Sighs of Spain explained

Sighs of Spain
Director:	Benito Perojo
Producer:	Helmut Beck-Herzog
Starring:	Miguel Ligero Estrellita Castro Roberto Rey
Music:	Juan Mostazo Walter Sieber
Cinematography:	Georg Bruckbauer
Editing:	Willy Zeyn
Studio:	Hispano Filmproduktion
Distributor:	Ufilms
Runtime:	100 minutes
Country:	Germany Spain
Language:	Spanish

Sighs of Spain or Spanish Sighs (Spanish: Suspiros de España) is a 1939 German-Spanish comedy film directed by Benito Perojo and starring Miguel Ligero, Estrellita Castro and Roberto Rey.^[1] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gustav A. Knauer and Alexander Mügge. It was one of five co-productions between Nationalist Spain and Nazi Germany during the late 1930s.^{[2] [3]} It is takes its title from the 1903 pasodoble by Antonio Álvarez Alonso. In 1955 it was remade as a Spanish musical film Sighs of Triana.

Cast

• Miguel Ligero as Relámpago
• Estrellita Castro as Sole
• Roberto Rey as Carlos Cuesta
• Concha Catalá as Dolores
• Alberto Romea as Freddy Pinto
• Pedro Fernández Cuenca as El empresario
• Fortunato García as Gerente del hotel
• Manuel Pérez as Botones
• José Escandel as Agente artístico
• Juean Calvo as Unknown role

References

1. Peiró p.208
2. Pavlović p.44-45
3. Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema p.47

Bibliography

• De España, Rafael. Directory of Spanish and Portuguese film-makers and films. Greenwood Press, 1994.
• Pavlović, Tatjana (ed.) 100 Years of Spanish Cinema. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
• Peiró, Eva Woods. White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musical Films. University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
• Winkel, Roel Vande & Welch, David. Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema. Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.