Retrato de Familia

Retrato de Familia English Family Portrait is a 1976 Spanish film directed by Antonio GimnezRico. It stars Antonio Ferrandis, Amparo Soler Leal and Miguel Bos, making his film debut. This is GimnezRico s best known film. The script was written by him, based on the novel Mi idolatrado hijo Sisi My Beloved Son Sisi, by Miguel Delibes. The film was shot in Burgos, the directors birthplace, although the novel takes place in Cceres.

One day, quite by chance, Sisi meets Paulina, his fathers more or less discarded lover, and they begin a tumultuous affair. Sisi is then inducted into the army and goes off to war. News of his death arrives quickly. Apparently, Sisi was killed by a land mine while driving his army truck. His father wants his wife to bear him another son, but she refuses. The old man, broken hearted by Sisis death, returns to his former mistress Paulina, who tells him she is pregnant by his own son. With no other legal heirs, the elder Cecilio Rubes, desperate, jumps off his mistresss balcony and commits suicide. Paulina had always wanted the elder Rubess child but is now content with having one sired by his son.

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