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In a small Castilian village in 1940, directly following the country's devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it. Produced as Franco's long regime was nearing its end, this film is both a bewitching portrait of a ch... Full description
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In a small Castilian village in 1940, directly following the country's devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it. Produced as Franco's long regime was nearing its end, this film is both a bewitching portrait of a child's inner life and an elusive, cloaked meditation on a nation trapped under tyranny. |
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Item Description: |
Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1973. Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; "The footprints of a spirit" documentary; director interview; interview with film scholar Linda Ehrlich; interview with actor Fernando Fernan Gomez; new essay by Paul Julian Smith. |
Physical Description: |
2 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
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DVD, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; PCM mono. |
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Rating: Not rated. |
Production Credits: |
Director: Victor Erice. |