Cría cuervos . . .
Carlos Saura's exquisite Cría cuervos . . . heralded a turning point in Spain: shot while General Franco was on his deathbed, the film melds the personal and the political in a portrait of the legacy of fascism and its effects on a middle-class family (the title derives from the Spanish proverb: “Raise ravens and they’ll peck out your eyes”). Ana Torrent (the dark-eyed beauty from The Spirit of the Beehive) portrays the disturbed eight-year-old Ana, living in Madrid with her two sisters and mourning the death of her mother, whom she conjures as a ghost (an ethereal Geraldine Chaplin). Seamlessly shifting between fantasy and reality, the film subtly evokes both the complex feelings of childhood and the struggles of a nation emerging from the shadows.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Portrait of Carlos Saura, a documentary on the life and career of the Spanish auteur
- New interviews with actresses Geraldine Chaplin and Ana Torrent
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Paul Julian Smith
New cover by Leanne Shapton
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Portrait of Carlos Saura, a documentary on the life and career of the Spanish auteur
- New interviews with actresses Geraldine Chaplin and Ana Torrent
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Paul Julian Smith
New cover by Leanne Shapton
Cast
- Geraldine Chaplin
- The mother/Ana
- Ana Torrent
- Ana
- Conchita Pérez
- Irene
- Maite Sánchez
- Maite
- Mónica Randall
- Paulina
- Florinda Chico
- Rosa
- Héctor Alterio
- Anselmo
- Germán Cobos
- Nicolas
Credits
- Director
- Carlos Saura
- Screenplay
- Carlos Saura
- Producer
- Elías Querejeta
- Producer
- Carlos Saura
- Production manager
- Primtivo Alvaro
- Cinematography
- Teodoro Escamilla
- Editing
- Pablo G. del Amo
- Set decoration
- Rafael Palmero
- Sound
- Bernardo Mens
- Sound
- Antonio Illán
- Assistant director
- Francisco J. Querejeta
- Camera operator
- Domingo Solano
- Costume design
- Maiki Marin
- Music
- Federico Mompou
- “Hay Mari Cruz” by
- Imperio Argentina
- “Pourque te vas” by
- Jeannette
