
LA MUJER DE TU VIDA: LA MUJER FELIZ {THE WOMAN OF A LIFETIME: THE HAPPY WOMAN} {SPANISH} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of seven comedies under the title "La mujer de tu vida" (The Woman of a Lifetime) and featuring different directors. In this episode, "La mujer feliz" (The Happy Woman), a young writer witnesses a murder, putting into motion a series of events that lead to a secret affair and a successful, if unrecognized, career as a novelist. The program opens with the main character, Antonio, who has just returned to Spain after living in Germany for many years. Waiting at the station in Madrid for the train to his village, he witnesses a murder and flees, afraid that he will be held responsible. He hides in a building where there is an apartment for rent and asks the neighbor in charge of showing the apartment, Marisa, if he can stay. She accepts his deposit, and later that evening tells her husband Paco about the strange new tenant. The following day he returns to Marisa's house asking for the deposit back, but she recognizes him from his picture in the paper as the suspect of the murder. Instead of calling the police, she finds it interesting and decides to let him stay hidden in the apartment, without her husband's knowledge. As time goes by, they have an affair and he begins to write a novel in hiding. Marisa finds publisher interested in the novel, and she pretends to have written it herself under a pseudonym. Meanwhile, the murder charges against Antonio are dropped, but Marisa keeps the news from him, so she can keep her secret lover and continue publishing novels under his name, keeping all the profits. Meanwhile her husband Paco keeps hearing noises coming from the apartment where Antonio is living, but Marisa tries to make him believe that he's having hallucinations. This causes him to take medication and quit his job. They move houses to try to get away from the noises he hears and Marisa takes Antonio with them, hiding him in the attic, where he continues to write for her. One day Paco discovers Antonio in the attic and dies of a heart attack. Afterwards, Marisa and Antonio's relationship begins to deteriorate, as there is no longer anyone to hide from. At this point, Marisa decides to marry the publisher of all their novels. Antonio goes back to his hiding place in the attic and slowly the passion between him and Marisa returns. Success returns with a movie made of one of his novels, as Marisa continues to receive all the credit. Antonio learns of her scam but continues to live the same way, while Marisa's new husband begins to take the same path of her first husband, taking pills believing that the sounds he hears coming from the attic are also in his head.
(This program is in Spanish.)
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Media Planning, 2003.
Details
- NETWORK: TVE (Spain)
- DATE: November 30, 1988
- RUNNING TIME: 1:00:00
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:73994
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; International Collection - Spanish - Zone 1 - Spain
- SERIES RUN: TVE (Spain) - TV series, 1988-1989
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Fernando Trueba … Executive Producer
- Emilio Martinez-Lazaro … Executive Producer
- Alfonso Santos … Producer, For TVE
- Cristina Huete … Producer
- Jose Ganga … Director, Writer
- Cristina Huete … Director
- Antonio Pueche … Cinematographer
- Carmen Frias … Production (Misc.), Editor
- Bernardo Bonezzi … Music by
- Mendo & Fuster … Theme Music by
- Carmen Maura … Cast, Marisa
- Antonio Banderas … Cast, Antonio
- Mario Gas … Cast, Paco
- Juan Luis Galiardo … Cast, Editor
- Diana Penalver … Cast, Assassinated woman
- Imanol Arias … Cast, Actor
- Ana Obregon … Cast, Actress
- Cristina Marcos … Cast
- Manuel Hidalgo … Cast
- Garcia Campoy, Concha … Cast
- Jose Luis Sampedro … Cast
- Ana Leza … Cast
- Jose Maria Urdiain … Cast
- Javier Amezua … Cast
- Carlos Nicolas Rivas … Cast
- Mayte Hierro … Cast
- Marta Blasco … Cast
- Ana Risueno … Cast