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''Padre nuestro'' is a 1985 Spanish
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Francisco Regueiro Francisco Regueiro (born 2 August 1934) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1962 and 1993. Selected filmography * '' The Good Love'' (1963) * ''Padre nuestro'' (1985) * ''Diario de invierno'' (1987) * ' ...
. It stars
Francisco Rabal Francisco Rabal Valera (8 March 1926 – 29 August 2001), better known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter born in Águilas, a town in the south-western part of the province of Murcia, Spain. Throughout his career, Raba ...
,
Fernando Rey Fernando Casado Arambillet (La Coruña (Spain), 20 September 1917 – Madrid (Spain), 9 March 1994), best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, i ...
, and
Victoria Abril Victoria Mérida Rojas (born 4 July 1959), better known as Victoria Abril, is a Spanish film actress and singer based in France. She is possibly best known to international audiences for her performance in the film ''Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!'' by ...
.


Plot

A terminally-ill Spanish
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returns to his hometown in Spain to arrange family affairs before dying, meeting his
illegitimate daughter Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce. Conversely, ''illegitimacy'', also known as ''b ...
(a prostitute locally known as "La Cardenala") and his granddaughter, as well as asking his
atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
brother Abel to marry his daughter, so she can get recognition.


Cast


Release

The film was released theatrically in Spain on 22 April 1985. It also screened in the
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section at the 38th Cannes Film Festival.


Reception

Diego Galán of ''
El País ''El País'' (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. ''El País'' is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . ''El Pa ...
'' deemed ''Padre nuestro'' to be a film boasting a "curious beauty, more complex than it appears at first glance and more disturbing than the title promised".


See also

*
List of Spanish films of 1985 A list of Spanish-produced and co-produced feature films released in Spain in 1985. Films References External links Spanish films of 1985at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Spanish Films Of 1985 1985 Spanish Films ...


References


External links

* 1985 films 1980s Spanish-language films 1985 drama films Films directed by Francisco Regueiro Spanish drama films 1980s Spanish films Films set in Spain Films about Catholicism Films about prostitution in Spain {{1980s-Spain-film-stub