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JOSE MARIA CUNILLES DVD RELEASES; by Suevia Films (Spain)
Topic Started: May 19 2007, 02:46 PM (3,851 Views)
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SUEVIA FILMS (Spanish DVD label) announced the release of many films produced by Josi Marνa Cunillis, sexploitation, horror & more.

The films are:
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1. APOCALIPSIS CANIBAL (1980)
2. CRIMEN EN FAMILIA (1985)
3. ¡EN QUE LIO ME HAN METIDO! (1980)
4. EL CASO ALMERIA (1984)
5. EL COMETA (1998)
6. EL LUTE SERIE TV (1988)
7. EL LUTE I (1987)
8. EL LUTE II (1988)
9. LOS FARSANTES DEL AMOR (1971)
10. HUIDA AL SUR (1981)
11. LA CIUDAD MALDITA (1971)
12. LOS NUEVOS CURANDEROS (1984)
13. MARQUISE (1998)
14. SOLO O EN COMPAÑÍA DE OTROS (1990)
15. TRIO (1987)
16. UN SOLTERO CON MUCHA CUERDA (1993)
17. VENGANZA (1987)
18. WHITE APACHE (1987)
19. EL FIN DE LA INOCENCIA (1977)
20. HISTORIA DE EVA (1978)
21. EN BUSCA DEL POLVO PERDIDO (1982)
22. SUECA BIXESUAL NECESITA SEMENTAL (1982)
23. NO ME TOQUES EL PITO QUE ME IRRITO (1983)
24. DEPRAVACION (1983)
25. SEÑORA NECESITADA BUSCA JOVEN BIEN DOTADO (1971)
26. LAS VERDES VACACIONES DE LA FAMILIA BIEN (1979)
27. EL CERTIFICADO (1968)

I suppose some of them are real treasures, films like SEÑORA NECESITADA BUSCA JOVEN BIEN DOTADO (1971) directed by Juan Xiol, and starring Olivier Mathot, Lynn Endersson, Chantal Broquet, and Alice Arno...or
LAS VERDES VACACIONES DE LA FAMILIA BIEN (1979) directed by Mario Siciliano, starring Karin Well, George Ardisson, Raquel Evans and Berta Cabri...or
SUECA BIXESUAL NECESITA SEMENTAL (1982) directed by Ricard Reguant, with Marina frajese / Hedman / Lotar...or
EN BUSCA DEL POLVO PERDIDO (1982) directed by Enrique Guevara, and starring Raquel Evans, Carla Dey, Lynn Endersson, Concha Valero, Andrea Albani, Eva Lyberten...and so many more !!

The DVDs will be in Spanish only without subtitles, but who really cares? :P

The label has a wonderful site (in Spanish only):
http://www.sueviafilms.com/
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LAS VERDES VACACIONES DE UNA FAMILIA BIEN (1979) directed by Mario Siciliano, starring Karin Well, George Ardisson, Raquel Evans and Berta Cabre:
this one was an Italian co-production and there is also an hardcore version (one of the early Italian XXX movies).

SUECA BIXESUAL NECESITA SEMENTAL (1982) directed by Ricard Reguant, with Marina frajese / Hedman / Lotar...:
this one was made in four (4 !) different versions, two of them with hardcore sequences.

The xxx versions of these films were published in Italy on vhs in the 80s. I think the Spanish dvds will release the regular, soft versions.
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what are their italian titles?
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EROTIC FAMILY and I VIZI DELLA SIGNORA.
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thks :)
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The man's name is José María Cunillés. Some of the info here may have been drawn from a post I sent to another board in which I said (apparently wrongly) that SUECA BISEXUAL NECESITA SEMENTAL was by Ricardo Reguant. It is certainly credited to Reguant's regular name "Richard Vogue" except that here it seems to correspond to Andrea Bianchi.

Some of these films are coming out on 26 September. None of them is softcore and one is Mattei's HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD, which has an English option. The rest are as follows:

EL CASO ALMERÍA (1984) (the Almería affair), directed by Pedro Costa. With Agustín González, Fernando Guillén and Antonio Banderas.
Following an ETA assasination, three innocent youths (Antonio Banderas, Iñaki Miramón and Juan Echanove) vacationing in Almería, the three with some resemblance to the sought criminals, are arrested by the Civil Guard (under the leadership of Fernando Guillén) and tortured. When it emerges that they are not the people they were after, the Guards kill the three victims and stage an accidental death. The family of one of the deceased will not believe the official version of the events and call on liberal lawyer Mario Aguilar (Agustín González) to clarify what happened and open a case. Aguilar and his wife start receiving death threats, but the former continues with the case. The character of the lawyer is fictitious but the outline of the events is real.

CRIMEN EN FAMILA (a crime in the family), directed by Santiago San Miguel. With Agustín González, Charo López and Cristina Marsillach (of OPERA). DVD may have English subtitles.

Out of step with the times, real-estate promoter Ignacio Costa (Agustín González) finds his fortunes decreasing when the City Hall refuses to grant him the building of a stadium, and there is unrest among his workers. His contacts with a rightist party do little to help his situation and now he has taken to regularly abusing his family, even if he draws the line at his daughter (Cristina Marsillach). Receiving regular death threats in the mail, he resorts to a bodyguard and hires thugs to intimidate his workers. Meanwhile, his family's resentment grows and it is his wife (Charo López) who has been sending him the hate mail.
A fictionalised version of the "Sweet Neus" affair. The imprisoned murderess involved sued the film's makers for invasion of privacy. Neus Soldevila is now free and has re-married, the second husband being presumably an OK guy and still alive. She occasionally pesters people in the street into buying her books of poetry. The cast of the film includes Concha Leza, formerly Antonio Banderas's mother-in-law, Javier García and Andrés Resino.


