Film Days of the Mediterranean: DEPRISA, DEPRISA – LOS, TEMPO!

38th Film Days of the Mediterranean 22.1. – 2.2.2025 Karlstorkino, Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 3, 69126 Heidelberg, admission €10, reduced €7.50, members Medienforum €6, advance ticket sales online: www.filmtage-mittelmeer.de or at the Karlstorkino (one hour before the first screening until the last film) or at the Montpellier-Haus (during opening hours). Driving, smoking weed, hanging out: Made after the Franco dictatorship, the film accurately described the attitude to life of many young people during Spain’s “transición” to democracy – with high unemployment, inflation and drug use. With a cast of non-professional actors who basically re-enacted their lives, it was closely based on reality. A group of friends from a suburban neighborhood start stealing cars, initially for fun, then out of a need to feel alive. One of the highlights of the so-called cine quinqui (Spanish exploitation film genre) in its fast-paced production. A cult film of extraordinary lyricism, which was awarded the Golden Bear at the 1981 Berlinale.

Spain, France 1981

Director: Carlos Saura

Cast: Berta Socuéllamos, José Antonio Valdelomar González, Jesús Arias, Alain Doutey, André Falcon, Consuelo Pascual

99 min. OmeU

Carlos Saura (*1932) was an author and director who made almost 50 feature films over seven decades. He became known to a wider audience in Germany with CARMEN (1983). He received awards for Best Director for many of his works, including DIE JAGD (1966) and PFEFFERMINZ FRAPPE (1968). He was considered one of the most important and successful Spanish directors of the past decades. Saura died in 2023 at the age of 91.