CARDONA

“Campanades de mitjanit”

George Orson Welles was a great actor, scriptwriter and director of a very famous film in the 20th century. This year marks the centenary of his birth.

He was nominated to BAFTA awards as best foreign actor for his film 'chimes at midnight", a work of thematic medieval and dramatic, inspired several works of Shakespeare. The work deals with Enrique IV, first monarch of the dynasty of the Lancaster, which removes the throne to his cousin Ricardo II.
Some of the scenes were performed in the canonical "Sant Vicenç" of Cardona, where recorded small fragments as "Royal Court", or "the coronation of the King's son".