JOKES & CIGARETTES / SABEN AQUELL / А ВИ ЗНАЄТЕ ОСЬ ЦЕЙ...

Aug 23
2 min read

2023 / 118' / feature / Spain

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 highball glass—the character that would soon become an unexpected success in a depressed Spain desperate to laugh.

Screenings schedule:

August 31, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. at the Zhovten Cinema, Gegemon Hall; 26 Kostiantynivska Street

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DIRECTOR - DAVID TRUEBA

Biography

David Trueba is a film director, screenwriter, and novelist. He began his career as a journalist for various Spanish newspapers and TV shows but left for the American Film Institute in the United States to write the script for Los peores años de nuestra vida (1994).

He is the author of five novels, all of them wildly popular in Spain and widely translated. His film, Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados, was longlisted in the Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars in 2015 and won Goya Awards for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

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