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{{Infobox film
| native_name = {{Infobox name module|es|Los santos inocentes|nolink=yes}}▼
| name image = The Holy Innocents (film) poster.jpg
▲| native_name = Los santos inocentes
| imagecaption = [[Film =poster]]
| caption =
| director = [[Mario Camus]]
| producer = [[Julián Mateos]]
| writer = {{ubl|[[Antonio Larreta]]<br>[[|Manuel Matji]]<br>|Mario Camus}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|[[Alfredo Landa]]<br />|[[Francisco Rabal]]<br />|[[TereleAgustín Pávez]]<br />[[Belén Ballesteros]]<br />[[Juan SánchezGonzález (actor)|JuanAgustín SánchezGonzález]]<br />|[[AgataTerele LysPávez]]<br />[[Agustín González (actor)|Agustín González]]<br />[[Juan Diego (actor)|Juan Diego]]<br|Ágata />Lys|[[Mary Carrillo]]<br />|[[Maribel Martín]]}}
| music = [[Antón García Abril]]
| cinematography = [[Hans Burman]]
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1984|04|04|Spain|1985|06|02|U.S.|df=yyes}}
| runtime = 105 minutes
| country = Spain
| language = Spanish
| budget =
| gross =523,904,385 [[Spanish peseta|pesetas₧]]<ref name=gross>{{cite news|url=http://hemeroteca.abc.es/cgi-bin/pagina.pdf?fn=exec;command=download_stamp;id=0003605823;nombre_pdf=ABC%20SEVILLA-05.05.1991-pagina%20102;path=H:%5Ccran%5Cdata%5Cprensa_pages%5CSevilla%5CABC%20SEVILLA%5C1991%5C199105%5C19910505%5C91Y05-102.xml|title=Las mujeres de Almodóvar primer puesto de recaudación de la historia|work=[[Diario ABC]]|page=102|language=Spanish|date=5 May 1991|accessdate=5 January 2020}}</ref>
}}
'''''The Holy Innocents''''' ({{langx|es|'''Los santos inocentes'''|links=no}}) is a 1984 Spanish [[drama film]] directed by [[Mario Camus]] based on [[Miguel Delibes]]' novel of the same title which stars [[Alfredo Landa]] and [[Francisco Rabal]]. The plot explores the lives of [[Landlessness|landless]] labourers scraping by in an aristocratic estate in 1960s Extremadura.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oboxWAqj37UC&pg=PA179|page=179|title=The Cinema of Spain and Portugal|editor-first=Alberto|editor-last=Mira|year=2005|location=London|publisher=[[Wallflower Press]]|isbn=1-904764-44-4|chapter=Los santos inocentes / The Holy Innocents|first=Elena|last=Carrera<!--|pages=179-188-->}}</ref>
 
'''''Los santos {{not a typo|inocentes}}''''' or '''''The Holy Innocents''''' is a Spanish [[drama film]] directedearned bywide [[Mariocritical Camus]],acclaim basedboth on famous [[Miguel Delibes]]' novel ofin the same title. The movie stars [[Alfredo Landa]]domestic and [[Francisco Rabal]], who both won the [[Bestinternational Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)front,{{Sfn|Carrera|Best2005|p=179}} Actoralso Award]] atbecoming the [[1984List Cannesof Film Festival]].<ref name="festivalhighest-cannes.com">{{citegrossing webfilms |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1178/year/1984.htmlin Spain|title=Festival de Cannes: Los santos inocentes|accessdate=2009-06-23|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> The film was the highest-grossing Spanish film]] in Spain at the time.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=May 7, 1986|page=379|title=Spain's All-Time Top Grossing Pics}}</ref> before being surpassed by ''[[La vaquilla]]''.<ref name=gross/>
 
In the [[1984 Cannes Film Festival|1984 edition of the Cannes Film Festival]], itthe film was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Special Mention. Francisco Rabal and Alfredo Landa shared the [[Best Actor awardAward (Cannes Film Festival)|Best Actor Award]] at the same festival.<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1178/year/1984.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Los santos inocentes|accessdate=2009-06-23|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> It was voted the third best Spanish film by professionals and critics in 1996 Spanish cinema centenary.
 
