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?

Cast

Mohamed Bellasoued Colonel

Anouk Ferjac The aunt Núria Espert The mother

Mahdi Chaouch The son

Ivan Henriques Tosan, the father

Jazia Klibi Thérèse, Fando's friend

Suzanne Comte The grandmother

Víctor García Fando, 20 years old

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