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      • The Night of the Sunflowers (Spanish: La noche de los girasoles) is a 2006 rural thriller-drama film directed and written by Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo. The cast features Carmelo Gómez, Judith Diakhate, Celso Bugallo, Manuel Morón, Mariano Alameda, Vicente Romero and Walter Vidarte. It is a Spanish-French-Portuguese co-production.


      Plot


      Set in the village of Angosto, in the heart of rural Spain, the plot follows Esteban and Pedro (two speleologists) and Gabi (Esteban's girlfriend), as Cecilio, an elderly villager, is killed in the wake of a misunderstanding in the aftermath of the attempted sexual assault on Gabi by a salesman and ensuing violent confrontation.


      Cast




      Production


      The Night of the Sunflowers is a Spain-Portugal-France co-production. Production companies included Alta Producción, Stop Line Films, The Film SAS and Arte France Cinéma. Locations in the province of Ávila (San Bartolomé de Béjar and Becedas) doubled as the fictional village of Angosto.


      Release


      The film was theatrically released in Spain on 25 August 2006. It also screened at the Venice Days section of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival in September 2006.


      Reception


      Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be a "gripping, assured debut", managing to find an "unlikely home for film noir in the forgotten hinterlands of the Spanish interior".


      Accolades




      See also


      List of Spanish films of 2006
      List of French films of 2007


      References




      External links


      The Night of the Sunflowers at ICAA's Catálogo de Cinespañol
      The Night of the Sunflowers at IMDb
      The Night of the Sunflowers at AllMovie
      The Night of the Sunflowers at Rotten Tomatoes

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