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The Stilts

1984 1 hour 35 minutes
64/100

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After the death of his wife, Angel, a university professor and writer, he falls into a severe depression. He flees to his house in the country, but there the evil is accentuated, which leads him to an attempted suicide that Teresa, his young neighbor, saves him. Angel starts a relationship with her and her partner, Alberto. Soon he falls in love with Teresa and, through a passionate relationship, he frees himself from his torments. Teresa, Alberto and her theater group on stilts ask her to write a play to represent her in the town. Obsessed by Teresa, she is vivified with this experience with the young, but she soon moves away from him carnally. This rupture desperate and as Teresa disabuses him of any possibility of continuity, in the mind of Angel reappears suicide as the only solution

Released

10th October 1984

42 years ago

Runtime

1 hour 35 minutes

Finishes at 6:26am

Ratings and awards

2 wins & 1 nomination

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    6.2/10

  • TMDb Logo

    69%

  • FilmFlow Logo

    64%

Directed by

Carlos Saura

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Written by

Fernando Fernán Gómez, Carlos Saura

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