Turnip Top Explained

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Director:José Sacristán
Screenplay:José Sacristán
Editing:José Luis Matesanz
Producer:Alfredo Matas
Country:Spain
Music:Ricardo Miralles
Cinematography:Carlos Suárez
Language:Spanish

Turnip Top (Spanish; Castilian: '''Cara de acelga'''|links=no)[1] [2] is a 1987 Spanish road movie and comedy film directed and starred by José Sacristán, also featuring Fernando Fernán Gómez, Marisa Paredes, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Miguel Rellán, Amparo Baró, and Amparo Soler Leal.

Plot

The plot follows the aimless adventures of hitchhiking drifter Antonio ("cara de acelga") and his encounters with a number of colourful characters.[3]

Production

The film is an Incine, Lince Films, and Jet Films production.[4] The screenplay was penned by Sacristán based on an original story by Sacristán and Carlos Pérez Merinero.

Release

The film was theatrically released on 20 January 1987.[5] It made an in-year gross of 30,893,384 (104,149 admissions).[6]

Reception

Jordi Batlle Caminal of El País deemed Turnip Top to be "a film peppered with a thousand and one anecdotes and a motley crew of colorful characters", "comedy in its sad state".[7]

Accolades

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See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Schwartz, Ronald. Great Spanish Films Since 1950. xxxvi. The Scarecrow Press, Inc.. 978-0-8108-5405-5. 2008.
  2. Web site: From Spain, a Schedule of Double Features. The New York Times. 27 March 1987.
  3. Book: Bayón, Miguel. José Sacristán. La memoria de la tribu. 140. 1995. Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva. Huelva. 9788475643625 .
  4. Web site: premiosgoya.com. Cara de acelga. 21 November 2022. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España.
  5. Book: Asión Suñer, Ana. Cuando el cine español buscó una tercera vía (1970-1980): Testimonios de una transición olvidada. 183. Zaragoza. Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. 2019. 9788417358976 .
  6. Book: Caparrós Lera, J.M. https://books.google.com/books?id=ejhyphmNloQC&pg=PA374. 422. 84-7658-312-5. El cine español de la democracia: De la muerte de Franco al "cambio" socialista (1975-1989). Anthropos. Barcelona. 1992. Cuadro 7. Relación de las cincuenta películas españolas de mayor número de espectadores en España en 1987.
  7. News: El País. 10 October 1990. Cara de acelga. Jordi. Batlle Caminal.