Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
	Theatrical release poster
Spanish	Amanece, que no es poco
Directed by	José Luis Cuerda
Written by	José Luis Cuerda
Starring	Antonio Resines; José Sazatornil; Cassen; Chus Lampreave; Rafael Alonso; Pastora Vega; Guillermo Montesinos; Manuel Alexandre; Luis Ciges; Miguel Rellán; María Isbert; Aurora Bautista; Ovidi Montllor; Antonio Gamero; Fedra Llorente; Quique San Francisco; Queta Claver; Gabino Diego; Violeta Cela; Fernando Valverde;
Cinematography	Porfirio Enríquez
Edited by	Juan I. Sanmateo
Music by	José Nieto
Distributed by	United International Pictures
Release dates	13 January 1989 (Albacete); 17 January 1989 (Spain);
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing (Spanish: Amanece, que no es poco)^[1]^[2] is a 1989 Spanish surrealist comedy film written and directed by José Luis Cuerda. It has attained cult film status.^[3]^[4]

Plot

The plot tracks the absurd situations unravelling upon the arrival of an engineer and his father to a village in the mountains of the province of Albacete and the behaviour of the locals.^[5]

Cast

José Sazatornil as cabo Gutiérrez
Carmen de Lirio as Doña Rocío, su señora
Ovidi Montllor as Pascual
Carmen Rodríguez as su mujer
Rafael Díaz as Fermín
Amada Tercero as su mujer
Cassen [es] as cura párroco
Manuel Alexandre as Paquito as su padre
María Ángeles Ariza as Merceditas as su prima
Rafael Alonso as el alcalde
Fedra Lorente as Susan, su amiga
Cris Huerta as Tirso, el mesonero (billed as Chris Huertas)
Elisa Belmonte as soprano
María I. González as pianista
Francisco Hernández as don Roberto, maestro escuela
Jorge V. Ortiz as Rafaelito
Samuel Claxton as Nge Ndomo
Chus Lampreave as Álvarez, su madre
Alberto Bové as Pedro, su tío
Luis Ciges as Jimmy
Antonio Resines as Teodoro
Aurora Bautista as La Padington
Arturo Bonín as Bruno
María Isbert as Adelaida, la hija
María Elena Flores as Aurora, la madre
Paco Cambres as don Alonso, el médico
Queta Claver as doña Remedios, su mujer
Miguel Rellán as Carmelo, el borracho
Rosalía Dans as Gabriela, su mujer
Pastora Vega as Elena, la Labradora
Fernando Valverde as intellectual
Ferran Rañé as Mariano
Antonio Passy as Garcinuño
Alberto Delgado as Joven
Francisco Martínez as Sixto, su hijo
Quique San Francisco as Cascales^[6]
Antonio Gamero as el feriante^[6]
Gabino Diego as portavoz estadounidense^[6]

Production

Shooting locations in the province of Albacete included Aýna, Liétor, and Molinicos.^[7]

Release

The film received a pre-screening in Albacete on 13 January 1989.^[8] It was released theatrically in Spain on 17 January 1989.^[9]

Accolades


Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
1990	4th Goya Awards	Best Original Screenplay	José Luis Cuerda	Nominated	^[10]
		Best Sound	Carlos Faruolo, Enrique Molinero	Nominated
		Best Special Effects	Reyes Abades	Nominated

References

^ Ishimori, Miki (2018). "José Luis Cuerda (1947-)". In Jimenez Murguía, Salvador; Pinar, Alex (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 424. ISBN 9781442271333.
^ García Sánchez, María Dolores (2017). "Heredero del absurdo: el humor en la obra literaria de José Luis Cuerda" (PDF). Cuadernos Aispi. 9: 171. ISSN 2283-981X.
^ García Sánchez 2017, p. 172.
^ Millán, Ángel; García, Juan A.; Díaz, Estrella (2016). "Film-induced tourism: A latent class segmentation based on satisfaction and future intentions" (PDF). PASOS. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural. 14 (4). Universidad de La Laguna: 876. doi:10.25145/j.pasos.2016.14.057. ISSN 1695-7121.
^ Bauzá, Jaime (5 February 2020). "El 'surruralismo' de José Luis Cuerda: cuatro películas para un género". El Plural.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Las mejores frases de 'Amanece que no es poco', de José Luis Cuerda". Heraldo de Aragón. 4 February 2020.
^ "'Amanece que no es poco' un reclamo de cine para visitar Castilla-La Mancha, una región de película". Gobierno de Castilla-La Mancha. 11 November 2010.
^ Boquerini (26 December 2018). "'Amanece que no es poco', la película que dio origen a una secta". El Correo.
^ Martínez Casalé, Alejandro; Bruquetas Callejo, Carlos (2015). "Amanece que no es poco: La convivencia y sus crisis en una comunidad imaginaria". In Rodríguez Díaz, Álvaro (ed.). España en su cine. Aprendiendo sociología con películas españolas. Madrid: Editorial Dykinson. p. 55. ISBN 978-84-9085-357-3.
^ Viaje al cine español. 25 años de los Premios Goya (PDF), Lunwerg, 2011, pp. 272–273, ISBN 978-84-9785-791-8

Bibliography

José Luis Cuerda, Amanece, que no es poco, Pepitas de calabaza, 2013.

External links

Amanece, que no es poco at IMDb

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[1] Ishimori, Miki (2018). "José Luis Cuerda (1947-)". In Jimenez Murguía, Salvador; Pinar, Alex (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 424. ISBN 9781442271333.

[2] García Sánchez, María Dolores (2017). "Heredero del absurdo: el humor en la obra literaria de José Luis Cuerda" (PDF). Cuadernos Aispi. 9: 171. ISSN 2283-981X.

[FOOTNOTEGarcía_Sánchez2017172-3] García Sánchez 2017, p. 172.

[4] Millán, Ángel; García, Juan A.; Díaz, Estrella (2016). "Film-induced tourism: A latent class segmentation based on satisfaction and future intentions" (PDF). PASOS. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural. 14 (4). Universidad de La Laguna: 876. doi:10.25145/j.pasos.2016.14.057. ISSN 1695-7121.

[5] Bauzá, Jaime (5 February 2020). "El 'surruralismo' de José Luis Cuerda: cuatro películas para un género". El Plural.

[heraldo-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Las mejores frases de 'Amanece que no es poco', de José Luis Cuerda". Heraldo de Aragón. 4 February 2020.

[7] "'Amanece que no es poco' un reclamo de cine para visitar Castilla-La Mancha, una región de película". Gobierno de Castilla-La Mancha. 11 November 2010.

[8] Boquerini (26 December 2018). "'Amanece que no es poco', la película que dio origen a una secta". El Correo.

[9] Martínez Casalé, Alejandro; Bruquetas Callejo, Carlos (2015). "Amanece que no es poco: La convivencia y sus crisis en una comunidad imaginaria". In Rodríguez Díaz, Álvaro (ed.). España en su cine. Aprendiendo sociología con películas españolas. Madrid: Editorial Dykinson. p. 55. ISBN 978-84-9085-357-3.

[10] Viaje al cine español. 25 años de los Premios Goya (PDF), Lunwerg, 2011, pp. 272–273, ISBN 978-84-9785-791-8

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