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If They Tell You I Fell

  • September 19, 1989
  • 120 min.
  • Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Romance
  • Spain
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later

Original title: Si te dicen que caí

7

nominations

14%

winning rate

1

win

Goya Awards #4 - 1990

Award People Status
Best Directing Vicente Aranda
Best Actor in a Leading Role Jorge Sanz Winner
Best Actress in a Leading Role Victoria Abril
Best Adapted Screenplay Vicente Aranda
Best Production Design Josep Rosell i Palau
Best Costume Design Marcelo Grande
Best Makeup and Hairstyling Chass Llach, Poli López

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