Year of Enlightment(Movie, 1986)

Name: Year of Enlightment
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1986
Duration: T01:45:00
Rating: 3.1

Original title: "El año de las luces" (Spanish/ES)

1h 45min | Genres: Drama, War

Rating: 3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Year of Enlightment (Spanish: El año de las luces, and also released as The Year of the Awakening) is a 1986 Spanish film directed by Fernando Trueba, starring Jorge Sanz and Maribel Verdú. The film is a coming of age story of a sixteen-year-old boy finding love and sex in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. The film was awarded the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. ()

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About Year of Enlightment

April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. His wife, Rafaela, is the cook. Manolo meets Irene, a falangist who runs the sanatorium, and the school teacher, Miss Transito, a crabby spinster. He has his first sexual experience, albeit as a voyeur, with his nurse Vicenta. When she has to leave, her place is taken by a girl from the village, Maria Jesus, with whom Manolo falls hopelessly in love. A relationship grows up between them which will mark them both for ever.

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Additional Information

Production country: Spain

Plays in: Spain

Original language: Spanish (ES)

Spoken languages: Spanish (ES), French (FR)

Translated into 5 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), Italian (IT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 12/05/1986

Cast: Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdú, Manuel Alexandre, Chus Lampreave, Verónica Forqué, Rafaela Aparicio, Diana Peñalver, Pedro Reyes, José Sazatornil, Santiago Ramos, Violeta Cela, Carlos Lucas

Director: Fernando Trueba

Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez

Screenwriter: Rafael Azcona, Fernando Trueba

Film Editor: Carmen Frías

Director of Photography: Juan Amorós

Composer: Francisco Guerrero

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

"El año de las luces"

Keywords: world war ii, sanatorium, coming of age, tuberculosis, brother, 1940s

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