The Holy Innocents

(1984)

★ 7.8 IMDb · 131 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1984

Runtime: 107 мин

Country: Spain

Director: Mario Camus

Cast: Alfredo Landa, Terele Pávez, Belén Ballesteros, Juan Sachez, Susana Sánchez, Francisco Rabal, Ágata Lys, Agustín González, Juan Diego, Mary Carrillo

Plot

In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals. Meanwhile, Paco dreams that one day his children will be able to study.

Somewhere in the Spanish countryside, in the 1960s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children, one of whom is disabled. The others cannot go to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's eccentric brother, Azarias, is fired from where he worked for 61 years, he settles down with his sister and brother-in-law.