El baile is a 1959 Spanish

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 comedy-drama film written and directed by Edgar Neville

Edgar Neville

Edgar Neville Romrée, Count of Berlanga de Duero was a Spanish playwright and film director, a member of the Generation of '27....

. It is based on his own theatrical play, El baile, released in (1952), which won the Spanish Premio Nacional de Literatura

Premio Nacional de Literatura

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 award.

It was the only color film directed by Neville.

Plot summary

Pedro (Alberto Closas) and Julián (Rafael Alonso) are friends and they love the same woman, Adela (Conchita Montes). Madrid, 1905, Pedro and Adela had gotten married but Julian live with them. 1930. Adela discovers she is going to die and the two men had hidden the illness. 1955. Adelita (Conchita Montes), Adela's grand daughter, visits to the two men and they remember their love to Adele.

Cast

• Conchita Montes
  Conchita Montes
  Conchita Montes was a Spanish film actress.-Career:Born in Madrid, Montes became a popular actress in Spanish films of the 1940s and 1950s...
  
  ... Adela / Adeita
• Alberto Closas
  Alberto Closas
  Alberto Closas was a prolific Spanish Catalan film actor who appeared in the Cinema of Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s and in Spanish cinema after 1955...
  
  ... Pedro
• Rafael Alonso
  Rafael Alonso
  Rafael Alonso was a Spanish actor. He appeared in over 120 films and television shows between 1951 and 1998.-Selected filmography:* Welcome Mr...
  
  ... Julián