Backroads (1997)
Carreteras secundarias
The small but graniosos happenings of the time.
Spain, 1974. A teenager and his father are traveling in a car that is the only property they have. Their life is a continuous move by desolate coastal apartments in the tourism low season. When forced to change route and get away from sea, their lives will change dramatically.
- Date of release
- 1997-11-28
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (21)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Director
- Emilio Martínez Lázaro
Casting
- Antonio Resines — Antonio Lozano
- Maribel Verdú — Paquita
- Fernando Ramallo — Felipe
- Jesús Bonilla — Félix
- Miriam Díaz-Aroca — Estrella
- Maite Blasco — Tía Elvira
- Ramón Langa — Tío Jorge
- Montserrat Carulla — Abuela
- Alicia Hermida — Benita
- Fernando Vivanco — Funcionario Jefe
- Natalia Menéndez — Tía Cristina
- Tania Adam — Miranda
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: El Port de la Selva, Begur, Sa Tuna, Cape of Creus, Figueres, and Santa Margarida
Backroads is a 1997 road movie directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro and written by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, adapting the latter's novel Carreteras secundarias. It stars Antonio Resines, Fernando Ramallo, Maribel Verdú and Miriam Díaz Aroca.
Production
Penned by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, the screenplay is an adaptation of Martínez de Pisón's 1996 novel Carreteras secundarias. The films is a Olmo Films, Sogecine, Kaplan and Fernando Trueba PC production, with the participation of Sogepaq and Canal+.
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