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Streetcar for Sale (1959)

Streetcar for Sale (1959)

Comedy
Release Date: 1959, October 11
Directors: Juan Estelrich March
Countries: Spain
Production: Estudios Moro, Estudios Moro
Cast: Chus Lampreave, José Orjas, José Luis López Vázquez, José María Rodríguez, Xan das Bolas, Luis Ciges, Luis Marín, Pedro Beltrán, María Luisa Ponte, José María Tasso, Simón Ramírez, Goyo Lebrero

Overview:

This excellent short film written by the magnificent filmmaker duo of Luis García Berlanga and screenwriter Rafael Azcona was to be part of a series entitled Los Pícaros (The Rogues) which was never continued. These two artists were responsible for such masterpieces of Spanish cinema as Plácido and El verdugo (The Executioner). Here, Berlanga and Azcona collaborated for the first time, setting the stage for the post-war "Berlanguiana" vision that would develop. José Luis López Vázquez plays Julián, a seedy swindler, who with his cronies tries to sell a streetcar to a rich but naive farmer, a newcomer to the city. High jinx ensue. With this film begins the great stage of Berlanga's filmmaking in which he mixes a little social criticism and notes of anti-clericalism with a great deal of farce.