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El Espinazo del Diablo = The Devil's backbone / Augustín y Pedro Almodóvar presentan ; una producción El Deseo S.A., Tequila Gang ; con la participación de Sogepaq S.A., Canal+España y Anhelo Producciones ; guión, Guillermo del Toro, Antonio Trashorras, David Muñoz ; productores, Augustín Almodóvar, Bertha Navarro ; dirección, Guillermo del Toro.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 05676 | Columbia TriStar Home EntertainmentLanguage: Spanish Original language: Spanish Subtitle language: English Series: SONY Pictures classicsPublication details: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, ©2004, ©2001.Edition: Special ed. ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1)Description: 1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1404958754
  • 9781404958753
Other title:
  • Devil's backbone
Uniform titles:
  • Espinazo del Diablo (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Start -- Carlos -- Galvez & owl -- Mr. Ayala leaves -- Number 12 -- Jacinto & Conchita -- One who sighs -- Bhisti boys -- "Many of you will die" -- "He can't swim" -- The Devil's backbone -- Swap meet -- The last time -- The legend of Santi -- The condemned -- Careful what you wish for -- "We have to leave" -- Prince without a kingdom -- Prophecy fulfilled -- A new poem -- Watching for his prey -- How Santi died -- "Say you're sorry" -- What Santi wants -- Jacinto returns -- The escape -- Gold! -- Punishment fits the crime.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Guillermo Navarro ; editor, Luis de la Madrid ; music, Javier Navarrete.
  • Gérardmer Film Festival, 2002: the International Critics Award, the Special Jury Prize, and the Youth Jury Grand Prize awarded to Guillermo del Toro.
Cast: Marisa Parades, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Iñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo.Summary: "Twelve-year-old Carlos is the latest arrival to Santa Lucia School, an imposing stone building that shelters the orphans of the Republican militia and politicians during the last days of the Spanish Civil War. Carlos gradually uncovers the dark ties that bind the inhabitants of the school: hidden riches, sexual intrigue and the restless ghost of a murdered student"--Container.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Guillermo del Toro, who quickly became one of the most talked-about directors in contemporary horror films with his first two features, Chronos and Mimic, takes on a more subtle tale of terror with this psychological suspense piece. Casares (Federico Luppi) and Carmen (Marisa Paredes) operate a small home for orphans in a remote part of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Helping the couple mind the orphanage are Jacinto (Eduardo Noriega), the groundskeeper, and Conchita (Irene Visedo), a teacher who is also involved with Jacinto. Casares and Carmen are aligned with the Republican loyalists, and are hiding a large cache of gold that's used to back the Republican treasury; perhaps not coincidentally, the orphanage has also been subject to attacks from Franco's troops, and an unexploded bomb waits to be defused in the home's courtyard. One day, a boy named Carlos (Fernando Tielve) arrives at the home, looking for a place to stay after being left behind by his parents. Casares and Carmen take him in, and the boy soon strikes up an unlikely friendship with Jaime (Inigo Garces), a boy with a reputation for tormenting other kids. But Carlos soon begins having visions of a mysterious apparition he can't identify, and hears strange stories about a child named Santi who went missing the day the bomb appeared near the orphanage. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

DVD, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1.

In Spanish, with optional yellow English subtitles.

Marisa Parades, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Iñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo.

Director of photography, Guillermo Navarro ; editor, Luis de la Madrid ; music, Javier Navarrete.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.

Special features: optional audio commentary by del Toro; optional director's thumbnail track (synchronizes selected thumbnail sketches by del Toro to the film); "¿Que es un Fantasma? : the making of 'The Devil's backbone'" featurette (27 min.); 4 deleted scenes, with optional audio commentary by del Toro (4 min. total); 6 thumbnail/storyboard comparisons; 5 photo galleries (characters, art direction/set design, prosthetic effects, thumbnails, del Toro's director's notebook).

"Brand new director-supervised HD film transfer"--Container.

"Sony Pictures Classics"--Opening screens.

MPAA rating: R; for violence, language, and some sensuality.

"Twelve-year-old Carlos is the latest arrival to Santa Lucia School, an imposing stone building that shelters the orphans of the Republican militia and politicians during the last days of the Spanish Civil War. Carlos gradually uncovers the dark ties that bind the inhabitants of the school: hidden riches, sexual intrigue and the restless ghost of a murdered student"--Container.

Start -- Carlos -- Galvez & owl -- Mr. Ayala leaves -- Number 12 -- Jacinto & Conchita -- One who sighs -- Bhisti boys -- "Many of you will die" -- "He can't swim" -- The Devil's backbone -- Swap meet -- The last time -- The legend of Santi -- The condemned -- Careful what you wish for -- "We have to leave" -- Prince without a kingdom -- Prophecy fulfilled -- A new poem -- Watching for his prey -- How Santi died -- "Say you're sorry" -- What Santi wants -- Jacinto returns -- The escape -- Gold! -- Punishment fits the crime.

Gérardmer Film Festival, 2002: the International Critics Award, the Special Jury Prize, and the Youth Jury Grand Prize awarded to Guillermo del Toro.

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