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Los zancos (1984)

Los zancos (1984)

Drama
Release Date: 1984, October 10
Directors: Carlos Saura
Countries: Spain
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Rafael López, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Francisco Rabal, Ramón García, Adriana Ozores, Charo Barragán, Laura del Sol, Enrique Simón, Javier Jiménez, Elisa Molina, Ricardo Solanes

Overview:

After the death of his wife, Angel, a university professor and writer, he falls into a severe depression. He flees to his house in the country, but there the evil is accentuated, which leads him to an attempted suicide that Teresa, his young neighbor, saves him. Angel starts a relationship with her and her partner, Alberto. Soon he falls in love with Teresa and, through a passionate relationship, he frees himself from his torments. Teresa, Alberto and her theater group on stilts ask her to write a play to represent her in the town. Obsessed by Teresa, she is vivified with this experience with the young, but she soon moves away from him carnally. This rupture desperate and as Teresa disabuses him of any possibility of continuity, in the mind of Angel reappears suicide as the only solution