La ciudad no es para mí (1966)

Directed by

Pedro Lazaga

Genre

comedy film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 47 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly widower from a small village moves to Madrid to live with his son and daughter-in-law. He struggles to adapt to city life and its modern ways.

lightheartedgentlewarmwhimsicaleasygoingfolksysentimental

What happens

La ciudad no es para mí (transl. City is not for me) is a 1966 Spanish comedy film directed by Pedro Lazaga and based on the play of the same name by Fernando Lázaro Carreter published under the pen name Fernando Ángel Lozano. It stars Paco Martínez Soria as Agustín Valverde, an old widower peasant from the Aragonese village of Calacierva who decides to go to Madrid to live with his son and daughter-in-law. It was the highest-grossing Spanish film between 1965 and 1968 with 65,645,694 pesetas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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