Jokes & Cigarettes
Directed by: David Trueba
Cast: David Verdaguer, Carolina Yuste, Pedro Casablanc, Marina Salas, Ramón Fontseré, Matilde Muñiz
Screenplay: Albert Espinosa, David Trueba
2023 | Spain
Available from 01/05/2025
to 30/04/2027
FILM SYNOPSIS
Barcelona, late 1960s. A young jeweler named Eugenio meets Conchita on a bus and it is love at first sight. Eugenio learns to play guitar to follow Conchita in her musical career, and, despite stage fright, they start to play together as ‘Els dos’. When Conchita leaves Barcelona for two weeks, she convinces Eugenio to perform solo and Eugenio becomes a phenomenon in the city’s underground stand-up comedy scene. With her help, he creates his alter ego—the dark glasses, the black shirt, the barstool, the cigarettes and the high ball glass—the character that would soon become an unexpected success in a depressed Spain desperate to laugh.
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Topics: based on a true story | Comedy | Music