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Release Date:
September 19, 1989
Original Title:
Si te dicen que caí
Alternate Titles:
Aventis
Genres:
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Production Companies:
Ideas y Producciones Cinematográficas (IPC)
TV3
Production Countries:
Spain
Ratings / Certifications:
ES: 18
Runtime: 120
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
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Art Direction:
Llorenç Miquel
Assistant Director:
Pere Joan Ventura
Associate Producer:
Miguel Torrente
Director:
Vicente Aranda
Director of Photography:
Juan Amorós
Editor:
Teresa Font
Executive Producer:
Enrique Viciano
Novel:
Juan Marsé
Original Music Composer:
José Nieto
Production Design:
Josep Rosell i Palau
Screenplay:
Vicente Aranda
Script Supervisor:
Núria Casanueva
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