On the occasion of awarding the Cervantes Prize to the Catalan writer Juan Marsé on 23 April 2009, family members, friends and writers offer a sincere portrait of the best chronicler of life in Barcelona, Catalonia, during the post-war period and the worst days of the General Franco dictatorship, in the forties and fifties, and during the economic development and the hard conquest of freedom, in the sixties and seventies.
Directed by Pedro Ballesteros
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Mercè Montalà
Self - Narrator (voice)
Ramon Canals
Literary Censor (voice)
Juan Marsé
Self - Writer
Berta Marsé
Self - Marsé's Daughter
Sergi Pàmies
Self - Writer
José Martí Gómez
Self - Journalist
Joan de Sagarra
Self - Journalist
Carmen Balcells
Self - Literary Agent
Javier Cercas
Self - Writer
Josep Maria Cuenca
Self - Marsé's Biographer
Gustavo Martín Garzo
Self - Writer
Sacha Marsé
Self - Marsé's Son
Ángeles González-Sinde
Self - Filmmaker
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