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Espinazo del diablo, El (2001)

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User Rating: 7.6/10 (9,806 votes)
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Overview

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 view trailer
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 | add synopsis
Awards:
6 wins & 7 nominations more
User Comments:
Poetry on screen - A classic Ghost story 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 González ... Owl (as Javier González Madrigal)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Devil's Backbone (Europe: English title) (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
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Trivia:
This labor of love for director Guillermo del Toro was sixteen years in development. 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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20 out of 31 people found the following comment useful:-
Poetry on screen - A classic Ghost story, 18 May 2004
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Author: sprigga from Liverpool

Some people think horror is about busty teens and young rebels being picked off by mysterious killers or lots of gore from a made up creature. Well this film has neither so stay away.

What you do have is a stunning film with great actors playing real people with real issues. Three or four stories are interwoven perfectly, set off with great imagery...all set around the Spanish civil war and the haunting corridors of an orphanage for abandoned children.

While the film does contain a ghost -the murdered child, Santi- the real horror of the film comes from the greed of certain adults who occupy the orphanage with the children.

This film is intelligent poetry on screen -mortality, love, hate, jealousy, greed and redemption are all explored.

This film puts many films to shame just for having a great story at it's core.

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was there really a ghost? satan4565
Better than pan's? tburrowes
So much confusion over political themes! Asterisk0128
I know I may be a little late posting this but... cody_perkins84
Is this film spoken in Latin American Spanish or European Spanish? damien27619
i can't be the only one innocentimmortal
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