Blancanieves

Blancanieves is a 2012 Spanish blackandwhite silent fantasy drama film written and directed by Pablo Berger. Based on the fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm, the story is set in a romantic vision of 1920s Andalusia. Berger calls it a love letter to European silent cinema.

The inspiration for the film began when writerdirector Pablo Berger saw a photograph of bullfighting dwarves in Espaa Oculta 1989, ISBN 8477820686, by Cristina Garca Rodero. By 2003, Berger had written Blancanieves and was working to raise funds for it soon after his film Torremolinos 73 was appearing at festivals eight years later, in May 2011, he was working on the storyboards for Blancanieves and about to begin principal photography when news reached him that The Artist had been shown at the 2011 Cannes Film FestivalNobody knew about The Artist until it appeared in Cannes. It was completely out of the blue. I was in my office in Madrid, doing the storyboards for my film, when a producer friend sent me a text message from the festival saying, Ive just seen The Artist, its black and white and silent and its going to be huge. I almost threw my phone against the wall. The high concept was gone. ........

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