The establishment of obligatory school for children divides to a father and his little son.
Acting
Álvaro de Luna's stubborn patriarch breaks your heart.
Direction
Lara Polop lets rural Spain breathe with patience.

Director
Francisco Lara Polop
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Reflects 1980s Spain's tension between rural traditions and modernizing education policies post-Franco.
Based on a novel by José Luis Martín Vigil, a priest and prolific author of rural Spanish life.
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