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The Stilts

Oct 10, 1984 · 1h 35m
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Drama

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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

Fernando Fernán Gómez
Ángel
Laura del Sol
Teresa
Antonio Banderas
Alberto
Francisco Rabal
Manuel
Enrique Simón
Cobo
Adriana Ozores
Begoña
Amparo Soto
José Yepes
Directed by Carlos Saura

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