Begin the Beguine (film)

  • Antonio Ferrandis - Antonio Albajara
  • Encarna Paso - Elena
  • Agustín González - Gervasio Losada
  • José Bódalo - Roxu
  • Marta Fernández Muro - Carolina
  • Pablo Hoyos - Ernesto

Volver a Empezar is a Spanish film from the year 1982. José Luis Garci wrote the screenplay and directed. The film tells the story of a Spaniard, who returns after many years in exile in his home after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The title means " Back to top ". The film won in 1982 as the first Spanish film the Oscar for best foreign language film. In German-speaking he was not published.

Content

In 1981 the famous writer Antonio Albajara (Antonio Ferrandis ) returns to his hometown Gijón. Here he was received with full honors. It just comes from Stockholm, where he won the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded. For 42 years Albajara was a professor of medieval literature at the University of Berkley in California and changed his teaching position with his writing that earned him worldwide fame. Unfortunately, the reason for his return is actually a sad: he is terminally ill. In his hometown, he goes in search of clues from what he had in his youth behind him, as he had in 1937 during the Civil War into exile and was promoted in Mexico and the United States to a well-known author. He meets his past, such as his old friend Roxiu, with whom he once played in the local football team. Also Antonio reunites with Elena - his first love, which was also his great love.

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