In Praise of Older Women

When war breaks out in 1936, the boys at a Catholic school in Republican faction (Spanish Civil War) territory are sent home. Andres is one of these boys. Finding that his widowed mother's flat in Girona is requisitioned and she is far away in La Coruña, he decides to rejoin her by bicycle. Reaching the Aragon front, he is stopped by an Confederación Nacional del Trabajo unit under the charismatic commander Dávalos and is conscripted to help the cook Honorio, who is having an affair with a peasant woman Pilar. Also stopped are a wealthy Englishman and his American wife, la Condesa, for whom Andrés acts as interpreter and is rewarded. He is then sent to safety in Barcelona where he starts an affair with Julia, the virgin daughter of the house, but is evicted before consummation. To live, he starts dealing on the black market and one night tries a prostitute, but she is so bored that he leaves in disgust. The war over, his mother comes back and is set up in a flat by her Falangist lover Victor. Above them lives a married woman Marta, who lends Andrés books and starts an affair. But she and her well-off husband were Republicans and are taken away by the secret police. In the street, Andrés sees Pilar, the working class girl from the front, and they have a night together. Then at a concert he falls for Irene, an Italian violinist, and they have a brief idyll. Her orchestra's next engagement is in Vichy France and at the frontier station of Canfranc Andrés rejoins her.

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 41180
  • Status Released
  • Released Worldwide April 11, 1997
  • Runtime 105 minutes
  • Genres Drama
  • Original Country Spain
  • Original Language English
  • Spoken Languages English Spanish
  • Studio StudioCanal
  • Production Company StudioCanal Lolafilms Sociedad General de Televisión (Sogetel) Sogepaq
  • Production Countries Spain
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