Summary
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
Similar movies
Talk to Her
Volver
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The Flower of My Secret
Broken Embraces
All About My Mother
I'm So Excited!
Rock 'n' Roll High School
Cast
Gael García Bernal
Ángel / Juan / Zahara
Fele Martínez
Enrique Goded
Daniel Giménez Cacho
Padre Manolo
Lluís Homar
Sr. Berenguer
Francisco Maestre
Padre José
Francisco Boira
Ignacio
Juan Fernández
Martín
Nacho Pérez
Young Ignacio
Javier Cámara
Paca / Paquito
Alberto Ferreiro
Enrique Serrano
Petra Martínez
Madre
Roberto Hoyas
Camarero
Robert Forcadell
Man in Public (uncredited)
Pol Monen
Niño (uncredited)
Sara Montiel
Soledad (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pau Poch
Niño (uncredited)
Leonor Watling
Mónica (uncredited)
José María Yázpik
Extra (uncredited)