qué guerra ni qué guerra Charo, yo te estoy hablando del mar
Cinemas
Directed by Patricia Font
The Teacher Who Promised the Sea
El maestro que prometió el mar
A moving, acclaimed drama.
Drama
History
2023
1h 45m
The buried memories of the Spanish Civil War are unearthed as a woman searches for the remains of her grandfather's father and discovers the story of an idealistic young teacher from Tarragona.
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Cast & crew
6What people say
“Los niños tienen que ser lo que ellos quieran, pero sobretodo ser niños.”
mar el que ocasioné con mis lágrimas en la sala
Common questions
What is The Teacher Who Promised the Sea about?+
The film follows the true story of Antoni Benaiges, a progressive schoolteacher in 1930s Spain who promises to take his students to see the sea, while cutting to a modern-day descendant searching for the truth about his life and death during the Spanish Civil War.
Who directed The Teacher Who Promised the Sea?+
Patricia Font directed the film, which was released in 2023 and received several nominations at the Goya Awards.
