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Alalá (1934)

Alalá poster
Directed by
Adolf Trotz
Genre
comedy film
Country
Spain
Runtime
1h 31m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This 1934 Spanish comedy is set in the Galicia region. It follows events based on a novel about ordinary people and their lives.

lightheartedquirkynostalgicslow-pacedobservationalregionalwhimsicalunderstated

What happens

Alalá es una película en B/N del año 1933, durante la II República Española, dirigida por Adolf Trotz y basada en una novela titulada Los nietos de los celtas, de Rafael López de Haro. Realizada por un alemán, con fotografía de un danés y montaje de un ruso. No tuvo mucho éxito. Rodada en Pontevedra, Rianjo y Vigo El título proviene de un canto gallego llamado ‘alalá’. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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