Spanish Film Day: The Journey to Nowhere (online)

We celebrate the first Spanish Cinema Day with the screening of the film that won the first Goya Awards (1986): El viaje a ninguna parte, an excellent film directed and written by Fernando Fernán-Gómez, an essential director and actor in Spanish cinematography, which tells the story of a theatrical company touring the provinces at a time when cinema began to dominate the leisure of Spaniards in the countryside and the city. It is a heartfelt tribute to the world of traveling actors since time immemorial. Synopsis: A former comedian, Carlos Galván, now retired in an asylum, reminisces before a psychologist about his old days as an actor in a small theatrical company, the Iniesta-Galván, under the direction of his own father, Arturo Galván. It wasn't a big-name company, but a modest family group that toured the small Castilian towns and villages in the post-war years, with a simple repertoire of comedies that they performed on any improvised stage.