Family Portrait

Family Portrait

1976 · 92 min · ★ 5.6 · Drama

Cecilio Rubes, a businessman engaged in the manufacture of baths and toilets, tries to remain neutral in the imminent Spanish civil war. But the attitude of Cécil, his only child, a spoiled boy who grows without respect their parents, will forced him to face the cruel reality of the facts. Jumping back and forth in time, we are shown his present and his past through his wife Adela and Paulina, the mistress of father and son.

Directed by Antonio Giménez-Rico · Written by Antonio Giménez-Rico

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