In the twilight of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, an eight-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt, trying their best to acclimatise to a new real... Read allIn the twilight of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, an eight-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt, trying their best to acclimatise to a new reality. Will they summon up the courage to grow up?In the twilight of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, an eight-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt, trying their best to acclimatise to a new reality. Will they summon up the courage to grow up?
Mónica Randall
- Paulinaas Paulina
- (as Monica Randall)
Josefina Díaz
- Abuelaas Abuela
- (as Josefina Diaz)
Germán Cobos
- Nicolás Garontesas Nicolás Garontes
- (as German Cobos)
Héctor Alterio
- Anselmoas Anselmo
- (as Hector Alterio)
Julieta Serrano
- Anaas Ana
- (voice)
In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after seeing her mother having a painful death and her father dead in bed. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Wonderful childhood memories
What a wonderful movie! Saura has succeeded showing us the inside of childhood. One has to be a great artist to be able to reflect the true feelings of a child thrown in the turmoil of life. Little Ana's eyes are a world of suffering, of understanding, of emotions. This child has seen death, she has known it directly and she has no fear. Either to experience it or to give it or to see it. Thank you Mr Saura, after 23 years, you still give us these great moments of life.
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- fern-2
- Dec 13, 1998
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