If They Tell You I Fell
- Released on
- Runtime
- 120 mins
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
Cast
- Jorge Sanz
- Victoria Abril
- Antonio Banderas
- Javier Gurruchaga
- Lluís Homar
- Ferran Rañé
- Carlos Tristancho
- Joan Miralles
- Guillermo Montesinos
- Juan Diego Botto
- María Botto
- Cesáreo Estébanez
- Montserrat Salvador
- Margarita Calahorra
- Teresa Cunillé
- Pep Cruz
- Rosa Morata
- Aitor Merino
- Victoria Vivas
- Mireia Ros
- Jordi Dauder
- Pep Ferrer
- Fredy Ripers
- Joan Dalmau
- Carles Sabater
- Luis Giralte
- Marc Barahoma
- Ariadna Navarro
- Mercè Sans
- José Cerro
Director
- Vicente Aranda
Producers
Screenwriter
- Vicente Aranda