Long Live Death
1971 · 90 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 1,589 VOTES · DIR. Fernando Arrabal
Overview
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother 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. 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 survive the search?
Dialogue Timeline — 359 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:17 LONG LIVE DEATH
00:06:16 That'll come later.
00:07:01 Death.
00:16:36 I think it's my duty to turn him in to the authorities...
00:18:41 he's to be "punished" and placed in solitary.
00:25:08 He can't walk good 'cause my theater's made of wood.
00:26:47 Come on, time to go to sleep.
00:30:41 Enemy losses...
00:31:42 Here a Red pilot parachutes from his plane...
00:37:32 Let the execution of these Reds be an example. Long live death!
00:40:48 ...prettiest flower. And I love her more each hour.
00:42:20 Go on! Kill 'im!
00:43:30 You can see his pa wasn't a Christian.
00:47:07 The Lord forgives you all sins committed...
00:50:16 Don't punish him for his deeds...
00:52:52 Hit him once!
00:54:13 Cut off his balls!
00:57:38 For centuries and centuries...
01:00:28 Fando!
01:09:12 Lung trouble, as if the air here stifles him.
01:13:26 The cavity is worse. We'll have to operate.
01:15:49 As a soldier and a man your duty is...
01:16:57 He tried to commit suicide.
01:17:51 Here's where the bullet hit it.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed359
Dialogue density4.0 lines / min
First line00:00:17
Final line01:17:51
Production Record
DirectorFernando Arrabal
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes1,589