Year of Enlightment
Year of Enlightment (, and also released as The Year of the Awakening) is a 1986 Spanish film directed by Fernando Trueba, starring Jorge Sanz and Maribel Verdú. The film is a coming of age story of a sixteen-year-old boy finding love and sex in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. The film was awarded the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
Plot
In the spring of 1940 in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil war, two sons of a fallen soldier, Manolo, a sixteen-year-old boy, and his eight-year-old little brother Jesús are suffering from symptoms of tuberculosis. Their much older brother, Pepe, takes them to a rural sanatorium in Sierra de Gata near the border with Portugal. They stay there to recover their health under the watch of Irene, the director.
More details
| author | Fernando Trueba Rafael Azcona |
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| contentLocation | Spain |
| director | Fernando Trueba |
| editor | Carmen Frías |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | army officer awaken civil war discover first love force head nurse kiss little brother older brother pretty girl read sexual awakening spanish civil war spring suffer young boy young girl young lovers |
| musicBy | Francisco Guerrero |
| producer | Andrés Vicente Gómez |