Culture in Resistance: The Goethe-Institut and the Actors' Strike of 1975
Date and time: Thursday, Oct 30th. 8.30 pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut Madrid
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Title: Culture in Resistance: The Goethe-Institut and the Actors' Strike of 1975
Type of activity: Round table
Participants:
- David Lara / Producer and Creative supervisor / Spain
- Petra Martínez / Actress / Spain
- Enriqueta Carballeira / Actress / Spain
*Moderator: David Lara / Producer and Creative supervisor / Spain
– With the collaboration of the Commissioner for the holding of the 50th anniversary of Spain in Freedom
David Lara, screenwriter, director and producer with more than two decades of experience, has woven a filmography marked by a critical eye and narrative drive. His latest feature-length documentary, Mucha Mierda, closed the Made in Spain section of the 2024 San Sebastian Festival, consolidating a career that moves with ease between fiction and documentary.
Co-screenwriter of the miniseries El Aceite de los Pobres (SGAE Award), he is currently developing 180 Días, a fiction supported by the development aid of the Comunidad de Madrid. As a producer and director, he has promoted award-winning short films such as Lo Cotidiano and Dantzariak-Bailarines, and as a documentary director he has signed titles such as Miguel Hernández, La Fuente de la Vida and El 5º Por la Izquierda, broadcast on RTVE, Movistar and Discovery Max.
His cinema, with a social vocation and a firm narrative pulse, delves into the fissures of the everyday to reveal the extraordinary.
Petra Martínez was born in Linares in 1944 and moved to Madrid as a child. During her stay in London to learn English, she discovered her passion for theatre and once back she began her training as an actress at William Layton's Studio Theatre. Together with other colleagues she created the independent theatre group Tábano with which she premiered the play 'Castañuela 70', which was a great success until it was banned by Francoism censors. This forced the company to emigrate and tour much of Europe and America during the 1970s, becoming a symbol of free and committed theatre. On her return she joined, together with her husband Juan Margallo, El Gallo Vallecano, another of the most emblematic independent theatre groups of the time, which sought to bring the performing arts closer to the people from a critical and popular spirit. In 1985 Petra Martínez and Juan Margallo founded the company Uroc Teatro, with which they were awarded in 2010 with the Spanish Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts. Together they have consolidated one of the most solid career paths of Spanish theatre, always maintaining a strong commitment to contemporary creation and stage experimentation. Throughout her career, Petra has also worked in film and television, achieving great popularity in recent years with her role as Doña Fina in the TV series 'La que se avecina'. She has participated in films that are part of the history of Spanish cinema and with great directors such as Jaime Rosales, Miguel Albadalejo, Achero Mañas, Mateo Gil, Pedro Almodóvar and Mar Olid demonstrating great interpretive versatility. In 2020 she starred in 'That Was Life', directed by David Martín de los Santos, for which she was nominated for a Goya for Best Actress and with which she won, among others, the Feroz Award for Best Actress. In 2022 she received together with Juan Margallo the Spanish National Theatre Award in recognition of a career that in 2025 was again distinguished with the Honour Award of the Max Awards. Petra Martínez continues to be an undisputed benchmark on the Spanish scene, uniting in her figure the closeness with the public, the defence of theatre as a way of life and an artistic career that ranges from independent theatre to film d’auteur and the most popular television.
Enriqueta Carballeira has been a leading figure in Spanish cinema since the 60s. Enriqueta Carballeira made her debut with Cerca de las estrellas (1962) and consolidated her career with titles such as La tía Tula (1964), Oscuros sueños de agosto (1966), Cateto a babor (1970), La mitad del cielo (1986), La casa de Bernarda Alba (1987) and Cómo ser mujer y no morir en el intento (1991). Her versatility extended to independent theatre, where she collaborated with the TEI and the Tábano Group, and to dubbing, being the Spanish voice of Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins. She has also directed short films, written essays on acting and is the mother of filmmaker Arantxa Aguirre.
