Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor

Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
Directed by Mariano Ozores
Written by Juan José Alonso Millán
Starring Andrés Pajares
Antonio Ozores
Fiorella Faltoyan
Juanito Navarro
Quique Camoiras
José Carabias
Luis Varela
Music by Teddy Bautista
Release dates
1982
Running time
77 minutes
Country Spain
Language Spanish

Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor ("Christopher Columbus, by proffesion...discoverer") is a Spanish comedy film, released on September 8, 1982. It is a comic interpretation of the preparations of Columbus before making the discovery of the Americas.

Plot

The film narrates, in comedic tone, the adventures of Christopher Columbus (Andrés Pajares) to convince Queen Isabella (Fiorella Faltoyan) to finance his journey to the West to find East Indies. With constant references to the political and social reality of the moment when the movie was filmed and comic anachronisms such as King Boabdil in charge of a casino. The film ends when Columbus and his tripulation reach America wich they all celebrate singing and dancing.

Reception

In spite of its very bad critics it attracted a million and a half spectators to the cinema,[1] and spawned similar pseudohistorical films such as Juana la loca... de vez en cuando or El Cid Cabreador.

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