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10/10/2010 Crime, Drama 1h 48m
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The lies of adults raise little monsters.

Overview

In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.

  1. Agustí Villaronga

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Francesc Colomer

    Andreu

  2. Marina Comas

    Núria

  3. Nora Navas

    Florència

  4. Roger Casamajor

    Farriol

  5. Lluïsa Castell

    Ció

  6. Mercé Arànega

    Sra. Manubens

  7. Marina Gatell

    Enriqueta

  8. Elisa Crehuet

    Àvia

  9. Lázaro Mur

    Tísic

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by badelf
Written by badelf on 2025-10-23
Agustí Villaronga's "Pa Negre" (Black Bread) belongs to a vital tradition of Spanish cinema that uses a child's perspective to reveal how fascism poisons communities from within. Like Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth" and especially Víctor Erice's "El Sur" (1983), this film understands that childhood under fascism means the premature death of innocence. Young Andreu doesn't just grow up; he's forced to witness the moral rot beneath the surface of his post-Civil War Catalan village.

The film operates on dual registers. On one level, it's a mystery structured like an elaborate game of ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Catalan

Budget
$6,000,000.00

Revenue
$3,770,657.00

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