COUNTRY
Spain
YEAR2023
DURATION9 min
WRITING Manolo Orellana Naranjo
CINEMATOGRAPHY Manolo Orellana Naranjo
MUSIC
Popular music
EDITION Pochu Cardenal
CAST Rafael Guerra, Fran Martel, Isabel López, Iker Calle, Rai Riera, Inés Gómez, Mari Tornay, M.B. Hidalgo, Ana Hiraldo, Mario Amaya, J.M. Amaya, María Orellana, Natalia Hidalgo, Desiree Calle, J. M. Montes, José Espinosa, Cristóbal González, Antonia Hidalgo
CONTACT manuelorellananaranjo@gmail.com
SYNOPSIS Dimitri Cachitev, a high-ranking officer in the Soviet army, tastes rice pudding in the middle of the battle of Stalingrad and realises that the war will never give him the pleasure that this dessert has given him. After this, he leaves the army and retires to Montejaque, a village in Malaga.
Manolo Orellana Naranjo
Montejaque, Malaga, 1998. He always knew that he wanted to write, so after studying Psychology, he decided to graduate in Screenwriting at the ECAM, Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid, where he wrote the short film Donde acaban las flores, 2023, which is currently in distribution phase. His first professional short film as a director, Los horrores de la guerra, has been selected for the Malaga Film Festival. He still lives in Madrid, where he combines his work as a scriptwriter with directing, searching for stories with that particular surrealist humour that permeates his world full of prawns, envious people and astronauts with Malaga accents.
FILMOGRAPHY
Los horrores de la guerra (short film, 2023)
