Long Live Death
12/05/1971
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?
Movie Information
Mohamed Bellasoued
as Colonel
Anouk Ferjac
as The aunt
Núria Espert
as The mother
Mahdi Chaouch
as The son
Ivan Henriques
as Tosan, the father
Jazia Klibi
as Thérèse, Fando's friend
Suzanne Comte
as The grandmother
Víctor García
as Fando, 20 years old
