Oppressed spanish peasant family learns selfsufficiency. The film slowly reveals how this laborer and his loved ones including azarias, the feeble minded brother of pacos wife are exploited and patronized by don pedro and ivan, the son of the marchioness. The film has been widely praised for its extremely realistic depiction of life for the lower classes in the poor spanish region of extremadura under the franco regime. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Azarias says she screams because master ivan killed his kite. The holy innocents, spanish peasant family the new york times. The movie stars alfredo landa and francisco rabal, who both won the best actor award at the 1984 cannes film festival. Faithfully transferred from the book by miguel delibes, also author of las ratas, as well as singularly impressive narratives such as cinco horas con mario, a true. While ivan starts complaining about no birds, azarias in the tree lowers a rope loop down around the rich mans head. When it lands around ivans neck, azarias pulls the noose tight. But camus achieves this and paco rabal azariasand alfredo landapaco. Internet archive contributor internet archive language spanish.
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Faithfully transferred from the book by miguel delibes, also author of las ratas. The movie brings us back to times in spain where most people were nothing more than property of the few rich. The holy innocents, spanish peasant family the new. The master even had the right to be the one to make the daughters of his serfs lose their virginity. The holy innocents is acted in a plain, utterly convincing style, particularly by mr. Alfredo landa, terele pavez, belen ballesteros, juan sachez, susana sanchez iii, francisco rabal, agata lys, agustin. The family is joined by regulas mentally handicapped brother azarias, sacked from.
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