Con uñas y dientes

1979
1h 34m

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Marcos, a union leader, is beaten by the bosses' thugs and is forced to retire while his colleagues hesitate to continue the strike they are carrying out. The one in charge of protecting him... Read allMarcos, a union leader, is beaten by the bosses' thugs and is forced to retire while his colleagues hesitate to continue the strike they are carrying out. The one in charge of protecting him is Aurora, a leftist militant who works as a teacher in a secondary school. The film offe... Read allMarcos, a union leader, is beaten by the bosses' thugs and is forced to retire while his colleagues hesitate to continue the strike they are carrying out. The one in charge of protecting him is Aurora, a leftist militant who works as a teacher in a secondary school. The film offers a bitter look at the years of the democratic transition in Spain and portrays the frust... Read all

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Sonata in A minor, Op. 1, nº 4
Written by George Frideric Handel (as Georg Friedrich Haendel)

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Critical look over the years of the Spanish transition

" Con uñas y dientes " ( 1977 ), the second feature length movie of Paulino Viota, is a disillusioned and biting look over the years of Spanish democratic transition, narrated in a dry and scrawny style where director Paulino Viota shows the political intrigues, struggles and frustrated hopes of the first years of Spanish transition to democracy.

A brave, sharp and visceral film told in a concise way that sometimes remember the style of french director Robert Bresson and that was shot in very difficult economic conditions.

One of the key titles of the Spanish transition age and one of the firsts in showing without lacks the situation of that period.