Adiós, cigüeña, adiós (1971)

Director:

Manuel Summers

Writers:

Antonio de Lara (screenplay)
Antonio de Lara (story)

Release Date:

19 April 1973 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Family

Plot:

Paloma, 12, is pregnant by Arturo, 14; they try desperately to get information about their predicament...

Plot Keywords:

Sex Education | Sexual Initiation | Animal In Title | Child Star | Abortion

Awards:

1 win

Cast

María Isabel Álvarez
Francisco Villa
Mercedes Borqué
Alfredo Santacruz
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Felipe Anaya
Luis A. de la Peña
Beatriz Galbó
Joaquín Goma
Currito Martín
Alicia Peramó
Vicente Roca
María Rosa Torrico

Also Known As:

Goodbye, Stork, Goodbye (International: English title) (informal literal title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Company:

Impala

Trivia:

In the French dubbed version, the girl's age is 14.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Torremolinos 73 (2003)

This movie is not about an abortion!

The other summary written here is totally incorrect.

This movie is about a group of teenage friends that get involved in the early pregnancy of one of them. Paloma meets Arturo, they fall in love and on a mountain trip she gets pregnant.

Basically the movie discusses on a very lightly way the consequences of getting in these kind of situations being too young. But is also a comedy only because of Paloma's and Arturo's friends trying to keep the baby a secret from everybody else. I saw this movie when I was a teenager and I loved it, I still do. You can learn so much from the story and, by the way, there's no an abortion in this movie.

From my perspective this movie is about loyalty,responsibility, love, friendship and life. How much can you do for your friends?