A man walks into an asylum and nobody's crazy — or is everyone?
Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.
Writing
Dialogue loops that turn conversation into trap.
Acting
Elvira Quintillá's uncanny echo performance.
Director
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Franco's Spain, the asylum-as-society metaphor was likely not lost on contemporary audiences.
Fernando Fernán Gómez co-directed while blacklisted; this was his workaround to keep working.
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