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The Hunt AKA The Chase
(La Caza)

Screening on Film
Directed by Carlos Saura.
With Ismael Merlo, Alfredo Mayo, Jose Maria Prada.
Spain, 1966, 35mm, color, 91 min.
Spanish with English subtitles.
Print source: HFA

A rabbit hunt serves as the context for one of Saura's more severe critiques of Franco's regime. Three men and a boy embark on the hunting expedition which traverses territory where the older men fought in battle during the Spanish Civil War. As tempers rise among the ex-soldiers, their animal prey are brutally slaughtered, much to the horror of their youthful companion. The Fascist government would not allow any explicit references to the Civil War in Saura's work, but the director's sentiment about the horrors suffered by his fellow countrymen remains gruesomely vivid.

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