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Wikipedia article
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| director = Antonio Jos Betancor
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| cinematography = Juan Antonio Ruiz Acha
| editing = Guillermo Represa
| music = Pedro Guerra
| distributor = Alta Films
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| language = Spanish
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'Marara' is a 1998 drama film directed by Antonio Jos Betancor consisting of an adaptation of the 1973 novel 'Marara' by Rafael Arozarena which stars Goya Toledo as the title character alongside Carmelo Gmez, Iain Glen, Mirtha Ibarra and Jos Manuel Cervino. It was produced by companies from Spain, France, and Portugal.
Plot
Set in 1930s Lanzarote (the easternmost of the Canary Islands), the plot tracks an English vulcanologist and a Basque physician vying for the love of Marara, a local Canarian woman.
Cast
Production
The screenplay is an adaptation of the 1973 novel 'Marara' by Rafael Arozarena, featuring substantial changes from the original work, such as the reduction in the number of males courting the character Marara to 2, the characters portrayed by Gmez and Glen, the latter of which is an amalgamation of two characters from the novel. The film is an Aiete Films, Ariane Films and Mararia PC production, with participation of TVE, and in association with Portugal's Fbrica de Imgenes de Lisboa and France's C. V. de la Socit de Production and D. M. V. B. Films, with support from Sociedad Canaria de las Artes Escnicas y de la Msica, the Canarian Governmen's Viceconsejera de Cultura y Deportes and the island cabildos of and .
Release
Distributed by Alta Films, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 30 October 1998.
Reception
Jonathan Holland of 'Variety' considered the "terrifically lensed" film to be "a good old-fashioned melodrama" that manages to have enough "intelligent idiosyncrasy" to give it its own "power and charm".
Accolades
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| align = "center" rowspan = "5" | 1999 || rowspan = "5" | 13th Goya Awards || Best Adapted Screenplay || Antonio Betancor, Carlos lvarez || || rowspan = "5" |
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| Best New Actress || Goya Toledo ||
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| Best Cinematography || Juan Antonio Ruiz Ancha ||
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| Best Original Score || Pedro Guerra ||
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| Best Art Direction || Flix Murcia ||
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See also
* List of Spanish films of 1998
References
Category:Films set in the 1930s
Category:Films set in the Canary Islands
Category:Films based on Spanish novels
Category:1990s Spanish-language films
Category:Spanish romantic drama films
Category:French romantic drama films
Category:Portuguese romantic drama films
Category:1998 romantic drama films
Category:Lanzarote in fiction
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