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The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks / La Torre de los siete jorobados Series: Spanish Cinema Now! [Dec 8 - 26 2006] Director: Edgar Neville, Country: Spain, Release: 1944, Runtime: 90 One of Neville’s most beloved works, and one of the finest Spanish films of the era, The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks takes place in the late 19th century. Basilio Beltrán, a young man about town, asks a café singer known as “La Bella Medusa” out for dinner; she agrees, providing she can bring her mother along. Fearing he doesn’t have enough money to pay for three, Basilio tries his luck in a gambling den; it is here, through a variety of circumstances, that he discovers the existence of an underground city beneath the streets of Madrid, a refuge built by Jews hiding out after the expulsion decree of 1492 and now populated mainly by hunchbacks who survive by printing counterfeit money. As so often in Neville’s work, a seeming “innocent” gets thrust into a reality he or she hardly could have ever imagined; critics have also seen the imagination of an active underworld beneath everyday reality as a provocative metaphor for the tensions still simmering just a few years after the end of the Civil War.

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