Filming of Lope ends

The Brazilian Andrucha Waddington concludes the filming of this production that narrates the life and loves of the Spanish Golden Age writer Lope de Vega, with a cast led by Alberto Ammann, Leonor Watling, Pilar López de Ayala, Sonia Braga, Juan Diego and Luis Tosar.

The Brazilian filmmaker (Me, you, them, House of sand…) filming of Lope produced by the Spanish companies Antena 3 Films, El Toro Pictures and Ikiru Films, and the Brazilian Consipiraçao Filmes. This production began filming on April 23 and for two months the team worked in the Community of Madrid and the Moroccan Atlantic coast. With a script by Jordi Gasull and Ignacio del Moral, Lope has had Mercedes Gamero, Edmon Roch, Jordi Gasull and the director Andrucha Waddington himself as producers, and with Juan Carlos Caro, Eliana Soarez, Leo Barros, Julio Aria and Iona de Maceno as executive producers. Toni Novella has been in charge of production direction, Ricardo della Rosa of photography and César Macarrón and Carlos Bodelón of art. From the assembly of Lope Sergio Mekler is in charge these days, composing the original music Fernando Velázquez. Raúl Romanillos has been in charge of the special effects and Jorge Saldanha has supervised the sound. Tatiana Hernández has been in charge of conceiving the costumes that recreate the Spanish Golden Age.

Alberto Ammann has commented that when he received the script from Jordi Gasull and Ignacio del Moral he knew "that this was the film he wanted to make. I didn't read it: I lived it. I entered its pages, I laughed, I cried and I ended up madly in love. There are biographies so fabulous that they seem invented. The life of Lope de Vega is one of them: an endless number of adventures and loves so incredible, so exciting and passionate, that they seem written by a novelist carried away by his feverish imagination. However, the events that this film narrates are not only true but correspond to the genius who revolutionized Spanish literature in the Golden Age and laid the foundations of modern theater."

Ammann has also admitted that to film this story he wanted to “work with innovative people like the director of photography Ricardo Della Rosa, a regular in my films (Maria Bethânia, Casa de Areia o Other Sweet Barbarians) or with one of the best and most creative art directors today, César Macarrón (Camino, The great adventure of Mortadelo and Filemón, Intact, The devil's backbone or The miracle of P.Tinto), or the composer Fernando Velásquez (The Orphanage, Savage Grace, The Zone)”.