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Pan’s Labyrinth
Country:Mexico
Director:Guillermo del Toro
Program:Contemporary World Cinema
Year:
2006
Summary:
In 1944, in the post-Civil War in Spain, rebels still fight in the mountains against the fascist troops. The young and imaginative Ofelia travels with her pregnant and sick mother Carmen Vidal to the country to live with her stepfather, the sadistic and cruel Captain Vidal, in an old mill. During the night, Ofelia meets a fairy and together they go to a pit in the centre of a maze where they meet a faun that tells that she is a princess from a kingdom in the underground. He also tells that her father is waiting for her, but she needs to accomplish three gruesome, tough and dangerous assignments first. In a dark, harsh and violent world, Ofelia lives her magical world trying to survive her tasks and sees her father again.
