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Cousin Angelica is a espagnol film of genre Drama directed by Carlos Saura released in USA on 30 october 1974 with José Luis López Vázquez
Cousin Angelica (1974)
La prima Angélica
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 30 october 1974
Length 1h45
Directed by Carlos Saura
OriginEspagne
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Rating73%
Cousin Angelica (Spanish: La prima Angélica ) is a 1974 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura. Starring José Luis López Vázquez as a middle-aged man whose memories of his childhood during the Spanish Civil War make him reenact his past as the mature man he is today. The film was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival and was highly controversial in Spain.
Synopsis
Luis, an unmarried, middle-aged, Barcelona businessman, carries out his mother’s dying wish to be buried in the family crypt in Segovia. He has her bones exhumed from a pantheon in Barcelona and heads by car to the Castilian city. In the middle of a lonely road, he stops and gets out of the car, recalling the same landscape at a moment in his childhood when he was being brought up to spend part of his summer vacation with his maternal grandmother in Segovia during the fateful summer of 1936. He sees his parents before him, trying to soothe him after a bout of carsickness. Just days before they were to pick him up, a military uprising cut Segovia off from the Republican part of Spain and Luis found himself trapped in the menacing environment of his mother’s Nationalist relatives for the duration of the war.Actors
José Luis López Vázquez
(Luis)
Julieta Serrano
(Monja)
Lina Canalejas
(Angélica)
Lola Cardona
(Tía Pilar)
Marisa Porcel
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