| The Holy Innocents | |
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| Spanish | Los santos inocentes |
| Directed by | Mario Camus |
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| Produced by | Julián Mateos |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Hans Burman |
| Music by | Antón García Abril |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
| Box office | 523,904,385 ₧[1] |
The Holy Innocents (Spanish: Los santos inocentes) is a 1984 Spanish drama film directed by Mario Camus based on Miguel Delibes' novel of the same title which stars Alfredo Landa and Francisco Rabal. The plot explores the lives of landless labourers scraping by in an aristocratic estate in 1960s Extremadura.[2]
The film earned wide critical acclaim both in the domestic and the international front,[3] also becoming the highest-grossing Spanish film in Spain at the time.[4]
In the 1984 edition of the Cannes Film Festival, the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Special Mention. Rabal and Landa shared the Best Actor Award at the same festival.[5] It was voted the third best Spanish film by professionals and critics in 1996 Spanish cinema centenary.
- ^ "Las mujeres de Almodóvar primer puesto de recaudación de la historia" (PDF). Diario ABC (in Spanish). 5 May 1991. p. 102. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ Carrera, Elena (2005). "Los santos inocentes / The Holy Innocents". In Mira, Alberto (ed.). The Cinema of Spain and Portugal. London: Wallflower Press. p. 179. ISBN 1-904764-44-4.
- ^ Carrera 2005, p. 179.
- ^ "Spain's All-Time Top Grossing Pics". Variety. May 7, 1986. p. 379.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Los santos inocentes". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-06-23.