Long Live Death (1971)

At the end of the Spanish civil war Fando a boy of about ten tries to make sense of war and his fathers 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 fathers arrest Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for whats going on sometimes we see him at play alone or with his friend Thérèse Oedipal fantasies and a lads natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mothers nature and his fathers fate Will Fando survive the search