After the death of his wife, Angel, a university professor and writer, he falls into a severe depression. He flees to his house in the country, but there the evil is accentuated, which leads him to an attempted suicide that Teresa, his young neighbor, saves him. Angel starts a relationship with her and her partner, Alberto. Soon he falls in love with Teresa and, through a passionate relationship, he frees himself from his torments. Teresa, Alberto and her theater group on stilts ask her to write a play to represent her in the town. Obsessed by Teresa, she is vivified with this experience with the young, but she soon moves away from him carnally. This rupture desperate and as Teresa disabuses him of any possibility of continuity, in the mind of Angel reappears suicide as the only solution
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Cast
22 people
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Ángel
Known for
Butterfly
The Spirit of the Beehive
Laura del Sol
Teresa
Known for
The Professor
The Hit
Carlos Saura
Also in
Carlos Saura's FlamencoHoy
El proceso
Antonio Banderas
Alberto
Known for
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Skin I Live In
Francisco Rabal
Manuel
Known for
Viridiana
Dagon
Enrique Simón
Cobo
Also in
Brigada Central
Rewind
Adriana Ozores
Begoña
Known for
Paco's Men
Alba
Amparo Soto
Also in
La insólita y gloriosa hazaña del cipote de Archidona
Fin
José Yepes
Known for
Watch Out, We're Mad
Carmen
Guillermo Montesinos
Known for
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The Heifer
Jesús Sastre
Also in
Esquizo
A Dog Called... Vengeance
Elisa Molina
Zanco
Carlos Saura Director · Fernando Fernán Gómez Writer Teo Escamilla Cinematographer
First release September 12, 1984 · Produced in Spain · Original title Los zancos
Production
Emiliano Piedra
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Spain
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Original title
Los zancos
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Canada · September 12, 1984
Toronto Film Festival
Spain · October 10, 1984
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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