Pablo (Julio César) is an outlandish young man who only feeds on wild fruits , is lost in the forest. A psychologist called Luis (Fernando Fernán Gómez) who is on vacation saves him from an attack of wild dogs and tries to help him from his psychological strangeness . He verifies the dogs become aggressive when they pass to his side and the people of the place affirm he is a wild one. The psychologist will struggle to help him and discover the truth. Turned into a bear, Luis does not hesitate to take him to the city with the intention of educating him . To achieve this, he has the help of Ana (Elene Lizarralde) , a beautiful pianist who is involved in this arduous task. Soon after, the wild animal will begin to notice tender feelings for his educator.
Eleven years after his first film ¨Habla Mudita¨1972, script writer and director Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón returns to work with the great producer Elias Querejeta who writes as well , to tell another similar parable about education. While in that one an editor who played José Luis López Vázquez tries to make a mute girl , performed by Kiti Manver, learn to speak to demonstrate the advantages of education, in this ¨Feroz¨or "Fierce" a psychologist nicely acted by Fernando Fernán Gómez attempts to make a bear behave like a human to expose the disadvantages of education. Fernán Gómez gives a good acting as the psychologist who finds him when he is about to be devoured by dogs. Fernán was one of the main actors during the Franco dictatorship and the Transition and Democracy and he was the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts in 1995 and winner of various Goya awards. This ¨Feroz¨turned into a great box-office failure , despite an incomprehensible good criticism . The prologue and the epilogue are well set in one of the traditional Cantabria/Basque forests and has a dull central part set in a flat on Calle Moreto in Madrid where the psychologist and the strange being remain, who is neither a bear nor a man, but a disguised actor in a succession of boring teaching stories.
It contains gorgeous cinematograpy by cameraman Teo Escamilla , shot on location in Artikutza, Goizueta, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, El Escorial, Madrid, El Espinar, Madrid, Forest of Saja, Cantabria, Palacio de Romanones, Madrid, Río Cuervo, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Éibar, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain. As well as evocative musical score from Cantigas a Santa María written by Alfonso X el Sabio , popular song La Cucaracha and some children's choirs . This rare film was well directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, and written/produced by Elias Querejeta. This great Spanish writer/director Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón was born on January 2 , 1942 in Torrelavega , Cantabria, where uses to set most of films , including Valley Pas . He is a writer and director, known for ¨Habla, Mudita¨ (1973) , ¨Camada Negra¨ (1977) , ¨Maravillas¨ (1981) , ¨Demonios en el Jardín¨ (1982) , ¨Feroz¨ (1984) , ¨Visionarios¨ (2001) , ¨Todos Estamos Invitados¨ (2008) . He began working in cinema in 1973 when he filmed ¨Habla Mudita¨ with José Luis López Vázquez , this debut feature by acclaimed Spanish director deals with a strange relationship between a mature men and a mute villager and also set in rural country from Valley Pas . Manuel Gutierrez is a well recognized filmmaker both national and internationally, and in proof of it he won many prizes among which there are the following ones : David di Donatello Awards , Moscow International Film Festival , and San Sebastian International Festival award to ¨Demonios en Jardin¨ , Goya Awards 1987 to ¨La Mitad del Cielo¨ , Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain and Berlin Internation Festival 1996 to ¨Rey del Rio¨ , Biarritz International Festival awards and Goyas 2003 to ¨Caballero Don Quijote¨ , among others .
