Somnambulists

Somnambulists

5.1IMDb Score
Released:1978-09-18
Genre:Drama
Duration:96 min
Country:Spain
Director:Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Actors:Ana Belén, Norman Briski, María Rosa Salgado, Lola Gaos, Javier Delgado
Production:Profilmes

Overview:

Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. Ana's mother is a former actress and Ana, her mother and a few other actors prepare an act of protest in the theater where an international festival on Strinberg is being held. But there are more things in Ana's life. The mother lives with her uncle, the brother of his father, Norman, an old doctor of devious methods. Helped by Fatima, an old nurse who loves her father, the doctor will try to experiment with Ana's ideas and feelings as well

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