Top Cast
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María Asquerino
Pili (as Maruja Asquerino)
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Luis Peña
El Mellao
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Marisa de Leza
Tonia
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Félix Dafauce
Don Roque 'El Chamberlain'
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Francisco Arenzana
Pepe
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José Prada
Manuel Pérez
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María Francés
La madre
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Ricardo Lucía
Manolo Pérez
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Montserrat Carulla
Rosario
Overview
A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both.
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May God Save Us
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7 Virgins
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On the Fringe
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Madrid, 1987
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Cria!
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The Spirit of the Beehive
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The Photographer of Mauthausen
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Unknown Origins
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.