Plot:
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?
Type: movie (Not Rated)
Original Title: Viva la muerte
Directors: Fernando Arrabal
Actors: Anouk Ferjac, Núria Espert, Mahdi Chaouch
Genres: Drama, War
Runtime: 1h 30m (5400s)
Rating: 6.6 (1485)
Released on: May 12, 1971 (France)
Origins: France, Tunisia
Filming Locations: Tunisia