Blancanieves
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| Directed by | Pablo Berger |
| Produced by | Ibon Cormenzana Jérôme Vidal Pablo Berger |
| Written by | Pablo Berger |
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Macarena García Maribel Verdú |
| Music by | Alfonso de Vilallonga |
| Cinematography | Kiko de la Rica |
| Edited by | Fernando Franco |
| Distributed by | Wanda (Spain) |
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105 minutes |
| Country | Spain France |
| Language | No dialogue (Intertitles and songs in Spanish) |
| Box office | $240,310 (US) |
Blancanieves (known as Blancaneu in Catalan) is a 2012 Spanish black-and-white silent drama film written and directed by Pablo Berger. Based on the 1918 fairy tale "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm, the story is set in a romantic vision of 1920s Andalusia. Berger calls it a "love letter to European silent cinema."
Blancanieves was Spain's 85th Academy Awards official submission to Best Foreign Language category, but it did not make the shortlist. The film won the Special Jury Prize and an ex-aequo Best Actress "Silver Shell" Award for Macarena García at the 2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was also nominated in every category for which it was eligible at the 27th Goya Awards (except for Best Sound), winning ten Goya Awards, including the Best Film.
The inspiration for the film began when writer-director Pablo Berger saw a photograph of bullfighting dwarves in España Oculta (1989, ), by Cristina García Rodero. By 2003, Berger had written Blancanieves and was working to raise funds for it soon after his film Torremolinos 73 was appearing at festivals; eight years later, in May 2011, he was working on the storyboards for Blancanieves and about to begin principal photography when news reached him that The Artist had been shown at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival:
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