"The Golden Century" reborn in Madrid

Today, the sample "Madrid of the Golden Century" was inaugurated in the Spanish capital because of the imminent premiere of the movie "Alatriste", based on the personage created by the writer Arturo Pérez-Reverts. The exposition travels through the settings represented in the movie, those of the capital of the empire during the 17th century, in which authors like Gongora, Quevedo and Lope de Vega lived. It will remain open until October 21, in the House of the Bakery of the main square.


The photos of the movie –that premiers in Spain this Friday– were treated digitally so that in the exposition appear pictures of the 19th century. Furthermore, you can read poems of some of the most representative authors of the period and explanations of symbolic places of Madrid of this era, like the Plaza of the Barefoot, the main square or the Park of the Retreat.


Augustine Díaz Yanes, the director of the movie (the more expensive of the Spanish history of movies: it cost some 24 million euros), and some of the protagonist actors like Eduardo Noriega, Unax Ugalde, Eduard Fernández and Elena Amaya attended to the presentation. The great absent was Viggo Mortensen, the American-Argentine who interprets the hero as the centre of the history, as its first protagonist in Spanish tongue.