El abuelo
Film poster
Directed by	José Luis Garci
Written by	José Luis Garci Horacio Valcárcel
Produced by	José Luis Garci
Starring	Fernando Fernán-Gómez Rafael Alonso Cayetana Guillén Cuervo Agustín González Cristina Cruz Mínguez Alicia Rozas Fernando Guillén Emma Cohen María Massip
Cinematography	Raúl Pérez Cubero
Edited by	Miguel González Sinde
Music by	Manuel Balboa
Distributed by	Miramax in USA
Release dates	April 18, 1998 Spain October 8, 1999 Los Angeles, USA
Running time	151 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

The Grandfather (Spanish: El abuelo) is a 1998 Spanish drama film written, produced and directed by José Luis Garci.

The film, an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Benito Pérez Galdós, tells the story of an aristocrat's search to discover which of his two putative granddaughters resulted from an extramarital affair by his daughter-in-law

In 1972, Rafael Gil made a previous version titled La duda.

Plot

Cranky Count Albrit (Fernarndo Fernan-Gomez), broke and nearly blind, returns to turn of the century Spain from Peru, where he has squandered a family fortune. He is initially pleased to meet his granddaughters, the disturbingly adorable Neli (Alicia Rozas) and Doli (Cristina Cruz), but there is something nagging him — the knowledge that his daughter-in-law Lucrecia (Cayetana Guillen Cuervo) cheated on her husband, and that one of the girls is not the Count's blood kin.

Awards

The film was an Academy Award nominee as Best Foreign Language Film.

Fernando Fernán-Gómez won Goya Award as Best Actor. There was a controversy with Garci that year with Goyas. He was accused of buying votes for the film, so, he quit the Spanish Academy.

Alternate versions

There is a longer cut made for television. It was aired in 2001 in TVE.

DVD release

The Grandfather was released on DVD in the U.S.A in 2000.