The Holy Innocents (1984)

Original title

Los santos inocentes

Directed by

Mario Camus

Genre

drama film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

12

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 127 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1960s Extremadura, Spain, landless laborers struggle to survive while working on an aristocratic estate. The film follows their daily hardships and the unequal power dynamics they endure.

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What happens

The Holy Innocents (Spanish: Los santos inocentes) is a 1984 Spanish drama film directed by Mario Camus based on Miguel Delibes' novel of the same title which stars Alfredo Landa and Francisco Rabal. The plot explores the lives of landless labourers scraping by in an aristocratic estate in 1960s Extremadura. The film earned wide critical acclaim both in the domestic and the international front, also becoming the highest-grossing Spanish film in Spain at the time. In the 1984 edition of the Cannes Film Festival, the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Special Mention. Rabal and Landa shared the Best Actor Award at the same festival. It was voted the third best Spanish film by professionals and critics in 1996 Spanish cinema centenary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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