Movies by Eduardo Calvo

The Love of Captain Brando
During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Aurora, a young and attractive teacher.

In Memoriam
A writer loses his beloved, in the hands of another man, wihtout having expressed his feelings to her.

Réquiem por un campesino español
Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoverished. Paco's life is told in flashbacks by a priest (Antonio Ferrandis) who is seen officiating at an anniversary mass attended by three wealthy landowners and no one else. The priest recalls Paco's baptism, his communion, his marriage ceremony and then his work for the peasants as he advoca...

Compañero de viaje
A tale of hate in a town in the Venezuelan Andes where the conflicts and passions of those who live enclosed in the mountains make violence an inevitable destiny.

A Chaste Spanish Man
Don Santiago, a forty-year-old owner of a pastry shop in Madrid de los Austrias, receives surprising news: a woman, in fact his real mother, leaves him with a brothel in England.

¡Jo, papá!
With the purpose of recalling a youthful adventure, Enrique, a well-placed merchant, decides to travel around Spain in the company of his wife Alicia and his two daughters, Pilar and Carmen.

La petición
An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not hesitate to use all that is within her reach to achieve her ascent in society.

Forbidden Love
In the Canary Islands there is a love story between a young and attractive woman, dissatisfied in her marriage to a man older than her, and a handsome sculptor of her age who lives in a bohemian way.