The Girl of Your Dreams Movie Review 1999

Macarena Granada (Cruz) headlines a troop of Spanish actors who travel from their war-torn country to Berlin in 1938 to turn an Andalusian musical into a movie. Things get grimly messy when she seeks to rescue a prisoner from a nearby concentration camp. In Spanish, with subtitles.

Distribution

Ventura Distribution, 770 Lawrence Dr., Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, Phone: (805)498-7800, Toll-free: 888-499-3700, Fax: (805)498-7842, URL: http://www.venturadistribution.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 121 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Spanish Civil War, Nazis & Other Paramilitary Slugs, Germany, The Holocaust, World War II, Historical Drama, Concentration/Internment Camps

Screenplay

Rafael Azcona, Miguel Angel Egea, Carlos Lopez, David Trueba

Cast

Penelope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sarda, Santiago Segura, Loles Leon, Jesus Bonilla, Neus Asensi, Miroslav Taborsky, Karel Dobry, Johannes Silberschneider, Goetz Otto, Hanna Schygulla, Maria Barranco, Juan Luis Galiardo, Heinz Rilling, Jan Preucil, Borivoj Navratil, Martin Faltyn, Otto Sevcik

Cinematography

Javier Aguirresarobe

Director

Fernando Trueba

Music

Antoine Duhamel