{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2026}} {{Infobox film | image = | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Víctor Barrera | screenplay = Víctor Barrera | based_on = {{Based on|''Los invitados''|Alfonso Grosso}} | starring = {{ubl|Amparo Muñoz|Pablo Carbonell|Raúl Fraire|Lola Flores|Pedro Reyes|Sonia Martínez|Idilio Cardoso|Antonio Somoza}} | cinematography = José G. Galisteo | editing = María Luisa Soriano | music = Raúl Alcover | studio = {{ubl|Víctor Barrera PC|Impala}} | distributor = Warner Española | released = {{Film date|1987|03|05|Cine Rialto|df=yes}} | country = Spain | language = Spanish }} '''''Los invitados''''' is a 1987 Spanish crime drama film written and directed by Víctor Barrera based on the novel by Alfonso Grosso. It stars Amparo Muñoz, Pablo Carbonell, Raúl Fraire, and Lola Flores.
== Plot == An Englishman persuades the overseer of a ''cortijo'' in Carmona to develop a cannabis plantation in the rural estate. The overseer's wife, corroded by guilt, convinces her husband to set the plantation on fire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.academiadecine.com/actividades/centenario-lola-flores-los-invitados/|publisher=Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España|title=Centenario Lola Flores: Los invitados|date=24 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|website=Fotogramas|date=29 May 2008|title=Los invitados|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a9879/los-invitados/}}</ref>
== Cast == * Amparo Muñoz as La Catalana<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Motion Picture Guide 1988 Annual (The Films of 1987)|page=169|location=Evanston|publisher=CineBooks, Inc.|isbn=0-933997-16-7|year=1988|first=Jay Robert|last=Nash|author-link=Jay Robert Nash |first2=Stanley Ralph|last2=Ross|author-link2=Stanley Ralph Ross}}</ref> * Pablo Carbonell as Tony Mackenzie{{Sfn|Nash|Ross|1988|p=169}} * Raúl Fraire as El Capataz{{Sfn|Nash|Ross|1988|p=169}} * Pedro Reyes as El Canijo{{Sfn|Nash|Ross|1988|p=169}} * Sonia Martínez as Beatriz{{Sfn|Nash|Ross|1988|p=169}} * Idilio Cardoso as Pedro{{Sfn|Nash|Ross|1988|p=169}} * Antonio Somoza as Ferreira{{Sfn|Nash|Ross|1988|p=169}} * María Luisa Borruel as María{{Sfn|Nash|Ross|1988|p=169}} * Lola Flores as La Capataza{{Sfn|Nash|Ross|1988|p=169}}
== Production == The film is based on the 1978 novel by Alfonso Grosso which is in turn based on the true-life {{ill|Los Galindos crimes|es|Crimen de Los Galindos}}, consisting on a mass-murder in a ''cortijo''.<ref>{{Cite book|publisher=University of Wales Press|editor-first=Nancy|editor-last=Vosburg|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Iberian_Crime_Fiction/3UyuBwAAQBAJ|first=Patricia|last=Hart|isbn=9780708323335|title=Iberian Crime Fiction|chapter=Crime Fiction since the Spanish Civil War|page=18}}</ref> It is a Víctor Barrera PC and Impala production.<ref name="goya">{{Cite web|url=https://www.premiosgoya.com/pelicula/los-invitados/|website=Premios Goya|publisher=Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España|access-date=31 March 2026|title=Los invitados}}</ref>
== Release == Distributed by Warner Española, the film premiered on 5 March 1987 at {{ill|Teatro Rialto (Madrid)|es|lt=Cine Rialto}} of Madrid.<ref>{{Cite web|website=|url=https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/alece/registro_pelicula/?id=1750|access-date=31 March 2026|title= Los invitados · España 1987}}</ref> The neighbors of Paradas (the site of the original mass murder of Los Galindos) decried the film and asked for it to be withdrawn of exhibition.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1987/02/27/cultura/541378809_850215.html|website=El País|date=27 February 1987|title=Los vecinos de un pueblo de Sevilla se movilizan contra una película}}</ref> The sister of one of the murdered people in the crime of Los Galindos filed criminal charges against the director on the basis of alleged slander or defamation against her brother's memory.<ref>{{Cite web|website=El País|title=El director de 'Los invitados' declara ante un juzgado de Sevilla|date=5 March 1987|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1987/03/05/cultura/541897210_850215.html}}</ref> It had 165,378 admissions.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.revistaestudiosregionales.com/documentos/articulos/pdf672.pdf|last=Trenzado Romero|page=204|first=Manuel|title=La construcción de la identidad andaluza y la cultura de masas: el caso del cine andaluz|journal=Revista de Estudios Regionales|issue=58|year=2000}}</ref>
== Accolades == {{Awards table|5}} |- | {{center|1988}} || 2nd Goya Awards || Best Original Score || Raúl Alcover || {{nom}} || <ref>{{Citation |url=https://www.accioncultural.es/virtuales/premiosgoya/pdf/catalogo_expo_Goya_1987_2013.pdf|title=Viaje al cine español. 25 años de los Premios Goya|isbn=978-84-9785-791-8|year=2011|publisher=Lunwerg|page=270}}</ref> |- {{end}} == See also == * List of Spanish films of 1987
== References == {{reflist}}
Category:Films set in Andalusia Category:Spanish crime drama films Category:Spanish-language crime drama films Category:Films about mass murder Category:1987 Spanish films Category:1987 Spanish-language films Category:Films based on Spanish novels {{authority control}}