Monday 17 March at 21:00 

In the 1960s, a peasant family lives in squalor in a latifundio, subordinated to the will of the landowners. The film is a shocking record of class differences in Franco's Spain. The harsh reality and the oppression of the peasants is rigorously portrayed through careful landscape photography, superb performances by the protagonists and the emotional lines of a script that respects Delibes' novel. Produced during the transition to democracy, the film represents a belated claim, a claim that was silenced for a long time as it contributed to the visibility of the social inequalities and poverty that defined large segments of the population. Mario Camus' film was declared in the 1990s one of the ten best Spanish films of all time by the country's critics.