Joan Potau

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Feb 03, 1945 (80 years old)
Death date
Feb 03, 2015

Joan Potau

Known For

Between Your Legs
1h 55m
Movie 1999

Between Your Legs

A radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.

Spanish Fly
1h 31m
Movie 1998

Spanish Fly

A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But that's exactly what she does when she heads off to Spain to write about its men and their macho take (as she sees it) on relationships. As she tries to prove her thesis, she soon realizes that she doesn't know as much about the male sex as she thought. She also finds herself involved in relationships with the wrong men.

Soul Ache
1h 33m
Movie 1998

Soul Ache

Aitor is a director making a film about a lonely man looking for love, called “Soul Ache.” While he uses his auditions to meet women, he really longs to cast actress Myriam Mezieres in the film.

Parabellum
0h 11m
Movie 1998

Parabellum

Garrote, Chago and Molero are three criminals who have ended up in prison after the misdeed. Each of them offers its particular version of what happened.

Airbag
2h 5m
Movie 1997

Airbag

Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends femme fatale Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs.

What Makes Women Laugh?
1h 49m
Movie 1997

What Makes Women Laugh?

Luci, Graci and Mar­, three sisters that make a comedy trio, go to the wedding of their father with a woman who is 45 years younger than him. During the feast Luci's husband dies in an accident. Despite the tragedy, the trio have to fulfill their commitment acting during August in Benidorm. The widow discovers thanks to a notebook that her husband cheated on her, so she decides to flirt with everyone.

All Men Are the Same
1h 42m
Movie 1994

All Men Are the Same

Three divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.

The Dumbfounded King
1h 46m
Movie 1991

The Dumbfounded King

Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.

Too Old to Die Young
1h 43m
Movie 1989

Too Old to Die Young

Two friends just find any temporary jobs to get by. One of them quits his job as a waiter to move to work as a messenger; the other is working as a taxi driver. The messenger, in his comings and goings at night, go through many offices, private homes and bars and will be in the most varied situations: some of them dark, sometimes sinister and pathetic and some even pleasant.

Biography

Joan Potau was born in 1945 in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain) as Joan Potau Martínez. He was a writer and actor, known for El rey pasmado (1991), No respires: El amor está en el aire (1999) and Belle Epoque (1992). He was married to the actress Carme Elias. He died on February 3, 2015 in Barcelona.

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