The House of the Spirits (1993)

The House of the Spirits (1993) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
146 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1993 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Bille August

Written By:
Bille August
Isabel Allende

Actors:
Meryl Streep ..... Clara del Valle Trueba
Glenn Close ..... Férula Trueba
Jeremy Irons ..... Esteban Trueba
Winona Ryder ..... Blanca Trueba
Antonio Banderas ..... Pedro Tercero García
Vanessa Redgrave ..... Nívea del Valle
Maria Conchita Alonso ..... Tránsito Soto
Armin Mueller-Stahl ..... Severo del Valle
Jan Niklas ..... Count Jean de Satigny
Sarita Choudhury ..... Pancha García
António Assunção ..... Man at Cattlemarket
Julie Balloo ..... Young Lady
Frank Baker ..... Intelligence Officer
João Cabral ..... Soldier
Miguel Guilherme ..... Soldier

Synopsis:

South America before the second world war. The poor Esteban marries Clara and they get a daughter, Blanca. Esteban works hard and eventually gets money to buy a hacienda and become a local patriarch. He becomes very conservative and is feared by his workers. When Blanca grows up, she falls in love with a young revolutionary, Pedro, who urges the workers to fight for socialism. It is unavoidable that Pedro and Esteban are pitted against each other. Esteban tries to stop the love affair between Pedro and his daughter by all means possible but soon Blanca becomes pregnant and has a daughter. The void between father and daughter seems unbridgeable when Blanca moves in with Pedro.

Bille August directed this film version of the Isabel Allende novel, featuring a cast that includes Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close. The story is a sweeping and brooding melodrama, spanning generations and filled with violence, revenge, and telekinesis. The tale begins in 1926 Chile, when a young man, Esteban (Jeremy Irons), falls in love with the daughter of a rich man, Rosa Del Valle (Teri Polo). He vows to become rich enough to make her his wife and spends months of toil in the gold fields of Argentina to earn enough money to do just that. Before the two marry, however, Rosa is killed by poison meant for her father. After the tragedy, Esteban moves to Trés Marias, an abandoned ranch, and spends 20 years of his life turning the ranch into a thriving estate, exploiting the labor of the poor who live off the land. When he returns to the city, he comes across Rosa's younger sister Clara (Meryl Streep), now a woman with telekinetic abilities. Clara took a vow of silence years before, but upon the arrival of Esteban, she speaks for the first time in years -- 'You have come to propose marriage to me,' she says. Esteban and Clara marry, and Esteban takes her back to the ranch, where they have a daughter, Blanca (Winona Ryder). Their daughter falls in love with the son of one of Esteban's foremen, a hot-headed revolutionary named Pedro (Antonio Banderas). Now, Argentina is in the throes of revolution. Esteban banishes his sister Ferula (Glenn Close) from the ranch, beats his wife, and rapes a peasant woman. The product of Esteban's rape (Joaquin Martinez) grows into an angry young man who convinces Esteban to send him away to military school. When there is a military coup, the illegitimate son returns to Trés Marias with revenge and torture on his mind.

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America in this adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-seller.

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