Movies with Xabier Elorriaga
Movies found: 2, viewing from 1 to 2
Lenin: The Train
Genres: Drama
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Timothy West, Paolo Bonacelli, Leslie Caron, Jason Connery, Xabier Elorriaga, Mattia Sbragia
Directors: Damiano Damiani
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, Austria
Year: 1988
Before viewing 'Lenin: The Train' for the second time, I went and visited the On Line Encyclopedia to remember the Russia-1917-story. So, I found back Lenin, his mistress Inès, and all the people they had met on their way to the Revolution. This time they were very familiar to me. In this road motion picture, they are credible human beings. Damiani is a good director. The special atmosphere of travelling by train, I have always been fond of, is there. The regular knocking of the wheels on the rails, and the train that whistles are part of the cast and the drama.
The Dancer Upstairs
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Javier Bardem, Natalia Dicenta, Juan Diego Botto, Laura Morante, Alexandra Lencastre, Oliver Cotton, Javier Manrique
Directors: John Malkovich
Country: USA, Spain
Year: 2002
The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda--his daughter's soulfully beautiful ballet teacher--a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, ma...