Black Bread
Director: Agustí Villaronga
Genre: Crime Fiction, LGBT, World cinema, Drama, Coming of age, History, Latino
Year: 2010
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish Language, Catalan language
Starring: Francesc Colomer, Laia Marull, Nora Navas, Sergi López, Marina Comas, Roger Casamajor, Eduard Fernández, Lluïsa Castell, LLuïsa Castell, Mercè Arànega, Marina Gatell, Elisa Crehuet
Black Bread is a 2010 film directed by Agustí Villaronga.
Black Bread (Catalan: Pa negre, IPA: [ˈpa ˈnɛɣɾə]) is a 2010 Catalan-language Spanish drama film written and directed by Agustí Villaronga. The screenplay is based on the homonymous novel by Emili Teixidor, with elements of two other works by him, Retrat d'un assassí d'ocells and Sic transit Gloria Swanson.
The film won thirteen Gaudí Awards, nine Goya Awards, including best film, best director and best adapted screenplay. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards being the first Catalan-language film to do it.
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Dionís, a bird dealer, is attacked by a man in a hooded cape while leading his horse drawn wagon through a darkened forest. The assailant kills Dionís, leads the blindfolded horse to a cliff's edge then pushes the wagon with Dionís and his son, Culet, off the cliff. Andreu, an 11-year-old boy, discovers the wreckage of the fallen cart. Culet is still alive but manages to say a single word before dying: Pitorliua, the name that villagers have given to a ghost believed to haunt a cave. The falangist mayor of the town suspects that Farriol, Andreu’s father, is involved in
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