Long Live Death

Long Live Death — Plot

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?

• Release date
• May 12, 1971
• Runtime
• 90 min
• Genres
• Drama, War
• Director
• Fernando Arrabal

Long Live Death — Cast

M

Mohamed Bellasoued Colonel Anouk Ferjac The aunt Núria Espert The mother

M

Mahdi Chaouch The son

I

Ivan Henriques Tosan, the father

J

Jazia Klibi Thérèse, Fando's friend

S

Suzanne Comte The grandmother

V

Víctor García Fando, 20 years old