Directed by:
Fernando TruebaCinematography:
Javier AguirresarobeComposer:
Antoine DuhamelCast:
Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Santiago Segura, Loles León, Miroslav Táborský, Johannes Silberschneider, Karel Dobrý, Götz Otto, Hanna Schygulla (more)Plots(1)
A Spanish filming crew arrives to Berlin in 1938 from the civil war that is turning to Franco´s victory, to UFA´s studios to shoot the co-production "The Girl of Your Dreams". The star of Andalusian musical, Macarena Granada (the ever so lovely Penélope Cruz) bewilders the order-loving Germans with her joyous temperament, and soon even third Reich´s cultural leader Joseph Goebbels falls for her head over heels. She finds him grotesque and repugnant though. The cat-and-mouse game has big stakes not only on the level of world politics, but also concerning production values. The line between fantasy and reality blurs even more as the Nazis introduce concentration camp prisoners as extras on the set, and Macarena falls in love with one of them. Through many cultural confrontations and collisions The Girl of Your Dreams combines elements of drama and comedy to the artificial reality of a film in the making. Somehow Macarena´s sly double role brings to mind Fassbinder´s Lili Marlene, whose title role actress Hanna Schygulla plays a supporting role also in The Girl of Your Dreams, as Goebbels´ wife Magda. (LT) (Midnight Sun Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Penélope Cruz
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Blow (2001)
Live Flesh (1997)
Antonio Resines
Spain
Best movies:
La colmena (1982)
Los serrano (2003) (series)
Cell 211 (2009)
Jorge Sanz
Spain
Best movies:
Freedomfighters (1996)
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Lovers (1991)
Santiago Segura
Spain
Best movies:
Aquí no hay quien viva (2003) (series)
Hellboy (2004)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Loles León
Spain
Best movies:
Talk to Her (2002)
The Road to Santiago (1999) (series)
Aquí no hay quien viva (2003) (series)
Miroslav Táborský
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Maškaráda čili Fantom Opery (2009) (theatrical recording)
Soudné sestry (2007) (theatrical recording)
Kolya (1996)
Johannes Silberschneider
Austria
Best movies:
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV movie)
Comedian Harmonists (1997)
Die Rebellion (1993) (TV movie)
Karel Dobrý
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
Czech Soda (1998)
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV movie)
Götz Otto
West Germany
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
Downfall (2004)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Hanna Schygulla
German Empire
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969)
María Barranco
Spain
Best movies:
The Red Squirrel (1993)
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Jan Přeučil
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Forbidden Dreams (1986)
Muž v pozadí (1995) (series)
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1970)
Bořivoj Navrátil
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Hamlet (1986) (theatrical recording)
The Ear (1970)
Muž v pozadí (1995) (series)
Oto Ševčík
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Assassination (1964)
Divided We Fall (2000)
Death Is Called Engelchen (1963)
Martin Faltýn
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Lenin, Lord and Mother (1990)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Smoke (1990)
Jiří Knot
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
Forbidden Dreams (1986)
Dissolved and Effused (1984)
Petr Drozda
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Ball Lightning (1978)
Signum Laudis (1980)
Long Live Ghosts! (1977)
Rudolf Bok
Best movies:
Ravenous (1999)
The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
Robert Fischer
West Germany
Best movies:
The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
Juan Luis Galiardo
Spain
Best movies:
Stress Is Three (1968)
Tango (1998)
Antony and Cleopatra (1972)