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¡Ay, Carmela! is a 1990 Spanish comedy-drama film directed by Carlos Saura and based on the eponymous play by José Sanchís Sinisterra.The film stars Carmen Maura, Andrés Pajares, and Gabino Diego as travelling players performing for the Republic, who inadvertently find themselves on the nationalist side during the closing months of the Spanish Civil War.
"¡Ay Carmela!" is one of the most famous songs of the Spanish Republican troops during the Spanish Civil War. [ 1 ] It had originally been a nineteenth century folk song, El Paso del Ebro , commemorating the routing of Napoleonic troops across the river Ebro in 1807, during the War of Independence .
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5th Goya Awards; Date: February 16, 1991: Site: Palacio de Congresos de Madrid: Hosted by: Lydia Bosch and Jorge Sanz: Highlights; Best Film ¡Ay, Carmela! Best Actor: Andrés Pajares
Carmen García Maura was born in Madrid on 15 September 1945 to Salvador García y Santa-Cruz and Carmen Maura y Arenzana. [1] [2] Her great-grandfather was the Count of Fuente Nueva de Arenzana, who lived in the Palace of Arenzana in Madrid, currently the embassy of France.
Carmen is a 1983 Spanish film adaptation of Prosper Mérimée's novel Carmen, incorporating music from Georges Bizet's opera of the same name.Directed and choreographed in the flamenco style by Carlos Saura and María Pagés, it constitutes the second installment of Saura's flamenco trilogy in the 1980s, preceded by Bodas de sangre and followed by El amor brujo.
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Carmen Maura won twice for her roles in Mujeres al borde de un Ataque de Nervios (1988) and ¡Ay Carmela! (1990). Juliette Binoche won twice for her roles in Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) and The English Patient (1996). Emily Watson won for her role in Breaking the Waves (1996). Cecilia Roth won for her role in Todo Sobre Mi Madre (1999).