On the cover, he bids farewell to his season on La 2 with an analysis of Europe’s inability to recycle its plastic waste. Antena 3 broadcasts a new episode of “The Rookie” in which Joaquín is transformed by Leo Harlem into a stand-up comedian. With La Sexta the Debts series continues with a triple part. The best cinema is represented by a furious film by Elia Kazan, ¡Viva Zapata!, on TCM and by an undeniable masterpiece like The Bridge Over the River Kwai on Movistar Clásicos.
“Long live Zapata!”
6:15 p.m., TCM
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USA, 1952 (108 minutes). Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn, Jean Peters.
The great Elia Kazan approaches the character of Emiliano Zapata, adopting Shakespearean airs to wrap the character’s history in a story that captures themes of power-seeking, greed and betrayal (a theme that has taken the filmmaker almost to his own). last films). By the time he made “Viva Zapata!”, Kazan was already on the blacklist of the vile witch hunt, although he had not yet indicted his companions. There’s a lot of tortured filmmakers in a nervous, aggressive, biting production that locks the characters in tense images with an intense dramatic pulse as a priceless Marlon Brando sets the screen on fire.
“On the Cover” deals with plastic waste
9:50 p.m., La 2
The final report of this season of On the Cover analyzes plastic recycling in Europe. Coinciding with the start of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai, The Plastic Footprint travels to Adana in southeastern Turkey, the area of the country most contaminated by plastics and microplastics, and accesses illegal landfills full of European plastics. and even buried underground. Europe does not have the capacity to recycle all the plastic it consumes, and much of its waste is sold primarily to Turkey.
“The Bridge over the River Kwai”
10 p.m., Movistar Classics
United Kingdom, 1957 (154 minutes). Director: David Lean. Actors: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins.
Although the debate about the connection between quality and commerciality is still open, the possible solutions do not come from Spielberg. They were brought to life almost 60 years ago by David Lean in works such as The Bridge on the River Kwai. A turbulent war drama using an epic story that brings together English and American soldiers in a Japanese concentration camp and are forced to build a bridge. They plan how to destroy it. Lean goes beyond his story and transforms his blockbuster into an intimate and valuable narrative.
Three episodes of the series “Debts”
10:30 p.m., sixth
Raul Guerrero
The characters of the series created by Daniel Écija face new adventures tonight in the triple episode of Debt. Among other things, they have to deal with Doña Consuelo’s displeasure when she learns that her family has assigned her a Cuban nurse, or with the arrival at Carranza’s house of Carmina, Pepa’s sister, who comes from the city with 200,000 euros in tow to pay the costs family debts.
Joaquín, with Leo Harlem in “The Rookie”
10:45 p.m., antenna 3
Comedian and actor Leo Harlem becomes Joaquín Sánchez’s new teacher in this episode of “The Rookie.” Harlem will revisit some of his most important professional moments and act as a mentor to the former football player, guiding him into the realm of humor and turning him into a stand-up comedian. A training that culminates with a stage debut in front of an audience.
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