The Dinner Guest (2024)
El comensal
Icíar and Fernando are young. They are both going through the most traumatic experience of their short lives: the loss of a parent. But Fernando and Icíar can neither share the pain nor the strategies for dealing with it. They live in different times. Fernando in 1977 in Bilbao faces the kidnapping of his father by ETA. Icíar in 2011 in Navarra faces her mother's fulminating cancer.
- Date of release
- 2024-08-08
- TMDB
- 7.8 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Ángeles González-Sinde
Casting
- Susana Abaitua — Icíar
- Ginés García Millán — Padre
- Adriana Ozores — Madre
- Fernando Oyagüez — Padre joven
- Iñaki Miramón — Abuelo
- Estrella Alonso — Hermana (Elena)
- Tasio Bilbao — Hermano (Gonzalo)
- Ane Gabarain — Marcelina
- Peio Bilbao
- Josu Ormaetxe — El escobero
Interesting facts
- Based on: The Dinner Guest
The Dinner Guest is a 2022 Spanish drama film directed by Ángeles González-Sinde based on the novel by Gabriela Ybarra starring Susana Abaitua and Ginés García Millán alongside Adriana Ozores.
Production
The screenplay is based on the novel El comensal by Gabriela Ybarra, which incorporates autobiographical experiences of Gabriela Ybarra around her grandfather Javier Ybarra's killing in 1977. The film was produced by Tornasol, Okolin Producciones Cinematográficas, and EnBabia Films with the participation of RTVE and Movistar Plus+.
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