Viva La Muerte (1971)

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando (Mahdi Chaouch), a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's (Ivan Henriques)'s arrest. His mother (Núria Espert) is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse (Jazia Klibi). Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando (Victor Garcia) survive the search?