Long Live Death(Movie, 1971)

Name: Long Live Death
Genre: Drama
Released: 1971
Duration: T01:30:00
Rating: 3

Original title: "Viva la muerte" (French/FR)

1h 30min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

Viva la Muerte (English: Long Live Death) is a 1971 internationally-produced drama film shot in Algeria, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Philippines, Morocco and Tunisia and directed by Fernando Arrabal. The film was released on 12 May 1971 and Arrabal drew on his own childhood for inspiration for the movie. Viva la Muerte takes place at the end of the Spanish Civil War, telling the story of Fando, a young boy whose father was turned in to authorities as a suspected communist by his Falange-sympathizing mother. It has gained cult popularity as a midnight movie. The opening credits sequence features drawings by acclaimed artist, actor and novelist Roland Topor. ()

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About Long Live Death

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?

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Viva la muerte(Trailer, 1:53)

Additional Information

Production countries: France, Tunisia

Plays in: Spain

Made by: SATPEC, Isabelle Films

Original language: French (FR)

Spoken languages: French (FR)

Translated into 6 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Polish (PL), Russian (RU)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/25/1971 (World premiere: 05/12/1971)

Cast: Núria Espert, Anouk Ferjac, Fernando Arrabal, Victor Garcia

Director: Fernando Arrabal

Screenwriter: Fernando Arrabal

Director of Photography: Jean-Marc Ripert

Composer: Jean-Yves Bosseur

Costume designer: Roland Topor

Sound Designer: Pierre-Louis Calvet

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Viva la muerte"

Keywords: mother son relationship, sahara desert, dream, blasphemy, corporal punishment, surrealism, whipping, satire, desert, nihilism, fascism, spanish civil war (1936-39)

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Long Live Death(Movie, 1971)

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