Long Live Death

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1971 · 90 min · Drama · War · TMDB 5.9/10

Overview

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?

Directed by Fernando Arrabal

Cast

• Mohamed Bellasoued — Colonel
• Anouk Ferjac — The aunt
• Núria Espert — The mother
• Mahdi Chaouch — The son
• Ivan Henriques — Tosan, the father