The Magnificent Stranger”

 

The Magnificent Stranger – International title

 

A 2023 Spanish documentary production [EMB Documental (Madrid)]

Producers: Miguel Ángel Guerra, Iván Karras

Directors: Miguel Ángel Guerra, Iván Karras

Story: Iván Karras

Cinematography: Alfonso Eusebio Martínez [color]

Music:

Running time: 85 minutes

 

Cast:

José Luis Galicia, Enrique Cerezo, Carlos Aguilar (Carlos Gutiérrez), Manuel Vidrié Jaime Comas, Victor Matellano, Andrés Vicente Gómez, Joan Padrol, Julio Sempere, Manuel Vidrié (Manuel Gómez)

The documentary is narrated in three 'acts', the first dedicated to the creation of Golden City, the second to its influence on Hoyo de Manzanares and the third, dedicated to Sergio Leone's film. To tell this story they have had first-hand testimonies, from people who participated in the shootings, producers, people who give a global vision of what that time meant... they even contacted Manuel Vidrié, retired bullfighter and double of Clint Eastwood

"At the beginning of the sixties, a producer, also experienced in writing and directing films, sees the option of building the first permanent western set in Europe in the mountains of Madrid, in Hoyo de Manzanares. And he asks his brother-in-law, a nationally and internationally valued artist, to build the model of the village in collaboration with a film decorator. Together they build and manage for more than ten years the sets that housed the film that changed a genre, the way of making films and marked the beginning of the careers of three essential figures in the history of film."

 

Trailer link: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1233213861455682