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Year of Enlightment is a film of genre Drama directed by Fernando Trueba with Jorge Sanz
Year of Enlightment (1986)
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Add to a movie listYear of Enlightment (Spanish: El Año de las Luces, and also released as The Year of the Awakening) is a 1986 Spanish film directed by Fernando Trueba, starring Jorge Sanz and Maribel Verdú. The film is a coming of age story of a sixteen-year-old boy finding love and sex in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. The film was awarded the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
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In the spring of 1940 in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil war, two sons of a fallen soldier, Manolo, a sixteen-year-old boy, and his eight-year-old little brother Jesús are suffering from symptoms of tuberculosis. Their much older brother, Pepe, takes them to a rural sanatorium in Sierra de Gata near the border with Portugal. They are placed there to recover their health under the watch of Irene, the director.Actors
Jorge Sanz
(Manolo)
Maribel Verdú
(María Jesús)
Manuel Alexandre
(Emilio)
Chus Lampreave
(Doña Tránsito)
Verónica Forqué
(Irene)
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