A Catholic priest lives in a communist country where all religious are being killed. When trying to escape is stopped by a commissioner who had been a fellow student.
Acting
Rabal's sweating desperation is pure cinema.
Direction
Gil squeezes tension from every shadow.
Production
Franco-era Spain pretending it's Eastern Europe.
Director
Rafael Gil
Francisco Rabal
Padre Miller
Jacqueline Pierreux
Elsa
Gérard Tichy
Gans
Antonio Riquelme
Conserje
Julia Lajos
Carlota
Alicia Palacios
Madre de Pablo
Carmen Rodríguez
María
Asunción Balaguer
Mujer humilde
Luis Induni
Sargento Lubeck
José Manuel Martín
Preso
Francisco Sánchez
Guardia
Matilde Muñoz Sampedro
Elena
Porfiria Sanchiz
Casera
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Franco's Spain, the film's anti-communist stance was state-approved — yet its depiction of hunted clergy eerily mirrored how Republicans had been treated just years earlier.
Rafael Gil shot the prison escape sequence in a single night after their location permit expired at dawn.
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