Cine Hispano - Películas en espanol.

- Starring: Fernando Tielve, Aida Folch, Ariadna Gil.

- Director: Fernando Trueba

- Encoding: Region 1 - NTSC

- Format: Color

- Rated: R

- Release Date: Jun. 21, 2005

- Run Time: 119 min.

- Languages: Spanish (Español)

- Subtitles: English (Shanghai Spell)

En la Barcelona de 1948, las apariciones y desapariciones de los maquis que llegan desde el otro lado de la frontera y el relato de sus aventuras son lo único que anima el ambiente gris de la posguerra. El relato de la aventura de uno de esos héroes míticos, que embarca rumbo a Shanghai para cumplir una arriesgada misión entre pistoleros, nazis y bellas mujeres, da sentido a la vida de dos adolescentes, Dani y Susana, hasta que la realidad les haga despertar del embrujo.

Fernando Trueba's El Embrujo de Shanghai (The Shanghai Spell) is a drama set just after the Spanish Civil War. Dani (Fernando Tielve) is a 14-year-old would-be artist who is hired to care for the elderly Captain Blay (Fernando Fernán Gómez). Blay convinces the young boy to paint Susanna (Aida Folch), a young woman from the local village. Susanna's father, Kim (Antonio Resines), is a rarely seen but beloved resistance figure, while her mother, Anita (Ariadna Gil), is considered the sexiest woman in town. One of Kim's associates shows up and begins an affair with Kim, while the two teenagers begin a tentative first romance with each other. The film is adapted from a novel by Juan Marse.

Source: All Movie Guide