SOLO O EN COMPAÑÍA DE OTROS (alone or in the company of others), directed by Santiago San Miguel. With Agustín González and Ana Álvarez.
A husband and wife (Miguel Palenzuela and Montserrat Salvador), members of Madrid's banking aristocracy, have been mysteriously murdered in bed. Hard-nosed police inspector Martín Díaz and his brutish partner Justo (Juan Jesús Valverde) notice that the muderer or murderers must have been familiar with the house where the crime was committed. Martín and Justo, who are not above brutality to reach their goals, want to get to the bottom of the case, but the Chief Inspector, fearful of the press, wants a culprit at any cost. The two inspectors resort to planting evidence at a suspect's country estate. After torturing the suspect and threatening his father, the inspectors and their men extract a confession from the young man, who refuses to incriminate anybody else. Martín and Justo still believe others were involved and, ignoring the Chief Inspector's orders, start harassing other members of the victims' entourage.
Based on the Urquijo murders, which were never satisfyingly resolved, due to the suicide of the presumed murder while he was doing time in prison. The background of the story is real, although the two middle-aged police "heroes" are fictitious.


The "true-life" crime film had predecessors in the seventies (including Paul Naschy's "El huerto del francés"), but started regularly with El caso Almería. Of the two filmmakers, Pedro Costa (a former contributor to a crime journal) was by far the most successful and he later went on to create his own production company. Sans Cunillés, he directed more films in similar vein, but was most successful when acting as a producer only and entrusting Vicente Aranda with directing. Amantes (LOVERS) had the best international exposure. Costa also produced and occasionally directed the TV series LA HUELLA DEL CRIMEN, whose episodes include Bardem's excellent Jarabo.
The other director involved, the former film critic Santiago San Miguel (who had contributed to the left-wing film magazine NUESTRO CINE), had a halting career. Solo o en compañía de otros was a flop and his subsequent films were mostly barely distributed. His 1995 film Tatiana, la muñeca rusa (Tatiana, the Russian doll), a semi-erotic drama starring Karra Elejalde (of La madre muerta), went straight to video despite the presence of Ornella Muti and Stefania Sandrelli in the cast.

Of the three films cited above, all rather cold in tone, EL CASO ALMERÍA is the most successful as well as the one that had the best box-office impact. CRIMEN EN FAMILIA is visually a bit ugly but the most enjoyable for sheer outrageousness. SOLO O EN COMPAÑÍA DE OTROS is marred by some poor acting. Curiously, its fictional elements (the two policemen) bulge larger in the narrative than the true story the script is based on.

Also included are Vicente Aranda's two EL LUTE films (1987-1988), starring Imanol Arias as the famous Spanish petty thief. They're very good stuff, though I can't vouch for their accuracy (the real-life El Lute, a seventies chicken thief co-wrote the script). With Victoria Abril. Manuel Zarzo, Ricardo Palacios, Manuel de Blas, Saturno Cerra, Miguel Palenzuela, Yelena Samarina, José Yepes, Antonio Iranzo, Rafael Hernández, José Manuel Martín and many others, all of them composing one of the best ensemble casts I've seen in a Spanish film

Also included:

MARQUISE (1997), directed by Véra Belmont. A costume drama about a French actress (Sophie Marceau) who becomes acquainted with Molière, Racine and Louis XIV. Cunillés and Mulá supplied the 10% Spanish participation of what is basically a French film with Italy and Switzerland also involved. Music by Jordi Savall. Supporting cast includes Antonio Cantafora (Italian, a former Terence Hill clone) as well as Simón Andreu among other Spanish actors. Cunillés's daughter, Fiona Cunillés Mulá, also served as asistant art director. French option.

EL COMETA (1999), written and directed by José Buil and Marisa Sistach. A co-production between France, Spain and Mexico, mostly using talent from the latter country. Set against the Mexican Revolution, it seems to be a love story between a female revolutionary and a pioneer Mexican filmmaker who works in a circus. It features Carmen Maura in a supporting role.


The rest will presumably appear later this year.
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Welcome to the forum, Nzoog Wahlrfhehen, and thanx for the useful info :)

I don't really remember how I posted the topic but I usually dig in sites or other forums so I probably saw your post somewhere...

CRIMEN EN FAMILA had a Greek VHS release in English lang.
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So what it says on the Suevia site is true! CRIMEN EN FAMILIA does have an English option! I thought this was a mistake! Agustín González dubbed! (Even in the original version it was deemed necessary to dub Cristina Marsillach, so that, in the words of a critics, "she could be understood").

The notion that SUECA BISEXUAL is by Reguant also made it to the imdb, so you may have taken it from either there or my DVDManiacs posting.
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Yes, Greek tape is 100% in English. I may find the cover later and post it. I'm almost sure I got it from...Miltos :P
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No, no, no.
SUECA BISEXUAL NECESITA SEMENTAL was directed in Spain by Richard Reguant. Please, do not propagate incorrect information! In a long interview Reguant told many details about his film.
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