Word: miguelin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero of the film, Miguelin, played by an actual matador named Miguelin, rises from poverty to become a famous bullfighter. Although the outward circumstances of his life seem to change for the better, Rosi continually insinuates that they don't. The impressario who grabs a fat chunk of Miguelin's salary as a matador closely resembles the labor contractor he worked for in the slums of Barcelona. Similarly, whores with diamond earrings are no different from the 100 pesatas per night girls he met while still a dock worker. Rosi carries these parallels to extremes; even the jet-set types...
...Moment of Truth, made in Spain with an Italian-language sound track, charts the rise and fall of a great bullfighter in terms of bitter economic necessity. The hero is played by Spanish Matador Miguel Mateo, 26, known to aficionados as Miguelin, who gives the role a surly, feverish immediacy that sometimes lacks subtlety but never lacks sting. The quasi-fictional Miguelin has no dream of glory at the outset. A spunky, mop-topped Andalusian peasant, he flees the arduous life on his father's farm, drifts into that gypsy band of hot-eyed hopefuls who haunt every Spanish...