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Long Live Death

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?

Top Cast

  • Mohamed Bellasoued

    Mohamed Bellasoued

    Colonel

  • Anouk Ferjac

    Anouk Ferjac

    The aunt

  • Núria Espert

    Núria Espert

    The mother

  • Mahdi Chaouch

    Mahdi Chaouch

    The son

  • Ivan Henriques

    Ivan Henriques

    Tosan, the father

  • Jazia Klibi

    Jazia Klibi

    Thérèse, Fando's friend

  • Suzanne Comte

    Suzanne Comte

    The grandmother

  • Víctor García

    Víctor García

    Fando, 20 years old

Overview

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?

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