Los días del pasado (1978)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Mario Camus

Writers:

Antonio José Betancor (dialogue)
Mario Camus (dialogue)

Release Date:

1 March 1978 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A woman arrives in town to work as a teacher. It is the time of the 'maquis', the anti-Franco guerrilla...

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Manuel Alexandre
Sonsoles Benedicto
Gustavo Bergés	...	Angelín
Saturno Cerra
Antonio Gades	...	Antonio
Antonio Iranzo	...	Pepe
José María Labernié
Marisol	...	Juana
Mario Pardo
Claudio Rodríguez
Juan Sala
Fernando Sánchez Polack
José Yepes

Also Known As:

Los días del pasado (Argentina)
The Days of the Past (International: English title)

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

Spain | Argentina

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Impala

Soundtrack:

Como quieres que tenga la cara blanca

Marisol's best acting job in a passionate film.

Marisol excels in this underplayed slow moving drama about a school teacher who takes a job in a small border town school during the Spanish civil war.

She keeps in touch with her revolutionary lover who is hiding in the nearby mountains by sending a student as a messenger. The lover also underplayed beautifully by her then real life husband, flamenco prodigy Antonio Gades.

A film of passion and pain, so rare in Spanish cinema, is all the more significant by starring two stars of escapist entertainment who in real life were quite politically charged.

Had this been a box office hit, we may have been able to keep the multi- talented Marisol on the screen for a few more years.

This film and as well as CASO CERRADO are the antidote to Marisol's cheerful early Franco musicals.

!Pepa, por favor vuelve!