In a village in the mountains of Urbión, brothers John and Martin, driven by greed and abetted by Candelas, Martin's wife, kill his father and sink the body in the Black Lagoon. His wife and one daughter of the victim does not know anything. In the village would get missing. However, from now weigh a curse on the land for which they have committed the crime, predicting each year misfortunes and bad harvests.
Cinematography
Urbión mountains as oppressive, beautiful accomplice to murder.
Acting
Maruchi Fresno's Candela: complicit wife, simmering menace.
Director
Arturo Ruiz Castillo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1950s Spanish 'cine de crimen rural,' using folk superstition to critique Franco's moral hypocrisy under censorship radar.
Shot on location in Soria's Laguna Negra — locals still call it 'the cursed lake' and refused to assist night scenes.
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