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Black Bread

Name: Black Bread
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 2010-10-10
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 6.672

★ 6,7 /10 (125 Votes)

2010 CA 108 min

Overview

In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.

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Release date

10/10/2010

Votes

125

Popularity

0.7

The lies of adults raise little monsters.

Genres

Crime Drama

Status

Released

Original title

Pa Negre

Language

Runtime

108 min

Budget

$6,000,000

Revenue

$3,770,657

Website

www.panegre.com

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Marina Comas

Núria

Nora Navas

Florència

Roger Casamajor

Farriol

Lluïsa Castell

Ció

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Mercé Arànega

Sra. Manubens

Marina Gatell

Enriqueta

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Elisa Crehuet

Àvia

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Lázaro Mur

Tísic

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Jordi Pla

Quirze

Laia Marull

Pauleta

Sergi López

Alcalde

Eduard Fernández

Mestre

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Andrea Caro

Roviretes

Joan Carles Suau

Ramón Moreno

Manuel Bronchud

Pere Tomàs

Jordi Esteva

Daniel Fuster

Eva Basteiro-Bertoli

Jesús Ramos

Miguel Borrás

José Ramón Lloret

Rubén Arroyo

Bruna Lombardi

Rosa Nicolás

Arnau Pons

Jaume Peracaula

Jesus Ratera

Albert Gasull

Josep Maria Castellví

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A different story in the after times of the Spanish Civil War. Cleverly, it mixes a thriller with the destruction of the naïve childhood of the main character. Who is good and who is bad, who is true and who lies is unclear as the events that lead to the current situation. A must to see in nowadays Spanish film making.

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Agustí Villaronga's "Pa Negre" (Black Bread) belongs to a vital tradition of Spanish cinema that uses a child's perspective to reveal how fascism poisons communities from within. Like Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth" and especially Víctor Erice's "El Sur" (1983), this film understands that childhood under fascism means the premature death of innocence. Young Andreu doesn't just grow up; he's forced to witness the moral rot beneath the surface of his post-Civil War Catalan village. The film operates on dual registers. On one level, it's a mystery structured like an elaborate game of Cl…

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