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Summary. In this film based on a true story, Ramón Sampedro (Javier Barden), a young fisherman from the northwest coast of Spain, is injured in a diving accident that leaves him paralyzed from the neck down and completely dependent for his care on his older brother and his sister-in-law, who make numerous sacrifices in order to care for him.
16 gru 2004 · “The Sea Inside” is based on the true story of a quadriplegic from Galicia, Spain, who in 1998 did succeed in dying, after planning his death in such an ingenious way that even if all the details were discovered no one could be legally charged with the crime.
The village houses the supernatural. Madrid represents the natural world. Death in the village involves ghosts and volver—return. Death in the city is more prosaic, a frozen food locker rather than a tombstone that must be tended. As always the opening and closing shots set the themes.
21 lis 2006 · In Pedro Almodovar’s enchanting, gentle, transgressive “Volver,” a deceased matriarch named Irene (Carmen Maura) has moved in with her sister Paula (Chus Lampleave), who is growing senile and appreciates some help around the house, especially with the baking.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1981. It tells, in the form of a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction, the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar by the Vicario twins.
Pan's Labyrinth Summary. At the beginning of the film, we learn the story of Princess Moanna of the underworld, who wanders into the mortal world, where she is doomed to live, and eventually die, as a human. However, in 1944, she is given new life as a young mortal girl, Ofelia, who is traveling with her pregnant but sickly mother, Carmen, to ...
During World War II, many people wanted to escape Europe for America, and Lisbon, Portugal, became the most popular port of exit. Getting to Lisbon was not easy. A tortuous refugee path brought people to Casablanca, where they would search for an exit visa for Portugal.
