La plaça del Diamant

Dec 21, 1982

1h 51m

★ 6.6

Overview

Colometa is an average housewife with two children to care for in the late 1930's, as the Spanish Civil War is starting and her husband goes off to fight. She had been an ordinary woman working in a shop when she met the lively carpenter who married her, and their life together was without major problems. But now she is forced to raise her children under straitened circumstances, and after her husband dies, her life undergoes another major change as she marries for the second time. Underneath Colometa's acquiescent, forebearing exterior must lie just a few discontents, a few unrealized dreams - but they never surface as she blithely moves from one episode in her life to another.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Fígaro Films

TVE

La plaça del Diamant Trailers

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Cast

Colometa

Sílvia Munt

Quimet

Lluís Homar

Antoni

Joaquim Cardona

Sra. Enriqueta

Elisenda Ribas

Mateu

Josep Minguell

Cintet

Lluís Julià

Pere

Joan Ferrer

Julieta

Marta Molins

Griselda

Paca Gabaldón

Jordi Juan Teixidor

Vell de la postal

Juan Fernández

Miquel Graneri

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