Long Live Death

IMDb 5.8 1971 • 90 min • DramaWar

Director

Fernando Arrabal

Country

FR

Plot Summary

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?

Top Cast

Mohamed Bellasoued
Mohamed Bellasoued Colonel
Anouk Ferjac
Anouk Ferjac The aunt
Núria Espert
Núria Espert The mother
Mahdi Chaouch
Mahdi Chaouch The son
Ivan Henriques
Ivan Henriques Tosan, the father