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El sur [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Víctor Erice.

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Criterion Collection, 2018.

Criterion collection ; 927.

Alternate title:

South [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (95 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 insert (color illustrations : 16 x 71 cm, folded to 16 x 12 cm) + 1 booklet (44 pages ; 16 cm).

Based on the story by Adelaida García Morales.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.

Special features: New 2K digital restoration ; new program on the making of the film, featuring interviews from 2003 with actors Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, and Icíar Bollaín, cinematographer José Luis Alcaine and camera operator Alfredo Mayo ; hour-long episode of iQué grande es el cine! from 1996, featuring film critics Migel Marías, Miguel Rubio, and Juan Cobos discussing El Sur ; new English subtitle translation ; PLUS: an essay by Evira Lindo plus a new edition of the 1985 novella by Adelaida García Morales on which the film is based.

A Spain/France co-production.

In Spanish with optional English subtitles.

Una produccion Elias Querejeta ; a film by Víctor Erice ; con la colaboracion de Television Española, S.A. ; produced by Elías Querejeta ; written & directed by Víctor Erice.

Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Icíar Bollain and Aurora Clement with Lola Cardona, Rafaela Aparicio, Maria Caro, Francisco Merino, Jose Vivo and Germaine Montero.

"Ten years after making his mark on Spanish cinema with The Spirit of the Beehive, Víctor Erice returned to filmmaking with this adaptation of a novella by Adelaida García Morales, which deepens the director’s fascination with childhood, fantasy, and the legacy of his country’s civil war. In the North of Spain, Estrella grows up captivated by her father, a doctor with mystical powers -- and by the enigma of his youth in the South, a near-mythical region whose secrets seem to haunt him more and more as time goes on. Though Erice’s original vision also encompassed a long section set in the South itself, which was never made, El Sur remains an experience of rare perfection and satisfaction, drawing on painterly cinematography by José Luis Alcaine to evoke the enchantments of memory and the inaccessible, inescapable mysteries of the past."--Container.

Films for the hearing impaired.

García Morales, Adelaida. Sur.

Erice, Víctor.

Antonutti, Omero, 1935-

Aranguren, Sonsoles.

Bollaín, Icíar, 1967-

Clément, Aurore, 1945-

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