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1973 | Color | 108:00

Gabriel Lima has kept his wife and three children locked up in a house for 18 years, forbidding all contact with the outside world to prevent them from being corrupted. Despite such punishments, the family is obedient and works hard to produce the rat poison he sells on the street every day. Their tense domestic peace will shatter when Gabriel discovers his older children’s sexual awakening.


Direction: Ripstein; Arturo
Script: Arturo Ripstein, Pacheco; José Emilio
Production: Angélica Ortiz
Photography: Alex Phillips Jr.
Sound: González Gancy; Jesús
Music: Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras
Cast:Macedo; Rita, Claudio Brook, Beristain; Arturo, Bracho; Diana, Silva; David, Rojo; María, Gladys Bermejo
Art direction: Fontanals; Manuel
Participation year at FICM: 2018

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