Champions (2018 film)

Champions
Film poster
Directed by Javier Fesser
Produced by
  • Gabriel Arias-Salgado
  • Alexandra Lebret
  • Álvaro Longoria
  • Luis Manso
Screenplay by
  • David Marqués
  • Javier Fesser
Starring
Music by Rafael Arnau
Cinematography Chechu Graf
Edited by
  • Roberto Bolado
  • Javier Fesser
Production
company
Distributed by Universal Pictures España
Release date
  • 6 April 2018 (2018-04-06) (Spain)
Running time
 124 minutes
Country Spain
Language Spanish
Budget €4.5 million[1]
Box office $22.2 million[2][3]

Champions (Spanish: Campeones) is a 2018 Spanish comedy-drama film directed by Javier Fesser.[4][5] It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.[6][7]

Plot

Marco Montes is the assistant coach at the basketball team CB Estudiantes. An arrogant man with bad manners, Marco is fired from his job after an altercation with his head coach during a game. After driving drunk into the back of a police car, Marco is ordered to do community service, in the form of coaching Los Amigos, a team of guys with disabilities who generally operate under the eye of kindly old-timer Julio.[8]

Cast

  • Javier Gutiérrez as Marco Montes
  • Juan Margallo as Julio
  • Athenea Mata as Sonia
  • Luisa Gavasa as Amparo
  • Daniel Freire as Carrascosa
  • Itziar Castro
  • Julio Fernández
  • Sergio Olmo
  • Jesús Lago
  • José de Luna
  • Gloria Ramos
  • Fran Fuentes
  • Alberto Nieto Fernández
  • Roberto Chinchilla
  • Stefan López

See also

References

  1. ↑ "'Campeones', 'Handia' y 'Todos los saben' pelearán por ser la candidata española en los 91º Premios Oscar". Redacción AV451. audiovisual451.com. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Campeones (2018)". The Numbers. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Campeones (Champions)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  4. ↑ Zurro, Javier (5 April 2018). "Los campeones que enseñaron a Fesser que no se dice "subnormales"". El Español. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "Fesser atribuye el éxito de "Campeones" a que "hace felices" a los espectadores". EFE. eldiario.es. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  6. ↑ Academia de Cine [@Academiadecine] (6 September 2018). "El actor @DanielGrao7 anuncia en la Academia que Campeones, de Javier Fesser es la película que representará a España en la 91 edición de los Oscar en la categoría de Mejor Película de Habla No Inglesa" (Tweet) (in Spanish) – via Twitter.
  7. ↑ Hopewell, John (6 September 2018). "Javier Fesser's 'Champions' Chosen as Spain's Oscar Submission". Variety. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  8. ↑ Holland, Jonathan (23 April 2018). "'Champions' ('Campeones'): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
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