Fernan-Gomez, Lopez Vazquez or Garci

It is the only player in the world whose name has spawned a genre. Alfredo Landa appears to be the first to renege on the comedies of landismo in his memoirs, which has husking Marcos Ordonez without biting your tongue. 'Alfredo el Grande. Life of a comedian '(Editorial Aguilar) can be read as the story of a half-century of Spanish cinema. The candid and sometimes stark recounting the glories and miseries of a film that in the absence of directors of genius, has enjoyed great players.

Landa (Pamplona, 1933) has never concealed that spends nasty. After his retirement, only he would dare to reveal the "complex personality" of Fernando Fernan-Gomez, "a special player, that the third whiskey and for no apparent reason became sullen, aggressive and despotic, battering his wife (Emma Cohen) and to put forward. " In their attacks cholera could smash the tape of a journalist. "Now Fernando is dead, and the dead were canonizes fast and become saints of almanac. Fernando was not, of course. "

First person

Written in first person, like a long confession of his protagonist, 'Alfredo el Grande' portrays a family man and worker until exhaustion. An interpreter born outside the language and the ways of 'Method', who after dazzling in the University Theater is almost bound to embody in the film to españolito half, naughty and left in comedies that do not deserve it. Only in 1968 chained five feature films: 'The underdeveloped', 'We are not stone,' 'Farewell married', 'Those who play the piano,' and 'The dynamite is served. " "It continued jumping from film to film as it goes from bed to bed."

His memory is not the elusive encontronazos. Landa know that thanks to a Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez is known as "El Morito 'in the profession. "It has always been an educated man, but more than a turtle shell." When Manuel Summers wrote 'We are not stone' for Navarre, Lopez Vazquez called the director and offered to interpret charging below its cache. Even for free. Landa spent two years without talking to steal his role. Gracita Morales, another icon of our cinema-committed the only mistake in which a comedian should never fall: it is believed. "It was lovely and became a woman capricious, despotic, intractable. Could reach a shooting and say 'you throw in that, I fell ill. " It became very bad for the nerves and stopped calling because they did not comply and because, frankly, do not stand anyone. He finished with a very fucked in the head that became a shadow of itself. "

Without acrimony, the protagonist of 'Crack' shared burlap with the reassurance of someone who is back from everything. His neighbor of San Sebastian Antxón Eceiza spelled out in 'From this body,' one of the first attempts to explore their dramatic side. "Entering the set, you imagine the worst place to put the camera, not failed, there had been planted." Imperio Argentina to hold on to 'Tata mine' still causes nightmares. "A monster in person. A horror. A spoiled little girl, paid for itself. A diva in the worst sense of the word. I say 'Tata mine' and I opened an ulcer. " An intriguing Pilar Miro, the chaotic Luis Garcia Berlanga and a selfish Tony Leblanc also receive collejas.

90,000 pesetas per month

Happy in their lives retired from Madrid, San Sebastian and Marbella, Landa modesty and reserve the discretion to talk about his family. His wife Maite-fifty years together, and their three children, Idoia, Alfredo and Ainhoa. Four years ago, overcame a colon cancer and since then walk an hour every day. He has not given up on the items of mus, of the martinis and chat with friends, who never invited its' black beast ': Jose Luis Dibildos. In 1967, the producer is tempted with a contract that the actor signed without reading. For three years would receive 90,000 pesetas per month ... without seeing a hard earnings of the films. Landa thought of hiring a thug to load the husband of Laura Valenzuela.

'Alfredo el Grande "also solves one of the last mysteries of Spanish cinema: his disagreement with Jose Luis Garci, the filmmaker who knew him hard to see how the detective of' Crack 'and the executive caught up in' The green meadows." The two great friends stopped speaking when Garci, who has spent years since leaving the academy, he refused to hand him the honorary Goya.

That night last February 3, Alfredo Landa put a knot in the stomach to viewers to stammer for ten minutes to collect his second Goya for the night. "Not what I've spent worse in my life, I lost control of my nerves. And no, I had not taken any tranquilizer. I did not worse in my past life. " The president Zapatero reassured him the next day with a telegram and a box of Irish whiskey.