Viva la Muerte

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?

Country:

France,

Tunisia

Genre:

Drama,

War

Duration:

90 minutes

Year:

1971

Director:

Fernando Arrabal

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Company:

SATPEC,

Isabelle Films

Cast:

Colonel

The aunt

The mother

The son

Tosan, the father

Crew:

Director

Writer

Music

Writer

Director of Photography