Antonio Drove

  • Antonio Drove – La caza de brujas AKA The Witch Hunt (1967)

    1961-1970Antonio DroveDramaShort FilmSpainSpanish cinema under Franco

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    In The Witch Hunt a national-Catholic religious college whose mission is to train militants and future leaders of society. Their “lifestyle” is explained by the Spiritual Father: “God, by creating us, did not endow us all equally: He gave some more and others less in admirable diversity” .

    The students are the privileged, chosen by God for His Glory and to perpetuate that “admirable diversity” that denies class struggle. A dark incident occurs in the toilets. The protagonists they are thirteen year old children and the ideology of the school maintains that “chastity comes from caste and we cannot allow sin to take root among us. ” The chasing
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