Feroz (film)

Feroz
Theatrical release poster
Directed byManuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Written byManuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Elías Querejeta
Produced byElías Querejeta
Starring
CinematographyTeo Escamilla
Edited byPablo González del Amo
Production
company
Elías Querejeta PC
Distributed byCB Films
Release date
  • 5 April 1984 (1984-04-05)
Running time
115 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

Feroz is a 1984 Spanish fantasy film directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón.

Plot

Pablo, a strange young man who lives only on wild berries, one day runs away from home and gets lost in the woods. A psychologist saves him from an attack by wild dogs and tries to help him with his psychological condition. He observes that the dogs become aggressive when they pass by him, as if he were vermin, and that the locals claim he is a savage. The psychologist will fight to help him and uncover the truth. He decides to take the boy to the city and, with the help of a beautiful pianist, educate him. Soon, "Bear" begins to develop tender feelings for her.

Cast

  • Fernando Fernán Gómez - Luis
  • Frédéric de Pasquale - Andrés
  • Javier García
  • Elene Lizarralde - Ana
  • Julio César Sanz - Pablo
  • Pedro del Río
  • José Antonio Gálvez - (as Antonio Gálvez)
  • Matilde Grange
  • Margarita Calahorra
  • José Rodríguez
  • María José Parra
  • Mercedes Marfil
  • Agustín Arranz
  • Valeriano de la Llama
  • Carlos Cano
  • Francisco Menéndez
  • Marta Suárez

Release

The film was released theatrically in Spain on 5 April 1984.[1] It also screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.[2] The film proved to be a box office failure and set Gutiérrez Aragón in a path away from the fantasy genre.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Caparrós Lera, José María (1992). El cine español de la democracia: de la muerte de Franco al "cambio" socialista (1975-1989). Barcelona: Anthropos. p. 369. ISBN 84-7658-312-5.
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Feroz". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 24 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ^ Gómez, Iván (2017). "Cine 1965-1990". In Roas, David (ed.). Historia de lo fantástico en la cultura española contemporánea (1900-2015). Madrid: Iberoamericana. p. 173. ISBN 978-84-1692-201-7.