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Sempre Xonxa (Galician for Always Xonxa) is a Galician-language film from Galicia, Spain directed and written by Chano Piñeiro and released in 1989.[2] It was the first Galician feature film shot in 35 mm, along with Urxa, by Carlos Piñeiro and Alfredo García Pinal , and Continental by Xavier Villaverde , making it one of the first fiction films in the Galician language. The film is about the emotional consequences of emigration and is set in rural Galicia.
Sempre Xonxa | |
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Directed by | Chano Piñeiro |
Written by | Chano Piñeiro |
Produced by | Manuel Martínez Mallo |
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Cinematography | Miguel Ángel Trujillo |
Edited by | Cristina Otero |
Music by | Pablo Barreiro Carlos Ferrant Marcial Prado |
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Running time | 114 minutes[1] |
Country | Spain |
Language | Galician |
Box office | €138,638.32[1] |
Sempre Xonxa was, during 20 years, the biggest theatrical success for a film in Galician, until 2019 when Fire Will Come eventually attracted more spectators.[3]
Two boys, Pancho and Birutas, live in the same village and are platonically in love with the local girl Xonxa. But one of the boys, Birutas, has to emigrate with his family, leaving Xonxa and Pancho in the village. When Birutas returns from the United States many years later, having become a rich man, Xonxa is already married to Pancho.
The screenplay for Semper Xonxa met its first draft at the end of 1985, even before Esperanza was shot. Chano Piñeiro found inspiration in the stories of emigration he had heard told in his native Forcarei, and in the villages of Rubillón and Baíste in the municipality of Avión, where he filmed Mamasunción. The film had up to nine versions before the final script in 1988. Between version by version, Chano Piñeiro started looking for places to shoot the film, and found Santa Olaia de Valdeorras, whose village would be the village of Trasdomonte in fiction.[4]
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