==Plot==
Paco and Régula live on a rural estate owned by an absent [[Marquess|marchioness]]. withAlong them live their three children.: Nieves works as a maid in the big house,; Quirce is doing his military service,; and their youngest daughter Charito is severely handicapped. The parents accept the repeated humiliations of their position as dependents at the whim of the owners and theconfined estate manager, but Nieves and Quirce aim forto a better lifecrib. The family is joined by Régula's mentally handicapped brother Azarías, sacked from another estate, who loves birds.
 
The owner's son Ivan often comes back to the estate for two reasons: he is conducting an affair with the manager's bored wife Pura and he is fanatical about shooting birds. Paco, who he forces up a tree to decoy pigeons, falls and breaks a leg. Then he tries using the simple Azarías and, in a fit of pique, shoots the man's pet [[jackdaw]]. Next time Azarías is sent up a tree to work decoys, he drops a noose round Ivan's neck and hangs him. Mentally a child, he is shut up in a secure asylum.
Daily life in the [[Cortijo|cortijo]] is shown in painstaking detail and displays an oppressive routine based on a rigid hierarchy. At the top of this stratified system lie the [[Spanish nobility|aristocrats]] owning this and other cortijos, as well as the [[Francoist_Spain|Francoist]] politicians and Church officials routinely visiting them. Rural [[Middle class|middle classes]] are represented by the manager Pedro and his bored wife Pura. The house servants and modern-day [[serfdom|serfs]] tending the land occupy the bottom level and are treated as subhuman beings by everyone else.
 
In this toxic class system, members of every echelon feel entitled to humiliate those deemed their social inferiors. For instance, the owner's son, ''señorito'' Iván, often comes back to the estate to openly conduct an affair with Pura, and her [[Cuckold|knowing]] husband takes out his impotent rage on the labourers, particularly Azarías.
 
Paco and Régula accept the repeated humiliations of their position as dependents at the whim of the owners and the estate manager, but Nieves and Quirce are less inured to this reality and aim for a better life.
 
Besides his affair with Pedro's wife, another reason for Iván's visits is his fanatical love of [[fowling]], and hunting parties are routinely organized in the area. Paco, whom he forces up a tree to decoy pigeons, falls and breaks a leg. Quirce briefly replaces Paco but his aloof demeanor vexes Iván, who is more accostumed to the servility of the young man's parents. When it becomes clear that Paco's leg will not heal in time for the next hunting party, Iván he tries using Azarías and, in a fit of pique during an unsuccessful hunt, shoots the man's pet [[jackdaw]]. Next time Azarías is sent up a tree to work decoys, he drops a noose round Ivan's neck and [[Hanging|hangs]] him in retribution. His infantile mental age spares him legal prosecution (which in 1960s Spain would have entailed a lengthy prison sentence or even the [[Garrote|death penalty]]) and he is committed to an asylum.
 
==Cast==
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* [[Manuel Zarzo]] as Don Manuel, the doctor
 
==About theProduction film==
The distinctive landscapes are of the empty region of [[Extremadura]], around the towns of [[Alburquerque, Badajoz|Alburquerque]] and [[Zafra]]. Its distinctive soundtrack is played wholly on a three-stringed [[Rabel (instrument)|rabel]], a folk instrument dating back to medieval times.
 
== Release ==
The film was released theatrically in Spain on 4 April 1984.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://comunicacionymedios.uchile.cl/index.php/RCM/article/view/39345/43466|page=59|title=La evolución del personaje del villano en el cine español (1982 – 2015)|first1=Rosalía|last1=Linde|first2=Ignacio|last2=Nevado|volume=25|issue=33|year=2016|journal=Revista Comunicación y Medios|doi=10.5354/0719-1529.2016.39345 |publisher=[[University of Chile|Facultad de Comunicación e Imagen. Universidad de Chile]]|location=Ñuñoa |doi-access=free}}</ref>
 
== See also ==
* [[List of Spanish films of 1984]]
 
==References==
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== External links ==
*{{imdbIMDb title|id=0088040|title=Los santos inocentes}}
 
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