IMDB 5.5 / 10 (428 votes)

If They Tell You I Fell (1989)

Si te dicen que caí | Spain

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

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Description

Writers

Vicente Aranda

Stars

Jorge Sanz
Daniel Javaloyes 'Java'

Victoria Abril
Menchu / Ramona / Aurora Nin

Antonio Banderas
Marcos

Javier Gurruchaga
Conrado-Señor Galán

Lluís Homar
Palau

Ferran Rañé
Taylor

Carlos Tristancho
Sendra

Joan Miralles
Nadal

Guillermo Montesinos
Fusam

Juan Diego Botto
Sarnita

Others...

Revenue

700,183.00

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Keywords

kidnapping, 1970s, based on novel, friendship, homosexuality, barcelona spain, flashback, spanish civil war

Production

Televisió de Catalunya, Ideas y Producciones Cinematográficas (IPC)

Actor

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

Creators

Llorenç Miquel (Art Direction), Josep Rosell (Production Design), Teresa Font (Editor), Vicente Aranda (Screenplay), José Nieto (Original Music Composer), Miguel Torrente (Associate Producer), Juan Amorós (Director of Photography), Enrique Viciano (Executive Producer), Juan Marsé (Novel), Pere Joan Ventura (Assistant Director), Núria Casanueva (Script Supervisor)

Alternative titles

Aventis (ES)

Release dates

19.09.1989 (ES)