plain physically impossible to get on board with all comings and goings at that speed. The charity plugging continues with an effervescent flurry of episodes where bourgeois hypocrisy, nagging nuisances, contemptible unkindness inexorably career through the night with Placido persistently tailing behind to make both ends meet.

    A plethora of named Spanish actors appears on the roster to enliven the burlesque merry-go- round, which predominantly caters for its home-turf demography who can trace a piquant whiff of self-referentiality out of its rowdy mockery, and also accentuates Berlanga's rhythmic legerdemain to affix a catenation of skits scene to scene in a non-stop fashion, however, in the eyes of an outsider, its efficacy is potently eclipsed by his tangibly more mordant social critique THE EXECUTIONER (1963).
    10ovidio_ortiz

    Placido: one of the best Spanish movies

    Directed in 1961 by this great director Luis Garcia Berlanga, believe his better movie with an incredible perfection, handling the times inventing the plane it sequences. With a seemingly simple synopsis: In a city of provinces, the Ladies' Meeting decides to promote a charitable campaign for the Christmas: the small bourgeois es will sit to his table to a poor person in the dinner of Christmas Eve. And to help to convince, also they will have the opportunity to invite the famous one to his table. All this supported by the manufacturer of pots Cocinex. With an exceptional script in which it takes care of all the details, offering a real statement of Spanish, so unbalanced company where the rich ones they are done mas rich and the poor are done mas poor. In spite of the fact that it is of the year 1961 it continues being a masterpiece, which has not been overcome in spite of the years, unforgettable prominent figures, a movie that every lover of the cinema must see.
    10miguelgarciaros-1

    the spanish idiosincratic mastery of berlanga

    I have seen hundreds of placidos in real life,I'm 37 and I was born in south spain, this movie is a fresco very close to the truth, a wonder in every aspect, placido takes the central role, the gravitational axis, everyone is a cinic in this film, except placido, this trick makes everything works as berlanga wants increasing the effect of desolation. Tragicomical in the same way that chaplin and rossellini.

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      The film was originally going to be titled "Siente a un pobre a su mesa" ("seat a poor man at your table"), but this was ultimately changed because the Spanish censorship would not allow it.
    • Connections
      Featured in Berlanga, plano personal (2011)

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    • Release date
      • June 27, 1962 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Spain
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Plácido
    • Filming locations
      • Manresa, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
    • Production company
      • Jet Films
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 25m(85 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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