Los zancos 40 years old

After the death of his wife, Angel, a university professor and writer, he falls into a severe depression. He flees to his house in the country, but there the evil is accentuated, which leads him to an attempted suicide that Teresa, his young neighbor, saves him. Angel starts a relationship with her and her partner, Alberto. Soon he falls in love with Teresa and, through a passionate relationship, he frees himself from his torments. Teresa, Alberto and her theater group on stilts ask her to write a play to represent her in the town. Obsessed by Teresa, she is vivified with this experience with the young, but she soon moves away from him carnally. This rupture desperate and as Teresa disabuses him of any possibility of continuity, in the mind of Angel reappears suicide as the only solution

Credits

Los zancos Cast

Name Character
Antonio Banderas He was 24, now 64 years old as Alberto
Francisco Rabal He was 58, 75 years old when he died
Laura del Sol She was 22, now 63 years old as Teresa
Fernando Fernán Gómez He was 63, 86 years old when he died as Ángel

Los zancos Crew

Name Department
Carlos Saura as Director. He was 52 (now 92) years old Directing
Los zancos poster
Los zancos (40 years)

  • Release day: Wednesday, October 10, 1984
  • Runtime: 95 minutes