

Long Live Death
Visit website5.8/10 • 37
1971-05-12 • 1h 30m
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?
- Directors
- Fernando Arrabal
- Writters
- Claudine Lagrive, Fernando Arrabal
- Editors
- Claudine Lagrive, Fernando Arrabal, Laurence Leininger

Long Live Death
Visit website1971-05-12 • 1h 30m
5.8/10 • 37
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?
- Directors
- Fernando Arrabal
- Writters
- Claudine Lagrive, Fernando Arrabal
- Editors
- Claudine Lagrive, Fernando Arrabal, Laurence Leininger
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsMohamed Bellasoued
Colonel
Anouk Ferjac
The aunt
Núria Espert
The mother
Mahdi Chaouch
The son
Ivan Henriques
Tosan, the father
Jazia Klibi
Thérèse, Fando's friend
Suzanne Comte
The grandmother
Víctor García
Fando, 20 years old
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- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- French
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- Keywords
- dreamsnihilismfascismsatiresurrealismspanish civil war (1936-39)sahara desertdesertblasphemycorporal punishmentwhippingmother son relationship