A British governess comes to an isolated house to take care of the children of a convoluted family.A British governess comes to an isolated house to take care of the children of a convoluted family.A British governess comes to an isolated house to take care of the children of a convoluted family.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination
Fernando Fernán Gómez
- Fernando
- (as Fernando Fernan Gomez)
José María Prada
- José
- (as Jose maria Prada)
María José Puerta
- Carlota
- (as Maria Jose Puerta)
Storyline
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- TriviaAnna and the Wolves (1973) is encoded with political symbolism of Francoist Spain. Carlos Saura's Mama Turns 100 (1979) was a sequel of sorts. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Footprints of a Spirit (1998)
- SoundtracksEl dos de mayo
Written by Federico Chueca
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The Universe of the Spanish Society in Franco's Dictatorship
The young but traveled Ana (Geraldine Chaplin) arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family: the matriarch (Rafaela Aparicio) is a sick old woman obsessed by death and having constant nervous breakdown; her son José (José María Prada) was raised dressing girl's clothes until his First Communion and is obsessed by military clothes and stuffs; Juan (José Vivó), the father of the three girls, is a pervert since his childhood that writes pornographic letters to Ana; his wife Luchy (Charo Soriano) has suicidal tendencies; and the mystic and religious eremite Fernando(Fernando Fernán Gómez), who was inflicted to flagellation in his childhood, lives recluse in a cave. The presence of Ana disturbs the three brothers with tragic consequences.
In the 70's, "Ana y los Lobos" was very successful in Brazil and one of my favorite movies of my adolescence. This film is actually a political allegory of Franco's dictatorship in Spain, with the mother and the three brothers representing the Spanish society of those times. The omnipotent mother is the old Spain; the oppressive José represents the authoritarianism of the military government of Franco; Juan the repressed sexuality and Fernando the Catholic Church. The story is bizarre with a weird atmosphere and characters and top-notch performances, with Geraldine Chaplin extremely beautiful and sexy. The DVD released in Brazil by the Brazilian distributor Platina Filmes is actually a VHS converted to DVD, with low-quality of image. The worst is the unforgivable and shameful mistake in the subtitles in Portuguese that wrongly translates, for example, "seho" (seal, in English) as cello, misleading in a non-sense way the viewer that can not understand Spanish. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Ana e os Lobos" ("Ana and the Wolves")
In the 70's, "Ana y los Lobos" was very successful in Brazil and one of my favorite movies of my adolescence. This film is actually a political allegory of Franco's dictatorship in Spain, with the mother and the three brothers representing the Spanish society of those times. The omnipotent mother is the old Spain; the oppressive José represents the authoritarianism of the military government of Franco; Juan the repressed sexuality and Fernando the Catholic Church. The story is bizarre with a weird atmosphere and characters and top-notch performances, with Geraldine Chaplin extremely beautiful and sexy. The DVD released in Brazil by the Brazilian distributor Platina Filmes is actually a VHS converted to DVD, with low-quality of image. The worst is the unforgivable and shameful mistake in the subtitles in Portuguese that wrongly translates, for example, "seho" (seal, in English) as cello, misleading in a non-sense way the viewer that can not understand Spanish. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Ana e os Lobos" ("Ana and the Wolves")
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- Jul 17, 2008
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- Anna und die Wölfe
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- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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