Los girasoles ciegos.

Format:

• Video

Author/Creator:

• Cuerda, José Luis, film director.

Contributor:

• Verdú, Maribel, actor.
• Cámara, Javier, actor.
• Arévalo, Raúl, actor.
• Estudios Organizativos y Proyectos Cinematográficos, film distributor.
• Producciones a Modiño, film distributor.
• Producciones Labarouta, film distributor.

Language:

• English
• Spanish

Subjects (All):

• Streaming video.
• Families--Drama.
• Persecution--Drama.
• Priests--Spain--Drama.
• World War, 1939-1945--Spain--Drama.

Genre:

• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Feature films.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (101 min.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Video Mercury Films, 2008.

Language Note:

In Spanish with Spanish and English subtitles.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

• Orense, 1940. Cada vez que Elena cierra la puerta de casa, echa la llave a sus secretos. Su marido, Ricardo, amenazado por una despiadada persecución ideológica, lleva años escondido en el piso donde conviven con sus hijos: Elenita y Lorenzo. Salvador, un diácono desorientado tras su lucha en el frente, vuelve al seminario de Orense. Las dudas en la vocación del joven llevan al rector a retrasar su acceso al sacerdocio durante un año. Mientras, Salvador dará clases en el colegio donde estudia Lorenzo, el hijo de Elena, a quien Salvador cree viuda. El diácono se obsesiona con ella y la acosa. La frágil realidad de la familia se tambalea. Heridos y zarandeados por las circunstancias, los protagonistas de ´Los girasoles ciegos´ se golpean contra un muro de represión, amores imposibles y derrotas emocionales, mientras buscan un resquicio para volver a la vida.
• Orense, 1940... Every time Elena locks the door to her house, she turns a key that envelops her secrets. Her husband Ricardo, the victim of ruthless ideological persecution, has been in hiding in his own house for years, where he lives with his sonanddaughter, Elenita and Lorenzo.Scarred and lost after fighting on the front, Salvador, a deacon, returns to the seminary in Orense. But such are the young deacon's doubts about his faith that the Rector is led to delay his access to priesthood proper for another year. In themeantime, Salvador will teach at the school Lorenzo goes to. Lorenzo is Elena's son, and Salvador thinks Elena is widowed. The young deacon becomes obsessed with Elena and begins a relentless pursuit of her. The fragility of the family is laidbare,andtheir already fickle reality is even more dangerously shaken.The protagonists of THE BLIND SUNFLOWERS, all wounded beings, are haplessly buffeted by circumstance. Hurled headlong into a brick wall of repression, impossible love and emotional failure, they clutch desperately at any straw that allows them toclingto any semblance of life.

Credits:

Director, Jose Luis Cuerda ; Actors, Maribel Verdú, Javier Cámara, Raúl Arévalo, Jose Angel Egido, Roger Princep, Irene Escolar, Martin Rivas ; Producers, Estudios Organizativos y Proyectos Cinematográficos, Producciones a Modiño, Producciones Labarouta, Sogecine (Sociedad General de Cine, S.A.)

Notes:

Description from landing page (Platino Educa, viewed October 31, 2023).

OCLC:

921912448

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.