”Mario Casas is a great man. Next to him I felt like a piece of junk.

Last Friday, October 17, it hit theaters nationwide. Dinnera comedy film directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira and written by Joaquín Oristrell and Yolanda García Serrano. The film is based on a work by José Luis Alonso de Santos.

Although it didn’t hit theaters until a few days ago, the film It was presented at a gala organized by RTVE within the framework of the 73rd San Sebastián International Film Festival on September 24, 2025, generating all kinds of reactions from the public.

The film’s plot focuses on a key historical moment: April 15, 1939, two weeks after the end of the Spanish Civil War. That day, a young lieutenant shows up at a hotel converted into a hospital to announce that Franco himself will be coming to dinner, which drives a very conscientious maître’d crazy.

The cooks, republicans who had suffered firsthand the consequences of the conflict, are forced to work for a clique of Francoist generals, which will give rise to a succession of grotesque, uncomfortable and absurd episodes, always told from a comic perspective and a humorous tone.

It should be noted that the film has an exceptional cast, made up of some of the most prominent faces on the film and television scene in our country: Mario Casas, Alberto San Juan, Asier Etxeandia, Elvira Mínguez, Antonio Resines, Eva Ugarte, Martín Páez, Nora Hernández, Óscar Lasarte, Carlos Serrano and Carmen Balagué, among others.

The good relationship of the protagonists

a few days ago, Alberto San Juan He gave an interview to Cadena SER in which he talked about his experience in this project and revealed that from the first moment he had great chemistry with Mario Casassince both are protagonists of fiction set in the Dictatorship.

”Not only had we not worked together, we didn’t even know each other personally. We had two or three meetings before we started filming and, from the first day, we both had a very respectful attitude towards each other. We were clear that we had to build whatever it was together,” explained the interpreter.

After making it clear that the two went “hand in hand” during the filming, he explained that he has not followed his fasting diet: “I would have loved for him to drag me along the path of sports, but no. It is the most… I don’t know whether to say perfect body because it depends on taste, but the most muscular in terms of volume and definition. He is a piece of man. Next to him I felt like a piece of junk.”