Long Live Death
1971•1h 30m•5.9•Released
DramaWar
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?
Director
Fernando Arrabal
Writer
Claudine Lagrive, Fernando Arrabal
Languages
French
Studio
SATPEC
Cast
Mohamed Bellasoued
Colonel
Anouk Ferjac
The aunt
Núria Espert
The mother
Mahdi Chaouch
The son
Ivan Henriques
Tosan, the father
Jazia Klibi
Thérèse, Fando's friend
Suzanne Comte
The grandmother
Víctor García
Fando, 20 years old
Production
Company
SATPEC
Company
Isabelle Films
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