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Long Live Death (1971)

Long Live Death (1971)

Drama War
Release Date: 1971, May 12
Directors: Fernando Arrabal
Countries: France, Tunisia
Production: SATPEC, SATPEC, Isabelle Films, Isabelle Films
Cast: Victor Garcia, Núria Espert, Anouk Ferjac, Mohamed Bellasoued, Mahdi Chaouch, Ivan Henriques, Jazia Klibi, Suzanne Comte

Overview:

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?

Keywords:

dreams satire fascism desert surrealism mother son relationship nihilism spanish civil war (1936-39) sahara desert whipping blasphemy corporal punishment