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Paper Birds

Country: Spain, Language: Spanish, 110 mins

Original Title

Pájaros de Papel
  • Director: Emilio Aragón
  • Writer: Emilio Aragón; Fernando Castets
  • Producer: Emilio Aragón

CGiii Comment

Within the first 10 minutes...you will laugh and cry...and, be deeply touched.
 
A perfect way to start a film...
 
Beautifully composed...the performances, the music will have you glued to your chair.

This is what cinema should be...a work of great beauty.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

Jorge and Enrique are two performers in the post Spanish Civil War times that adopt an orphan child called Miguel. With a varieties company that travels around the country, Jorge and Enrique see the horrors left by the war meanwhile the "Nationals" watch Jorge and the rest of the company suspecting that some of them collaborate with the Republicans, opposite to the Franco Regime.

Cast & Characters

Imanol Arias as Jorge del Pino;
Lluís Homar as Enrique Corgo;
Roger Príncep as Miguel;
Carmen Machi as Rocio Moliner;
Fernando Cayo as Capitan Montero;
Diego Martin as Quiroga;
Oriol Vila as Pastor;
Luis Varela as Arturo;
José Ángel Egido as Don Ricardo;
Javier Coll as Pedro Ostense