MONTURIOL, EL SENYOR DEL MAR / 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.
Barcelona iniciava aleshores el seu creixement industrial i va acollir amb entusiasme la idea de fer un submarí per anar a buscar corall. Va ser un Ilarg camí el que va recòrrer MONTURIOL, quasi tota una vida entregada a la conquesta dels fons marins. Les alegries, les aventures, els fracassos i els moments de glòria d'aquest inventor genial recuperats pel cinema en una pel.lícula espectacular. Una balada sobre un heroi del seu temps, un català que va saber resoldre els principals enigmes de la navegació submarina a mitjans del segle XIX.
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.
