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11/10/2006 Fantasy, Drama, War 1h 58m
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Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine.

Overview

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

  1. Guillermo del Toro

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Ivana Baquero

    Ofelia

  2. Sergi López

    Capitán Vidal

  3. Maribel Verdú

    Mercedes

  4. Doug Jones

    Fauno / Pale Man

  5. Ariadna Gil

    Carmen

  6. Álex Angulo

    Dr. Ferreiro

  7. Roger Casamajor

    Pedro

  8. Manolo Solo

    Garcés

  9. César Vea

    Serrano

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-02-13
I think this is my favourite film, as yet, from Guillermo del Toro - and it gets better the more you watch it. Set against at backdrop of a Spain still trying to recover from it's civil war, the young "Ofelia" and her pregnant mother "Carmen" are sent to live with the rather brutish "Capt. Vidal". Now he is a singularly nasty piece of work and the girl longs to meet her own real father. It's in the middle of the night that "Ofelia" encounters a sprite who offers her some hope. It knows of a faun in the middle of a maze who might be able to help, and so they set of in search of this ostensibly ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Spanish

Budget
$19,000,000.00

Revenue
$83,258,226.00

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