| Description |
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.. |
| Series |
Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) |
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Criterion collection
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| System Details |
Blu-ray, 16:9 widescreen (1.85:1) aspect ratio, DTS HD Master Audio 5.1; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Note |
Title from web page. |
| Cast |
Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Marisa Paredes, Fernando Tielve, Irene Visedo. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: R; for violence, language and some sexuality. |
| Summary |
The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us that the scariest monsters are often the human ones. |
| Note |
Special features: new 2k digital film restoration, approved by director Guillermo del Toro ; audio commentary featuring del Toro ; audio commentary featuring Del Toro ; video introduction by Del Toro from 2010 ; new interviews with Del Toro ; Que es un fantasma, a 2004 making-of documentary ; interactive director's notebook, with Del Toro's drawings ; four deleted scenes, with optional commentary ; new featurette about the Spanish Civil War as evoked in the film ; program comparing Del Toro's thumbnail sketches ; trailer ; booklet featuring an essay by critic Mark Kermode. |
| Language |
Spanish dialogue; English subtitles. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Haunted places -- Spain -- Drama.
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Orphanages -- Spain -- Drama.
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Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Drama.
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| Added Author |
Toro, Guillermo del, 1964-
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Noriega, Eduardo, 1918?-2007.
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Luppi, Federico.
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Paredes, Marisa, 1946-
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Tielve, Fernando.
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Visedo, Irene, 1978-
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| Standard No. |
715515107716 |
| Music No. |
CC2279BD The Criterion Collection |
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