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Overview

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7.6/10   13,830 votes
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Director:
Guillermo del Toro
Writers:
Guillermo del Toro (written by) and
Antonio Trashorras (written by) ...
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Release Date:
20 April 2001 (Spain) more
Tagline:
The living will always be more dangerous than the dead. more
Plot:
It is 1939, the end of three years of bloody civil war in Spain, and General Franco's right-wing Nationalists... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
6 wins & 7 nominations more
User Comments:
a complete film more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Eduardo Noriega ... Jacinto
Marisa Paredes ... Carmen

Federico Luppi ... Casares
Fernando Tielve ... Carlos
Íñigo Garcés ... Jaime

Irene Visedo ... Conchita
José Manuel Lorenzo ... Marcelo
Francisco Maestre ... El Puerco (as Paco Maestre)
Junio Valverde ... Santi
Berta Ojea ... Alma
Adrián Lamana ... Gálvez
Daniel Esparza ... Marcos
Miguel Ortiz

Juan Carlos Vellido
Javier Bódalo ... Owl (as Javier González Madrigal)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Devil's Backbone (Europe: English title) (UK) (USA)
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence, language and some sexuality.
Runtime:
106 min | Australia:108 min
Country:
Spain | Mexico
Language:
Spanish
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Madrid, Spain
Company:
El Deseo S.A. more

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Trivia:
Described by Guillermo del Toro as being a sibling film to El laberinto del fauno (2006) (this being the masculine "brother" film, and Pan's as the feminine "sister" film). more
Quotes:
Casares: Stay by my side as my light grows dim /as my blood slows down and my nerves shatter with stabbing pain / as my heart grows weak / and the wheels of my being turn slowly / Stay by my side /as my fragile body is racked by pain /which verges on truth / and manic time continues scattering dust / and furious life bursts out in flames. Stay by my side / as I fade / so you can point to the end of my struggle /and the twilight of eternal days / at the low, dark edge of life. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Hellboy (2004) more
Soundtrack:
Presuridos more

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19 out of 28 people found the following comment useful:-
a complete film, 10 April 2005
Author: jimi99 from denver

This is not just an incredibly effective ghost story, but a cinematic masterpiece. Like his "Cronos," Del Toro has created a rich horror fable that is driven by 3-dimensional characters involved in a fascinating plot that leads to a wholly satisfying ending. With many developments along the way that shock, move, and thrill. And of course the political allegory and reality of the film, the Spanish Civil War, all the orphan boys of noble Loyalist fighters fighting their own war against a truly horrifying fascist villain, the young and handsome Jacinto, who is not without a sad ghost in his own past that feeds his destructiveness.

Del Toro is one of the most intelligent and humane directors working today, not something usually said about auteur in the horror genre. I have not seen "Hellboy" but think less of his US endeavors than these two Spanish masterworks...

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overrated anyone?? shootme243
Jacinto, the lonely prince shoshirosie
So much confusion over political themes! Asterisk0128
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