synopsis
Madronita Andreu-Klein was born into an upper middleclass Barcelona family in 1895. Her father was a wealthy industrialist and her early years were spent in euphoric modernist surroundings, in which machines and inventions gave rise to special fascination. Since her youth, she had been interested in photography and then progressed to cinema that became her great passion. From then on, she tirelessly filmed her own life and that of all those around her. A moment in the life of others presents a selection of what Mrs. Andreu filmed between 1922 and 1980. It portrays the sequence of images in the life of a well-off cosmopolitan family: their journeys from New York to Bombay, from Kingston to Seville, at a time when travelling was still an adventure… what happened to them, their parties… and also their everyday life.At the same time that the children grew up, and their faces transformed with the elapse of time, we are witnesses to the development process of the 20th Century.
notes
of intention
The Klein legacy is a collection of more than 900 tins of 16mm negative
stock, that contain familiar scenes filmed by Madronita Andreu along
the 20th century. That means around one hundred and fifty hours of film
about the history of th Klein-Andreu family, from the twenties to the
decade of seventies.
At first, it is remarkable the personality of the its author, a woman
that, at the beginning of the century, becomes interested in a new
technique –she is probably the first Spanish woman able to operate a
film camera- and that along all her life, she perseverates in following
by images to the members of her family, until she came to gather an
unusual legacy, unique in the history of documentary films.
The work of Madronita has the power of retaining the images, the instants of a n exceptional world that has disappeared yet.
This testimony cannot be ignored. The filmmakers´ will is to share with the audience the same astonishment and admiration that they felt when, some years ago, they discovered the Klein legacy in the Filmoteca de Barcelona.
filmography
Hécuba un sueño de pasión (in postproduction)
Documentary Film.
El cine en las venas (2005)
Documentary Film
Retrato de Carlos Saura (2004)
55 minutes TVE-Arte
Un instante en la vida ajena
Documentary Film (2003)
Festival de Venecia 2004
Mejor Documental, Premios Goya 2004
Extranjeros de sí mismos,co-direction
Best Documentary Film Nomination - Goya Awards 2002
A propósito de Buñuel, co-direction. (2000)
Documentary Film.
Lorca. Asi que pasen cien años, co-direction (1998)
55 minutes. Canal +.
EMMY Award s Nomination 98.
Los Orvich: Un oficio del Siglo XX, co-direction.(1997)
Short Documentary.
Asaltar los cielos, co-direction .(1996)
Documentary Film.
Best Documentary Film Nomination - Goya Awards 1997
Best Film, Ondas Award 1997
Iberia, Carlos Saura
Best Direction of Photography Goya Awards 2006
Morente Sueña La Alambra, José S. Montes
2003Horas de luz, Manolo Matgi
2002Buen viaje, excelencia, Albert Boadella
Salomé, Carlos Saura
Octavia, Basilio Martín Patino
El Embrujo de Shanghai, Fernando Trueba
Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón, Carlos Saura
2000Calle 54, Fernando Trueba
1998Y tú qué harías por amor, Carlos Saura Medrano.
No respires, Juan Potau.
1996Pajarico, Carlos Saura.
1995La Celestina, Gerardo Vera.
Palace, El Tricicle.
Passover, Yamil Delhavi, (BBC TV).
1993Madregilda, Francisco Regueiro.
Los peores años de nuestra vida, Emilio Martínez-Lázaro.
Tierno verano de lujuria y azoteas, Jaime Chávarri.
Marathon: Los juegos olímpicos, Carlos Saura.
1991El hombre que perdió su sombra, Alain Tanner.
Amo tu cama rica, Emilio Martínez-Lázaro.
Un paraguas para tres, Felipe Vega.
Crónicas del mal, Ricardo Franco.
1990El sol del membrillo, de Víctor Erice.
La otra historia de Rosendo Suárez, Gerardo Vera.
1989El mejor de los tiempos, Felipe Vega.
Caídos del cielo, Francisco Lombardi.
1988La boca del lobo, Francisco Lombardi.
1987Mientras haya luz , Felipe Vega.
Al acecho, Gerardo Herrero.