El anacoreta

19761976
1h 48m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

191

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Comedy Drama

Eleven years ago Fernando Tobajas, a man of a certain age, decided to live in the bathroom, in which he created a small apartment, and never leaves it. Tobajas has given up everything except... Read allEleven years ago Fernando Tobajas, a man of a certain age, decided to live in the bathroom, in which he created a small apartment, and never leaves it. Tobajas has given up everything except vanity, and his contacts with the world are reduced to visits from friends and messages s... Read allEleven years ago Fernando Tobajas, a man of a certain age, decided to live in the bathroom, in which he created a small apartment, and never leaves it. Tobajas has given up everything except vanity, and his contacts with the world are reduced to visits from friends and messages sent through the toilet inside aspirin tubes in the hope that someone will receive them and... Read all

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

191

YOUR RATING

Director
- Juan Estelrich
Writers
- Rafael Azcona(original idea)
- Juan Estelrich(screenplay)
Stars

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Awards
- 3 nominations

Trivia
In the Spanish version the voice of Martine Audó was dubbed by Amparo Soler Leal.

Soundtracks
Suites para violoncello solo
By Johann Sebastian Bach (as Juan Sebastian Bach)
Performed by Álvaro Quintanilla

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Review

Featured review

8/10

Surprising and intelligent spanish movie

The main character of "El anacoreta" is a man (wonderful Fernan Gómez) who has decided to live in his bathroom and not going outside never (well, the bathroom is pretty big). The movie follows this special man in his routine life and specially when he writes messages to anonymous addressees, putting them in bottles and throwing them by the WC. One of these messages arrives to "destiny" as one girl from Italia picks one bottle from the sea and comes to visit the man. The movie has two special points of interest: 1) its amazing originality and 2) its wonderful portrait of a man loneliness. "El anacoreta" is one of the best spanish movies of the 70s.

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