It hasn’t stopped raining for three months and SPLEEN, a dandy, only likes three things in life: Valle-Inclán, the Smiths, and bad girls with fringes. He spends his nights with his Bohemian friends from the Actors' Tavern.

The night it stops raining, SPLEEN meets THE RUSSIAN, a bad girl with a fringe, and they begin a tender and unexpected journey around a strange stone city into the depths of the night and inside themselves which will totally change their lives… until sunrise and the rain returns, lights will be lit, and dreams will end.

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LA NOCHE QUE DEJÓ DE LLOVER [literally in English, "The Night It Stopped Raining"] is a road movie of a one night journey around the magical stone city of Santiago de Compostela.

I have taken cues from European and independent American cinema, adding personality very defined by my particular Galician sense of humour.

With a spirit of magic realism in the style of films like "Edward Scissorhands", LA NOCHE QUE DEJÓ DE LLOVER combines the kind of films with loser lead character, a dark but-at-the-same-time tender, sense of humour, and recreation of unique World of its own, with a love story between strangers who meet along the lines of stories like "Lost in Translation".

In essence, LA NOCHE QUE DEJÓ DE LLOVER tells a pleasant and intimate story – a fable of losers enriched by surrealistic surroundings and eccentric characters from a very particular focus and point of view.

LUIS TOSAR

Having just turned 38 years-old, he’s already become one of the most indispensable names in Spanish cinema. He became a judge, even though he never passed more than three subjects for the degree in History he was doing, when Galician TV performed a miracle with the outstanding production Mareas Vivas, that made this tailor’s son – a bad student who had "emigrated" to Santiago de Compostela to study acting – into the star of the most popular TV series of the Region of Galicia. That same year (1998) he had his cinema debut with a role in Atilano Presidente (Santiago Aguilar and Luis Guridi), and in 1999 he met the director Icíar Bollaín, who would give him some of the most memorable performances in his budding career. In Flores de Otro Mundo, he got his first nomination for a Goya Award in the category of best new actor. Soon came other titles by major directors, films like Alex Iglesia’s La Comunidad, José Luis Borau’s Leo, and Agustín Díaz Yanes’ Sin Noticias de Dios. In 2002, Fernando León de Aranoa "gave" him another of his hit roles, that of José, one of the out-of work characters in Los Lunes al Sol [Mondays in the Sun], which earned him his first Goya, for Best Supporting Actor, along with the admiration and recognition of film fans throughout Spain. Everyone was now talking about him when Icíar Bollaín called him back to play the difficult part of an abuser in a relationship in Te Doy Mis Ojos [Take My Eyes]. It was an incredible performance which won him the Goya for Best Actor, the Concha de plata [Silver Shell] at the San Sebastian Film Festival, and definitive confirmation as one of Spain’s best actors. In 2006, Michael Mann called on him for a small part in Miami Vice and a film made by Jim Jarmusch in Spain, The Limits of Control, has just had its debut. And, now there’s Celda 211 [Cell 211] in which he has played of the most important parts in his career thus far, which could get him a third Goya for his already-full trophy shelf. At the moment, Tosar is currently filming También la Lluvia in Bolivia, which will be his next Iciar Bollaín film.

Luis Tosar films on filmotech.com.

NORA TSCHIRNER

This young German actress of 28 is the daughter of a German documentary director and a radio reporter. Born in East Berlin, Nora began to work in television at the age of 16. At 21, she was already a presenter of German MTV. Her first major role in a feature was in Kebab Connection by Turkish-origin German director Fatih Akin. In this film, Nora played Titzi, the pregnant girlfriend of the main character. Since then, she has continued to have a mix of roles in TV series and cinema. In 2007, she co-starred with Til Schweiger (Inglourious Basterds) in the romantic comedy Keinohrhasen [Rabbit without Ears], which premièred in Spain this year, becoming a huge box-office hit… and for which she received the Bambi Award (the most prestigious and longest-running audiovisual awards in Germany) in the category of Best German-Production Performance. She has just finished shooting Bon Appetit, first film as director for Spanish film editor David Pinillos (Gordos, La Vergüenza, 8 Citas), a romantic comedy she performs in along with Unax Ugalde, as a wine waiter in an expensive restaurant in Switzerland. In La Noche que Dejó de Llover, she is "The Russian", a blonde with a fringe, accompanying Luis Tosar in his curious journey on a rainless night around Santiago.

MERCEDES SAMPIETRO

Although we can’t imagine cinema in Spain without her, this Barcelona actress came to the world of acting quite by chance when a friend dragged her to audition for a play alongside Juan Diego. After being selected, she continued her career in small Catalonian theatre companies, an arena she has never left, even after becoming a hit in cinema productions. In 1977, she debuted on screen with the film A un Dios Desconocido by Jaime Chávarri. Then came El Crimen de Cuenca and the film which would be her definitive launch into cinema, Gary Cooper que Estás en los Cielos [‘Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven’], directed by Pilar Miró, with whom she had worked in the previously mentioned El Crimen de Cuenca and would on three more occasions (Werther, Beltenebros, and El Pájaro de la Felicidad). In addition to an extensive film career, which includes titles like Historias del Kronen, Silencio Roto, Obaba, Reinas, 53 Días de Invierno, and Lugares Comunes (a film for which she received the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Concha de Plata [Silver Shell] and the Goya for Best Performance), she continued to work in the theatre, has dubbed for actresses like Meryl Streep, Kim Basinger, Diane Keaton, and Catherine Deneuve, and has been Chairperson of the Spanish Film Academy.

Mercedes Sampietro films on filmotech.com.

CHETE LERA

Born 60 years ago in the town of A Estrada in Galicia’s Province of Pontevedra, Chete Lera is a long-time stage actor, developing his skills in the theatre, where he began in the late 70s and was self-taught. In 1978, along with Pepo Oliva, he founded his own company, Espacio Cero, with which he produced a large number of shows, from the most classical and commercial to experimental works ("El alto y el bajo", "Cámaralenta", "Carambola", "La Máquinahamlet" or "Mingus, Cuernavaca" are some of them). In 1990 Mario Camus offered him a role in the TV series La Forja de un Rebelde. Since then, he has worked with Spain’s top directors: Enrique Urbizu (Todo por la Pasta), Julio Medem (La Ardilla Roja), Fernando León de Aranoa (Familia and Barrio), Montxo Armendáriz (Secretos del Corazón), Alejandro Amenábar (Abre los Ojos [Open Your Eyes]), Imanol Uribe (Extraños and Plenilunio) or Icíar Bollaín (Flores de Otro Mundo). In recent years, apart from La Noche que Dejó de Llover, Lera has co-starred in films like Concursante, El Niño de Barro, and Los Muertos van Deprisa.

Chete Lera films on filmotech.com.

La noche que dejó de llover [literally in English, "The Night It Stopped Raining"] is the feature-film debut for this scriptwriter and director from Santiago de Compostela, Alfonso Zarauza, maker of short films (¡Aproba!, Hai que foderse, A danza de Katiuska, Sebastian, Touro), advertising spots and videoclips. Since 2001, Zarauza has worked as Director of Development for the production company Iroko Films. Prior to that, he was a script analyst and assistant director of the documentary feature-length film Machín toda una vida. The script for La noche que dejó de llover, his first feature film as director, earned him an award at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) and the film participated in the "Meeting Point" section of the 53rd Valladolid International Film Week.