The Girl of Your Dreams

The Girl of Your Dreams (Spanish: La niña de tus ojos) is a 1998 Spanish drama film produced and directed by Fernando Trueba and starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sardà and Santiago Segura. The story centers on fictional Spanish Andalusian actress Macarena Granada, with whom Joseph Goebbels falls in love with.

Historical background

The story is based on facts: during the Spanish Civil War, cinema studios supported the Republic, so Franco's followers had to go to Germany or Italy to make fictional films at Universum Film AG, known as UFA studios in Berlin to shoot both Spanish and German language versions.

For example, in 1938 Florián Rey filmed Carmen, la de Triana and a German-language double film named Andalusische Nächte (English: Nights in Andalusia), both starring Imperio Argentina, an Argentine-Spanish actress with whom, according to legend, Hitler fell in love. Imperio Argentina sued producers and director for using her life without permission to make this film.

Cast

• Penélope Cruz as Macarena Granada
• Antonio Resines as Blas Fontiveros
• Jorge Sanz as Julián Torralba
• Rosa Maria Sardà as Rosa Rosales
• Santiago Segura as Castillo
• Loles León as Trini Morenos
• Jesús Bonilla as Marco Bonilla
• Neus Asensi as Lucia Gandia
• Miroslav Táborský as Václav Passer
• Johannes Silberschneider as Goebbels
• Karel Dobry as Leo
• Götz Otto as Heinrich von Wermelskirch
• Hanna Schygulla as Magda Goebbels
• María Barranco as Ambassador's wife
• Juan Luis Galiardo as Ambassador

Awards

• 7 Goya Awards, including Best Film and Best Actress (Penélope Cruz)
• Golden Bear - 49th Berlin International Film Festival (nominated)^[1]

Sequel

A sequel, La reina de España (English: The Queen of Spain), starring Penélope Cruz and Jorge Sanz, will be released on 25 November 2016.

References

External links

• La niña de tus ojos at the Internet Movie Database