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The Year of the Discovery ( Spanish: El año del descubrimiento) is a 2020 Spanish documentary film directed by Luis López Carrasco. [1] The documentary focuses on the social protests that took place in Cartagena in 1992, a struggle of the working class in the context of the implementation of industrial restructuring policies that affected ...
Jul 28, 2021 · The Year of the Discovery: Directed by Luis López Carrasco. In 1992, when the Olympics and the Expo at last presented Spain as an emerging new democracy, the de-industrialisation policies were met with riots in the southern town of Cartagena.
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Jan 26, 2020 · The first solo full-length feature by Spanish writer-director Luis Lopez Carrasco, 'The Year of the Discovery,' debuted in the Rotterdam film festival’s competition, with THR’s review saying ...
Winner of two GOYA AWARDS®, The Year of the Discovery explores the contradictions lived in Spain in 1992. In this pivotal year, Spain celebrated both the Olympic Games in Barcelona and the quincentenary of Columbus’s arrival in the Americas in Sevilla, presenting the country as an emerging new democracy to the international community.
Jul 28, 2021 · “The Year of the Discovery,” directed by Luis López Carrasco, recasts 1992 from the standpoint of Cartagena instead of Barcelona or Seville. But what the film is saying, and how, is complicated.
Oct 7, 2020 · Overview. In 1992 – 500 years after the beginning of Spain's global empire with the discovery of America – Spain proudly presented itself to the international community as a modern, developed, dynamic country through the Olympic Games in Barcelona and the Expo in Seville.
Jan 24, 2020 · THE YEAR OF THE DISCOVERY. by Luis López Carrasco. synopsis. 1992. Back to democracy and in full economic effervescence, Spain is a country modern and promising.
