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El Sur (1983)

El sur (original title)
Not Rated | | Drama, Romance | 22 August 1985 (Uruguay)
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A woman reflects on her childhood relationship with her father, attempting to understand the depths of his despair and the truth of his myths.

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Cast

Complete credited cast:
... Agustín Arenas
... Estrella - 8 años
... Estrella - 15 años
... Julia
... Milagros
... Irene Ríos / Laura
Maria Caro ... Casilda
... Enamorado
José Vivó ... Camarero
Germaine Montero ... Doña Rosario
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
José García García Morilla ... Chófer
María Massip ... Estrella adulta (voice)
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The movie tells a melancholic story of a little girl who is living in a city in the north of Spain. She is fascinated by the secrets of the south which seem to be hidden in the personality of her father. Written by Volker Boehm

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Voted sixth best Spanish film by professionals and critics in 1996 Spanish cinema centenary. See more »

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References Shadow of a Doubt (1943) See more »

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La cumparsita
Composed by Enric Granados and Gerardo Matos Rodríguez
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Erice second triumph
24 July 2001 | by – See all my reviews

El Sur is Victor Erice consecutive second triumph as a excellent and meticulous director after a ten years period of cinema inactivity that he spend doing television commercials spots to get some money. Based on Adelaida Garcia Morales homonym tale, the film is a cadenced story about a little girl who we see growing up in the screen. Estrella (Sonsoles Aranguren at 8 and Iciar Bollain at 15) reminds the relationship with her strange father, a blue republican medicine doctor in a northern little and still village of Spain at the fifties. The picture was show with success at 1983 Cannes Festival of Cinema but, made off current cinema fashions, did not won the Academy Oscar to Best Foreign Film. I think it deserved to receive the prize. In spite of disagreements with the movie producer (the original picture must to be very much longer) Erice got a delightful, evocative and unique piece of wok with a quite and maintained rhythm and wonderful outside and interior photography. Any way El Sur is the most personal and powerful Spanish film ever made.
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