The cinema offers two excellent and different films this day: Cheaters’ Day, which is a combination of western and black comedy by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Rowing in the wind, a melodrama by Gonzalo Suárez that recreates the birth of the literary myth of Frankenstein. Channel 2 proposes a double date, first with a delivery of Bits of iron and chrome dedicated to the nineties and later with TV Documents, which offers a report in which it analyses the way of life of the Mennonite community. Meanwhile, on Antena 3 The anthill welcomes Danish actress Brigitte Nielsen.
‘Rowing in the wind’
18.25, Movistar Indie
Spain, 1987 (90 minutes). Director: Gonzalo Suárez. Starring: Hugh Grant, Lizzy McInnerny, Valentine Pelka.
Gonzalo Suárez recreates the birth of the literary myth of Frankenstein in the legendary evening at Villa Diodati with Mary and Percy Shelley, Byron and Polidori. Suárez turns the encounter into a passionate melodrama of both visual beauty and narrative power and gives himself over to unbridled characters that exude emotion.
Brigitte Nielsen, in ‘The Anthill’
21.45, Antena 3
The program hosted by Pablo Motos welcomes tonight the Danish actress Brigitte Nielsen, whose professional career began as a model and then moved on to the cinema in the eighties. Nielsen, after a brief marriage to Sylvester Stallone, participated in memorable films of the decade such as Rocky IV, Cobra or Beverly Hills Cop II.
‘Cachitos’, with the nineties
22.00, La 2
The best playback performances of a decade full of partying: bakalao, eurodance and partying is present in this week’s installment of Cachitos. The program shows how the decade served to show a more cosmopolitan side of Spain, with major events such as the Olympic Games in Barcelona 92 and the Universal Exposition in Seville. Cachitos’ is seasoned with the rise of rumba, sevillanas and Macarena., although it also recalls bakalao and Latin rhythms.
‘Cheaters’ Day’
23.50, TCM
There was a Crooked Man. United States, 1970 (127 minutes). Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burges Meredith.
One day Hollywood will have to be held accountable for the fate it befell many of the artists who had made it great. For example, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, an example of creative immensity who retired from the world of cinema, of his own free will, in 1972, after making more than twenty films, fed up with the treatment he received from an industry more concerned with fireworks and fireworks than with films like his, in which the characters spoke to say things that were almost always intelligent. Cheaters’ Day It is an atypical western which blurs the boundaries between good and evil to deliver a brutal portrait of cynical, amoral and corrupt characters. Henry Fonda, the governor of a prison, and Kirk Douglas, one of his inmates, fight over a spiral of deceit in a film that embraces the paths of a comedy that is more than black.
The Mennonite community, in ‘Documentos TV’
24.00, La 2
The report Memonitas The book analyses the life of a community that professes a radical Protestantism in which community, non-violence and resistance to all human and technological evolution prevail. Their way of life based on respect for the sacred and the principles of good and evil is threatened by the modern globalised world. It is estimated that there are around two million Mennonites spread across five continents.
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