by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Fernando Rey plays a Spanish cardinal who returns to his home town thirty years after leaving for Rome. Rey knew that he'd left an illegitimate daughter behind, but was unaware that he also has a granddaughter (Victoria Abril). The girl is embroiled in an affair with Rey's own brother (Francisco Rabal), a Marxist activist. The filmmakers' sympathies are more with Marxism than Catholicism, but politics are secondary to the kinky romantic intrigues. Evidently Fernando Rey didn't consider Our Father (original Spanish title: Padre Nuestro) significant enough to list on his official, published resume.
characteristics
- Politics
- MD
- Missing-person
- Marxist
- Mistress
- Marxism
- Inheritance
- Insult
- LPN
- Man-servant
- Nurse
- Physician
- Shepherd
- Streetwalker
- Whore
