The Holy Innocents
Dramaspainbased on novel or booksacrificeservantpeasantrural areapovertyfamilyanimalsland ownerwoman directorobedience
A bleak, intimate portrait of rural servitude and generational poverty in 1960s Spain, where family bonds persist amid systematic dehumanization.
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.
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