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Cría cuervos [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Carlos Suara.

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The Criterion Collection, 2007.

Mothers -- Death -- Drama.

Grief in children -- Drama.

Spain -- Social conditions -- 1939-1975 -- Drama.

Spain -- Politics and government -- 1939-1975 -- Drama.

Criterion collection 403.

Video Difference legacy collection.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

2 videodiscs (109 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 1 booklet. 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1976.

Special features: Disc 1: New, restored high-definition digital transfer ; original theatrical trailer ; Disc 2: "Portrait of Carlos Saura:" a documentary on the life and career of the Spanish auteur ; new interviews with actress Geraldine Chaplin and Ana Torrent ; PLUS, a booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Paul Julian Smith.

1.66:1 aspect ratio.

In Spanish with optional English subtitles.

Disc 1: The film -- Disc 2: The supplements.

Janus Films ; Video Mercury Films, S.A. ; una produccion Elias Querejeta ; producers, Elías Querejeta, Carlos Saura ; written and directed by Carlos Saura.

Ana Torrent, Conchi Pérez, Maite Sánchez, Geraldine Chaplin, Monica Randall, Florinda Chico, Héctor Alterio, Germán Cobos, Mirta Miller and Josefina Díaz.

"Cria Cuervos...Carlos Saura's masterpiece, heralded a turning point in Spain: Shot while General Franco was on his deathbed, the film melds the personal and the political in a portrait of the legacy of fascism and its effects on a middle-class family (the title derives from the Spanish proverb: 'Raise ravens and they'll peck out your eyes'). Ana Torrent (the dark-eyed beauty from The Spirit Of The Beehive) portrays the disturbed eight-year-old Ana, living in Madrid with her two sisters and mourning the death of her mother, whom she conjures as a ghost (played by an ethereal Geraldine Chaplin). Seamlessly shifting between fantasy and reality, the film subtly evokes both the complex feelings of childhood and the struggles of a nation emerging from the shadows."--Container.

Grand Jury Prize: Cannes Film Festival, 1976.

Coming-of-age films.

Saura, Carlos, 1932-

Chaplin, Geraldine, 1944-

Randall, Mónica, 1942-

Chico, Florinda.

Alterio, Héctor, 1929-

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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