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Raise Ravens / Cría Cuervos
Carlos Saura
Director's bio
Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura (1932–2023) was one of Spain’s most influential filmmakers, renowned for blending political allegory, psychological depth, and musical artistry in his cinema. Born in Huesca, Spain, Saura began his career in the 1950s making documentary shorts before directing his first feature Los golfos (1959). He rose to prominence with La caza (The Hunt, 1966), a stark allegory of Spain under Franco, which won the Silver Bear at Berlin. Throughout the 1970s, Saura collaborated with actress Geraldine Chaplin on films such as Peppermint Frappé (1967), Ana and the Wolves (1973), and Cría Cuervos (1976), works that explored repression, memory, and family dynamics under dictatorship.
Synopsis
In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after seeing her mother having a painful death and her father dead in bed.
Details of Cast
Ana Torrent, Conchita Pérez ,Mayte Sánchez, Geraldine Chaplin, Mónica Randall, Florinda Chico, Josefina Díaz, Germán Cobos, Héctor Alterio ,Mirta Miller, Julieta Serrano
Details of Crew
DoP: Teo Escamilla Editor: Pablo G. del Amo Sound: Bernardo Menz ,Antonio Illán
Producer Details
Elías Querejeta
Writer Details
Carlos Saura
Stills
Films in this category
2011
The Turin Horse
1974
Chorus
1997
Leila
1965
Fists in the Pocket
1997
Mother and Son
1960
Breathless
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