Long Live Death

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?

Cast

Mohamed Bellasoued

Colonel

Anouk Ferjac

The aunt

Núria Espert

The mother

Mahdi Chaouch

The son

Ivan Henriques

Tosan, the father

Jazia Klibi

Thérèse, Fando's friend

Suzanne Comte

The grandmother

Víctor García

Fando, 20 years old