Directed by:
José Luis GarciCinematography:
Luis Ángel PérezCast:
Macarena Gómez, Paula Echevarría, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Carlos Santos, Pedro Casablanc, Luisa Gavasa, Belén López (more)Plots(1)
José Luis Garci's oeuvre can be divided into two parts. During and right after Spain's 'transición', he made films that were engaged with the times while clearly troubled by a sense of not completely being at the right moment in history. After a seven-year silence following Asignatura aprobada (1987), Garci returned to cinema to focus on historical subjects, remaking past classics with Canción de cuna (1994) or La herida luminosa (1997) and creating heritage dramas like Luz de domingo (2007) or Sangre de mayo (2008) any ardent cinephile's dream of classical cinema: an art of the times and against all times. With El crack cero, Garci looks at his own corpus of films through that prism of cinephile classicism. He returns to Germán Areta, the hero of his two Hammett-hommages, El crack (1981) and El crack 2 (1983), showing the gumshoe's early days as an independent investigator after leaving the police force. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
(more)Cast
Macarena Gómez
Spain
Best movies:
20 centímetros (2005)
Films to Keep You Awake: To Let (2006) (TV movie)
El calentito (2005)
Paula Echevarría
Spain
Best movies:
The Crack: Inception (2019)
Crime Wave (2018)
Carmen (2003)
Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series)
A Gun in Each Hand (2012)
Miguel Ángel Muñoz
Spain
Best movies:
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series)
The Borgia (2006)
The Crack: Inception (2019)
Carlos Santos
Spain
Best movies:
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series)
Paco's Men (2005) (series)
Lo que escondían sus ojos (2016) (series)
Pedro Casablanc
Morocco
Best movies:
Sant'Antonio di Padova (2002) (TV movie)
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series)
Paco's Men (2005) (series) - actor, a.f.
Luisa Gavasa
Spain
Best movies:
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series)
Champions (2018)
Sinjar (2022)
Belén López
Spain
Best movies:
15 Years and One Day (2013)
The Crack: Inception (2019)
Luna, el misterio de Calenda (2012) (series)
Fiorella Faltoyano
Spain
Best movies:
La colmena (1982)
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series)
The Crack: Inception (2019)
Luis Varela
Spain
Best movies:
El barco (2011) (series)
Ferpect Crime (2004)
The Last Circus (2010)
María Cantuel
Spain
Best movies:
The Crack: Inception (2019)
Luna, el misterio de Calenda (2012) (series)
Ramón Langa
Spain
Best movies:
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series)
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto (1995)
Ana Iglesias
Spain
Best movies:
The Crack: Inception (2019)
The Goya Murders (2019)
Despite Everything (2019)
Patricia Vico
Spain
Best movies:
Freedomfighters (1996)
Anna Karénina (2013) (TV movie)
Sorry If I Call You Love (2014)
Luis Fernández de Eribe
Spain
Best movies:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Los serrano (2003) (series)
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Jero García
Best movies:
The Crack: Inception (2019)
No News From God (2001)