介绍：Married carnival performers are subjected to the abuses of their employer in this silent film gem that has not received as much attention as it deserves. When the boss' unwanted advances on the wife are refused, he taunts a lion until it nearly kills her. But the other performers assist in a unique plot for revenge. Jaque Catelain directs and stars in this film made for influential French director Marcel L'Herbier's production company. Some sources also list L'Herbier as co-director, as he is credited here. The film boasts some rapid-fire editing techniques that were decades ahead of its time.

介绍：Francisco Regueiro - 60-70年代西班牙新电影时期杰出的作者电影导演

介绍：A great spanish cult movie!!　　This is one of the most astonishing films ever made. It has some scenes that it should be in the history of cinema. Like the filming by Fernando Fernan Gomez of the militias using a big roll of paper to win a positions. Or the begging of the film based on real events. The birth of the director inside the carp where the first cinematographer was showing the train arriving to the station. Being shoot in really simple way it's amazing the proper use of the audiovisual language. The late Guillermo Cabrera Infante showed this film in a Canadian film festival in Spanish without subtitles when the projection finish the audience didn't move and they ask for seen the film again. The effect of this film in the audience is unbelievable. None a single person that has seen this rare Spanish movie could forget it. Except the main actor Fernando Fernan Gomez who never remember work on it.

介绍：When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.

介绍：1931年，西班牙的君主制被共和政制替代马德里军队的逃兵费尔南多（乔格•桑兹Jorge Sanz 饰）在逃难中被两名护卫兵盘问。其中，老兵决定放行，但小兵觉得不合军令。两人开始争执，从中费尔南多得知二者为翁婿。后来，女婿错手将岳父打死，后悔不已饮弹自尽。目睹此情此景，受了惊吓的费尔南多仓皇逃走。他借宿时邂逅了流浪艺术家曼诺罗（费尔南多•费尔南•戈麦斯 Fernando Fernán Gómez 饰）。临行前，曼诺罗决定送他一程，顺便在车站接自己的女儿。当费尔南多看到他四个美艳动人的女儿之后，决定找借口留下。他先后跟这四个女人发生了情感纠葛，由此引出了一场令人忍俊不禁的闹剧……　　本片获得第66届奥斯卡最佳外语片奖，战胜了中国影片《霸王别姬》。