Cast
M
Mohamed Bellasoued
Colonel
Anouk Ferjac
The aunt
Núria Espert
The mother
M
Mahdi Chaouch
The son
I
Ivan Henriques
Tosan, the father
J
Jazia Klibi
Thérèse, Fando's friend
S
Suzanne Comte
The grandmother
V
Víctor García
Fando, 20 years old
MovieDramaWar
Long Live Death
19711h 30m5.9Directed by Fernando Arrabal
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?
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