El espinazo del diablo = The devil's backbone / Augustín y Pedro Almodóvar presentan ; una producción El Deseo S.A., Tequila Gang ; con la participación de Sogepaq S.A., Canal+España y Anhelo Producciones ; guión, Guillermo del Toro, Antonio Trashorras, David Muñoz ; productores, Augustín Almodóvar, Bertha Navarro ; dirección, Guillermo del Toro.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Almodóvar, Augustín, producer.

Navarro, Bertha, producer.

Toro, Guillermo del, 1964- director.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Orphanages--Spain--Drama.

Orphanages.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Drama.

Spain.

Genre:

Feature films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (108 minutes)

Other Title:

The Devil's Backbone

Place of Publication:

New York : Sony Pictures Classics, 2001.

Language Note:

In Spanish with English subtitles.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

His father killed in the brutal fighting of the Spanish Civil War, ten-year-old Carlos is sent to live at the desolate Santa Lucia School, now a makeshift shelter for war orphans. Soon after his arrival, Carlos has a series of seemingly supernatural encounters: strange shadows, voices and, most frightening of all, the apparition of a brutalized young boy. Turns out that Carlos is not alone in seeing these strange phenomena, many other children have experienced the "One Who Sighs," as the entity has come to be called. A classic ghost story, haunting as it is moving, "The Devil's Backbone" is also a subtle allegory for the war that rages on just beyond the school's walls.

Participant:

Marisa Parades, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Iñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed October 28, 2016).

OCLC:

971284914