Devil’s Backbone - El Espinazo del diablo
- 2002
- DVD
- 106m
Set in a school-turned-orphanage at the end of the Spanish Civil War, this film follows a rite-of-passage for ten-year-old Carlos (Tielve). Although the orphanage lies on a remote and dusty plateau far away from the frontline, the threat and dread of war is omnipresent. Carlos' life is hardly made easier by the bullying Jaime and the school's menacing janitor, Jacinto (Noriega). But things get even more threatening when Carlos begins seeing the pale specter of Santi, a fellow orphan who was brutally murdered shortly before his arrival.