El Sur [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Victor Erice Victor Erice

Overview

El Sur (The South) is the story of Estrella (Iciar Bollain), a little girl from Southern Spain who has been uprooted to the North. Estrella maintains a sentimentalized attachment to the region of her birth, an attachment manifested in her love for her father (Omero Antonutti). The girl's rose-colored memories are shattered when she learns that her beloved dad once carried on affair with a Southern woman-and that the flames of passion still smolder within him. This Spanish/Argentinian coproduction was filmed on location in Madrid, Navarre, Vittoria, and Zamora.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/19/2018
UPC:	0715515216418
Original Release:	1983
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Language:	English
Time:	1:34:00
Sales rank:	13,676

Special Features

New 2k digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Interview from 2003 with Director Victor Erice; New program on the making of the film, featuring interviews from 2012 with actors Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, and Iefar Bollain; Cinematographer José Luis Alcaine; and Camera Operator Alfred Mayo; Hour-long episode of Qui Grande es el cine! from 1996, featuring film critics Miguel Marias, Miguel Rubio, and Juan Cobos discussing El Sur; New English Subtitle translation; Plus: An essay of the 1985 novella by Adelaida Garcia Morales on which the film is based

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Sonsoles Aranguren	Estrella (age 8)
Omero Antonutti	Agustin
Icíar Bollaín	Estrella (age 15)
Lola Cardona	Julia
Rafaela Aparicio	Milagrós
Maria Caro	Casilda
Francisco Merino	Irene Rios' Co-star
José Vivó	Actor
Philippe Léotard	Roberto
Aurore Clément	Laura
Germaine Montero	Dona Rosario
Ulises Dumont	Emilio
Aurore Clement	Actor

Technical Credits

Víctor Erice

José Lopez-Linares

Elías Querejeta	Producer
Víctor Erice	Screenwriter,Director
José Lopez-Linares	Screenwriter