Two feuding dads, a kidnapping plot, and kids who said 'we'll handle this ourselves.'
In a small town, the administrator, confronted with the baker, forbids his children fto talk with those of the baker, and vice versa. One day, Paco and Pablo, the baker's children, listen to two builders who plan to kidnap Mary, the daughter of the administrator. Children decide to keep the secret and save the girl themselves. Meanwhile, a young teacher arrives to the village with his wife and kids get back to school. But the administrator's wife is furious because it is not her brother the one who gets the job and, along with her husband, will try to convince everyone to get rid of the teacher.
Acting
José Bódalo's baker—gruff heart, scene-stealing mustache energy.
Writing
Kids outsmart adults while adults feud over nothing. Classic.
Director
Pedro Mario Herrero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pedro Mario Herrero directed few features; this survives as a rare glimpse of 1960s Spanish rural comedy during late Franco era.
The administrator-baker feud mirrors Spain's rigid class structures—children crossing the 'barrera' (barrier) was quietly subversive for 1966.
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