DVD
The devil's backbone = El espinazo del diablo
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN, WSQ)
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special ed.
Languages
In Spanish, with English subtitles.
Performers
Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi, Íñigo Garcés, Fernando Tielve, Irene Visedo, Berta Ojea, José Manuel Lorenzo, Paco Maestre.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (19 cm.)
Audience
MPAA rating: R; for violence, language and some sexuality.
Summary
Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, this is the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.
Special features: Disc 1: audio commentary featuring director Guillermo del Toro ; video introduction by del Toro from 2010 ; trailer ; new and archival interviews with del Toro about the creation of his film ; ¿Que es un fantasma?, a 2004 making-of documentary ; interactive director's notebook ; four deleted scenes, with commentary by del Toro ; interview with scholar Sebastiaan Faber about the film's depiction of the Spanish Civil War ; program comparing del Toro's thumnail sketches and Carlos Giménez's storyboards with the final film.