To an Unknown God

A un dios desconocido

Spain

1977

104 Min

Color

1.85:1

Spanish

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SCR Jaime Chávarri, Elías Querejeta

CAST Héctor Alterio, Xabier Elorriaga, María Rosa Salgado, Mirta Miller, Rosa Valenty, Mercedes Sampietro, Margerita Mas, José Pagán, Ángela Molina, Emilio Siegrist, Marisa Porcel, Jose Joaquin Boza

SOUND Bernardo Menz

San Sebastián (Competition): Best Actor, Best Spanish Language Film, OCIC Award, Chicago

Synopsis

Aging homosexual José returns to Granada after 30 years to unravel the past. As a child he witnessed the murder in 1936 of the poet Lorca in a garden in which he was making love to the poet’s brother. –BFI

Director

Jaime Chávarri

Jaime Chávarri is a professional lawyer who had a lot of amateur experience with his Super 8 camera. His first professional movie was Los viajes escolares (1974), with an autobiographical touch but it was misunderstood by most critics. Later he worked with the producers ’Elías Querejeta (El desencanto, 1976) and Alfredo Matas (Bearn o la sala de las muñecas, 1983), adapted from the novel by Llorenç Vilallonga, adapted from the theatre play by Fernando Fernán Gómez. With the last mentioned film he also had success in terms of the numbers who saw the film. To change the genre he also filmed the musical, Las cosas del querer (1989). —rottentomatoes

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