Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.
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Title: Poachers (1975)
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12 wins & 1 nomination.
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| Lola Gaos | ... | Martina | |
| Ovidi Montllor | ... | Ángel | |
| Alicia Sánchez | ... | Milagros (as Alicia Sanchez) | |
| Ismael Merlo | ... | Cura | |
| José Luis Borau | ... | Gobernador (as Jose L. Borau) | |
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Felipe Solano | ... | Cuqui |
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José Luis Heredia | ... | Secretario (as Jose Luis Heredia) |
| Erasmo Pascual | ... | Armero | |
| José Riesgo | ... | Salvita (as Jose Riesgo) | |
| Beni Deus | ... | Gonzalo | |
| Antonio Gamero | ... | Guarda | |
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Simón Arriaga | ... | Cabo (as Simon Arriaga) |
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Francisco Ortuño | ... | Guardia |
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Eulalia Boya | ... | Monja |
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Fernando Villena | ... | Guarda 2º |
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Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.
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Written by Claude Carrère, Daniel Vangarde and Amado Jaén
Performed by Los Diablos
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The character that Lola Gaos played in Tristana (1970), named Saturna, made Borau and Gutiérrez Aragón think of Goya's painting "Saturn devouring his children." Hence the dominant, even castrating, character of Martina towards Ángel. See more »Soundtracks
Un rayo de solWritten by Claude Carrère, Daniel Vangarde and Amado Jaén
Performed by Los Diablos
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José Luis Borau's experience as a director of spaghetti westerns shows in his skillful construction of hunting scenes, his choice of eerily beautiful soundtrack music, and his loving depiction of wooded Spanish landscapes outside of Madrid. Borau once told an interviewer that he wanted to make a film about the forest, and one of the most compelling aspects of the film is the cinematography. Overall, the story plays like a cross between Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's idyllic story of criminals (Ángel the poacher and his girlfriend, Miraglos, a runaway from a boarding school) and Psycho's freaky mother-son relationship, with a handsome ex-boyfriend renegade and a group of doltish Franquist functionaries thrown in to the mix. Charming and weird and visually riveting.