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Overview

User Rating:
7.6/10   14,745 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Guillermo del Toro (written by) and
Antonio Trashorras (written by) ...
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Release Date:
20 April 2001 (Spain) more
Tagline:
The living will always be more dangerous than the dead. more
Plot:
It is 1939, the end of three years of bloody civil war in Spain, and General Franco's right-wing Nationalists... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
6 wins & 7 nominations more
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(23 articles)
Decade in Review: 2001 Top Ten
 (From FilmExperience. 17 November 2009, 8:41 PM, PST)

Updated: Eugenio Mira shooting baroque retro-futuristic thriller Agnosia
 (From QuietEarth. 5 November 2009, 2:26 PM, PST)

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a complete film more (140 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Marisa Paredes ... Carmen

Eduardo Noriega ... Jacinto

Federico Luppi ... Dr. Casares
Fernando Tielve ... Carlos
Íñigo Garcés ... Jaime

Irene Visedo ... Conchita
José Manuel Lorenzo ... Marcelo
Francisco Maestre ... El Puerco (as Paco Maestre)
Junio Valverde ... Santi
Berta Ojea ... Alma
Adrián Lamana ... Gálvez
Daniel Esparza ... Marcos
Miguel Ortiz

Juan Carlos Vellido
Javier Bódalo ... Búho (as Javier González Madrigal)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Devil's Backbone (Europe: English title) (UK) (USA)
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence, language and some sexuality.
Runtime:
106 min | Australia:108 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Was strongly inspired by the director's personal memories, especially his relationship with his uncle, who supposedly came back as a ghost. more
Quotes:
Casares: What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber. more
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Referenced in Hellboy (2004) more
Soundtrack:
Besos Frios more

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19 out of 28 people found the following comment useful.
a complete film, 10 April 2005
Author: jimi99 from denver

This is not just an incredibly effective ghost story, but a cinematic masterpiece. Like his "Cronos," Del Toro has created a rich horror fable that is driven by 3-dimensional characters involved in a fascinating plot that leads to a wholly satisfying ending. With many developments along the way that shock, move, and thrill. And of course the political allegory and reality of the film, the Spanish Civil War, all the orphan boys of noble Loyalist fighters fighting their own war against a truly horrifying fascist villain, the young and handsome Jacinto, who is not without a sad ghost in his own past that feeds his destructiveness.

Del Toro is one of the most intelligent and humane directors working today, not something usually said about auteur in the horror genre. I have not seen "Hellboy" but think less of his US endeavors than these two Spanish masterworks...

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