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Cinematographer Luis Cuadrado was going blind at the time this film was made. He eventually went completely blind and committed suicide in 1980.
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There is no shot of all the family in a single frame in the entire film: even in the dinner-table scene, the actors are shown separately.
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There is a total of exactly 1000 shots in the film. Exactly 500 are inside, and exactly 500 are outside.
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Voted third best Spanish film by professionals and critics in 1996 Spanish cinema centenary.
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