Joaquim Jordà i Català
Joaquim Jordà i Català ( Santa Coloma de Farners , August 9 , 1935 - Barcelona , June 8 , 2006 ) was a Catalan film director , screenwriter and translator . He belongs to the School of Barcelona where he stands out for his film Dante is not only severe (1967) directed together with Jacinto Esteva . He is also recognized for his documentary film work with titles such as the cooperative film Numax presents... (1980), the award-winning Mones com la Becky (1999) or De Nens (2003). In 2000 he was awarded the National Cinema Award , granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya and in 2006 with the National Cinematography Award , granted by the Ministry of Culture of Spain .
In 2004 he resumed Numax presents... , a film he had shot in 1979 at the initiative of the Workers' Assembly of the Númax appliance factory in Barcelona's Eixample . Twenty years are nothing , a new film that reunites those workers who self-managed the factory.
Known For | Writing |
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Most Rating | 1.178 |
Birthday | 1935-08-09 |
Place of Birth | Santa Coloma de Farners, Catalunya |
Also Known As | Joaquín Jordá, |
2006
Deixa’m en Pau
6/1
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Deixa’m en Pau
2006
Más allá del espejo
7/1
Beyond the mirror it is a documentary film that tries to get in the world of the agnosias and the alexias, cerebral diseases that carry substantial di...
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Más allá del espejo
1967
Dante Is Not Only Severe
5.2/4
A woman uselessly insists on entertaining a man by telling him stories that don’t interest him as much as his works. A film about the impossibility of...
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Dante Is Not Only Severe
1968
Biotaxia
5/1
A successful actress with three children takes an artist lover to fill a void in her life. This avant garde feature illustrates the alienation of an i...
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Biotaxia
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1969
Maria Aurèlia Capmany parla d'Un lloc entre els morts'
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Documentary by Joaquím Jordá, part of the Barcelona School.
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Maria Aurèlia Capmany parla d'Un lloc entre els morts'
1999
Monkeys Like Becky
6.5/4
The first part of this documentary deals with the Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949, one of the first surgeo...
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Monkeys Like Becky
2005
La doble vida del faquir
6/3
La doble vida del faquir (The magicians) returns to the scene of a school in the Catalan town of Sant Julià de Vilatorta where, in 1937, in the midst...
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La doble vida del faquir
1962
Bahía de Palma
0/0
Mario starts working as a pianist in a party hall in Palma de Mallorca, where he finds two girls, an old pupil, and Clara, who will get to conquer hi...
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Bahía de Palma
1969
The Happy Sixties
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Monica, a wife and mother, is dissatisfied with his routine, conventional life. Her husband, Pablo, decides that the best thing for her and her childr...
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The Happy Sixties
1959
Sonatas
4.6/8
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him esc...
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