MONTURIOL, LORD OF THE SEAS
Director: Francesc Bellmunt
Script: F. Bellmunt / X. Moret / R. Barnils /
A. Mas Griera
Producer: Fair Play Produccions, S.A.
Executive Producer: Maria Teresa Fontanet
Director of Photography: Javier G. Salmones
Music: Manel Camp / Jordi Nogueras
Sound: Joan Vidal
Cast: Abel Folk / Elena Perez-Llorca /
Jordi Bosch / Josep Montanyes
Running Time: 94 min.
Technical data: Color, panavisi6n, 1:2,35, stereo
Sales: T.V.C. / Fair Play Produccions S.A.
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At the height of the romantic age, just as his contemporary
Julius Veme, Narcis Monturiol imagined that the depths of the
sea were navegable. His practical nature drove him to see that
his dream be transformed into reality. At the time, Barcelona
was initiating its industrial growth and enthusiastically welcomed the idea to create a submarine to aid in the search for
coral. Monturiol fought an uphill battle, and spent almost his
entire lifetime devoted to the conquest of the sea depths. The
joys, adventures, failures and moments of glory of this brilliant inventor have been captured for cinema in this spectacular film. A ballad to a hero of his times, a Catalan who solved
one the principal enigmas of underwater navegation in the
mid-nineteenth century.
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