Barcelona Was A Party - Underground 1970 - 1980 ( Barcelona Era Una Fiesta Underground 1970 - 1980 )

Barcelona Was A Party - Underground 1970 - 1980 (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Barcelona Era Una Fiesta Underground 1970 - 1980
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
57 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Biographies
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1970 - 1980 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Morrosko Vila-San-Juan

Written By:
Morrosko Vila-San-Juan
Roger Roca

Actors:
Pau Riba ..... Himself
Nazario ..... Himself (as Nazario Luque)
Josep M. Martí Font ..... Himself
Quim Monzó ..... Himself
Javier Mariscal ..... Himself
Pepe Ribas ..... Himself
Javier Ballester Montesol ..... Himself
Marta Sentís ..... Herself
Josep Ferriol ..... Himself (as Josep Ferriol 'Pepicheck')
José Miguel González Marcén ..... Himself (as José Miguel González Marcén 'Onliyú')
Víctor Jou ..... Himself
Juanjo Fernández ..... Himself
Ramón De España ..... Himself (as Ramón de España)
Oriol Tramvia ..... Himself
La Banda Trapera del Río ..... Themselves (archive footage)
Àngel Casas ..... Himself (archive footage)
Kaka de Luxe ..... Themselves (archive footage)
Bob Dylan ..... Himself (archive footage)
Felipe González ..... Himself (archive footage)
Ocaña ..... Himself (archive footage)
Onliyú ..... Himself
Pepicheck ..... Himself
Jordi Pujol ..... Himself (archive footage)
Gato Pérez ..... Himself (archive footage)
Jaume Sisa ..... Himself (archive footage)

Synopsis:

The Barcelona of the 1970s was a breeding ground for an underground countercultural movement known as just that: the 'underground'. A movement that was just as silenced as it was influential in building the modern, cosmopolitan and creative image that the city has projected to the rest of the world. Freedom, creation, breaking away and fiesta were a few of the guiding principles of the group that had decided to create a parallel reality to the one endured by the rest of the mortals (repression, dictatorship, economic crisis). Some of those youths fell by the wayside (their lives destroyed by drugs, alcohol and later on, AIDS); others are now artists, musicians, writers… and even business execs and prominent politicians! Mariscal, Nazario, Montesol, Onliyú, Pau Riba, Pepe Ribas, Marta Sentís, Quim Monzó, Oriol Tramvia, Miguel Gallardo, Luis Racionero and Josep M. Martí Font, among others, describe what it was like to live in that era of fiesta and utopia.

At last, the definitive explanation of Barcelona's counter-culture, which took place in just a few years but would resonate for much longer. Because Barcelona, the title doesn't lie, was a party, an anarchistic party where nobody had to pay a dime on the door, where there was no concept of cool/uncool, anything went, cynicism still hadn't been invented and (paraphrasing Astrud) 'it created such fear and laughter because it was so entirely new'. The Barcelonese underground is explained to us here with great attention to detail and a fab imaginary comic strip behind it: from its rocking cradle (Canet Rock, the libertarian weekends in Parc Guell in 1975, Ibiza, the passing foreigners, the rupture with Dandyism and the bourgeois bonne vivre of the Gauche Divine...) to its utopian height of light and colour and a shitload of fucking and drugs (the Stakhanovism of Star, Ajoblanco, Makoki, los cómix, Disco Exprés, Zeleste, the groups, Pau Riba in leggings, Ibiza again) until the final elbow administered by the proto-punks (La Banda Trapera del Río, being a total pain in the ass for the sake of pure self-preservation). Each and every one of its surviving witnesses pipes up: Nazario, Pepe Ribas, Mariscal, Onliyú, Miguel Gallardo, Ramón de España, Montesol, Luís Racionero, Pau Riba, Marta Sentís, Quim Monzó, Víctor Jou, Oriol Tramvia and others too. A documentary that's gigantic in intention and impact, for those in the know and those in the dark.

At last, the definitive explanation of Barcelona's counter-culture, from its cradle (Canet, Jornadas Libertarias) to its utopian height of light and colour (Star, Los Comix, Zeleste) to the final elbow by the proto-punks (La Trapera). As told by its witnesses: Nazario, Pepe Ribas, Pau Riba, Mariscal, Onliyú, Gallardo, Ramón de España and more.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 07 October, 2013.