Gerardo VeraFilmography

Occupation:: Art Director, Costume Designer, Director, Production Designer, Set Designer, Screenwriter

Sort By:
Title
Release Date

Don Quixote, Knight Errant

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo, Carlos Iglesias, Jose Luis Torrijos, Victor Clavijo, Santiago Ramos

Synopsis: The infamous man from La Mancha and his devoted sidekick embark on a new quest in this slightly off-kilter version of author Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel Don Quixote, as envisioned by director and screenwriter Manuel Gutierrez Aragon in his 2002 adaptation entitled Don Quixote, Knight Read More

2002
Deseo

Crew: Director

Actors: Leonor Watling, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Roth, Ernesto Alterio, Maria Vazquez

Synopsis: Madrid in the wake of the Spanish Civil War serves as the setting for this epic period romance, starring Leonor Watling of Talk to Her fame. Watling is cast as Elvira, a young woman still reeling from the execution of her father and the imprisonment of her politically outspoken husband, Julio (Ernesto Alterio Read More

2002
Second Skin

Crew: Director

Actors: Javier Bardem, Jordi Mollà, Ariadna Gil, Cecilia Roth, Javier Albala

Synopsis: Gerardo Vera directs this romantic drama about self-destructive love and sexual confusion. Alberto (Jordi Molla) is a respected aeronautical engineer married to artist Elena (Ariadna Gil) and has a son. Yet Alberto soon finds himself seduced by the wiles of hunky orthopedic surgeon Diego (Javier Bardem Read More

2000
La Niña de Tus Ojos

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Neus Asensi, Jesus Bonilla, Loles Leon

Synopsis: Post-Franco filmmaker Fernando Trueba's first Spanish-based feature since 1993's Oscar-winning Belle Epoque, La Nina de Tus Ojos begins in 1938, when Spain is torn by Civil War. As a sign of cordiality between General Franco and Adolph Hitler, a Spanish film crew is invited to Nazi Germany's UFA Read More

11/12/98
La Celestina

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This is a film of the dramatic Spanish language novel Celestina, written in 1499. In many ways, it resembles Romeo and Juliet, particularly in the need for secrecy in the wooing of a beloved and the troubles resulting from that secrecy. Callisto (Juan Diego Botto) enlists the aid of his roguish Read More

1996
Una Mujer Bajo la Lluvia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ángela Molina, Antonio Banderas, Imanol Arias, Kiti Manver

Synopsis: The name of mystery writer Edgar Neville may be relatively unknown in the U.S., but his novels have been the source for quite a number of films made in Europe. In this humorous story, set in Madrid, a woman (Angela Molina) standing in the rain is offered rides from two different cars. Either ride Read More

1991
Cuentos De Borges I

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Fernando Guillén, Pastora Vega, Hugo Soto, Miguel Dedovich

1991
Carmen [Covent Garden]

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Luis Lima, Maria Ewing

Synopsis: Videotaped live at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, England, this production of Bizet's classic opera plays strongly on the Spanish themes and heritage of the story, and it employs a wealth of Spanish talent, including director Nuria Espert, production designer Gerardo Vera, and Read More

1991
How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Resines, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Carmen Conesa, Tina Sainz

Synopsis: In this comedy from Spain, Carmen (Carmen Maura) is a woman in her early 40s who is nearing the end of her rope juggling a career as a reporter, taking care of her two children, minding the house, and dealing with a husband (her third) who thinks that she doesn't pay enough attention to him, and Read More

1990
Berlin Blues

Crew: Production Designer, Set Designer

Actors: Julia Migenes, Keith Baxter, Jose Coronado, Javier Garruchaga, Gerardo Vera

Synopsis: Lola (Julia Migenes) is an American singer in a Berlin nightclub who falls for the East German pianist David (Jose Coronado) in this romantic drama. Their love affair is interrupted by Professor Huessler (Keith Baxter), the dedicated orchestra conductor who sends David back East. Huessler and Lola Read More

8/25/89
La Noche Oscura

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Juan Diego, Julie Delpy, Fernando Guillén, Manuel de Blas

Synopsis: Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan Read More

1989
La Mitad Del Cielo

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Ángela Molina, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Margarita Lozano, Antonio V. Valero, Nacho Martinez

Synopsis: Rosa (Angela Molina) has one burning desire: to escape the grinding poverty in which she was born. To this end, Rosa takes a job at a fancy eatery in Madrid. Slowly and methodically, she becomes the city's Number One restaurateur. Not that she hasn't had a little "extra help" along the way: in Read More

1/21/88
Divinas Palabras

Crew: Art Director, Costume Designer, Production Designer

Actors: Ana Belén, Francisco Rabal, Imanol Arias, Esperanza Roy, Aurora Bautista

Synopsis: This somber drama illustrates the cruel lengths some people will go to capitalize on unfortunate human oddities. When a beggar woman dies, her relatives fight over her son who has an enlarged head from having water on the brain. He is taken on tours of county fairs where his condition brings in Read More

1987
El Amor Brujo

Crew: Costume Designer, Set Designer

Actors: Laura del Sol, Juan Antonio Jimenez, Antonio Gades

Synopsis: El Amor Brujo is a filmed record of the little-known Spanish ballet by Manuel de Falla. The plot involves two gypsies, male and female, who are united in an arranged marriage. Each loves someone else, a circumstance that results in a fatal knife duel. The climax of the ballet involves the girl's Read More

12/25/86
Hay Que Deshacer la Casa

Crew: Production Designer, Set Designer

Actors: Amparo Rivelles, Amparo Soler Leal, Joaquin Kremel, Josep Maria Pou, José Luis Lopez Vasquez

Synopsis: After their wealthy fascist father dies, Ana and her sister Laura have the job of settling his estate. The two sisters have not seen one another for some time and imagine they have nothing in common. Ana stayed at home and married a pretty ordinary middle-class man, Laura moved to Paris and lives Read More

1986
Sé infiel y no mires con quién

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Ana Belén, Carmen Maura, Antonio Resines, Santiago Ramos, Verónica Forqué

Synopsis: In this conventional comedy of manners, two men in the publishing business run into trouble both in the boardroom and in the bedroom. Their venture is starting to run out of black ink, and one of them is very suspicious of his wife's loyalties. Add in a right-wing author of children's stories, a Read More

1985
La Noche Más Hermosa

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Victoria Abril, Bibi Andersen, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Oscar Ladoire

Synopsis: This ostensible comedy about the affairs or non-existent affairs of television executive Federico José Sacristán and his actress wife Elena Victoria Abril) is almost as hard to believe as director Manuel Gutiérrez-Aragón's previous effort Feroz. Federico convinces a friend to attempt to seduce his Read More

1984
Feroz

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Frederic de Pasquale

Synopsis: This fantasy about a young man who becomes a bear, who becomes a young man again is equally ambivalent in its identity -- it is a drama that becomes a comedy that becomes a satire, and is not quite a straightforward fable. After the young man runs away from being shackled to a cabin, he spends the Read More

1983