The Grandfather (1998)
- Original title
- El abuelo
- Directed by
- José Luis Garci
- Genre
- drama film, melodrama
- Country
- Spain
- Runtime
- 2h 31m
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 43 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
An elderly aristocrat returns to his rural estate to find his family torn by secrets. He must determine which of his two granddaughters is truly his blood relative.
cerebralslow-burnmelancholicpoignantemotionally complexbittersweetcontemplative
What happens
The Grandfather (Spanish: El abuelo) is a 1998 Spanish drama film written, produced and directed by José Luis Garci. It stars Fernando Fernán-Gómez, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo and Rafael Alonso. The film, an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Benito Pérez Galdós, tells the story of an aristocrat's search to discover which of his two putative granddaughters resulted from an extramarital affair by his daughter-in-law. The film was an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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