To an Unknown God


To an Unknown God Spanish A un dios desconocido is a 1977 Spanish film directed by Jaime Chvarri. The film is about an aging man coming to terms with his homosexuality and mortality. It was a pioneer in his frank and mature examination of homosexuality.

Now in his fifties, Jos returns to Granada and relives his childhood there. A time when he fell in love with Garca Lorca and had a youthful affair with one of Lorcas own lovers. Memories come flooding back to the mature Jos, of youthful sexual conquest, of Lorcas murder at the hands of Francos agents, and his own early homosexual affairs. Joss entire life is colored by his obsessions with Garca Lorca, his unknown God, to whom the film is dedicated.Jos travels twice to Granada. First, he revisits a woman who is also obsessed with Garca Lorcas memory, and steals a photograph of the boy with whom he had his first sexual encounter later, Jos returns to Madrid, to a party in search of his youth, and meets a pianist with whom he had sexual relations many years before but now does not remember. ........

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