COUNTRY
Spain
PRODUCTION
CalaDoc Producciones
YEAR2025
DURATION55 min
WRITING Vicky Calavia
CINEMATOGRAPHY Fernando Medel
MUSIC
Niño de Elche, Shica, Raquel Meller
EDITION Álvaro Mazarrasa
CAST Javier Barreiro, Dolores Calvo Romero, Antón Castro, Enrique Encabo, Francisco Contreras, La Shica, Luis Pardos, Luis E. Parés, Olga María Ramos, Dolores Tutor Berdonces, Julio Zaldívar
DISTRIBUTION CalaDoc Producciones
INTERNATIONAL SALES CalaDoc Producciones
CONTACT vickycalavia@gmail.com
SYNOPSIS Raquel Meller was an actress and vaudeville singer born at the end of the 19th century, who achieved dazzling national and international fame, and yet, paradoxically, is now forgotten. From her humble origins to her meteoric rise from a very young age, her life was marked by both the light and the shadow of a woman ahead of her time, free from social constraints and conventions. Personalities such as Romero de Torres, Isadora Duncan, Rudolph Valentino, Cecil B. DeMille, and Charles Chaplin were captivated by her.
Vicky Calavia
Screenwriter, director, and producer of documentaries such as
María Moliner. Weaving Words, Elvira de Hidalgo. Giving the Divinità, Florián Rey. Light and Shadow, Eduardo Ducay. The Man Who Was Always There, Natividad Zaro. Aloud or
Raquel Meller. The divine rebel. Film programmer and director of the International Short Film Festival
The Taboo Look. Member of the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences.
FILMOGRAPHY
Natividad Zaro. En voz alta (documentary, 2024),
Florián Rey. De luz y de sombra (feature film, 2022),
Elvira de Hidalgo. Donare la Divinità (documentary, 2021),
María Moliner. Tendiendo palabras (documentary, 2017),
Eduardo Ducay. El cine que siempre estuvo ahí (documentary, 2015)
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