The Devil's Backbone

The Devil's Backbone

Actors:  Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi Directors:  Guillermo del Toro

It is 1939, the end of three years of bloody civil war in Spain, and General Franco's right-wing Nationalists are poised to defeat the left-wing Republican forces. A ten-year-old boy named Carlos, the son of a fallen Republican war hero, is left by his tutor in an orphanage in the middle of nowhere. The orphanage is run by a curt but considerate...