Ángel Fernández Santos

Set in rural Spain in 1940, Victor Erice's acclaimed 1973 film was simultaneously a sensitive evocation of the poignancy of childhood and, by implication, an elegy for the legacy of the Civil War. (Film Forum)

On the day he learns he has a year to live, a Spanish Cardinal who has lived in the Vatican for 30 years learns he has a granddaughter, born without a father to his own illegitimate daughter. (imdb)

Madrid in the 40s: in an old neighborhood tavern, every first Friday of the month at nightfall Moor Hauma organizes a unique and secret card game. The Caudillo, Francisco Franco, meets with several friends of Africa's campaign for a game. (imdb)

It is the story of Cain set in the infernal world of a police station, in the chaos of family ruin, on a mythical journey to the world of childhood. God and Cain. Cain and Abel. Paradise lost, childhood and its idealized memory, all the taboos and traumas, and the version given by popular wisdom of the same events. (FILMAFFINITY)