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La Casa de los Espíritus

(House of the Spirits)

1993 - USA / Portugal / Denmark / Germany - 132 min. - Feature, Color

Director: Bille August

Cast: Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, Maria Conchita Alonso, Vanessa Redgrave  

More Information: All Movie Guide

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- Lang.: English / Sub. in English

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Sinopsis (All Movie Guide)

Bille August directed this film version of the Isabel Allende novel, featuring a cast that includes Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close. The story is a sweeping and brooding melodrama, spanning generations and filled with violence, revenge, and telekinesis. The tale begins in 1926 Argentina, when a young man, Esteban (Jeremy Irons), falls in love with the daughter, Rosa Del Valle (Teri Polo), of a rich man. He vows to become rich enough to make her his wife and spends months of toil in the Argentine gold fields to earn enough money to do just that. Before the two marry, however, Rosa is killed by poison meant for her father. After the tragedy, Esteban moves to an abandoned ranch, Tres Marias, and spends twenty years of his life turning the ranch into a thriving estate, exploiting the labor of the poor who live off the land. When he returns to the city, he comes across Rosa's younger sister Clara (Meryl Streep), now a woman with telekinetic abilities. Clara has taken a vow of silence years before, but upon the arrival of Esteban, she speaks for the first time in years — "You have come to propose marriage to me," she says. Esteban and Clara marry, and Esteban takes Clara back to the ranch where they have a daughter, Blanca (Winona Ryder). Blanca falls in love with the son of one of Esteban's foremen — a hot-headed revolutionary named Pedro (Antonio Banderas). Now, Argentina is in the throes of revolution. Esteban banishes his sister Ferula (Glenn Close) from the ranch, beats his wife, and rapes a peasant woman. The product of Esteban's rape (Joaquin Martinez) grows into an angry young man who convinces Esteban to send him away to military school. When there is a military coup, the illegitimate son returns to Tres Marias with revenge and torture on his mind.