The 7 th Day
Director: Carlos Saura
Genre: Drama
Year: 2004
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Yohana Cobo, Juan Diego, Victoria Abril
The 7th Day (Spanish: El 7º día) is a 2004 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura. It stars Victoria Abril, Yohana Cobo and Juan Diego. The plot, based on a true story, follows a bitter rivalry between two families that started with an ill-fated love affair, and grows over three decades.
In an isolated village in Extremadura, the Jiménez and Fuentes families have a violent history of land disputes, jealousy, envy, and violence. The hatred between the two families begins in the 1960s as a love story, between Amadeo Jiménez and Luciana Fuentes. Their romance ends when the fickle Amadeo drops Luciana, when she already has prepared for marriage. Feeling betrayed, Luciana expresses a vengeful wish on her seducer in the presence of her fragmented, devoted brother Jerónimo who, in turn, executes his sister's wish, resulting in the young man's cold and brutal murder in an open field.
Despite Jerónimo's capture and 30-year prison sentence, the shame on the Fuentes family still proves to be terrible burden as the townspeople continue to treat the siblings with open contempt and derision, culminating one day in a suspicious fire that engulfs the family home with their mother still inside. The
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