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Opening of Spanish Cinema Club. Theme – film adaptation of Spanish literature. ”The Holy Innocents” (1984), based on the novel by Miguel Delibes
31 May 2010
Los santos inocentes or The Holy Innocents is a Spanish drama film directed by Mario Camus , based on famous Miguel Delibes' same title novel. It is starred by Alfredo Landa and Francisco Rabal. Landa and Rabal won the Best Actor Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
It was voted the eighth best Spanish film by professionals and critics in 1996 Spanish cinema centenary.
Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s.
Spain, 1984
Directed by Mario Camus
Starring Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal, Terele Pávez, Belén Ballesteros, Juan Sánchez, Agata Lys
Running time 105 minutes
Start at 19:00.
Admission 20 hrivnas.