The Holy Innocents (1984)

04/04/1984 (ES) • 1h 47m

Drama

Overview

Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s.

Top Billed Cast

Alfredo Landa

Paco, El Bajo

Susana Sánchez

La Niña Chica

Ágata Lys

Doña Pura

Juan Diego

Señorito Iván


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Status

Released

Original Language

Spanish

Budget

-

Revenue

$3,149,062.00

Keywords

spain

based on novel or book

sacrifice

servant

peasant

rural area

poverty

family

animals

land owner

woman director

obedience

1960s

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