Arturo Ripstein
El Castillo de la Pureza (The Castle of Purity)
Edition 1993
110'
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1973
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Spanish
Director:
Arturo Ripstein
With:
Claudio Brook, Rita Macedo, Arturo Beristáin, Diana Bractio, Gladys Bermejo
Ripstein has based this extraordinary film on a real event, a man who kept his family locked up in his house for 18 years. In the film he is a megalomaniac who believes that one day he will be recognised as a genius; in the meantime he makes a living by selling rat poison which his family prepares. His wife, who pretends to agree with him, secretly tells their three children stories about the mysterious world. Disintegration begins with incest and further repression.
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Director
Arturo Ripstein
With
Claudio Brook, Rita Macedo, Arturo Beristáin, Diana Bractio, Gladys Bermejo
Scenario
Arturo Ripstein, José Emilio Pacheco
Producer
Angélica Ortiz
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Dialogue
Spanish
Countries of production
Mexico
Year
1973
