To Begin Again ( Volver a empezar ) ( Begin the Beguine (Starting Over) )

To Begin Again (Blu-Ray) (*)

$22.99

Original Title: Volver a empezar
Alternate Title: Begin the Beguine (Starting Over)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
Montreal World Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1982 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
José Luis Garci

Written By:
José Luis Garci

Actors:
Antonio Ferrandis ..... Antonio Albajara
Encarna Paso ..... Elena
José Bódalo ..... Roxiu
Agustín González ..... Gervasio Losada
Pablo Hoyos ..... Ernesto
Marta Fernández Muro ..... Carolina
Pablo del Hoyo

Synopsis:

Antonio Albajara is a successful poet and teacher in the Berkeley University that returns to Gijón (Principality of Asturias, north to Spain). He travels there looking for everything that he left behind in his youth when he turned a well-known poet and writer in Mexico and USA, winning the Nobel prize with time. In Gijón he meets again with his past in Roxiu, an old friend (both played in the Sporting of Gijón's soccer team years ago) and Elena, his great-love of past times. Through his memory, his friends and Elena, Antonio starts an unforgettable journey by everyone.

Released in Spain as VOLVER A EMPEZAR, To Begin Again features Antonio Ferrandis as a celebrated Spanish author. Returning to his homeland after being more or less exiled during the 1937 Civil War, Ferrandis crosses the path of his former love, Encarna Paso. Alas, Ferrandis is suffering from one of those unnamed terminal illnesses that infest high-gloss movie weepers of this kind. To Begin Again won a 1982 Oscar for Best Foreign Film. The little-known Jose Luis Garci was the film's 'auteur,' wearing several hats as producer, director, and co-scenarist.

An exiled Spanish novelist who has a terminal illness returns on a two day trip to his native town, which he has not seen for forty years. He meets old friends and reminisces about a dance where the band played 'Begin the Beguine'.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 28 May, 2014.

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