Fallen from Heaven
1990
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Synopsis
An ambitious black comedy that tells three loosely related stories: a couple of elderly landowners, laid low by economic conditions and reformist politics, are trying to gather enough money to build themselves a marble tomb that would keep their remains in the style to which they still aspire; they give their now blind former housekeeper a pig that proves to be more trouble than it's worth as the effort to fatten it up destroys what little family the woman has; and one of the couple's tenants, who is presenter of a relentlessly optimistic radio self-help show, tries to put his own counsel into effect when he saves a young woman from suicide.
Facts
Awards
Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film
Setting
Lima
Original language
Spanish
Trailer
Stills
Festival History
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 1991 generic
- Locarno International Film Festival 1991 generic
- Chicago International Film Festival 1990 generic
- Toronto International Film Festival 1990 generic
