Summary In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later. View more details
Directed : Vicente Aranda
Written : Vicente Aranda Juan Marsé
Stars : Antonio Banderas Victoria Abril Jorge Sanz Javier Gurruchaga
Genres : Mystery Drama Romance War
Release date : Sep 18, 1989
Countries of origin : Spain
Official sites : Official site
Language : Spanish Catalan
Filming locations : Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Production companies : Televisió de Catalunya (TV3) Ideas y Producciones Cinematográficas (IPC)
Summary In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later. View more details
Genres : Mystery Drama Romance War
Release date : Sep 18, 1989
Countries of origin : Spain
Official sites : Official site
Language : Spanish Catalan
Filming locations : Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Production companies : Televisió de Catalunya (TV3) Ideas y Producciones Cinematográficas (IPC)
