Movie

Long Live Death

★ 5.9/10 · 44 votes 1971 1h 30m Released

DramaWar

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

M Mohamed Bellasoued Colonel Anouk Ferjac The aunt Núria Espert The mother M Mahdi Chaouch The son I Ivan Henriques Tosan, the father J Jazia Klibi Thérèse, Fando's friend